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Puhoi • Warkworth • Snells • Matakana • Omaha • Leigh • Pakiri • Wellsford • Port Albert • Kaiwaka • Mangawhai

Historic Auckland villa destined for Warkworth

The villa as it looked on its original site in Herbert Road in Auckland before it was sliced in two.

A slice of New Zealand history is due to arrive in Warkworth this week — provided that the weather, and possibly a few protestors, don’t get in the way.

A Mt Eden villa built for Sir Edmund Brown met with the investor to try to Hillary’s maternal grandmother, broker a deal.

Harriet Clark, after her husband’s tragic But an Auckland couple hopes there death, is being moved from Auckland will be a happy ending to the story, to a new location in Wilson Rd. after agreeing to buy the house from The four-bedroom house became the investor. national news when an investor paid $2.6 million for the property, and Vanessa Beddoe-Sandstrom happened revealed he wanted to get rid of the to hear from a relative that the 105-yearold villa was looking for a new owner. building in order to develop the site.

At one stage, Auckland mayor Len

Araparera investigation not needed, says Auditor The Office of the Auditor-General says it does not intend to investigate Auckland Council’s joint venture with local Maori in the Araparera Forest, despite the fact that the 26year scheme has yet to provide any return to ratepayers.

The original agreement was that proceeds from the venture would be spent sealing local roads.

Around 7000 ratepayers have contributed $1.5 million to the scheme through a targeted rate, which has now ended.

But many fear they will see very little, if any, profit from their investment because of poor oversight of the scheme.

The Wellsford-based Landowners and Contractors Protection Association (LCPA) says it is deeply disappointed with the Auditor-General’s decision, as it believes there are many unanswered questions about the scheme.

The association has spent two years doing its own investigation, and forwarded its findings to the Auditor-General’s office.

It says local and central Government politicians, and Council staff, have consistently refused to reveal

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financial details of the scheme, and it can’t help wondering why.

The group has been told such details are “commercially sensitive”.

In August, it complained to the Ombudsman about this explanation, but has yet to get a reply. In November, the Ombudsman’s Office said it had not yet assigned an investigator to the complaint.

The only figure the group has been able to extract is a total cost to Council of $257,814, which it describes as “unbelievable”.

Minutes of meetings held by Council’s property arm concerning Araparera are routinely redacted because they are regarded as “confidential”.

Following an investigation by Mahurangi Matters in August, Auckland Council Property Ltd issued a statement saying it expected to receive $2.3 million from the scheme to spend on roads in northern Rodney.

Profits can only be spent on roads where the targetd rate applied, which excludes the townships of Warkworth, Wellsford, Snells Beach, Algies Bay, Omaha and Kawau Island.

The LCPA says it was shocked by the statement, as it had not been able to get anyone to estimate a figure.

In December, the Auditor-General’s office said it was satisfied the final costs of the scheme would be known once the last block of trees was harvested.

It also noted that Cr Penny Webster “has made commitments to the

community, to the local MP Mark Mitchell and to others” that at that stage a “reasonable audit process will occur and records will be made available”.

However, it’s unclear when that might happen.

The main harvest finished in April and the last block of around 2000 tonnes is believed to be stalled because the Council is unable to get access to the trees. Some of the trees are understood to have been planted on private land.

LCPA chairman Brian Mason says he was also surprised that the office said it was satisfied that the harvesting contractor had been selected through an open tender, as the LCPA had been unable to find any record of the contract being advertised.

Mr Mason says he is astonished that the Auditor-General appears to be placing so much faith in local government officials and Councillors, given the debacle over the Mangawhai sewerage scheme.

The letter to the LCPA was written just a few weeks after the AuditorGeneral held a public meeting in Mangawhai to apologise to Kaipara ratepayers for her office’s failure to spot an $80 million blowout in the Mangawhai scheme.

Local residents who raised early concerns about the scheme have since been vindicated, in one of the country’s most embarrassing failures of local and central government.

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Ticket sales up at Warkworth A&P Show Have your say Organisers of this year’s Warkworth A&P Lifestyle Show claim it was the most successful for years, with gate takings 20 percent up on last year.

But some stallholders appeared disappointed with the crowds, which thinned out considerably in the early afternoon. The good weather meant the event had View more stiff competition from the photos online Mahurangi Regatta, and Circus Aotearoa at Snells Beach. localmatters.co.nz The usual Anniversary Weekend traffic jam on SH1 may also have deterred some people, although the new Hudson Road intersection performed well.

Fears that the event would not be able to find enough portaloos for the public proved unfounded, although the situation was not made any easier by Auckland Council deciding to lock the public toilet block at the Showgrounds. A heritage sheep shearing show travelled up from the South Island for the event.

The commentator of the sheep shearing folded this year before being rescued judged best fairy in the under-5 section. competitions, who travelled from by new local sponsor Bayleys. A new A charity auction organised by Bayleys Kaikohe for the event, lashed out at the “lifestyle” focus introduced a Market at the Bridgehouse on the Thursday small audiences in the afternoon, saying Village for the first time, with stalls night before the show raised nearly it was disappointing given the effort promoting local artisan products. $15,000 for the event. There was of everyone involved. However, there There were also alpacas, a petting zoo, spirited bidding, particularly from local was a record turnout for the equestrian and local lifestyle businesses. politicians, for items including dinner events, with more than 200 entries.

Owen Murphy was judged best- for eight at the Matakana, and a brand The show, which has been taking place dressed pirate in the children’s costume new iPhone 5. Bayleys intends to make in the region for 147 years, nearly competition, while Nikita Laird was the auction an annual event.

Historic villa comes to Warkworth She tracked down the investor, who agreed to sell it to her for $110,000. It is costing the couple another $60,000 or so to relocate it to Warkworth, and to build new foundations.

Vanessa did not originally plan to move to Warkworth. She and her husband were looking for a house to move onto a section they used to own in Auckland. After buying Harriet’s house, they discovered it was too big for their section. But by then, they had fallen in love with it and decided to find a new piece of land instead.

At the time Mahurangi Matters went to press, the house was due to be

moved up to Warkworth in two separate pieces in the early hours of Wednesday morning. But protestors who are unhappy that the house is leaving its original neighbourhood were also threatening to get in the way.

Vanessa has since discovered that the villa was originally called “Whakahara”, after the town where Harriet once lived. Sir Ed is known to have spent a lot of time there, and described it as being the family’s heart.

Vanessa insists the house will be maintained “with love and care”, and will be in good company among other historic homes on Wilson Rd.

from page 1 She has been writing a blog about the move, called “thehousethatmoved” at Wordpress.com.

In December, she admitted that she was devastated to learn that Harriet had lost two sons a year apart in World War I, and worried that the house might feel “haunted”.

On the other hand, she wrote: “I think if the house could have feelings, it would be excited to have three kids breathing new life into its corners. Deafening bath-times, time-out corners and height measurements in a doorway should go far to making it a happy space.”

on big issues

Time is running out for Mahurangi residents to have a say on several major issues facing the region.

February 8 is the last day to tell Auckland Council whether you believe the region needs its own public swimming pool. It is also the last day to have a say on what kinds of improvements you’d like to see to the area’s boat ramps and how they operate.

Submissions on Council’s 30-year plan for the region, which includes a proposal to increase Warkworth’s population almost five-fold, close at the end of this month (see pg 13).

And the Rodney Local Board is also seeking your views on its goals for the next three years at a public workshop on March 1 (see pg 12).

A controversial proposal to introduce a bylaw making lifejackets compulsory on all vessels under 6m will also be opened up for public feedback from February 15 (see page 7).

Submissions on NZTA’s proposal for a new motorway from Puhoi to Warkworth have already closed, and hearings are expected to begin next month.

Rodney Local board adviser Francis Martin says Council staff are particularly delighted by the response to the pool survey.

More than 600 people have already completed the online survey, with more than 90 percent indicating they would use a swimming pool in North Rodney if one were built.

Unsurprisingly, the main reason people have cited for not using pools in Albany and Silverdale is because of travel times.

Council is hoping more than 800 people will respond to the survey by the time it closes.

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Mushroom syndrome

Perhaps it’s not just ratepayers who feel they’re a little at sea with all the new planning rules and regulations being introduced by Auckland Council. At a recent media gathering with the Rodney Local Board, a journalist asked members to pose for a photograph. When she asked where the members would like stand, one elected representative grumped: “Put us in the shade … we’re used to being kept in the dark.”

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New year, new look You might have noticed that this issue of Mahurangi Matters looks slightly different. We have decided to give the paper’s design a bit of a refresh, and we hope you like it. The new look is largely the work of our talented graphic designer, Rhonda Hawker, who sadly announced this month that she is leaving us to return to her hometown of Wanganui.

Many local businesses know Rhonda well, for her patience, professionalism and skill in putting together most of this paper’s advertising. We will miss her a lot and not-so-secretly hope that one day she might be back.

But as editor, I understand her decision to put her family first. It was family that brought me to Warkworth this time last year.

It has been enormously gratifying to get so much good feedback from so many of you over the past year about how much you value Mahurangi Matters’ efforts to bring you a paper (and website) that truly reflects its community, by offering intelligent, in-depth coverage of the events and issues that really matter to local people, and which enables local businesses to reach as wide an audience as possible.

To her absolute credit, publisher Jannette Thompson also believes in being brave, and bold. I figure I have been here long enough now to start speaking my mind on local issues, so from next issue we will be introducing a regular editorial in this space. We also have several more exciting new features planned.

I am fully aware that Mahurangi Matters ain’t broken, so I have no intention of fixing it. But I’d also welcome your suggestions of what we could do to make it even better. My email is editor@ localmatters.co.nz.

I’m also delighted to say that we have a new reporter who has joined our team. George Driver is a recent journalism graduate with an honours degree in political studies who originally hails from Clyde.

He is currently living in Puhoi. I know you’ll make George Driver him feel welcome.

Helping to save the sharks Happy New Year and welcome to 2014. I hope that you have had a great start to the year. Every day as I drive through Rodney I am reminded that we live in one of the most beautiful places in the world. The access that we have to stunning beaches and outdoor activities is second to none, and although sometimes I have to turn the Xbox and computer off to get my kids to the beach or park, once they’re there they have a ball. It’s important to me that they don’t take for granted what we have right in our own backyard.

Late last year a large number of constituents wrote to me raising their concerns about the current shark finning legislation; it was great to see so many people in our community standing up for an animal that can sometimes generate fear but is so important in keeping our oceans healthy. Back in July 2013, Gulf Harbour School students held a protest at the school, and signed the NZ Shark Alliance petition as part of a nationwide protest. Their protest made an important contribution and sent a clear message about the changes to the legislation that should and have happened.

Although it is already an offence under the Animal Welfare Act to fin a shark and return it to the sea alive, under the extended ban it will now also become illegal to catch a shark, kill it, remove its fins and dump the carcass at sea.

Our natural environment is our greatest asset. New Zealand’s 113 species of shark are an important part of our marine biodiversity and the practice of finning sharks is inconsistent with New Zealand’s reputation as one of the bestmanaged and conserved fisheries in the world.

Well done Gulf Harbour School students and all those that supported them.

Being willing to stand up for something you believe in can make a difference.

I reaffirm my commitment to provide you with the best possible service and strongest representation I can for 2014. I discovered quickly that a big part of my job is to help those who feel they have hit a brick wall or exhausted all options in trying to resolve a problem. Please don’t feel that a problem is too small or trivial to take to the MP’s office.

Call, email or pop in and see us at the office. I am very optimistic that we will all enjoy a great 2014 together.

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Sewerage solutions

Way back in 1974 the late John Male and I co-founded The Friends of the Mahurangi, to resist a Rodney District Council proposal to discharge treated effluent from the newly established Snells Beach residential development directly into the Mahurangi River at a point from off Dawson Road. The Friends were successful in forcing Council to rethink the discharge point.

Council next came up with the idea of discharging directly into Kawau Bay from a point off Snells Beach. John Street led a group from Buckletons Bay who strongly opposed this idea, and were successful in forcing Council — under threat of legal action — to abandon that foolish scheme.

At the time I had investigated, along with senior engineers at Auckland University, the possibility of discharging treated effluent onto farmland. The idea was quite simple: store the treated effluent in a lagoon of some depth and then during the summer months pump it out onto the farmland.

Providing an inch of water per acre used up 22,000 gallons. During the hot months of summer we knew the land could absorb two to three or more inches per week just to maintain the soil moisture level. There would have been the additional benefit of nutrient input.

Our calculations showed that the treated effluent from Snells Beach, Warkworth, Sandspit and Matakana could all be disposed of during the hot summer months through landbased irrigation. The farm to be used for this was the property now known as Solway. The owner was enthusiastic, and the land had sites for lagoon storage.

Sadly Council wanted their own sewage treatment plant and someone foolishly suggested the effluent from Snells be pumped into the sea just south of Martins Bay. Council jumped at this option, so poor quality

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effluent is presently dumped in the sea — each day enough to fill about 20 large buses; thousands upon thousands of litres.

Today the opportunity to use landbased irrigation of treated effluent is eagerly sought by many farmers and some towns have waiting lists.

It is time Auckland Council became active in searching out alternatives to the present unsustainable discharge of nutrients into the formerly picturesque but rapidly declining Mahurangi River and alternatives to the equally ridiculous discharge off Martins Bay. Warren Agnew, Scotts Landing

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It was the stuff of nightmares and I totally agree with your correspondents (MM, Jan 15) that urgent action is needed to address this regular and escalating problem.

When you consider the huge amount of time and fuel wasted while traffic crawls at snail’s pace, often from as far back as the tunnels, it beggars belief that our decision-makers are still pondering and postponing the inevitable. If not a motorway at some distant future date, Warkworth most definitely needs a bypass to relieve congestion right now.

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thousand new houses planned over the next few years, we should all agitate very strongly at every opportunity to get some prompt action.

Val Strachan, Warkworth K & S Wilkinson (MM, Jan 15) have their hearts in the right place, but I’m sorry — they’re stuck in the past.

The Warkworth four-lane project was a plan to massively upgrade the current SH1 through Warkworth prior to the motorway project takeover.

If the project to upgrade the Hill Street intersection and Brown Road bridge were to go ahead, the delays in non-holiday time would probably match the current delays, not to mention the millions of dollars that would then be wasted because the four lanes would not be required after the motorway completion.

I do agree, though, that the north/ south lanes entering the Hill Street intersection need to be widened, but it’s the cars not mounting the kerb, preventing two flowing lanes, that are the current problem.

The next is the Kowhai Park entry/ exit headache. The current access should be converted to entry only, and set a southbound exit-only up by the toilets onto SH1.

We should also prioritise the Clayton Road to SH1 road. If it connected opposite the motorway connection and was done in the near future it would remove traffic from Matakana to Hudson Road north from the Hill Street intersection immediately, and be ready for holiday traffic once the motorway is opened.

Instead of spending more millions now on what will become redundant, put the millions into fast-tracking or future-proofing.

Troy Hudson, Warkworth In reply to Peter Georgetti (MM, Jan 15), our elected representatives derive much of their power by intentionally frustrating our haste-obsessed

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economic-rationalist culture, and then by offering compromises as a reward for our acceptance of their solution.

This is what they are doing with the proposed extension of the motorway from Puhoi, by re-allocating funding from local roads to improvements that will benefit their major corporate sponsors.

The vast majority of New Zealanders remain oblivious to some of the big picture issues which should be part of any discussion about such a major infrastructure proposal.

New Zealand is currently burning through more than $21m per day in imported oil — more than 80 percent of it to fuel one of the world’s least efficient transport fleets.

In 2011 the chief economist of the International Energy Agency warned NZ to urgently reduce its vulnerability to post-peak oil prices. The IEA is also warning NZ to urgently reduce our greenhouse gas emissions.

The 2009 Bolland Report found there is significant economic benefit transporting goods over long distances by rail, but this Government is rationalising some of our regional railways out of existence.

Wasting our resources to replicate existing roading infrastructure, while failing to make best use of existing and potential infrastructure, is poor strategic planning.

Short-term economic rationalist thinking is not only inappropriate, it is dangerous to the long-term strategic interests of NZ. If this National Government really wants Northland to develop, it needs to stop playing politics and prioritise the completion of the rail connection from Oakleigh to Northport (and do the remedial work on the Makarau tunnel) that will obviate the need for increased numbers of inefficient, polluting and dangerous trucks on our roads, thereby reducing congestion and the need for more roads.

Alan Preston, Mangawhai

Snells seawall Why does Auckland Council think that any unconsented seawall at Snells Beach gives them the right to remove a portion of the Erceg Pathway that runs almost the full length of the beach?

The flat pathway was built by locals, led by Ken Erceg, for the purpose of enabling those with disabilities — such as back, knee, hip and stroke problems — to walk on the flat and sit on seats along the pathway. Now it is not possible, despite a motion from Snells Beach R&R, to have it reinstated after storm damage.

Retrospective consents have been given all the time by Council.

Snells Beach deserves a consented seawall to protect and reinstate the Ken Erceg walkway. Enough rates have been collected from Snells Beach for such work. Other areas have had their share. It’s now Snells Beach’s time to have a fair go. Come on, Council.

June Turner, Snells Beach

Unsealed roads Your January 15 edition has sent rural Rodney ratepayers into shock and despair.

Not only do we suffer the worst roads in the entire Auckland Council, but now we learn our rates are not the best means to pay for roading.

Our legacy Rodney District Council was cited as rating rural properties in the higher bracket compared to its peers whilst Northern Rodney received virtually no seal extension.

After years of suffering, we were led to believe a “big is best” Council would address these fundamental concerns.

We now learn we have 80 percent of Auckland’s metal roads and a princely budget of $1.4m per annum earmarked for seal extension over 10 years.

Our roads are deplorable. They’re providing huge economic benefit to our region and nation as we’re Auckland’s primary powerhouse, which our rates exemplify.

Why are Cr Webster’s colleagues

laughing at her broaching this subject whilst the metro lacks for little in our eyes? A “back to basics” approach to addressing core business such as roading, sewerage and town water now seems too much to ask.

Brian Mason Chairman, Landowners and Contractors Protection Assoc Inc The health and financial effects of living on unsealed roads are well known to those of us who live on them. It is just unfortunate that the ones who make the decisions do not (MM, Jan 15).

Auckland Transport’s same old rhetoric and shallow promises about our roads is now bordering on boring at best. It would be far less insulting to come straight out and tell us what we already know, and that is that farmers and rural landowners in Rodney are simply underserviced cash cows for a greedy “champagne budget, beer income” Council.

We are the least demanding of all ratepayers, being mostly self-sufficient and catering for our own water, sewage and rubbish disposal, all whilst paying 10 times the rates of your average urbanite.

We do not need to commission a report to determine the health effects of unsealed roads — just pop on over and take a look in our water tanks and the dust in our homes.

There is no fairness and equity within Auckland Transport — it seems all the people in dense urban areas that receive all the services are not paying enough rates for the roads they need, and rural ratepayers are paying way too much for nothing at all.

Perhaps the time has come to charge rates out on a “services received” and “user pays” basis, but then again Auckland Council would go broke without us. Yes, Penny Webster, I do believe your colleagues are “laughing” at us, along with the rest of Auckland Council and Auckland Transport.

Julie Cotton, Landowners and Contractors Protection Assoc Inc

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CRACKER LOG SPLITTER Rescuing a sailor from his sunken vessel took Coastguard Hibiscus well off their usual course. Photo, Rachael Mcfarlane

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A six-person Coastguard crew on Hibiscus Rescue One was undertaking a routine patrol to Kawau Island recently, when a distress call came in that turned into a five-hour rescue mission for the volunteers.

On January 18, a Whangarei retiree taking his vessel on its maiden voyage to Great Barrier hit a submerged rock off the Mokohinau Islands (or ‘the Mokes’) and foundered.

An RnR Charters boat from Mangawhai was there within 15 minutes and the boat owner swam to it and was helped on board.

Meanwhile, Coastguard skipper Peter Kramer and his crew were racing towards the Mokohinaus — a journey that took them just over 45 minutes at 40 knots.

When they arrived, the 22ft yacht was 95 percent submerged, kept above water only because of its wooden construction and an air pocket in the stern.

Coastguard volunteers Dave Hook and Garry Robertson say seeing the yacht in that state was sobering.

“He had all the right gear and did everything right, yet all it takes is striking a rock like that and a boat can sink very fast,” Garry said.

The crew fastened a buoy to the vessel to aid salvage, but their main concern was to get the boat owner, who has a pacemaker and was cold and in shock, safely back to Gulf Harbour.

The owner doesn’t want to be named but says he is extremely grateful to both RnR Charters and Coastguard.

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Boaties and other interested members of the public can have their say on a proposed bylaw that would make wearing lifejackets compulsory on boats 6m or less in length, with submissions open next week on February 14.

The proposal has already caused some controversy in Mahurangi, with Cr Penny Webster telling her fellow councillors in an email that “there was a riot” when it appeared in local media. “How would it be policed?” she suggested.

Auckland Council’s bylaw team say the proposal addresses shortcomings in the current lifejacket bylaw, which assumes there is always a person in charge who also has the skill to identify when things are getting risky.

“It’s time to provide a simple safety rule that can be easily understood, doesn’t detract from the enjoyment our under-6m boating community enjoys and which prevents the next

tragedy,” a Council spokesperson says.

Other changes in the proposed bylaw include a requirement that boaties must appoint a person in charge of a vessel who is responsible for the safety of all those on board, and that anyone incapacitated by drugs or alcohol is prohibited from being in charge of a vessel.

Last September, the Council decided to separate the lifejacket regulations from the rest of its Navigation Safety bylaw and review it separately.

However, that decision was recently reversed by Council staff, who decided that the lifejacket rules will now be incorporated with, and consulted on, as part of the Navigation Safety bylaw.

Submissions must be in by 4pm on March 17. Copies of the draft bylaw and supporting information will be on the Council’s website, www. aucklandcouncil.govt.nz/haveyoursay, from February 14 and documents will also be in libraries and Council service centres.

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eigh resident Garth Falconer is one of New Zealand’s leading landscape and urban designers. He talks to Karyn Scherer about culture, commuting and creativity.

I was pretty good academically at school but my real love was art. When I got to fifth form my parents said: “That’s not a real man’s thing.” They laugh about this now, but they persuaded me to do maths and science and so on. I ended up discovering landscape architecture through a summer job. When I graduated from Lincoln in ‘87 there was virtually no work, so four of us decided we’d create our own little company in a garage in Remuera. That company was called Isthmus Group and we built it up to four offices with 48 staff. In 2004 I went to Oxford and did my Master’s in urban design, and in 2008 I left Isthmus to create Reset Urban Design.

We started off in landscape architecture but we quickly started doing work on town centres and masterplanning of commercial centres and residential subdivisions. andscape architecture and urban design has been very slow to develop in NZ, but I think there’s some really interesting things starting to happen. I spoke at an international conference last year and I felt we were on par with some of the best landscape architecture in the world. In fact Reset won an international award for Judge’s Bay in Parnell. All the other projects in our category were billion-dollar projects and ours was $2.2 million.

I think we’ve got a wonderful story here. I think we’re starting to see it, with creative and intellectual people like Eleanor Catton and Lorde, rather than just rugby and racehorses. I think we do things in a robust way and I think we are becoming more confident with cultural expression.

New Zealand is becoming more multicultural; it’s becoming more feminine; it’s changing from the pre-80s culture which was male and mono-cultural.

The stuff I’m quite interested in is dynamic and interactive, spacially and sensory-wise. It’s about big ideas through to really crafted details.

Matakana Village used to be a timber yard with contaminated soil. We set up the Farmer’s Market, with all the water drained through rain gardens and rock filters. Those cherry trees relate to the Matthews brothers, who were horticulturalists in the early 19th century. The colour of the steps, and the seasonal colour — it’s actually quite simple.

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ichard and Christine Didsbury are the reason I’m here. I started 20 years ago on the design of Brick Bay, which is their farm. I came up to look at it and I went to get a filled roll in Warkworth and I was looking in real estate agents’ windows, and I took my then-girlfriend (now my wife) Linda up to Leigh. I remember, because I was a really keen surfer, the view from the top of the hill as you drop down into Pakiri. We found a section and just fell in love with it. We built a bach, and moved up for the summer, and we didn’t go back to the city. We added to it and it’s now our family home.

I commute into Auckland four times a week, so I do a lot of miles, but I find a balance. I’m a member of the Omaha Board Riders Club and over-

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There is going to be radical change in Warkworth — it’s going to quadruple in size, at least

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50s champion, and my son Fraser is also a very keen surfer. We’re down at Pakiri most days. The aspects I love about this place that make the whole commute worthwhile is the small and really interesting community we have. There’s an increasingly fascinating bunch of characters around, and the environment is incredible. The beaches, the estuaries, the parks, the food, the whole lifestyle; and it’s just getting better and better. worked with Alan Gibbs for several years setting up his sculpture park out on the Kaipara. He’s got some very strong ideas and he wants to make it a sculpture park of international standing. We’re still involved in an ongoing conversation about what that means. He’s done some great work out there and he is opening it to the public now, which is fantastic.

I was also involved in the Auckland Plan. One of the things we did was hire a helicopter for three days and flew around the Auckland region and took photographs, because Council people didn’t know the periphery of Warkworth and how it’s related to

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the Mahurangi, and Kaipara Flats.

There is going to be radical change in Warkworth — it’s going to quadruple in size, at least. You want to keep the positive characteristics of Warkworth’s intimacy and its lovely natural setting. I think there’s some really positive things, like the retirement home coming into the centre of town. Getting our elderly out of the periphery and into our community is really important. Design changes how you live. We used to take life as it was dictated to us, but I think now we have the ability to control it.

With the Auckland Plan, Council wants to contain growth into the rural productive environment through a strategy of a hierarchy of centres. The Auckland metropolitan area will be contained through a Rural Urban Boundary, and there will be two satellites, Pukekohe and Warkworth. I actually wanted several more. I thought Helensville and Beachlands and even Wellsford could be satellites, and they could be possible developments in the future. I think Matakana could have more population, but we need public and

private investment and we need good open conversations about that. There’s lots of work still to be done there. here is quite a clear direction from Council that there is going to be encouragement of greater density and more consolidation. We’re working on a development at the moment called Redoubt Ridge, at Flat Bush, which has 172 lots and the average size is about 150-170sqm, which is very small. That contains a three-level, detached, fourbedroom house, so it is a step-change for people. We’re going through quite a difficult transition of educating people and hopefully investing in quality design to show the market: “this is what you want and what is available and achievable and more affordable”.

Affordability is the big problem for Auckland’s development and there aren’t any easy silver bullets for that issue.

I’m just completing a book on urban design. I hope to have it published later this year — it’s eight years work. It’s all about the development of our towns and cities and pulling together a whole lot of information to show how rich our heritage is, and the range of possibilities people have engaged with over the years.

It’s incredible what creativity NZers have.

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Customers at Z Wilmot Motors in Warkworth will decide how the money is allocated between the groups Road Safety Education, Wellsford Community Gardens, Kawau Emergency Response Trust, and Abuse Prevention Services.

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Te Hana death sparks call for Government action The recent murder/suicide in Dunedin, APS women and children service and the death of a 26-year-old woman supervisor Anita Thompson says that in Te Hana just before Christmas, to get a protection order there needs to highlights failures in the methods be a risk to the safety of the applicant, used to protect families from domestic so cases need to be treated seriously. violence, a local social agency says.

“In my experience women don’t Staff at Abuse Prevention Services ever maximise their experience, they (APS) in Warkworth say there is a minimise it. So if a woman says she lack of funding for abuse prevention, feels unsafe, that’s serious,” Anita says. and protection orders are not treated But breaches of protection orders often seriously enough. go unpunished, and it is also becoming APS provides counselling services for common for protection orders to be anyone who has experienced family challenged in court, she says. violence, covering the area from “When these protection orders are Kaiwaka down to Whangaparaoa. overturned, these women feel like APS men’s services supervisor Murray the justice system has failed them,” Brett says protection orders are Anita says. not adequately APS manager Jo enforced, and this Haswell says the undermines their New Zealand’s record on service is seriously effectiveness. domestic abuse is one of under-funded.

“There needs to the worst in the developed “We are just be a clear message world. In 2011, a UN report continually that there will found New Zealand had struggling to find be consequences the worst rate of domestic funds for our for breaking a violence out of 14 developed services,” she says. countries, with one in protection order,” three women stating they Murray says.

“The Government had experiences physical needs to prioritise A prison sentence or sexual violence from a addressing needs to be partner in their lifetime. domestic violence considered if a About half of all homicides and adequately protection order in New Zealand are family fund frontline is breached more violence related and and prevention than once, he says.

58 percent of all reported agencies.” violent crime in “The system isn’t New Zealand involves The work APS working. In the domestic abuse. does is sorely eight years I’ve been needed, she says. doing this I’ve never known of a man that’s “In Rodney we have been jailed for breaching a just had a local woman protection order.” killed in Te Hana in another domestic violence tragedy. It is In the recent case in Dunedin, Edward Livingstone breached time we, as a community, say ‘enough’ protection orders twice and made and implement the funding changes contact with his former wife, before necessary to prioritise the safety of killing his children and taking his women and children. own life. Livingstone was discharged Info: Abuse Prevention Services without conviction for the breaches women and children’s programmes last year, but had it been treated more call Anita on 09 422 2102. For seriously, the tragedy may have been information on the men’s programme avoided, Murray says. call Murray on 09 425 8130.

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Warkworth subdivision representatives, from left, Beth Houlbrooke, Steven Garner and Greg Sayers with Board chair Brenda Steele, at the media launch of the annual plan process.

Board wants community feedback A community expo will be held in Warkworth on March 1 to discuss Rodney Local Board planning priorities for the next three years.

The event will be an opportunity to meet board members and Auckland Council staff, raise issues and get updates on local projects.

At a media launch of the three-year annual plan consultation process, held in Kumeu on January 30, Board chair Brenda Steele signalled that meaningful community engagement would be a priority during this Council term.

“We might not have the budget to do everything that people ask for, but we need to understand our communities’ aspirations,” she said. “If we get 500 submissions on a particular issue,

then that speaks volumes. As well as disbursing our own budget, the board also has an advocacy role so the more we understand our communities’ priorities, the better.”

The expo, which will include activities for children, a youth space and fundraising stalls, will be held at Mahurangi College from 10am to 4pm.

Representatives of Auckland Transport, Watercare and Auckland Tourism Events and Economic Development have also been invited to attend.

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Last chance to have your say on Council’s 30-year plan Local planner Tracy Smith outlines the major changes she believes Mahurangi residents need to be aware of.

Submissions close on Auckland Council’s Unitary Plan on February 28 so it is important to have your say. The plan’s proposed rules mark a significant departure from some of the rules currently in place.

Many of the activities we can currently do without consent will require resource consent or will be prohibited under the Unitary Plan. The following is our assessment of some of the most significant changes proposed.

the boundary adjustment, you can only adjust the area of any title by no more than 10%, restricting the common practice of moving land between neighbouring properties.

Rural Zone Activities All visitor accommodation activities will require consent in rural zones. Under the Rodney Plan, farmstay or homestay accommodation for up to 10 guests is a permitted activity. Establishing a small bed and breakfast from your house will now require resource consent.

Earthworks Rules The biggest change in earthworks controls relates to land within overlay areas such as SEA (Significant Ecological Area), NSMA (Natural Stream Management Area), ONC/ONL (Outstanding Natural Character/Landscape) and HNC (High Natural Character). In these overlay areas consent is required for undertaking earthworks over 5m² or 5m3. Consent is also required in most of these overlay areas for cultivation of the soil or for earthworks for irrigation or land drainage.

Tree Removal Rules Consent is required to remove or trim any vegetation within an SEA area. This includes exotic vegetation.

Minor Household Units Minor Household Units (up to 65m²) are not provided for in the Unitary Plan and will no longer be approved in all zones.

Rural & Future Urban Subdivision yy Creating any new site in any rural zone (excluding Countryside Living) will be a Prohibited Activity.

This means you cannot apply for consent for any reason. yy All subdivisions in the Future Urban Zone are prohibited (excluding cross lease amendments and

Stormwater Management Areas

boundary adjustments not exceeding 10 percent of the area of each site). A large area of land around Warkworth has been zoned Future Urban.

This land will effectively be locked up until the costly infrastructure (including reticulated sewer, stormwater, water, power and gas) is installed to service this land and Council or the private landowner has done a plan change to rezone the land to a residential zone. This could take decades. yy Transferable Site Subdivision is provided for in rural areas; however the highly restrictive conditions and resulting costs involved mean that in our opinion Transferable Subdivision will not be economically feasible to do. yy The Unitary Plan allows boundary adjustment subdivision; however this can only be done once, as the site boundaries must be in the location they were when the Unitary Plan was notified last year.

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If your property is within the Stormwater Management Area overlay (includes all of Warkworth township), consent will be required if you create an impervious area over 25m² in area. This would include a driveway, paved area or any building over 25m² in area.

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We urge all residents to make a submission on the Unitary Plan to ensure the voice of the public is heard. Submissions can be made online through the Auckland Council website, or by completing a form available from any Council service centre.

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The problem with pets Pet ownership is a hallowed tradition in New Zealand and in many Western countries. It’s estimated that 52 percent of New Zealanders own cats, and 30 percent own dogs, but there are also untold horses, birds, rabbits and other animals.

Pets bring warmth and love to our lives. They provide us with important company, entertainment, friendship even, and are also useful as in the case of guard dogs, and cats that kill rodents. Our relationships with cats are often particularly sacred.

But there are some problems with pets: they breed. Every Christmas the SPCA is inundated with the latest litters of kittens and puppies there’s no reasonable home for. Then there are the animals whose owners decide they can no longer care for them. Pets are a big responsibility for a long time. But circumstances can change so that keeping a pet becomes less convenient, and “disposal” becomes an issue.

Another problem is the resource consumption of pets – they’re expensive to keep. There’s the embodiment of unsustainability that New Zealand’s threatened long-finned eels are exported as luxury pet food. And people from Third World countries might envy the meat we feed to our cats and dogs. Feeding pets meat is a particular dilemma for vegetarians.

And isn’t there something questionable about those who would “own” a dog as a fashion accessory? What right have we to cage a bird for its (admittedly lovely) tune in the case of a canary, when the very being of such a bird requires it to fly? The moral concern we feel about inappropriate caging of animals in factory farms, labs and zoos could be extended to animals in our own homes. Animals deserve freedom – whether it’s the big dog on the small section, the bird in the cage or the rabbit in the forgotten “run” down the back garden. Pet freedoms can never be unlimited — a dog’s right to roam, for example — but the freedom to exhibit normal behaviours should be a bottom line.

Pet ownership maintains the reciprocal but unequal relationship we have had with animals since we lived in caves. It inherently asserts a power relationship – the “master” of a dog has control over the dog’s fundamental freedoms — a challenge from an animal rights perspective. In “owning” a pet we are assuming a property right over another being which has its own interests, rights and selfhood. You might argue this is okay when the “owner” acts in the animal’s best interests, but unfortunately the current “right to own” an animal doesn’t distinguish between the good and the bad owner, and often denies animals the ability to exercise their own freedoms and sometimes the right to life.

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Bumper year for fairy terns

Fairy tern numbers are up following a strong breeding season and a successful trapping programme. Photo: Siouxp

Fairy terns have had their best breeding season in 30 years, with 12 new chicks born.

Only five chicks hatched last season, and with just 36 terns left, this year’s baby boom is a huge boost to their chance of avoiding extinction, DOC ranger David Wilson says.

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predators has made a difference, David says. “We don’t lose too many to predators now.”

Local volunteer groups have also been a huge help, he says.

The New Zealand Fairy Tern Charitable Trust has run a successful trapping campaign for the past three years. An ASB Community Trust

grant has paid for a full-time trapper to terminate pests for the past two nesting seasons on the Mangawhai sandspit. Since it began in September 2012, 168 rats, 175 hedgehogs, 33 stoats, 37 cats and 19 rabbits have been captured. Figures show the numbers are declining with less than half the number of rats, stoats and rabbits

captured compared to last season.

Trust president Heather Rogan says membership has been climbing steadily and around 30 to 40 volunteers actively help to protect the terns on a weekly basis.

David says it is vital to keep a close eye on the situation. This season, two eggs were rescued from a nest on the South Kaipara Heads after a ranger found stoat tracks on the beach. The breeding pair was removed, and the eggs were transferred to incubators at Auckland Zoo to ensure their survival.

The eggs were later switched with infertile eggs from a pair nesting in Mangawhai and hatched successfully.

Despite regular contact with beachgoers, the human impact is now well managed, David says. “People have been pretty good this year.”

He is also unconcerned about plans for a housing development and golf course near a nesting site at Te Arai, which has alarmed many locals and has prompted a legal battle.

“Developers have been quite keen to work with us. We hope there will be some positive results.”

The terns are currently starting to fly from their nests and train their young chicks, so people might see them at other beaches in the area. Last year terns were spotted in Snells Beach and Omaha.

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Workshop offers motivation La Padella landmark La Padella is to make new year a success Wellsford under new management, and locals are Business owners who want to start the year on a positive note are invited to participate in an eight-week motivational workshop sponsored by the Celebration Centre in Warkworth.

The Motive for Action workshop facilitator will be Colin Bogue, who has more than 20 years’ experience working with organisations and individuals throughout New Zealand and Asia in the areas of personal and management development.

The course material will be presented in four modules and will run over eight weeks. The four modules will cover topics such as success and motivation, attitudes and habits, conditioning and paradigms, and goal setting and communication.

Colin says the workshop will show participants how their attitude, rather than the skills they have, determines their success; their thinking will be challenged; and they will be given an understanding of what holds them back and how to change those things.

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delighted that they are familiar faces.

Ryan Han, who owns Peppers Café, just along the road, has bought the business with his wife, Yang, who he married just last year.

The bar and restaurant had been for sale for some time, but Ryan is confident the couple have timed their move well.

“The first year we bought Peppers was really hard, then it picked up. The next year was better, and it’s got better every year. I think Wellsford is growing – more people are moving here. Houses are selling really fast,” he enthuses.

Ryan moved to New Zealand from Hunan in central China about 15 years ago. He spent a decade living on Auckland’s North Shore, where he worked as a chef, before deciding to move north.

“I wanted to run my own business, and I found a coffee shop here that I liked.”

He loves the local community and is proud of Pepper’s online reviews, which rave about its “big city” quality at “small town” prices.

He and Yang have already started making major changes at La Padella,

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including all-new staff, and a new menu.

The pizzas have stayed, but the other dishes have had a revamp, and he plans to introduce booth seating and other innovations. He will also be running regular promotions, such as $1 coffees.

With its high-profile location at the intersection of two main highways, he hopes it will soon become known as one of Mahurangi’s best restaurants.

It bothers him that many Wellsford people have previously taken visitors to Warkworth, Matakana or Mangawhai for a nice meal.

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Rodney Marine Once he was a top-dressing pilot, flying over the palms of Indonesia, and now Rodney Marine owner Murray Rowe is helping locals take to the waves.

“It’s awesome. It’s the best career you could get into. You’re dealing with people’s passion. They’re excited about it and you meet great people and make some really good friends,” Murray says.

Murray owns Rodney Marine in Warkworth with his wife Roxanne Kelly. They got into the boat business when they bought a marine centre in Dargaville three years ago and the business expanded down to Warkworth in October.

The expansion was to fill a gap in the market, he says.

“Yamaha make the leading outboard in New Zealand, and there were no authorised dealers down here, so we decided to come down,” he says.

Murray began his career as a mechanic, and first got involved with boats ferrying tourists in a jet boat up the picturesque Hollyford Valley in Fiordland over 20 years ago. He went on to get his pilot’s licence and began top-dressing crops throughout New Zealand and then overseas.

But after 20 years flying, and a few close calls, Murray decided to change careers and go into the boat business just over three years ago.

Rodney Marine stocks a wide range

Mahurangi Matters

Pauline Goodhue

XS Cuts

Murray Rowe

of outboards, jet-skis and marine electronics and if there’s anything they don’t have, they are happy to order it in.

It offers boat storage and has a workshop, managed by Adam Duffy, to fix, alter or service anything that might keep a boat out of the water.

“If your car breaks down you’re just stuck on the side of the road, but if your boat breaks down you’re out in the ocean. It’s a big safety issue.”

Choosing the right style for your hair is a challenge at any age, but the good news is that help is at hand locally.

The new owner of XS Cuts, in Warkworth, Pauline Goodhue says a free consultation prior to a hair appointment provides an opportunity to discuss styles and colours, and what will best suit a person’s lifestyle.

“How much time a person wants to spend on their hair and how much product they’re prepared to use are two big factors in determining the right style,” she says. “Age is another consideration.

Obviously not all styles suit all faces and that’s where the advice of an experienced stylist can be invaluable.”

Pauline says she’s feeling both excited and a little nervous about taking over such an established salon as XS Cuts, which was started by Janeen Reid more than 10 years ago.

“It’s good to know that Janeen will

continue to be part of our team, working on Friday and every second Saturday. Senior stylist Karen Hart will be staying on and we’re welcoming new stylist Samantha Ryburn.

“Our business plan is simply to look after our loyal clients and grow the business based on affordable prices and professional service.”

As with make-up and clothes, Pauline says hair trends change and at the moment, fringes have definitely made a comeback and long hair is shaped and layered.

“The young ones are also having fun with paintbox fashion fudge colours, but the colours are against college regulations so I guess we’ll see a drop in interest in those now that school is back.”

Pauline grew up at Alfriston and worked in Devonport, Glenfield and Orewa before choosing to settle in Warkworth.

W O N PEN O

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Rodney’s only authorised Yamaha dealer!

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Timber Joinery

• Exterior Timber Joinery • Interior Timber Joinery • Pre – Hung Doors • Timber Machining

with Chocolate Brown Send your nominations to editor@localmatters.co.nz

Composite Joinery Ltd 7 Glenmore Drive Warkworth

Sweetappreciation

09 425 7510

Email: sales@compositejoinery.co.nz Website: www.compositejoinery.co.nz

W A R K W O R T H

R E M M U S E

L A SNOW ON

This issue’s recipient of a gift basket of chocolates from Chocolate Brown is Danni Fa’aui of Snells Beach. Her admirer wished to remain anonymous, but wrote: Danni has had some tough times over the last few years yet will drop everything for a friend in need. She will give (even if she can’t afford it herself) to those in need of a little help and is always there to call on. She is a welldeserving recipient.

Know someone who deserves a big “thank you” for their community spirit? Tell us and they will receive acknowledgement in Mahurangi Matters and an amazing 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.

18 Queen Street • Phone 425 8408 kenandkathy@xtra.co.nz • www.warkworthmenswear.co.nz

Te Whau Estate

chocolate brown

only the good stuff...

Cafe / Chocolaterie / Gifts Phone 09 422 2677 No 6 Mill Lane, Warkworth www.chocolatebrown.co.nz

Is this a new beginning for you?

Matakana Coast & Country’s newest subdivision Sections from 4000m2 Close to beach & river access

tewhauestate.com | 021 926 777

Ensure an attractive, functional design that will stand the test of time by calling on the experienced cabinetmakers from Neil Taylor Cabinetmaker & Design. We can provide a cost-effective makeover for existing properties or cater to new homes, with designs to suit your needs. For affordable solutions to meet your unique requirements and budget we are the name to trust in the Rodney district.

KITCHENS | BATHROOMS ENTERTAINMENT UNITS LAUNDRIES WARDROBES & OFFICES

Contact Neil 09 425 7017 or 021 070 0643 neiltcabinetmaker@xtra.co.nz www.cabinetmakeranddesign.co.nz Unit A, 16 Glenmore Drive, Warkworth

INNOVATIVE KITCHEN DESIGNS

RENOVATIONS & REFURBISHMENTS

INSTALL & DESIGN

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Glaziers & Joiners ...................................... 1 Automotive Services ............................... 1 Auto Wreckers............................................ 1 Panel and Paint.......................................... 1 Trellis, Fencing & Supplies ..................... 2 Carpenters, Builders & Roofers ............ 2 Scaffolding .................................................. 2 Engineering ................................................ 2 Construction & Earthworks ................... 2 Tiling, Brick & Block Layers .................... 2 Flooring ........................................................ 2 Electrical ...................................................... 3

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Glaziers & Joiners | Auto Wreckers | Panel & Paint | Automotive Services

Wellsford

GLASS & ALUMINIUM

For all your glass, glazing, and aluminium needs

53 Station Road, Wellsford • Phone (09) 423 7358 Email: wellsfordglass@xtra.co.nz

WG

Domestic and Commercial Glazing Glass Showers Splash Backs Mirrors • Cat Doors Windscreen Replacement and Chip Repair

arkworth lass & lazing

20 Glenmore Drive, Warkworth 09 425 8678 • 021 952 077 wwglassandglazing@xtra.co.nz

027 490 4564

425 7340 24hr CALLOUT email: brettatapexglass@yahoo.co.nz

Frameless Shower Installations Bevelled Mirrors - ALL GLASS REPAIRS PROMPT QUALITY WORK NOW CENTRALLY LOCATED IN WARKWORTH

COMPOSITE JOINERY Ltd Composite Joinery Ltd 7 Glenmore Drive Warkworth 0941

Phone: 09 425 7510 Fax: 09 422 2011

We specialise in: • Vantage Aluminium Joinery • APL | Architectural Series • Metro Series • Internal and External Timber Joinery

0800 70 40 10

info@northglass.co.nz • www.northglass.co.nz

Say No to Leaky Homes

THE ULTIMATE ALUMINIUM

WINDOW AND DOOR FLASHING SYSTEM

• Robust, Good Looking and Durable • Specify Best Practice, Specify Flashman • The only Flashing System Guaranteed

Northland 0800 55 66 00

sales@compositejoinery.co.nz www.compositejoinery.co.nz

Ian

WINDSCREEN REPAIR OR REPLACE GLAzING SERVICES MIRRORS • SPLASH BACKS • SHOWERS

www.flashman.co.nz

Wayne

EDMONDS & MASON PANEL & PAINT Private & All Insurance Work

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

Email: autoglassww@xtra.co.nz

Snells Beach

MOTORS – 2008 LIMITED –

 425 5355

1 Hamatana Road - Snells Beach

WARKWORTH

AUTO WRECKERS FOR ALL NEW & USED PARTS

WE NEED CARS FOR WRECKING – $$$ PAID 2 Glenmore Drive, Warkworth Ph (09) 425 7835 or (09) 425 7730

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Trellis, Fencing & Supplies | Builders, Roofers & Suppliers, Carpenters | Scaffolding | Construction & Earthworks | Brick, Block Layers & Tiling | Flooring | Engineering

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

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

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

New • ReRoofs • Cladding Specialists

Ph: 09 422 2131

Mob: 021 220 5000

470 KAiPArA FlATS rOAd, WArKWOrTH126

Snells Beach • Warkworth • Orewa

• Custom made • Quality material • Quality workmanship

Also see Lance for your supply of Native and Landscaping plants

Fax 09 422 5800

ROOFING NZ NATHAN HOUSTON

Trellis Guy Ph 09 422 5737 • 027 272 7561

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

• Complete homes • Quality construction of small projects

The

Covering Rodney in Long-Run Iron Local Quality Guaranteed

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

AWARD WINNING BUILDER

RICHARD WILCOCK

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

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

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

CARPENTER-JOINER • Terraces • Alterations • New Housing

• Renovations • Maintenance • Small jobs a specialty

NEIL KOSE

Phone 09 425 5491 • Mobile 027 275 1172

Servicing Auckland - Rodney - Kaipara

Metroscaff Limited

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

PHONE 0800 622 7929

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

MICK BERGER CONTRACTORS Phone: 09 422 0688 • Mobile: 0274 930 806

43 years experience

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

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

Footings Hole Boring Landscaping

3.5T Digger 5T Truck

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

Bob Waata Mobile 021 634 484

R.K. PADDISON CONTRACTING LTD

Tiling & Waterproofing

• Truck Hire • Metal Supplies • Bulk Cartage

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

CONTRACTORS

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

Bricks • Blocks • Paving

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

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Electrical | Design, Architects & Surveyors | Concrete | Lawn Mowing & Landscaping | Aborists | Hydroponics | Handyman Services

Pre-Purchase Inspections Moisture Detection Building Reports

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

www.coastalconceptsltd.co.nz

Geron Building Inspections Qualified Builder Licensed Practitioner Member of BOINZ

(Building Officials Institute of NZ)

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

T.T.E. DESIGNS ARCHITECTURAL DESIGNERS

Over 25 years experience in all aspects of residential design THOMAS ERRINGTON Dip.Arch.

P: 09 425 0512 M: 027 453 2495 E: ttedesigns@ruralinzone.net W: www.ttedesigns.co.nz

Denis 021 945 498 Joel 021 422 592

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

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

JB’s No 1 LANDSCAPING SERVICES

MATAKANA

DRIVEWAYS • FLOORS PATHS • ASHPHALT

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

Arcadia

Tree Care

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

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

0800 276 7726

The Tree

Bears Tree Trimmers

Hedge TRIMMING • tree removal insured - 300mm chipper • free quotes General Tree Work Phone mark 021 492 939 AH 09 425 0252

• Landscape

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

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

Kurt Salmond

• Digger • Truck • Tractor

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

Bear Forest Hydroponics NZ agent for Autopot hydroponic equipment The original power free hydroponic system

Save Water – Save Time – Save Money Shop online for all your hydroponic needs View in Puhoi ring for details 09 889 0839 www.bearforest.co.nz • sales@bearforest.co.nz

• 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.

NORTHERN TREE WORKS Tree Felling Logging Pruning Chipping Ph 09 422 2123 • Mob 0274 952 579

TOTAL LANDSCAPE CONSTRUCTION for complete quality projects

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

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

WE CAN •Sand•Metal•Shell•Pebble•Scoria •Mulch•Garden Mix•Topsoil•Compost

DELIVER! •Tirau Gold•Pine Chip•Cambian Bark

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

ADVERTISE YOUR BUSINESS HERE FOR ONLY +GST* PER INSERTION

$48

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

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Property & Handyman Services | Furniture & Furniture Restoration | Painters & Decorators | Window Cleaners | Carpets | Water Pumps | Marine & Small Engines

For all your property maintenance and small building projects

Do you need a reliable, honest local tradesperson?

LTD.

LOCAL TRADES

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

PROPERTY SERVICES & MAINTENANCE

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

Contact Linda Robinson p e

09 422 9860 linda@localtrades.co.nz

m w

027 526 1146 www.localtrades.co.nz

YOU ONLY PAY FOR WORK DONE

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

OUTDOOR FURNITURE Tables to order Chairs • Swingseats Benches • Umbrellas NZ made – quality built to last 25 Hibiscus Coast Highway, Silverdale (next to BP) Ph: 09 426 9660 • em: clipper.furniture@xtra.co.nz www.clipperfurniture.co.nz

FROG POOL FARM Gifts Furniture Homeware amps Leadlight L ilt Bu Custom en Kitch s

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

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

Dome Valley 5 min past Warkworth • 425 9030

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

www.robertsonboatsnz.com

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

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: leighdecorators@clear.net.nz

Welch Painting & Decorating Mark Welch

• Painting • Paper Hanging • Spray Painting • Water Blasting

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

Mobile 021 456 429 Email: brocks@xtra.co.nz

Certified Member of the Carpet Cleaning Association of NZ

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

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

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

021 106 5717 or 021 230 2626 (2007) Ltd

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

0800 787 392

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

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

www.purewaterservices.co.nz

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

H2O PUMPS

water pumps

steve@purewaterservices.co.nz

Water Treatment

31 WOODCOCKS RD WARKWORTH - 425 9100

Window Cleaning

Pump & Filtration Services

Pumping Systems

AUTHORISED AGENT

Pumps / Water Tanks / Filtration / Treatment Spa & Pool Shop / Pool Valet Service Water Blasters / Sprayers Hose & Fittings / Mobile & Workshop Service

Ph Mandy 09 423 0005 or 021 507 463

itchen Colours and Wood Finishes

CARPET CLEANING

Call FREE 0800 022 101

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

Bright Outlook

DOMESTIC & COMMERCIAL

Emergency Flood Service Technical Experience 12 years Fully qualified and certified

A BRUSH WITH ART

EXPERT PAINTING AND DECORATING

• Filtration • UV Sterilizers • Softeners and Neutralizers • Iron Removal

Owen Ward

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

New Pump Sales

Service

Installation

Phone/Fax 425-5619 Mobile 0800 733 765

K & R PUMP SERVICES ltd

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Water Pumps & Tanks | Plumbing | TV Aerial & Satellite | Graphic Design & Printers | Picture Framing | Water Suppliers | Mobility Scooters | Storage | Locksmiths & Security | Furniture Removal

ABSOLUTE CONCRETE clean. care. repair.

WATER TANKS

WATER TANK & WATER APPLICATION CLEANING AGENCY

09 4312211

Warkworth: Phone John or Annette Carr

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

sales@absoluteconcrete.co.nz

Mangawhai: Phil Lathrope 431 4608 | 021 642 668

www.mobi-kair.co.nz

& DRAINLAYING

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

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

Installation & Repairs

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

GAVIN BROUGH Ph 09 425 5495 Mob 0274 766 115

TTT Plumbing & Drainlaying Limited

TRIED – TESTED – TRUSTED

Digital Freeview Satellite

GOING DIGITAL NOW

WARKWORTH PICTURE FRAMERS office & Internet services

COMPLETE CUSTOM FRAMING SERVICE

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

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

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

DRINNAN CONTRACTORS

Household Drinking

DAVID LITTLE GCF

water

Household Water Deliveries

WATER

0800 747 928

0800 GET H20 4 3 8 4 2 6

mobile: 027 556 6111

& ESIAN SOLWA T Y AR fILTEREd

WATER

0800 638 254 OR 09 422 3700

MOBILITY SCOOTERS

Quality workmanship is the KEY aspect of our business.

We are locally based and customer friendly.

Rodney - North Shore

• SALES • SERVICE • HIRE 09 422 2615

0800 022 884

SNELLS BEACH

PHONE 09 425 5597

146M

LOCAL SECURITY COMPANY

0800 66 24 24 www.insitesecurity.co.nz

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

PO Box 487 Warkworth

Our services include but not limited to: Locks rekeyed • Lost keys made and cut on site • Locks repaired • Home security appraisals • Locks installed • Garage remotes programmed

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

0800 SHORELOCK (746 735)

ADVERTISE YOUR BUSINESS HERE FOR ONLY +GST* PER INSERTION

$48

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Specialty Foods | Cafes/Restaurants | Beauty Therapy & Nail Creations

Good food that’s Gluten Free

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

THE BEST HOME MADE BURGERS

Spot X Cafe

aPPlIaNCe rePaIrS

BUSINeSS OPPOrTUNITIeS

Take control of your future

• Ongoing support & training • Build equity in your business • Proven, easy to operate business

Franchises available in Warkworth covering Warkworth and Maungaturoto

FITNeSS

FOr Sale HOldeN aSTra 1998 NZ New,

Horse riding WarkWortH

160,000km, $2795. Phone 423 9307.

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

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

FlIGHTS

To find out more:

m. 0800 FASTWAY e. carl.compaan@fastway.co.nz

ICONIC BOOKSHOP FOr Sale

Open since 1989, this Warkworth bookshop is well known for it’s great prices, and HUGE range of pre-loved and new books. With great atmosphere and comfy chairs this bookshop is loved by all who visit.

Do you love books & want a change?

Phone Martin 0222 762 333

drIveWaYS maINTeNaNCe Grading, Rolling & Metalling for rural Driveways. No job to BiG or small. Ph Bruce 425 7766.

eQUeSTrIaN CONSCIOUS CONNeCTed HOrSemaNSHIP Natural & bitless

riding - instruction with our trained horses. Assistance with yours. Phone 09 422 3494 or 021 222 9612 or visit www.chiantiriding.co.nz

FOr leaSe

SNellS BeaCH

First Floor 143m close to the Warehouse. Carpet, kitchen and toilet.

Suitable for professional offices. Fitout negotiable. $1,400/month+opex+GST. Phone Jim (owner) 021 621 124.

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

Advertise your classifieds and church notices here for only



and run your own rewarding business

• Low start up costs

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

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

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

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

for head to toe pampering

Mon to Fri 7am-3.30pm • 50a Morrsion Dr Warkworth Phone 4222 541 • Txt 021 150 7366

CLASSIFIED ADVERTISING a SmarT rePaIr Service for F&P

Beauty Therapy & Nail Creations

SCeNIC FlIGHTS 30 mins $59; 20 mins $49; Min. 3 passengers.

Trial flights $79. Gift vouchers available.

GreaT BarrIer FlIGHTS. Special stopover up to 4 hours.

Return $110. Min. 3 passengers.

One way flights $115 each. Min 2 passengers.

NOrTH CaPe FlIGHTS $430 each. Min 3 passengers. rodney aero Club 425 8735 or rod miller 425 5612 FOr Sale FOr Sale Ceramic top stove $400, 4-ring stove $100, Large fridge/ freezer $400, Small fridge/freezer $200, Dishwasher $250, Microwave $50. Phone 423 9307.

HaY $8 Per Bale

Conventional bales. Ph 021 045 8840.

HaY - NeW SeaSONS Top quality,

no kakuia, $10-$12 a bale. Phone 09 4257479 or 0274970980.

raWleIGH Products. Ph Pat 425 8851

GraZING

HOme maINTeNaNCe WaTer PUmPS Low water pressure?

Get it sorted. Sales, service and installation. Work guaranteed. Steve 09 945 2282 ww.purewaterservices.co.nz

GraZING leaSe Extra rotational grazing for three unshod, quiet horses and their mature farmer owner who will harrow, lime & fence. Phone 09 422 3494 or 021 222 9612.

laWNmOWING & SeCTION maINTeNaNCe ServICe Rubbish removal, weed control, water blasting, decks, drives, paths, fence painting & repairs. Warkworth - Matakana & Beaches. Jeff is reliable and punctual.

Phone 027 425 7357 or 425 7357.

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

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Hypnotherapy with Scope Hypnosis.

Phone 0508 SCOPE ME (726 736) or email: lisa@scopehypnosis.com

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HaNdYmaN – THe maINTeNaNCe maN Your one stop fix-it-man. Phone Jim 422 3725 or 021 254 2048 or visit www.themaintenancemanjim.co.nz

reTaINING WallS Wooden retaining walls and fencing. Owner/ operator 25+ years experience. For complete quality projects phone Bruce (09) 425 7766. laWNS - Contouring, prepping and laying. Owner/operator 25+yrs experience. For complete quality projects phone Bruce (09) 425 7766.

STeve’S maINTeNaNCe lawns, hedges, waterblasting, rubbish removal, section clearing, property maintenance. No job too big or small.

Phone Steve 029 770 7101 or 09 425 9966. Serving Warkworth, Snells, Matakana, Sandspit.

WaTer FIlTerS Underbench filters & whole house Ultra violet filters – Kill and remove ecoli/bacteria. FREE site visits. Ph Steve 09 945 2282 or visit www.purewaterservices.co.nz

Auckland Council service centre, Baxter Street, Warkworth.

No appointment necessary.

Service includes signing, witnessing, declarations, certified copies, immigration & marriage dissolution.

lOCalS vOCalS CHOIr INC aGm 16th February, Wellsford District Community Centre at 2pm. All welcome - singing after!! Contact Sally 423 9393.

WARKWORTH FLORAL ART CLUB AGM Matakana Community Hall 43 Matakana Valley Road, February 21st @ 11am.

All welcome.

WarKWOrTH GOlF ClUB BeGINNerS daYS FOr ladIeS

Are you interested in playing golf?

We will be running two sessions in February, Friday 7th & Sunday 9th, for ladies interested in giving golf a try.

We are a friendly, welcoming bunch and have a great course for you. if you would like to take up this Free OFFer please contact either Karen Letica on 425 9094 or the Warkworth Golf Club on 425 8248.

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Taoist Tai Chi Classes Beginners Classes starting February 2014 WELLSFORD anglican Church Hall

Port Albert Road, Wellsford monday 10th Feb, 5.30pm-7pm

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Tuesday, 11th Feb, 5.30pm-7pm Thursday, 13th Feb, 10am-11.30am Saturday, 15th Feb, 10am-11.30am methodist Church Hall, Church Hill rd

Wednesday, 12th Feb, 5.30pm-7pm Tai Chi is an ancient art that promotes holistic well being for people of all ages Ph Helen Howard 09 425 9237 warkworth@taoist.org

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Thursday 13th February, 7pm at the Netball Rodney Centre office in Centennial Park, Wellsford. For more information please contact Tui McCaughey 022 628 3238 or netballrodneycenter@xtra.co.nz

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Applicants must have own reliable transport.

For more details phone the Warkworth/Wellsford Budget Service on 423 7123.

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At the gateway to the matakana wine trail - accommodation horsemanship - health. www.chianti. co.nz or ph 422 3494 or 021 222 9612.

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Learners and all levels welcome.

Classes in Warkworth (evenings) and Wellsford (day).

Phone Jan 422 5191. learN SHaOlIN KemPO Self Defence, Self Discipline, Self Confidence & build your fitness - for kids and adults. Tues & Thurs 5.30-7.30pm, Matakana Primary School Hall. Phone Shane 021 959 073.

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Warkworth BPW Fashion Design Award Business and Professional Women’s club in Warkworth is offering an award of $1,400 for a young woman in the Warkworth region to further her career/study in the area of fashion/design. The award is for the study period of 2014/2015.

Please apply in writing with the following information: • Who you are; tell us a little about yourself • Your career to date in your chosen field if applicable • How the award would benefit you • What you are studying and why • Evidence of enrolment or proof of your intention to enrol

CATHOLIC CHURCH

Phone 425 8545

www.holyname.org.nz

Holy Mass Timetable: WARKWORTH

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

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SS. Peter & Paul Church Sunday: 8.30am

The successful applicant will receive half the grant on acceptance and the balance on completion of their study. any questions, contact Gillian Bray on 027 2837772 or email gillian.irons@xtra.co.nz.

5 Pulham Road, Warkworth Phone 425 8861

Post application to Warkworth BPW, PO Box 277, Warkworth 0941 or email to the above address by February 19th 2014.

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Creative Writing Workshop Claim 2014 as the year you explore, rekindle, develop and celebrate your creativity, your way of being with words.

10 sessions, Fortnightly.

Tuesdays 10am-12.30pm Feb 18-June 24 $20 per week Suitable for new and experienced writers

Contact Phillipa Reeve 021 0271 8621 or 09 423 0483 phillipa@evolucidy.com SIlverdale BallrOOm STUdIO Welcomes you to 2014. Adult, beginners social classes Thurs, 7pm. Advanced classes, 8.15pm. Childrens classes every Tues 4pm. Bookings Ph 428 4939.

GUITar leSSONS Patient & flexible to suit your needs. Ph Martin 422 3037.

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Tv ServICeS & SaleS Tv ServICeS Freeview, dishes, aerials, boxes. Sales, installation and repairs.

Phone Gavin 027 476 6115.

SITUaTIONS vaCaNT

INdUSTrIal SeWING maCHINIST reQUIred Part-time - Warkworth.

Email CV to jocurtis@ihug.co.nz

Sunday, February 16th Mahurangi College Auditorium One service only at 10am Sunday Services 9am & 10.30am

Mahurangi Methodist Parish Warkworth Methodist

1 Hexham Street, 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 Hall Bookings PH 425 5707

Phone 425 8660 for information Your LOCAL community Newspaper

Paper Delivery Person Mahurangi Matters is looking for a delivery assistant. The position involves: • Four hours twice a month on a Tuesday, starting at 9am, to assist in Warkworth.

• A couple of hours twice a month on a Friday to drop papers in the Snells Beach, Matakana, Pt Wells and Omaha area.

Person must be reasonably fit and have own car.

For details, phone Angela 425 9068.

WaNTed SeCONd HaNd GOOdS - Glenfield Trading wants to buy second hand goods.

Servicing surrounding Warkworth area.

Ph Graham on 09 443 6013.

WaNTed TO reNT 3 Bdrm HOUSe ideally in Matakana/ Leigh area. Gardener by trade, happy to maintain grounds. Doesn’t have to be flash, private is preferred. Up to $300/wk.

Great refs. Ph/txt Rhonda 021 886 426.

WOrK WaNTed CarPeNTer Small jobs, decks, fences etc. Ph 09 431 3101 or 021 025 76521.

Warkworth Anglican Parish Church Services Christ Church, Church Hill, Warkworth

Every Sunday 8am and 9.30am St. Leonard's, Matakana

1st and 3rd Sundays at 9.30am Snells Beach Community Church

2nd Sunday at 9am

St.Alban's, Kaipara Flats

1st Sunday at 11.15am

St.Michael and All Angels, Leigh

3rd Sunday at 11.00am

Phone 425 8054 or www.anglican-warkworth.org

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Judy Waters, Warkworth & District Museum www.wwmuseum.orconhosting.net.nz

Rural subdivision in early Warkworth Walter Coombes and his business partner William C Daldy were early Auckland traders with interests in the Mahurangi district that included timber, shipping, lime burning and acquiring land. In the first land sales, Captain Daldy bought 222 acres near McKinney Road, gifting a section for the first Presbyterian church.

Walter Coombes owned land near the northwestern boundary of the Warkworth town district, and more than 30 years after his death the land was still known as the Coombes block.

In 1913, surveyors were occupied dividing the land into small farms and defining boundaries. The Warkworth Town Board, at its meeting in December 1913, received a letter written on behalf of the various owners, requesting that the board take responsibility for the formation and dedication of a road through Coombes block. A track across private land had become well used by farmers moving stock to and from the saleyards and showgrounds, and it was suggested that a road could be formed with little difficulty. In exchange for the board agreeing to meet all costs,

Driving a mob of sheep on Kaipara Flats Road

Drovers with cattle in Elizabeth Stre et

land on the grassy summit of a hill was offered as a reserve.

The next morning the five board members met and climbed the hill above Ramsbottom’s farm to inspect the proposed reserve. They expressed their admiration of the view. The town lay below them to the east and south with “glimpses of the river touching with silver the open page of nature”. In mid-distance the chimneystacks of the cement works denoted the importance of the industry to the town’s existence.

To the north could be seen the saleyards and showgrounds beside the Great North Road, and in the distance the bush-clad hills of the Dome range.

The decision was made to accept the offer put forward by the owners of the Coombes block, and early in 1914 the Farmers Union agreed to donate the land necessary to complete the final six chains of road connecting it to the main highway.

The road, now familiar as Hudson Road, became a very useful route for drovers moving stock west and south, enabling them to avoid the main streets of the town. It was used for decades until the more general use of motor transport and the closing of the saleyards brought about changes. More recently, the development of industrial sites on Hudson Road has altered the use of the road considerably.

If those five men who had charge of Warkworth’s destiny 100 years ago could retrace their steps today and stand on the same hill, how great would be their amazement. Ramsbottom’s farm has become part of the spread of residential streets. The volume and speed of motor vehicles on State Highway 1 could not be imagined in earlier times, and on the road they planned in 1914 there is a new set of traffic lights in 2014.

There is no place now for the drover on horseback with his trusty dogs.

CALLING ALL LOCAL COMMUNITY GROUPS AND NOT-FOR-PROFITS Last chance for all local community groups and not-for-profits If you organisation is looking for support, funds, mentoring or just plain help, here is a major opportunity. The combined Service Clubs in the Warkworth and Wellsford areas are shortly hosting their first ‘Rotary Lions Den’. All community groups and not-for-profit organisation in the area will have the opportunity to present their hopes and challenges to a panel of members of the service clubs. As a result, we’ll get a clearer idea of the needs of the local community groups, and be able to channel our funds and efforts into a wider range of good causes.

The application process will be quite informal, but starts now!

In the first instance, please produce a single page A4-sized summary which includes the name and contact details of your organisation, your aims and objective, and a summary of the type of help you are looking for. Please also include the steps you’ve already taken to meet those objectives.

Send this summary to warkworthrotary@gmail.com before Friday 14th February 2014. Selected groups will then be invited to present to the Panel on Wednesday 26th February 2014.

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Fruitloop events expanded Kudos for Puhoi chopping event Organisers of the annual Matakana Fruitloop have upped the ante on fun this year.

As if cavorting through vineyards, mandarin orchards and olive groves dressed in costumes that range from the bizarre to the ridiculous isn’t enough, this year’s event on March 1 will round-off with a spit roast dinner and live entertainment.

“We’re raising money for the completion of the community-built Matakana cycleway/walkway but this event is also about getting together as a community and having some fun,” an organiser, Ras Sutherland, says.

Inclusiveness is another theme on this year’s programme.

As well as the main event – a 7km walk/run – there will be an 11.5km cycle ride marked out with families in mind, and a 3km option for wheelchairs and mobility scooters.

The cycle ride will follow a flat course from the Matakana Country Park to Point Wells with entertainment and refreshments along the way, while the “wheelie” course will be along a sealed pathway on private property which meanders past a private chapel.

“Whatever event people choose to enter, whether on wheels or feet,

Last year’s Fruitloop raised around $30,000 which was spent on the completion and upgrade of the walkway/cycleway.

dressing up is encouraged,” Ras says. “It just all adds to the carnival atmosphere of the day.”

Prizes will be awarded for the first two men and the first two women home, and there will be spot prizes and costume prizes with judging by marathon runner extraordinaire Allison Rowe.

The dinner, which is open to everyone whether they participated or not, will conclude the day’s events.

Info: matakanafruitloop.co.nz.

The Puhoi Axemen put up a strong fight, but the visitors took out the major titles at the annual Puhoi Axemen’s Wood Chopping Carnival.

Puhoi Axemen secretary John Sanderson says the competition was strong and it made for an exciting day.

The crowd support was fantastic, he says.

“The Taranaki Axemen said it’s the best event in the country. It’s a great setting and the crowd really get behind the axemen.”

The day was also a success for local fundraisers. The Puhoi Rural Firebrigade sausage sizzle raised $1400 towards a new fire station and Kawau Coastguard also made record sales for their annual boat and car raffle.

Seventeen-year-old world champion Jack Jordan, from Taranaki, won the Championship Underhand, and brother Shane Jordon won the Underhand Open taking home the Puhoi Pub trophy. Taranaki axeman Pine Bracegirdle won the Puhoi Pub trophy for Standing Open and Jesse Whitehead from Waiuku won the Chippity

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Mike Paddison of the Puhoi Axemen puts in some furious blows at the end of the finale relay event.

Chip Championship Standing.

Meanwhile, Puhoi Axemen will host a Northland Grading Day at the Kaipara Flats Sports Club, on March 8, from 11am. All the best axemen from the north will be competing, as well as guest axemen from Auckland.

Spectators welcome.

Info: Mike Paddison on 422 5123.

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RECEIVE A FREE 532ML BOTTLE OF OATMEAL SHAMPOO – VALUED AT $22, WHEN YOU PURCHASE AN EIGHT DAY PASS. ON PRESENTATION OF THIS AD, ONE PER CUSTOMER. VALID UNTIL 30.4.2014

Warkworth & District Museum Warkworth & District Museum has created a display at the museum to help celebrate the 160 years of Warkworth. We have attempted to give recognition to the early families who donated generously to the museum and to show how fashion has changed down through the years.

Open 7 Days, Monday to Sunday 10am – 4pm Parry Kauri Park, Tudor Collins Drive (Off Wilson Road, Warkworth) Phone: 09 425 7093 | Email: warkworthmuseum@xtra.co.nz | www.wwmuseum.orconhosting.net.nz

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Coal Creek is a stunning novel set in the hinterland of Queensland. Bobby Blue is caught between loyalty to his only friend, Ben Tobin, and his boss, Daniel Collins, the new constable at Mount Hay. Bobby has grown up in the town and understands the people and the ways of Mount Hay; Collins, recently returned from the war, brings his coastal values to the hinterland. Bobby says, “I do not think Daniel would have understood Ben in a million years.” Increasingly bewildered and goaded to action by his wife, Constable Collins takes up his shotgun and pistol to deal with Ben. Bobby’s love for Collins’ willful young daughter Irie is exposed, leading to tragic consequences for them all. This is a simply told but deeply significant novel of friendship, love, loyalty and the tragic consequences of misunderstanding and mistrust.

One By One by Jojo Moyes Jess Thomas is not having a good day. She has just lost her house-cleaning job, her husband has left her for another woman, her teenage stepson Nicky is having issues, and her daughter Tanzie’s dreams of attending a private school look highly unlikely unless she can find a way to earn more money. When Tanzie decides to enter a Maths Olympiad in Wales and win the much-needed cash prize, the three of them, plus their huge smelly dog Norman, pile into their ancient car and head off for the long drive from England to Wales. Half-an-hour into their journey they are pulled over by the police and fined for having an out-of-date tax disc and no insurance. They are unable to drive the car home, but luckily Ed Nicholls happens to be driving by. Recognising Jess as his cleaning lady, he offers them a lift home. Against his better judgement but feeling moved by Tanzie’s despair at missing her maths competition, Ed offers to drive the family to Wales. Here starts the road trip that puts pressure on this unusual group of people. This story of a chaotic family, a handsome stranger and unexpected love, is another delightful, can’t-put-down read by an author we’ve come to love.

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February 5, 2014

Cuisine

Andrea Hincho, Taste The Kitchen Shop www.tastethekitchenshop.co.nz

When only the best will do Using seasonal produce should be second nature to all of us, and being the middle of summer makes this so easy. My all-time favourite summer salad is the classic Italian one of tomato, basil and mozzarella. There are many variations on this dish but I still prefer the sublime flavours of the traditional and classic version. I have been growing the small Greek or bush variety of basil for the past couple of summers and find it great for this dish, always using a few of the larger basil leaves as garnish. The acidic juices from the tomatoes combine with the seasonings and oil to make its own delicious dressing.

Insalata Caprese is one of the simplest salads to make, and one of the most delicious.

The really intense flavours belie the fact that this dish only takes 10 minutes to put together, but to obtain the required result never compromise quality.

It should be made only with local vine-ripened tomatoes, unrefrigerated, that are red, juicy and flavourful but not overly soft. The next ingredient should be truly fragrant, flavourful young basil — green basil grown in the earth and sun, not the hydroponically grown giant leaf variety which has little flavour. You also need good quality, fresh and moist mozzarella —buffalo if you can get it, but fresh cow’s mozzarella does just as well. Never use the yellow plastic-wrapped supermarket variety. Finally, use your very best extra-virgin olive oil. With crusty fresh bread and a glass of slightly chilled white wine or rosé, this makes an excellent summer lunch or an ideal first course for a summer meal.

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Tomato, Mozzarella and Basil Salad Serves 4 Insalata Caprese

250 grams fresh mozzarella cheese, thickly sliced 2 large vine-ripened tomatoes, thickly sliced 1 cup fresh basil leaves Coarse Salt to taste Freshly-ground black pepper to taste 1/4 cup extra virgin olive oil

Using a circular design around the side of a serving plate, alternate on a large platter (or on individual plates) fresh mozzarella slices with sliced tomatoes, overlapping for effect.

Tear fresh basil leaves and sprinkle liberally over the slices. Add salt and freshly ground pepper to taste. It can be left at this stage for 30 minutes or so. Just before serving, drizzle some top-quality extra-virgin olive oil over it.

Note: This salad should never be allowed to sit in the oil for any length of time and become soggy, and no vinegar of any kind goes onto a true Insalata Caprese.

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Cyclists in a spin over safety on Mahurangi roads Cycling is becoming more popular in Mahurangi, particularly for the over 60s. But its biggest advocates remain frustrated by the lack of progress on safety issues.

Campaigner Bevan Woodward used to bike to Warkworth from his home in Point Wells, but has stopped after too many close calls with trucks.

“This area is probably the worst in New Zealand for cyclists. You’ve got so many vehicles, high traffic speeds, and a complete lack of space for cyclists.

There are deaths waiting to happen and I’m frustrated by the lack of action by NZTA and Auckland Transport,” Bevan says.

The lowering of the speed limit between Warkworth and Matakana has helped, but narrow roads still make cycling Wednesday in the area incredibly February 12 dangerous, he says. is Go Bike Day It’s a shame as the New Zealanders region is perfect are encouraged for cycling, with so many beaches, to leave the car at reserves and towns home and bike to in close proximity, school or work for he says. at least one day In a recent survey of the year. commissioned by

Auckland Transport, 51 percent of respondents rated the current state of cycling in Auckland as poor and 59 percent indicated that safety concerns were a barrier.

Matakana Bicycle Hire manager Paul Robson says cycling is taking off in the area, but more needs to be done to make it safer.

“It’s our third summer now and each season is up on the last. This time is particularly busy. It’s definitely a growing occupation. It’s very social and good for the kids. But increasingly it’s older people getting into it. Seventy percent of our customers are over 60,” Paul says. “They’re calling it the new golf.”

The new cycle and walkway between Matakana and Omaha has been a big improvement and there are plans to extend it to Snells Beach, through to Warkworth and Leigh, he says. But a lot more needs to be done.

“It’s totally the Council’s responsibility.

Some roads around have no margin at all.”

Mangawhai Wined About Bike Tours has put a different slant on getting your daily exercise. The tour runs an “art and chocolate” tour and a

“wineries and olives” tour around local vineyards and olive groves.

Co-founder Nicola Deveraux says cycling is a great way to work off the chocolate you’ve had on the tour.

The tours have been running for three years and numbers have been increasing every year, Nicola says.

Warkworth Medical Centre GP Kate Baddock says cycling is a great form of exercise, especially for those in their twilight years.

“You use a wide variety of muscles and it’s non-weight bearing, so it’s not going to aggravate joints. It’s great for people with arthritis.”

It’s no miracle cure, but it will definitely improve your health, she says.

“It may not stop people getting a heart attack, but it may help you recover more quickly and more fully. And it helps control blood pressure, helps you lose weight, and prevents insulin resistance.”

Left, Local cyclist Bevan Woodward says the roads in the Mahurangi region are some of the most dangerous for cycling in New Zealand.

SummerSet fallS – love the life!

Great people make a great retirement village.

Nowhere is that truer than at Summerset Falls.

We have a warm and welcoming community where the greetings are friendly and the smiles are genuine. We’re here to enjoy life – whether it’s the organised activities or just getting together for a cup of tea and a chat.

There are so many things to do here – but it’s always up to you which activities you choose to enjoy.

For more information about all the choices we can offer you, please call Steven Garner on 09 425 1202. We’re at 31 Mansel Drive.

Final release of villas Make an appointment to view the plans for these lovely homes with two bedrooms, study and garage.

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NEW YEAR - NEW START - NO VEINS!

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Construction of the Auckland Harbour Bridge walkway/cycleway SkyPath may start as early as next year.

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Council gives support to Harbour Bridge SkyPath A Warkworth man’s dream to build a walkway and cycleway across the Auckland Harbour Bridge is one step closer to reality, after Auckland Council agreed to investigate the project further.

In December, Councillors voted to work towards a formal agreement with the project’s trust and backers to get the SkyPath built.

Project director Bevan Woodward says he has support from mayor Len Brown and new council CEO Stephen Town, who also supported the project in his former role as regional director of the NZTA. All going well, construction could start next year and could be finished by next spring, Bevan says. “Things are really moving forward now, almost as fast as I can keep up.”

He hopes to apply for resource consent at the end of March, which is expected

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Gardens help maintain healthy communities Community gardens are continuing to grow in Mahurangi, as new projects begin to bear fruit and school vege gardens have become a regular part of the curriculum.

Warkworth Primary School has had a garden for the past five years. Teacher Jane Hopkins says it’s been a great learning experience for the children and a novel way to sneak some extra veges into their diet.

“We’ve had very good feedback from the parents saying they can’t believe their kids are so enthusiastic about gardening. I think some of them have started gardens at home since,” Trish says.

The school has also run cooking classes using veges from the garden.

At Mangawhai, the community garden has been providing a community service for the past six years by donating its produce to Geneva Northlink Healthcare.

Joan Farrell runs the group and says the project has been an on-going success.

“I saw there was a need in the community, especially a few years ago when the recession hit, and we had land available and the time, so thought we could help out,” Joan says.

The group has around 15 regular members and has managed to keep the energy and enthusiasm going, she says.

“It’s all been very successful. I think it’s the community spirit of the Mangawhai people that’s kept it going.”

Trish Allen of Matakana says community gardens are a fantastic way to bring people together.

The group had an unfortunate setback four months ago, when their shed was broken into and equipment was stolen.

“All of our tools, fertiliser, and our good weedeater, which was donated by

a very kind person, were stolen. But the community was very good and donated a lot. We’ve just got on with it.”

The Matakana Community Garden is a relative newcomer, starting just over

a year ago. Trish Allen says there’s been a lot of support for the garden and it’s developed fast.

“It’s been really, really easy. The biggest challenge was finding a site,” Trish says.

The garden is great for the community to bond and for people who have recently moved to the area to meet people, she says. And it’s a good place for gardeners to share tips.

Matakana School has also been getting involved in the garden. Last year a bumper pumpkin crop was used for a cooking programme at the school, run by food writer Lauraine Jacobs.

The Wellsford community garden is slowly becoming a centrepiece of the community, garden organiser Nancy Malloy says.

The garden also gives the community a public place to spend time, she says.

The garden has been going for three years, located on 2ha of land owned by the Coast to Coast Hauora Trust, and is probably the biggest community garden in the area.

“We think it’s probably the biggest community garden in the southern hemisphere,” she says.

The garden has recently been picked

by Z Wilmot Motors as one of four community associations that will compete for votes for a share of a $4000 fund.

Nancy says she hopes to get a barbecue and a picnic table for the garden so people can come and cook straight from the garden.

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Visitors were invited to have a look around, and enjoy a hot dog and a drink.

Most commented on the new ambulance on display, and all thought it was much more visible. CPR was demonstrated on request. Some visitors became supporters of St John and enquiries were also made about becoming St John cadets. Pictured, Barry and Dianne Cole and their granddaughter Lucy inspect Warkworth’s new ambulance.

Warkworth Lions health night back Local medical specialists will be speaking at a health night this month to give the public accurate information about some of the major health risks we should all be aware of.

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Doctor warns against internet diagnosis As we spend more and more of our your doctor, going and reading about the time on the internet, there is a growing condition and to see if all the symptoms trend for people to head online to self- fit. If it doesn’t sound like you at all, you diagnose their ailments. But can you can go back to the doctor and say the get accurate advice online? symptoms don’t fit the diagnosis.”

Warkworth Medical Centre GP Kate The internet can also be useful for Baddock says while the internet is patients to find out about possible a great tool for people to learn more treatments, she says. about their health issues, using it to There is a great range of different self-diagnose is dangerous. treatments available and now different “It can be a very useful tool, but it’s practices and techniques from around least helpful when used to look things the world can be accessed at the click up before you go to of a button. the doctor. It can But once you have send patients down some idea of what It can send the wrong track,” Dr help, it is patients down the might Baddock says. worth talking to wrong track “We see more and your doctor about more people coming, the options as some having looked on may be unhelpful, the internet for their symptoms. or even dangerous, she says.

Unfortunately most problems have a Internet forums and communities cluster of symptoms and they overlap can also be useful for people to with other things. communicate with others suffering “For a doctor it’s a bit like putting from a condition. together a puzzle, and for a person “Forums can be wonderfully helpful. looking on the internet, it’s a bit like To know there are other people who having just one piece.” have what you have, and can share The web can be a great resource for their experience and to find out what patients to research more about might work for you is great.” possible diagnoses, but only after your There are a range of websites dedicated doctor has some suggestions for what to different conditions, but for general the problem might be, she says. information, the public portal on the “What’s really helpful is, after seeing Mayo Clinic website is great, she says.

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Do we need orthotics in our shoes?

Orthotics (for feet) are a biomechanically designed innersole that can be put in your shoes to help achieve correct foot position and movement. Orthotics have been used for over 100 years in a medical context. However, the use of simpler inserts into shoes dates back over 2000 years. The question is: do we really need them?

They are of huge benefit for a wide range of problems, including the obvious foot and ankle problems such as plantar fasciitis (inflammation of the arch of the foot), Achilles tendonitis (inflammation of the Achilles tendon), shin splints (trauma to the muscles that attach to the lower leg bone) and for unstable/weak ankles. However, they are also very important for knee, hip and back problems when there is incorrect movement of the foot and ankle. Another use is for anyone who is on their feet a lot, especially if they are standing on hard surfaces.

Our feet are incredible mechanisms of engineering — their shape and structure will change to fit the purpose of their activity. For example when walking over an uneven surface they are in a state of flexibility where their shape will adapt to the contours of the ground, whereas when running they become a more rigid platform that allows for great propulsion which is necessary to accelerate forwards.

The intricate and complex nature of the foot and ankle can, however, result in problems if there is a breakdown in the normal function of movement.

Part of a comprehensive assessment for any foot, ankle, hip or back problem should involve assessment of the foot and ankle movement. This is a typical part of the assessment that a physiotherapist, osteopath or podiatrist should be including in their assessment. Some massage therapists and chiropractors also incorporate this into their assessment. For more complex cases, it is advisable for a podiatrist to be involved as the foot and ankle is their speciality.

There are essentially two types of foot orthotics, which can be crudely categorised as “fixed” or “flexible”. Fixed orthotics are really the domain of podiatrists. These involve casting an impression of the foot and using this to make a very firm and essentially rigid orthotic, nearly identical for the shape of the foot. The more flexible orthotics are made from a more flexible polyethylene foam or similar.

These can be heat-moulded to the shape of your foot. Although they don’t have the rigidity of the fixed version, they are generally a lot more comfortable.

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In 40 years of marriage, Marilyn Hayward has never received a Valentine’s card from her husband Maurice.

But she can hardly complain, as she’s never given Maurice one either.

They say a shared sense of humour has been the secret to their solid relationship.

“With Maurice’s sense of humour, you can’t get cross with him.”

Marilyn says.

They don’t agree on everything. “He feels the cold, I feel the heat. That’s the one thing we don’t agree on,” she says.

Marilyn blames it on Maurice’s time serving in the Royal Navy during the Korean War. “I didn’t think much of Korea. Too cold,” Maurice says.

They met in 1957 when they were both serving in the Royal Navy in England.

“I was the senior chief in the office and I was always very formal with Marilyn and said: ‘Good morning Miss Walker’. I was married with a young daughter at the time, and Marilyn became a family friend. But our paths often crossed,” he says.

In 1972 Maurice had a terrible year.

In the first six months his mother died of cancer, his father died of a heart attack, and his wife died of leukaemia.

Late in 1972 Maurice and Marilyn met up again, and he took her out to lunch and their friendship developed.

“You’ve got to accept what happened is in the past and just look forward to the future,” Maurice says. They were married 18 months later.

“I just knew he was a nice man. He’s a lovely man. I still feel that way. We’re still laughing after all these years,” says Marilyn.

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Jazz concert planned for Kawau Island Free concert This Saturday Kawau Island is heading back to the jazz age and holding a concert to showcase the recently renovated Mansion House.

The event is run by Organisation Passion About Kawau and secretary Helen Jeffery hopes the public will come and see the island looking its best.

“Mansion House had a big refurbishment last year and we just wanted to celebrate that. Our first thought was a jazz concert.”

Classic jazz ensemble The Jazz Age will be playing, with part-time Kawau resident Georgia Wood singing.

“She’s a professional singer and has had sell-out concerts in the area,” Helen says.

Local wineries and food producers will be selling food and drink at the event.

Wine from Ransom Wines, Mahurangi River Winery, Heron’s Flight and Morton Estate Wines will be on sale, and The Farm Butchery has prepared a special Kawau Sausage for the event. Ham baps from Freedom Farms will also be on sale.

Every ticket will go into a raffle draw, with prizes including a weekend for two at Tahi Lodge in Snells Beach,

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tickets to Matakana Cinema, and dinner at Plume restaurant. A charity auction will also be held, she says.

“The local community has been really generous in donating for the auction and raffle prizes. They came to the ball straight away.”

The event will raise money to buy historic costumes for the Friends of Mansion House to wear at the annual picnic day held at the island on Sunday March 23 and other events. Proceeds

will also help to restock the medical supplies of the Kawau Emergency Response Trust.

It is hoped it will become an annual event, Helen says.

Info: Adult tickets $15, including raffle entry and a Mansion House wineglass.

Tickets for 12 to 17-year-olds are $10 with a free soft drink, and entry is free for under 12s. Kawau Cruises has discounted prices for the event of $20 each way for adults and $10 for children. See kawauisland.org.nz

Warkworth has been included in Auckland’s Music in the Parks series this year.

A free concert will be held in Lucy Moore Park on Sunday, February 16, from 3pm to 5pm. Topping the bill will be The Slacks, backed up

by Mister S & The Realisitics.

The Slacks are a five-piece guitar band with a sound that was once called FizzPop, but which has developed a more rock/folk/blues vibe.

Mister S & The Realistics is a band based in Northland, with a style and repertoire that mixes swing, country, rockabilly and blues. They specialise in performing longforgotten classic gems from the 30s through to the 80s.

The band consists of various combinations of vocals, guitars, harmonica, lap steel, double bass and snare drum. They cover artists such as Robert Johnson, the Andrews Sisters, Paul Simon, Elvis and many more.

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favourites Bonnie and the Oosh are releasing their new single and a new rock direction at Leigh Sawmill on February 14.

Fronted by Bonnie Hurunui, the fourpiece band are regulars at local events and fundraisers including the Kowhai Festival, Leigh Fishing Competition and school galas.

The eagerly awaited single Higher was recorded by the band’s lead guitarist, sound engineer Karl Apao.

Karl is also working on their new album, for release at the end of the year along with a summer tour.

The band has also continued to evolve, with the addition of bass player Dwayne Diack in 2012 and new hardhitting drummer Clayton Gould.

Bonnie says while it will be a serious year for the band professionally,

the performance will still reflect the upbeat fun and hardcase banter with the crowd she is well known for.

Next up for Bonnie and the Oosh is the upcoming Higher music video and then playing “as much as humanly possible” to see how their loyal and new audiences react to their new sound.

Meanwhile, three-piece hip hop/ vintage-funk group Kong Fooey will play their first gig in the region at the Sawmill on Friday Feb 21, ahead of their debut EP release, Let GO. The band draws on some of NZ’s top talent. Silver Scroll winner Jamie Greenslade, aka Maitreya, fronts the band with Alice Egan, aka Topaz.

Greenslade won the Maioha Silver Scroll for his solo hip hop music under the name Maitreya.

Top, L-R, Karl Apao, Dwayne Diack, Clayton Gould, Bonnie Hurunui.

Band members started rehearsing before Christmas for the Leigh show.

Big band sounds at Sawmill The Warkworth Brass Band is repeating its “standing room only” show at Leigh Sawmill this month.

The free concert on Sunday, February 16, follows a successful outing there last year which drew more than 300 people to the open air venue.

Band leader Alan Flack says this year’s repertoire will range from Glen Miller to Elton John, with a wide mix of big band classics, music from well-known musicals, some rock and blues numbers, and some Latin rhythms.

The 26-piece band draws players

from across the Rodney district and plays regularly at local events.

Its members are from diverse backgrounds including professional musicians, teachers, vets, dentists, school caretakers, a retired airline captain and commercial fishermen.

“There are also several teenagers with promising musical careers ahead of them,” Alan says.

“The Sawmill concert is a highlight of the band’s programme and rehearsals started before Christmas to make this year’s event something special.”

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Arcturus takes line honours

Clear skies and a fair wind provided ideal racing conditions for the 107 boats that competed in the annual Mahurangi Regatta on January 25.

Among the oldest yachts in the race were the gaff-rigged cutter Waitangi, launched in 1894, and the classic yacht Thelma, launched in 1897.

Thelma proved age was no barrier to speed, finishing second on handicap in the A Class Trophy race.

Also sailing on the day was the Maritime Museum brigantine Breeze and Ranger’s arch rival the 61-foot A class fractional sloop Fidelis, built by Lidgard Boatbuilders in 1964, which was visiting from Australia.

Flagship for the day was Warkworth’s Jane Gifford.

The usual mixed fleet of yachts from the Te Haupa fleet were on the water, racing in four divisions – the under 20foot class of frostbites and mistrals; the Mahurangi Cup division of wooden boats designed and built before 1955, traditional spirit yachts for boats of any construction which conform to a traditional spirit in their design; and the ever-increasing modern classic for other yachts which don’t conform to the other two divisions but were designed or built before 1985.

Activities on the beach at Sullivans Bay also attracted a good crowd of spectators and the day wound-up with a prizegiving ceremony at Scotts Landing.

Trophy winners were: Mahurangi Cup (for classic wooden yachts pre-1955 design): Line honours, Minerva Cup – Arcturus; 1st Handicap, Mahurangi Cup – Clarionet; 2nd – Mischief II; 3rd – Arcturus. Mahurangi ‘A’ Class Handicap Trophy – Line honours, bottle of rum – Ranger; 1st Handicap for ‘A’ Class Trophy – Rainbow; 2nd – Thelma; 3rd – Frances. Old Gaffers Bell (for first gaff rigged boat in main event) – Clarionet; Octavius Cup – Scout; Herreshoff Trophy – Te Kawai; Lady Pat Trophy – Te Ata; Logan Trophy – Rainbow; Dawdle of Te Kapa Trophy – Berna Maree.

Left, Old-fashioned races on the beach at Sullivans Bay, as well as a sandcastle-building competition, were a fun curtain-raiser to the main events on the water.

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February 5, 2014

Sport

The ones that didn’t get away The annual Grumpy’s One Base fishing tournament was held on Auckland Anniversary Weekend with 21 boats and 72 anglers getting out to compete for $9000 worth of prizes.

Warkworth Fishing Club president Dave Adams says numbers were up on last year despite a pretty average weather forecast.

“It’s always a bit of mixed bag trying to get a couple of good days fishing,” Dave says.

Peter Matheson won the billfish first prize of $2500 and took home the Grumpy’s One Base trophy with a 105.5kg striped marlin caught north of Great Barrier.

Grant Hamilton won the tagged marlin prize, while Ben Wyatt won the tagged shark section.

First place in the kingfish section went to Mike Leggoe with an 11kg fish and Dave Morrison won the snapper section with a 9kg fish.

Local plumber Jason Wech won the draw for the $3000 travel prize.

Chris Milicich, Harbour Sport www.harboursport.co.nz

Getting teens off the couch Getting people active is one of our core jobs here at Harbour Sport. We want as many people as possible to know that being involved in sport or recreation is a good thing, and it’s never too late to start.

One of our programmes we are really passionate about is Active Teens. This is a tailored programme to get sedentary teenagers active; to increase their confidence. The great thing about Active Teens is that we’ve recognised that teens are unique and that they respond to a distinctly different type of motivation. So to achieve the best health and fitness outcomes, this programme is specially tailored. It is much more than just a weight-loss programme, with teens also receiving education on nutrition and healthy lifestyle choices. If we can make an impact in this age group, we can really make a difference because research shows that 80 percent of obese teens become obese adults.

We’ve had massive successes with this programme. Last year, a girl lost 14.7kg of body fat and improved 100 percent in strength and fitness running tests on the 12-week programme, and another teen we got off the couch reduced his Body Mass Index (BMI) from obese to normal. He improved so much that a friend of the 14-year-old, who hadn’t seen him in a while, barely recognised him when he walked down the street one day. The great news for Mahurangi is that Active Teens is coming to the region. Thanks to funding provided by Comprehensive Care/Waitemata PHO, an Active Teens programme is starting in Term 2 (early May). This will be a free programme for those who sign up.

If you know of anyone who you think might benefit from joining Active Teens, contact Liz Golding here at Harbour Sport. She runs the programme and can be contacted at 09 4154659 or af-support@harboursport.co.nz.

Another programme we offer in Mahurangi, which can make a huge difference, is Green Prescription. This programme, which has been running for 15 years, offers those who have been referred to us by their GP or health professional three to four months of phone support to get and remain active.

Our team has solid links in the Mahurangi region, the latest of which is the “The Circuit Room”. Funding has just increased for those who are diabetic or pre-diabetic and we have resources for home or community-based activity as well as nutrition and dietary information. So call your GP or health professional now and ask about Green Prescription for a healthier, more active you in 2014.

Right; Peter Matheson won the $2500 with this 105kg striped marlin at the annual Grumpy’s One Base fishing tournament.

Junior rugby The Mahurangi Rugby Club will hold two registration days for the 2014 junior season this month. The first is on Saturday, February 15, from 11am to 3pm, and the second is on Thursday, February 20, from 4pm to 7.30pm. Club captain Howard Cooper says new players, aged 5–12, are welcome. The registration days will be held at the clubhouse, at Warkworth Showgrounds. Info: 021 379 862.

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New roles at Omaha Golf Club Omaha Beach Golf Club is hoping to persuade more women to get out on its greens, following the appointment of a new Women’s Club Captain.

Annette Gowling has taken over from Heather Dry, who Annette says has done a “sterling job” for the past four years. Gaye Spencer has agreed to be the Vice Women’s Captain.

Annette plays most of her golf midweek at Peninsular Golf Club as she lives at Red Beach, but comes up to her bach at Omaha each weekend.

The keen sportswoman brings plenty of administrative experience to the role, having previously been a club captain for rugby, squash and tennis.

She represented New Zealand in junior tennis, and played Caro Bowl tennis for Parnell and Premier for Browns Bay. She was also a professional tennis coach until she needed surgery on her shoulders.

She started playing golf in 1997, as the rest of her family played the game.

She is now on a 10.1 handicap index

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and is a regular member of the club’s pennant team.

“I hope to grow the numbers of women players who play regularly at Omaha,” she says. “We want to create the right conditions and formats so that all types of players can enjoy their games, whether they are competitive or social, beginner or expert. We are a supportive group of women who love playing on our challenging course. I can’t wait to introduce some new formats for Saturday and Tuesday women’s golf.”

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yy Junior Tennis commences at the Warkworth Squash & Tennis Club on Monday, Tuesday & Wednesday afternoons from February 3. Primary students 3.15- 4.15pm, college students 4.15-5.15pm for all of Term 1. Info: Kaye Jackson 425 6965.

Squash

yy Squash Inter House commences at Warkworth Squash & Tennis Club on February 13, non-members welcome. Ladies Morning will begin Monday February 18, 9.30-11am. Non-members welcome for coaching and games. Junior Squash will begin in Term 2. Info: Kaye Jackson 425 6965.

Netball

yy Warkworth Netball Club is holding two free Skills & Drills Days, for Year 2 to Year 8 pre-season training, on February 9 & 16, 3-5pm, at Warkworth Primary School, for all players interested in participating in the 2014 season. Info: warkworthnetballclub@gmail.com. yy Warkworth Netball Club Muster Days will be held on February 23 and March 2. Feb 23 is Year 2 to Year 6, 1-3pm; Year 7 up, 3-5pm; Senior Ladies 5-6pm. March 2 is Year 2 to Year 6, 1-3pm; Year 7 up, 3-5pm; Senior Ladies 5-6pm. Venue to be advised. Info: warkworthnetball.com or warkworthnetballclub@gmail.com Women’s golf

yy Warkworth Golf Club is having an open day on February 7 for ladies interested in giving golf a try. To take up this free offer please contact Karen Letica on 4259094 or the Warkworth Golf Club on 4258248.

Mangawhai Triathlon (see story p34)

yy The 2014 Mangawhai triathlon will be held on February 16. The event includes a swim, kayak, cycle and run. Compete as an individual, register a team or register for a single discipline and be matched into a team. Registration for the single discipline category closes February 2, other entries close February 12. Info: northlandtri.co.nz or 09 437 9600.

Top of the Rock (see story p34)

yy The 2014 Top of the Rock will take place in Kaiwaka on Sunday February 9. Choose from a scenic walk/run (5 or 10km), a 10km crosscountry run and a 15km mountainbike ride, or a 30km mountainbike ride. Info: kaiwakasports.co.nz.

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The Mangawhai Triathlon is on track for another great day.

The event, held on February 16, involves a 500m swim or 1.5km kayak, a 20km cycle and a 5km run.

Sport Northland events team leader Hayley Overton says a few tweaks to the course should make the course flow a bit better and make this year’s event one of the best yet.

“Mangawhai provides a beautiful backdrop, but it does produce a challenging setting to find the ideal course. But this year we think we are pretty close,” Hayley says.

For the first time, athletes can compete in a single discipline as an individual, so those who want to give the run, swim, kayak or bike leg a go, but don’t have a team, can still compete.

“It’s one of the smaller triathlons, so it’s not so daunting for people who want to go out and give it a go,” she says.

A range of prizes will be presented on the day for medal winners, as well as spot prizes for all entrants.

This year’s star prize is an Avanti Black Thunder mountainbike, donated

by Avanti Plus in Whangarei. Other prizes include a trip voucher for the Bay of Islands and an iPod Touch.

Registration closes on February 12.

Info: Enter online at northlandtri.co.nz or call (09) 437 9600.

Tweaks to the Mangawhai Triathlon course should make it one of the best yet.

‘Top of the Rock’ still growing The once-a-year opportunity to enjoy the view from the top of Baldrock Mountain is nearly here, with the annual Kaiwaka multi-sport event, the Top of the Rock, kicking off on Sunday February 9.

Organiser Cheryl Anderson says the event is for people of all ages and abilities to come out, get some exercise, and enjoy the view.

“The great majority are just casual, out to enjoy the nice walk in the sun and the nice views.

“It’s a fantastic view, right out to the sand dunes of Mangawhai in the east through to Kaipara Harbour in the west. And we always have a fourwheel-drive and a farm bike to pick up the stragglers that have done their dash.”

Every year there is a prize for the oldest competitor, with an 82-year-old winning the prize last year. In all, there will be over 80 prizes given on the day including a spot prize of a brand-new mountainbike.

Serious competitors are encouraged to enter too, with a variety of events from

a 5km and 10km walk/run, through to the Baldrick Adventure Race, which involves a 10km run and a 15km bike ride. Competitors can enter the Adventure Race as a solo contestant or a two-person team. There is also a 30km mountain bike-only event.

The race is in its fourth year and continues to gain in popularity, Ms Anderson says.

“The feedback’s been really positive.

Lots of people say they didn’t even know where Kaiwaka was before.”

And now it’s been running for a few years, we are past most of the teething problems, she says.

Over 40 volunteers have put time in to ensure the event goes off without a hitch.

“It’s a real community event and everyone comes out and helps.”

There will also be free camping near the site for those who have a long distance to travel.

Info: kaiwakasports.co.nz/topoftherock or call Evan Wright on 09 4314 127.

Latecomers can enrol on the day for an extra $5.

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For links to more information about some of these events, as well as listings through to the end of the year, visit the What’s On calendar online at www.localmatters.co.nz

Warkworth Area Liaison Group meeting, Warkworth RSA downstairs, 7.30pm.

Breast feeding support group, from 10am at the Warkworth Birthing Centre. All mothers welcome.

Waitangi Day Excursion aboard the historic Jane Gifford, departing Warkworth Wharf at noon. A special 3-hour cruise to Scotts Landing return. Bring picnic lunch & BYO. Adults $40, seniors $35, student $15, family $100. Reservations essential.

Info: Dave 09 425 5006 / 027 484 9935 or dh.parker@xtra.co.nz Sounds like Waitangi, Mangawhai Tavern, from 3pm.

Music in the Garden, Mansion House, Kawau. Info: treasureislands.co.nz (see story p29) Top of the Rock Adventure Race. Info:kaiwakasports.co.nz (see story p34) Lynyrd Skynrd, Starship and 10CC, Matakana Country Park.

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Community courses start, Mahurangi College.

Warkworth Photography Group meeting, Warkworth Showgrounds, 7pm. Info: Mary 425 6910 or mayree@xtra.co.nz Maungaturoto Primary School Horse Trek, 265 Whakapirau Road, Maungaturoto (follow signs from SH12). Registration 2.30pm, Ride Off at 3pm. Dinner provided for every registered rider. Riders must provide their own horse. Adults $35, children $25, family pass $100 (2 adults + 2 children). Info: Karina 09 431 8344.

Maungaturoto Primary School Trail Ride, 265 Whakapirau Road, Maungaturoto (follow signs from SH12). Track opens 9am & closes 3pm. Kids track $10, children up to 16 riding on the 35km track is $15, and adults $35. Info: Nyree Alcock 09 431 8462 or Mark 09 431 8900.

Mister S and The Realistics with The Slacks, Lucy Moore Park, Baxter St, Warkworth, from 3pm-5pm. Free Auckland Council Music in the Parks concert.

Warkworth Brass Band, Leigh Sawmill, 4pm. Entry free, koha appreciated (see story p30) Health night for men and women, Mahurangi College Hall, 7.30pm. Organised by Warkworth Lions Club. (see story p25).

Lifeguard Longboard Nationals, Mangawhai Beach.

Wellsford/Warkworth Vintage Car Club annual Swap Meet at the clubrooms on Satellite Station Rd, from 7am, admission $5, children under 12 free. Info: 423 8122.

Bridge lessons, Warkworth Bridge Club, Alnwick St, 7.15pm.

Info: Jenny Robinson 425 8909 or Nadine Stubbs on 425 8205.

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Rodney in the Spotlight Expo: Hear about what projects community organisations and your local board are planning to deliver in your area. 10am to 4pm, Mahurangi College, Woodcocks Road, Warkworth (see story p12).

Matakana Fruitloop Charity Fun Run (see story p19).

Northland Axemen Grading Day, Kaipara Flats Sports Club, from 11am. All the best axemen from the north will be competing, as well as guest axemen from Auckland.

Warkworth Trolley Derby McKinney Hall’s 100th birthday celebration. All past & present Community and Playgroup members welcome. Interested parties please register interest with Nicci Shirley to ensure you get updates on the centenary. Email: nicndrew@xtra.co.nz

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Spectacular comeback for Warkworth driver Warkworth resident Nigel Ross is still buzzing from one of the best drives of his career at the New Zealand Saloon Car Championships in Stratford last month.

Nigel placed third in the champs, despite an horrific crash on the first night which he describes as “probably one of the hardest hits I’ve had”.

He says he was just going outside of the other driver when the driver changed his line.

“He just slungshot me, straight in, nose in. We couldn’t believe it because I didn’t need to do anything because I’d done so well in all the other heats.”

His car had chassis damage and was patched up on the night. He ended up having to come through the repecharge after finishing ninth in heat 1 from grid 12, first in heat 2 from grid 2, and third in heat 3 from grid 17.

“It was a really good comeback, from cleaning up the spares in the toolbox,” he says.

The placing entitles him to carry “3NZ” on the side of his Stealth Chevrolet KMac Corvette until next year’s championships in Blenheim.

Nigel came third in the DHL Saloon Series last year, and second in 2012.

He was North Island Saloon Champ and Grand Prix Champ in 2012, and Auckland Saloon Champ and King

of the Park in 2013. But he says he is “stoked” with his latest performance.

His Facebook page, 46A Saloon, “went mad” after the win. “To be able to get that was just absolutely awesome. It was such a good finish.”

Nigel, who owns Chemwash

in Warkworth, says he is particularly grateful to his sponsors, including Snells Beach Panel & Paint, Repco Warkworth, Mahurangi Sheetmetals, and Procar Vehicle Service Centre.

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