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

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Brass band members, from left, Robyn Jones, John Bluck and Jorgia Bays during a rehearsal for the Leigh concert.

Local folk

A&P Show stalwart Ian Ferguson

page 9

Opportunity knocks Learning options in Rodney

pages 18 to 23

Warkworth A&P Show Champion line-up this month

pages 36 to 39

Heritage band sets new direction

One of the Mahurangi’s oldest organisations, the Warkworth Brass Band which has been going for more than 100 years, will hit a new note next month. The band will play at the Leigh The brass band will present its first numbers. The programme will range Sawmill Café on February 3, a venue big band repertoire featuring music from Glen Miller standards to songs better known for its contemporary from the swing bands of the fifties by Elton John and the Beatles. music and rock band performances. and sixties, as well as more modern continued page 3

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Vandals cost widow thousands The vandalism of trees that were up to 80 years old, on a private Snells Beach property, has left the 89-year-old owner with a $6500 bill. Tree Contracts were called in just before Christmas to bring down four macrocarpa and one pine tree, which had been drilled and filled with poison. Tree Contracts owner and arborist Linus Wood says the five trees were felled after complaints from neighbours that they were dangerous. He said other trees on the property, owned by Joyce Hood, have also been poisoned and are likely to need Linus Wood identifies one of the many holes drilled in the mature trees. removing at some later stage. “Thankfully, we don’t see this sort of left Mrs Hood with a very costly bill.” thing very often,” Linus says. Christine says it’s the second time the Property caretaker Christine Kyle says property, which contained 32 protected Mrs Hood, a widow who is living in trees in total, has been targeted. care, has owned the Pines Motel site Anyone who has any information since 1964. regarding who may be responsible for “It just seems very unfair that the poisoning the trees should contact actions of some selfish individual have Auckland Council on 09 301 0101.

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Omaha bird protectors review progress Omaha resident Jim McKinlay has spent countless hours protecting birds on Omaha sandspit and he is pleased to see his work continue. The slither of beach is home to variable oystercatchers, wrybills and godwits. Most threatened is the New Zealand dotterel. Only between three and five were spotted two years ago. Jim, 80, was given a guided tour of the new pest-proof fence by members of the Omaha Shorebird Protection Trust last week. He congratulated the group on taking “big strides we weren’t prepared to make”. “I didn’t think fences would work but this is much more sophisticated than what was around in those days,” he said. Jim founded the Omaha Dotterel Protection Group in 1993, but bowed out five years ago because of poor health. His departure saw chick numbers drop and dog invasions increase – a situation that had many concerned. David Stone (left) and Jim McKinlay inspect the Omaha predator-proof fence. Trust chairman David Stone said there one side of the spit to the other. Dotted their habitat. People can walk into the was a gradual awareness that there was along the perimeter and at both ends area via one of two double gates. something special on the spit and that are more than 30 traps designed to Jim says he got involved in 1992 management had drifted. Trapping catch mustelids and rodents. while bird expert John Dowding was was still going on but the disturbance studying the dotterels. “Stoats were spotted on the harbour level was high. side of the beach a week ago,” Mr Stone “He wasn’t saving the birds, just A meeting was convened in 2009 and says. “We caught two in different traps watching what they were doing. He a charitable trust was formed. Rodney knew where the nests were but the District Council contributed $10,000 and last night we caught another.” eggs never survived. It was my (late) towards the fence and the remaining The area has been unofficially named wife Laura’s idea to put time into $146,000 was raised by donation. The the Omaha Shorebird Sanctuary and predator control. Suddenly, it became 400m long, 1.8m high structure was interpretative signage has been erected the main thing we were doing.” finished last August and stretches from educating the public on the birds and The group poisoned a feral cat colony and trapped several stoats and hedgehogs. After two to three years, chicks started hatching and, by 2003, “Normally we play at Christmas haven’t played since they left school. there were 26 dotterel fledglings. concerts and community events but “I didn’t start playing the trumpet until we thought it might be time to branch I was in my forties, but a lot of the band “We had 24 traps. We’d do a circuit, re-bait, reset and dispose of a catch. I’d out,” band member John Bluck says. members learned as children, played watch the birds. Sometimes I’d be here “If the concert is successful, it could be in school bands and then put their at 6am and go home at lunchtime.” the first of other similar performances.” instruments away, only picking them The Omaha local has been recognised for The 25-strong band is made up of up again in later life. We are also quite his conservation work with a Forest and people from all walks of life, drawn flexible in terms of what constitutes a Bird Old Blue award in 2007. Both he mainly from the Warkworth, Matakana, brass band – we have saxophones and and Laura received the Environmentalist Snells Beach and Pakiri area. Alan Flack, drums, neither of which is strictly a of the Year Award from ARC in 2000. who also arranges many of the numbers, brass band instrument.” “In the hiatus between the two groups conducts the band whose members Enquiries: Phone Alan or Donna there was a real drop-off in birds and Flack on 422 7919. range in age from 14 to nearly 80. numbers of chicks,” Jim says. “It’s my John says the band is always keen to The concert at the Sawmill starts at hope the present group will bring recruit new members, even if they 4.30pm. Entry is free; koha welcome. them back.”

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Briefs Liquor ban support The Rodney Local Board will receive a report next month on the steps to follow to introduce a liquor ban in the Warkworth township area. The board is supporting a call for the ban after reports of continued incidents of loutish behaviour in Lucy Moore Park. Residents have complained of noise late at night, intimidation of residents, drunkenness and litter including spray cans and broken glass. The board has asked for an investigation into the appropriate geographical coverage and hours for the proposed ban, as well as full public consultation. In the meantime, Council staff have been asked to meet community leaders to identify and initiate, where possible, non-regulatory alternatives to a liquor ban which would engage young people in activities other than alcohol consumption.

Rodney priorities Communities in Rodney will be asked for feedback on the Rodney Local Board agreement later this month. The agreement reflects the priorities of the local board plan and shows the intended provision of local activities and capital and operating expenditure to fund those activities. The agreement will be included in Auckland Council’s draft Annual Plan. Following consultation and discussion, the final board agreement is due for adoption in June. Public consultation will take place from January 24 to February 22.

Te Arai consent A date has yet to be set for the public notification of a resource consent for water to irrigate a proposed golf course at Te Arai. An Auckland Council spokesperson says Council is waiting to hear from the applicant as to how and when they wish to proceed. Residents concerned about the proposed development challenged Council over its non-notification of the last consent for the project, which permitted earthworks to proceed. Independent commissioners were asked to give advice on whether or not the irrigation consent should be notified and agreed it should.

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OFF THE RECORD Schist happens A bit of thought has gone into the design of the public toilet planned for Metro Park East. Describing it at a recent Local Board meeting, chair Julia Parfitt said it would be “clad in concrete that looks like schist”. “Looks like what?” one member of the public was heard to say, “I thought she said it would look good?”

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FEEDBACK Christmas vandals We have been entertaining people with our Christmas light display for in excess of 20 years. Until this year we have had no trouble with vandalism. It now appears that an unfortunate element has moved into our area. They seem to get pleasure from destroying that which gives pleasure to hundreds of children and adults. First they broke in half an angel, which

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was on loan and then they removed a bulb and its rubber seal from the party lights on the tree on the road front. Next, they kicked to pieces the hippopotamus on the lawn and finally, they stole a reindeer which turned its head. These items were expensive and impossible to replace so that’s why we decided ‘enough is enough’ and we dismantled the display early. We are sorry to all those people who said

that they were going to come to see them, but the time and money needed to maintain the display could not be justified. As to the future, we will consider that when we think that these unfortunate individuals may have grown up or, at least, had the guts to return the stolen items to our property so we can include them in a future display, if we should choose to do one. Robin and Ray Jensen,Warkworth

Tree owners urged to check before they chop Changes to rules regarding tree protection in Rodney have come into effect but Auckland Council is urging owners to still ‘check before they chop.’ Until Auckland Council adopts the with council before taking action. Unitary Plan, which will provide These circumstances are usually one rulebook for the whole region, a site specific and include the specific number of different rules will apply zoning of a property, the proximity to tree cutting and prune under the to streams and the coast, whether the former councils’ district plans. tree is scheduled or whether the tree is As a result of a recent government protected as a condition of a previous proposal to amend RMA tree resource consent or covenant. provisions, the upcoming Unitary Plan Ms Perrit says anyone who is uncertain and proceedings in the Environment whether trees on their land are Court, Auckland Council has protected, should phone Council on revised the extent of the general tree 09 301 0101 for assistance. If you fell protection rules for Rodney, meaning or damage a protected tree, you may council consent may no longer be be prosecuted and fined. required to cut or prune trees. The latest changes to the rules will Auckland Council’s manager regional mean that some residents who have and local planning Penny Pirrit says resource consent applications pending however, there are still a number will no longer need a consent to of considerations to be made in remove or prune the trees. determining whether a tree is In those cases, a letter will be sent to without any Council authorisation protected, so residents need to check advise them that they can go ahead being needed.

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Cockle ban supported Rodney Local Board is supporting calls for a further three-year extension on the cockle harvesting ban in place at Whangateau. The board is providing a written submission to the Ministry of Primary Industries in support of the Whangateau HarbourCare Group submission requesting the extension on the grounds that the beds have not fully recovered. The Whangateau cockle and pipi beds were closed for three years in March 2010 in response to the dramatic fall in shellfish numbers in the harbour, caused by a parasite and a bacterial infection.

Setting the record straight In a letter to the editor (Dec 12), headed ‘Shining lights’, Heather and David Metcalfe thanked Nicola Jones and Brian Oakes for their hard work in lighting up Warkworth for Christmas. Unfortunately, Nicola was incorrectly referred to as Nicola Brown.

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Hockey Trust says ‘show us the money’ … please Residents of Rodney are being invited to show their support for the new hockey turf, being developed at Warkworth Showgrounds, by buying a plaque. The Warkworth Hockey Turf “We know the community is already Charitable Trust is hoping to raise being asked to donate to a lot of other at least $100,000 through the sales, worthy causes, but we’re going to work although its overall goal is $1.2 million. hard to make this happen,” he says. Trust chair Brett Illingworth says the “The recent granting of a lease to the engraved plaques, bearing the names trust by the Rodney Local Board was a of the donors, will be displayed on huge morale booster; a real peg in the the dugouts and light poles, and ground. Finally, after many years of other high-profile places around the discussion and false starts, we can say with confidence that ‘it’s all systems grounds. go’.” The plaques are being offered in three price brackets – up to $100, $500 and Brett says although a lot of local $5000. The bigger the donation, the contractors have already generously volunteered their help, it was all about larger the plaque. money at this stage of the project. Brett says the trust needs to get at least $300,000 in the bank before it The trust hopes to be playing on its it is eligible to apply for grants from new grounds by the start of next year’s funding bodies such as the Lotteries season. Commission. Info: Mike Edwards on 021 1430 954.

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Green MP and water spokesperson Eugenie Sage paddled down the Matakana River to Sandspit last month on the second of the Dirty Water tours this summer. The first one was in Southland. The trips are to rivers, estuaries and lakes which are at risk, polluted or threatened by development. They aim to support and encourage community organisations and individuals working to protect and improve the health of their waterways. This is her report on the trip.

Greens call for Council rethink on Sandspit marina consent by Eugenie Sage

The murky green water at the Matakana Wharf looked rather less inviting than the array of delicious artisan produce at the nearby Matakana Market. But we were paddling, not swimming, and the Auckland Council’s most recent (2011) monitoring rates the river as having “good” water quality, rather than “fair” as in many other rivers which drain rural catchments. Several hundred metres downstream increasingly popular for snorkelling of the wharf, where large-trunked and has some of the best cockle beds mangroves edged the river and the in the Auckland region. The cockles tidal influence was more obvious, the help sustain an array of wading and water looked cleaner. The Matakana shorebirds and fish and their ability to River and estuary, the proposed marina filter impressive amounts of seawater at Sandspit and nearby Whangateau each day is a major reason for the Harbour were the focus of this Dirty harbour’s clear water. Water Tour. I was lucky enough have living legend, Improving water quality in the river marine biologist Dr Roger Grace as requires a significant upgrade of the a guide. It was fascinating exploring existing Matakana sewerage system, the sandflats at low tide with Roger which is at capacity. It collects primary pointing out the sandy depressions treated wastewater from septic tanks where eagle rays had fed and explaining and filters it through a wetland before how they siphon up seawater and use discharging poor quality wastewater it like a high pressure water drill to into the river 300 metres downstream expose shellfish. of the wharf. High levels of stormwater Safeguarding Whangateau’s existing infiltration during wet weather can high water quality should be a lead to discharges which exceed the priority. Adding Matakana’s sewage consented volumes. to the Omaha plant and irrigating Auckland Council’s plans to “solve” the sandy Omaha golf course with Matakana’s sewage problems by more treated effluent risks significant piping wastewater to the existing nutrient leaching into the harbour. As Jones Road treatment plant near part of its 10 Point Plan, Whangateau instead proposes Omaha risks increasing the nutrient HarbourCare loading on nearby Whangateau that wastewater be treated in the Harbour. Whangateau Harbour is catchment where it is generated. Less the most natural mainland estuary “convenient” in the short-term, but in the Auckland region. A nationally more sustainable in the longterm. important scientific reserve with Our Matakana flotilla included regenerating kahikatea forest and the memorable Wendy House on a saltmarsh wetlands fringes part of pontoon boat. It has a mooring in the harbour’s southern arm. It is the estuary and at high tide it rests

Eugenie Sims during the Dirty Water Tour down the Matakana River.

on the mudflats. Al, one of our trip participants, who designs and builds these modular boats, is no fan of the proposed Sandspit marina. Estuaries are prone to sedimentation. With the Matakana and Glen Eden rivers meeting the sea at Sandspit, a marina here risks burdening ratepayers and residents with a disfigured estuary and the costs of dredging and maintenance. The stories of other marinas at estuarine sites, such as Westpark and Milford Marinas, have been ones of bankruptcy (in the case of Milford Marina on the North Shore) and high dredging costs. The controversial Whangamata marina is now being dredged regularly with local councils and ratepayers expected to foot the bill. In 2011, Michael Taplin wrote a paper entitled Marinas Private Asset-Public Liability which he presented to the

Hauraki Gulf Forum. It contains some telling information about the ongoing cost of marina dredging to ratepayers. Dredging of the Westpark Marina in the Waitemata Harbour is reported to cost a whopping $800,000 per year. Rodney District Council had designated Goldsworthy Bay as a marina in its plan and from information provided by locals, the deeper water there makes it a more viable site if a marina is needed. Estuaries are important nursery areas for fish. The marina would destroy significant cockle beds, and feeding and roosting habitat for waders and shorebirds and compromise the Sandspit estuary’s healthy functioning. Auckland Council needs to recognise the many values of the estuary at Sandspit and rethink the consent it has given for a poorly-conceived development.

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Before the lights go out Most household budgets are dominated by energy costs. Whether for heating, cooking, hot water or transport, energy demands are a disproportionately high cost for individuals and families. Industrial, manufacturing and commercial activities are all also highly energy-intensive with economic growth coupled to energy consumption. This collective energy demand places an unsustainable load on both people and the planet. Energy security is threatened by resource scarcity, overseas ownership of assets, environmental limits; and energy prices will only continue to rise. In all realms of life we should seek sustainability, resilience and future-proofing. Because of the environmental and social costs, energy independence must be a high priority for households and society at large. Some families in New Zealand are already unable to afford continuous electricity supply. Much of our electricity infrastructure is outdated or inefficient. Security of supply has been acknowledged as an issue by the Electricity Commission. Power lines inefficiently lose up to 30 percent energy in transmission alone. Forecasters predict an almost doubling of power charges for homeowners over the next decade, even before any privatisation, and profit maximisation that occurs. Clearly, our current electricity model is unsustainable in the long term. These and other challenges of the 21st Century provide opportunities to rethink our energy production and consumption. The most efficient form of energy creation and use is through sustainable, solar, ‘distributed’ energy; produced closest to where it’s used, thereby reducing transmission costs and energy losses, and creating greater energy efficiency, future-proofing and resilience. Distributed or local energy is direct, so it’s efficient and reliable because many small units are more shock-proof than one centralised mass generator, and there’s a direct relationship between the user and the consumer. If solar panels are put in at the time of house construction, it can also remove the need for expensive poles and wires connecting to the mains, meaning not only is it cheaper in the installation stage but also cheaper in the long run. Sustainable, local energy production can also help with conservation as consumption costs are more apparent and direct. But energy conservation makes sense regardless, given other effects such as light pollution and energy wastage – do we really need heated towel rails and a multiplicity of tv sets and other luxury, planet-destroying electrical appliances, all destined for the landfill at the end of their relatively short lives? Other tools to energy efficiency are close to hand – or foot. The more trips made by walking or cycling the more fossil fuels, pollution and costs we save. A great majority of car trips are local and within walking or cycling distance, and can be made without use of the car and associated expense and pollution, burning fat, not oil. By investing in sustainable energy, including walking and cycling wherever possible, we tread more lightly on the planet and give real power to the people.

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Warkworth’s summer festivals have become an important part of the district’s identity, but they wouldn’t exist without the dedication of volunteers like Ian Ferguson. Currently A&P Show Society president and previously Kowhai Festival chair, Ian has given thousands of hours to community projects over decades. He is equally at home preserving the district’s past through work with Warkworth and Districts Museum or setting the pace as a drummer in the Warkworth Pipe Band, as he is grappling with the future, by tutoring on the latest technology at SeniorNet. Ian believes keeping busy is the key to staying alive. It’s no wonder that he was surprised at a recent medical appointment to discover that he was actually 74 – one year older than he’d thought. As Adele Thackray discovered, age has yet to catch up to this constantly moving target. When Dad was president of the Warkworth A&P Society, we used wind-up, wooden telephones stuck on fence posts to keep in touch with each other, running our own wiring around the showground and connecting to an outside line with a quick twist of the wires. We always had a few sideshows, but people mainly came to look at tractors, cows and horses, which typically were just working horses from the farm that we’d take to the show to jump over hurdles and take part in events such as the trotting races. Few show horses these days would actually be used for work, stewards use two-way radios and visitors expect loads of entertainment. The A&P Society once used to run the rodeo as well, but it got too big and was given to the cowboys to run separately. A pile of hay would be thrown into a big tin shed at the showgrounds for the cowboys to sleep in the night before. Stubbs Butchers would provide a whole lot of sausages, Dad would get eggs and Mum used to boil up a heap of potatoes that they’d serve as breakfast. Once the bread was out of his huge brick oven in the morning, local baker Joe Noyer would put in a whole lamb, which would later be sliced up and served with cups of tea for the cowboys’ lunch and Warkworth got a really good name for looking after the fellas that drew in the crowds. I’ve been going to the Warkworth A&P Show since about 1945, ever since my father, Jim, bought a dairy farm in Woodcocks Road. In those days the cream was collected at the gate and taken to a factory in Kapanui Street, where The Farmhouse Café is now situated. We used the milk for our own pigs and calves, or on-sold it to another small farmer. I was about seven when we moved to Warkworth and the only school was across the road from the Catholic Church, in Percy St. There’s nothing left of it now, except the old headmaster’s house, although the original scout den and the band room were part of it. Because of the local

cement works, we had a big concrete swimming pool – one of the first school pools in the country. The school was a bit small though and some classes were held in a gymnasium by the town hall and others in local church halls. The new school built in Hill Street was also too small by the time it was finished so some classes stayed at the old school. The following year, two marquees were put up in lieu of classrooms. With the sides up in summer, it was marvellous, but in winter it was a bit rough and if you dropped your pen it disappeared through the cracks in the slatted boards of the floor. I left before the college was built and went to work on the family dairy farm, before Dad swapped it for a section and a heavy engineering and blacksmithing business on the current Mobil Service Station site. Initially, I did blacksmithing and shod horses, but after an apprenticeship at a local garage I got into fixing cars, tractors and trucks. After years filling up a gully between our house (where the chapel is now) and the Mobil site, we built what was then the Atlantic Petrol Station. My wife-to-be, Jennifer, lived just along the road and we went to the same school. We married in our early 20s and went to London where we teamed up with a few girls we knew to buy a Bedford dormobile for £100 and travelled around Europe for a few months. By sharing expenses, the whole trip only cost us about £80 each. In London, I drove heavy transport trucks while Jennifer worked for an aeroplane factory making parts for Concorde. I also took the chance to get in touch with my Scottish heritage and I am now president of the Auckland branch of Clan Ferguson. The Kowhai Festival started in 1970, about five years after we returned from overseas, when Warkworth teacher Jack Keys and Dad decided we should have something like the popular South Island flower festival. The idea was to give a leg-up to the fundraising efforts

of small groups and sporting clubs such as scouts, guides and netball. Jaycees, Rotary and Lions ran various activities including raft races, the trolley derby and the festival ball. We used to close the town off for a 10km running race which attracted some quite well known athletes. Festival days were held in each area around the district including Kawau Island and community groups provided entertainment like the theatre group’s rowdy, interactive vaudeville act. The community input meant we were able to run the festival on a shoestring. Now it’s harder to get people to help organise it, the public expect a lot more and quite major sponsorships are necessary to pay for it, but I believe it’s still one of the longest running festivals around. I got involved with the Warkworth and District Museum in the 1980s. They didn’t have anyone fixing the machinery at the time. The volunteers were using a workshop in Percy Street, where the car park is now opposite New World, for repairing small stuff after hours. The museum now has its own workshops and lathes, and volunteers can go up there and work whenever they like. Wednesdays are a working day for the whole museum and we bring our lunch and share morning tea with 15 to 20 volunteers from archives, textiles, artifacts, machinery and cleaning. After about 12 years as president, I recently handed over to Brian Randell, but I still work in the machinery shed and help in a long-running project to digitise the museum’s collection records. Everything donated has been

registered in a book, card indexed and stored, but with some 56,000 items in the collection, it is getting too big to manage efficiently. Thanks to Susan Simmons, we now have appropriate museum software, running on custombuilt computers and a training manual specifically for our museum. Now we’d like a lot more people to help complete the project, which has already been underway for the past five years. At the same time, volunteer photographers are taking photos of in the collection, everything from a Girl Guide badge to a truck or tractor, and we’ve started scanning more than 15,000 black and white photos, dating back to 1860, so we can link the images to the system. Manuals have been developed to ensure reference consistency, because it’s no use having all the information in the world in your computer if someone else can’t find it. The private museum is owned by members operating as an incorporated society. Although it costs around $200 a day to run, it doesn’t take any regular government or council funding, because we realise those funds don’t come from council but from people who are having enough trouble paying their rates and keeping the town going. Instead, we seek community grants for big projects or capital works, and raise money through a monthly market day in town, the Museum Op Shop in the old Warkworth Mitre 10 building, plant sales at the museum, open days and voluntary contributions. If we didn’t, all that local history would be in the dumpster.

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So far, this summer has been fantastic for the North East Rodney District. Crowds of people are flocking to the beaches, the cafes and the markets. Events are happening both at Ascension and the Matakana Country Park, while boats of all shapes and sizes can be seen in all the bays at Kawau. Long queues of traffic getting in and out of Matakana highlight the need for further urgent work at Hill Street. This year’s major Council project will be the finalisation of the Unitary Plan to go out for final submissions. Before that, there will a period of consultation on the draft plan. Unlike in previous times, where Councils put up the finished plan, this time the Government has changed the rules for Auckland and we are able to talk to groups in the community to “sound out” ideas before they get in the plan. Local Boards and stakeholders have been invited to meetings, as have members of the public at various venues around Auckland. These did exclude some people as neither myself nor the local media were invited to the local one at Orewa. In fact, this publication was excluded from that meeting. Old bureaucratic methods are alive and well at the Council at times. It is especially important for the people in our area to get involved in the Unitary Plan consultation. As we have seen over summer, the many visitors here and the events that have taken place put a strain on our infrastructure. We need to maintain our pride of place but still allow these things to happen to support the local businesses. Previous zoning has meant that getting resource consent for some of these happenings has been particularly difficult. The old planners attitude that “things urban should not happen in a rural area” is still prevalent in some areas of Council. Events like outside concerts are an urban activity! Finally, the annual budget is out for consultation until the end of February. Even trying to keep rates at 2.9 percent there will be variations. At the end of 2012, I called a meeting with the Mayor and representatives of some of our coastal communities to highlight the issue of coastal unserviced properties and the high capital values making the rate rise excessive. We are hoping that this will be reflected in the review of differentials. May I wish everyone a prosperous 2013 and a continued wonderful summer.

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TheCameraShop Dealing with the important moments in people’s lives is one of the bonuses of working at TheCameraShop, in Warkworth, formerly known as Kodak Express. Managing director Colin Stables says whether it’s a celebration or just everyday photos, people’s memories are precious and staff considers it a privilege to help customers preserve and display their photos. “We also get to see a lot of early photos of the district, which are held in private albums,” he says. “Once we had a customer bring in a picture of NZ troops on the beach at Anzac Cove and we recommended that they contact Te Papa because the photos were of national significance. From that perspective, it’s a really interesting job.” Colin says the restructuring of Kodak globally prompted his decision to re-brand the Warkworth business. It also reflects the much wider field of products and services that the store now offers. “It wasn’t so long ago that we used to develop film from canisters and it could take up to a week to print the photographs. Today, people print off everything from smartphones to ipods and can have their photos within minutes. The changes are happening very quickly.” Colin says he will retain some Kodak product because “it is the best on the market” but he has also joined a national photo specialty purchasing group, primarily for Canon product, which he says will allow him to give customers the cheapest prices and best service available. “No matter what your interests are or how experienced

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Two businesses run by husband and wife team, Andrew Wilkes and Jane Warren, are now operating under one roof in Glenmore Drive, Warkworth. Dixon Manufacturing, which the couple have owned since 2006, is moving across the road to 26 Glenmore Drive, and will be joined by MarineXpress, the business the couple started 12 years ago at their home in Whangaparaoa. “Our manufacturing business had phenomenal growth last year so it made sense logistically to relocate to one base,” Jane says. The couple says that providing customers with a customised service has been key to their success. “We’re basically a cottage industry so we can make one item or 1000. It’s also easier for us to modify a product, which is seldom the case with overseas manufactured products. So although we aren’t the cheapest in the market, customers appreciate the fact that we are flexible, offer good service and quality craftsmanship, and can do small custom runs of items as well as larger orders.” Dixon Manufacturing specialises in stainless steel products such as the Dixon range of boarding ladders and handrails, and the “world famous” Dixon gas hob toaster. The company

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John and Christine Kyle with one of the two new branch managers, Brian Wilson (front).

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Like her new shop, Love This Shop in Riverside Arcade, Debbie Hodder is hard to pigeonhole. She was born in Texas, graduated from university with a degree in English and nutrition, and then worked in retail management in fine jewellery, as a weight loss consultant and in a wearable art boutique. She met her future husband Paul, a Kiwi, while he was travelling through the US. After marrying, the couple returned to NZ to run a dairy farm in the Waikato, where Debbie also did bookkeeping while raising two sons. They started a small coffee distribution business and then moved to Warkworth where they owned and operated the Globe Café, in Broomfield House. When that business sold, Paul went into turf farming, while Debbie studied for her teaching qualifications. Until recently, she was teaching food and nutrition at Orewa College. “Setting up the shop in Warkworth is satisfying an itch to do something for myself again,” she says. “I’ve modelled it on the Santa Fe shop I worked in and it will be an opportunity to showcase local talent. There are a number of really good designers making clothing, jewellery and accessories, and the ranges I’ll be carrying will cater for all ages and budgets.

It was ‘love at first sight’ when the new proprietor of the Salty Dog Inn Debbie Patten first set eyes on the property in Snells Beach. She says consequently, the decision to buy the business was an easy one. “My husband Verne and I came to stay a night and we just fell in love with the olde English charm and the beautiful surroundings,” she says. Prior to taking over the Inn, Debbie worked as the national conference and incentives sales development manager for Millennium Hotels and Resorts for five years, based out of Auckland. “With 33 fine hotels in the group, it was my role to place conference business into the various properties. We catered for events and conferences ranging from 16 to 650 people, in 19 locations around NZ. “I have made some wonderful friends in the industry and leaving the job was a very big step. However, I am really excited about the challenges and opportunities my new venture offers.” Debbie says there is so much about the Salty Dog Inn that she adores, she will be making small improvements slowly. “I’ve started with some cosmetic changes – tables and chairs outside, shade umbrellas and an improved outdoor barbecue area. I’ve also appointed a new chef.

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“We also believe in recycling and often use recycled and vintage fabrics and materials to create up-cycled products, and can tailor-make clothes as well. “I’m also particularly keen to promote new designers and give exposure to the work of student designers.” Debbie says the shop will offer a different approach to retailing. “A lot of people have said I’m mad to go open a shop at this time, but I believe there is always demand if you offer valuefor-money and items that are individual. “When customers buy an item from me, I’ll be able to tell them who made it and where it came from and, if possible, something about how it was made.” Long-term, Debbie says she would also like to offer workshops.

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A cabin being built in Sandspit this summer, by four women architects, will be both a relaxing retreat and a statement about architecture, women, sustainability and more. The Whare in the Bush project sprang from the musings of recent Auckland University architectural graduate, Ruby Watson, about building her own studio or “getaway” from scratch. The idea was embraced by her architect friend Elisapeta Heta, who saw its potential to become part of the 2013 Architecture + Women exhibition in September, and they teamed up with fellow architects Raukura Turei and Rebecca Green to make it a reality. The group aims to challenge the notion of DIY and building as a masculine domain and change the meaning of ‘homemaker’, while celebrating the skills of women in the largely maledominated architecture industry. Construction is proposed between the end of January and March, and the community will be invited to participate through sponsorship or donation of new and secondhand materials, as well as contributions of labour and expertise. The building site is a peaceful spot alongside wetlands at the bottom of

Ruby Watson at the site of the cabin she and three other women architects hope to create over summer.

her parents’ five acre block, close to where her previous construction effort, a childhood tree house, once stood. “We have a connection to the land and the project and the space we want to inhabit. I always dreamed of doing it here because it’s home.” The objective is to create an “elastic band house”, intended to capture the open, embracing the philosophy of a house Ruby once stayed in where everyone was welcome. “The walls of the house just stretched to accommodate whoever needed the

space. The concept also reflects the ‘give and take’ of the community in helping to create it.” The exact design will remain flexible as the team gathers materials from a variety of sources, although to avoid the need for resource consent and to keep it transportable, the cabin will have to remain under 10sqm. Ruby says building a second one adjacent to it is also being considered. In addition to timber, she anticipates they’ll use simple, cheap “materials of the land”, such as bamboo and possibly sheep’s wool from her family’s

own flock, as insulation. “It’ll be time-consuming, but worthwhile and provide plenty of work for community volunteers.” The hut won’t be connected to power, but Ruby hopes to incorporate a potbelly stove, if one can be found, and find a way to draw water from a nearby spring. Sustainability is an important principle of the build, which will endeavor to have minimal impact on the environment and avoid wasting materials. It will also be built on skids to enable it to be moved away, although ultimately, she sees it returning to the site as a retreat. “I think that the world over, we’re wanting smaller buildings and a lighter footprint. The idea of a retreat is quite captivating to people. Why are we so interested in it? Are we wanting to get away from this busy life we’re leading?” The process will be filmed throughout and the resulting footage displayed, along with the cabin, at the Architecture + Women exhibition. You can track progress or contact Ruby through The Whare in the Bush Facebook page or email rubymarilyn@ hotmail.com.

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opportunityknocks Springboard tackles local youth employment market A youth employment scheme for the Mahurangi area, which has secured funding for a 12-month trial, starts this month. Springboard Community Works has received an $80,000 sponsorship from the Vodafone Foundation’s World of Difference programme to employ Karl Madsen to implement a scheme known as the Otorohanga Model, working with Youthline and WINZ. Simplistically, the scheme looks at matching school leavers and young unemployed people with jobs that are available locally. In the process, skill shortages will be identified and local businesses will gain employees who are mentored and supported. While Springboard has worked mainly with ‘at risk’ youth over the last decade – and this focus will be maintained – the new scheme will take its work beyond that sector into the mainstream youth employment market. Over the six years the scheme has been running in Otorohanga, youth unemployment has fallen dramatically. Springboard director Gary Diprose says he is hoping to see the same results in Mahurangi. A staff camp will be held on January 25 and then Springboard will begin surveying local businesses on their employment needs. “If the surveys identify that there is a skills shortage in a particular area, then we can look at ways to get some training provided locally,” Gary says. “We’re very keen to build relationships with Mahurangi

College, and eventually Rodney College, local course providers and employers – their involvement will be key to whether or not the scheme is a success.” Springboard will also be seeking ways to build a strong relationship with school leavers to catch those students who haven’t made study or employment plans. “This is not a ‘tick the box and dump’ programme. As with other Springboard courses, we will walk alongside these young people as they learn the skills they need to turn them into good employees. “We would welcome enquiries from employers interested in being involved in the project.” Key outcomes identified in the first year include a 50 percent reduction in youth unemployment; reduced crime, gang recruitment, tagging and negative youth behaviour; greater connection between youth and Springboard; and a better database of businesses, employers and training opportunities for local youth. Springboard is based in Hamatana Road, Snells Beach, and is involved with around 120 youths on a weekly basis. It targets at-risk youth and families, offering programmes aimed at reconnecting them to the community and getting them back into the workforce. Some of these programmes include the Go180 for youth offenders aged 14 to 16 years, the early intervention programme Energise for five to 12 year olds, 4U Mentoring, Elevate family support, and the anti-graffiti initiative D Crew. Info: 425 4623 or mail@springboard.org.nz

On the box – Springboard Community Works will feature in two episodes of the TV One series Unsung Heroes this month. The first episode will screen on January 16 and the second on January 23. The show starts at 7.30pm.

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The new job placement scheme being implemented by Springboard Community Works is being funded to the tune of $80,000 by the Vodafone Foundation World of Difference programme. Vodafone senior advisor Sum Tran says the programme assesses not only the organisation applying for a grant and the project they are putting forward, but also the individual applicant who is going to deliver the project. “Springboard’s Karl Madsen was a stand-out applicant,” she says. “He is full of passion, vision and drive, and has experience in working with youth, in various capacities. Springboard presented itself as an innovative and credible organisation, with a fantastic track record, particularly in working with ‘at risk’ youth. “We are excited about seeing a ‘youth in work’ transition programme up and running, and for Springboard to become a sustainable and replicable model.” Sum says over the year, recipients participate in a series of hui which bring together past and current World of Difference recipients. The gatherings focus on networking, exploring potential areas of collaboration, information sharing, upskilling and evaluation. “We’re always looking at ways to support our charity partners in whatever way practical, from bringing in guest speakers to tapping into Vodafone’s sponsorship assets. World of Difference is definitely more than just the dollars.” Each year, the Vodafone Foundation pays the salary and expenses of around 10 individuals to work for a youth cause of their choice for 12 months. Last year, more than $2 million was distributed. Info: www.vodafone.co.nz/foundation

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Growing trend catches on A new Trees for Survival programme at Ahuroa School is teaching students to care not just for plants, but for the environment, and giving them the practical skills to go about it. At the same time, it will help local landowners revegetate erosion prone land, improve stream flow and water quality, provide shade for stock along planted margins and increase biodiversity while improving productivity. Teacher Nik Massey says groups of students from years one to eight elect to work on the project for around an hour-and-a-half a week, growing 1500 tiny native seedlings from about 15mm high until they’re ready for planting out. Thanks to sponsors, local farm Streamland Suffolks and Leslie Officer of Future Presence, the scheme is at no cost to the school. Trees for Survival supplies everything required, from an 8 to 10m netting-enclosed growing table to a watering timer, compost, bags and plants. Streamland Suffolks’ Karyn Maddren says it is one of a few schemes available to assist private land owners. Her farm will be one of the first to receive initial plantings, which will both stabilise erosion and enhance a waterway, encouraging birds and wildlife, contributing to a wider plan to link

The project is helping to teach students how to tackle environmental issues such as erosion and water pollution, how to handle plants and protect their roots.

plant corridors to the Araparera River. The programme will also go on to help others in the future. Karyn will help teachers to oversee the project’s implementation. “The more we can teach kids about trees and the environment, the better for everyone,” she says. It’s anticipated the native plants will be ready for planting next autumn, when the whole school is likely to be involved in a planting day. Full story at www.localmatters.co.nz

CourSeS for TerM oNe 2013 – WarkWorTh Young Mum’s educational Programme Wed 23rd Jan • 10am-12.30pm • FREE For young mothers up to 25 years to encourage positive parenting, behaviour management skills & strategies for raising healthy and happy children. healthy relationships Date & Time TBA • $25 – How is your relationship with yourself and others? This course offers an exploration into enjoying on going healthy relationships. Computer Course – 8 weeks Frid 15th Feb • 9.15-11.15am • $40 Each week learn something new from amazing word graphics to preparing your own CV. Personal Development 8 weeks Tues 12th Feb • 10am-12.30pm • $40 A support group for women that encourages learning,sharing & inner-growth in a safe & caring environment. fused Glass Jewellery Making Sat TBA • 9.30am-3.30pm • $20 You will learn basic glass fusing techniques, the theory of glass, cutting glass, design and turning your art work into finished jewellery. art Therapy – 6 weeks Mon 4th March • 10am-12pm • $100 For those who want to take a therapeutic journey & gain deeper understanding themselves. Career Planning & Job Search – 6 weeks Mon TBA • 10am-12pm • FREE How do I find a job? How do you put a CV together? Plunket: Post Natal Distress Support Group Thurs 31st January • 10.30am-12.30pm Learn ways to cope survive & thrive. Make new friends & gain strength from other people’s experience. Walking Group Tues TBA • 9.30am – Starting from Women’s Centre on 19th Feb will walk for 30-40 mins. flax Weaving Sat 16th March • 9.30am-3pm • $20 Would you like to learn how to create art from this versatile natural resource? Stone Sculpture Workshop Sat TBA • 9.30am-3.30pm • $20 After an introduction to this concrete-based material and sculpturing women will experiment and create their own piece of art. Please contact the Women’s Centre to enrol 0800 237 674 or 425 7261 or call at 10 Morpeth Street, Warkworth info@womenscentrerodney.org.nz • www.womenscentrerodney.org.nz

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The decision to leave your child in the care of others for the first time can cause understandable anxiety for many parents. Kindergarten is suitable for children from the age of two to five years and offers the benefit of supporting children’s learning in a safe and stimulating environment, complementing your child’s learning experiences at home. Parents as first ‘teachers’ influence what a child’s working knowledge and experiences are of the world around them. Supporting children’s learning in this way makes a big difference to the way they develop and go on to learn throughout their lives. Tips to remember if you are planning to start your child at kindergarten: yy Think about what’s important for you and your family – choose a kindergarten that you feel shares your values and meets your needs. Ask plenty of questions, nothing is too trivial! yy Talk with your child from a very young age – learning to communicate with others and express themselves is an important skill.

yy Encourage independence early – children need to experience a variety of social settings to gain the confidence and self-esteem required to establish new relationships yy Role model appropriate behaviour and language – social competencies like empathy, fairness, respect and valuing the opinions of others are learnt by experiences yy Always be honest – children learn quickly to doubt what you say if you don’t always follow through. This is especially important when you leave your child for the first few times as they need to trust and be assured that you will be back later and that they will be fine without you. Don’t sneak off and leave without saying anything. yy Children will benefit from talking about their new learning environment with you and your family – take them with you when you visit, spend the time to help them to become familiar with the centre’s regular routines and teachers so they can gain a real sense of belonging. For more tips on preparing your child for school, go to localmatters.co.nz

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The Taratahi Agricultural Training Centre will offer two programmes within Rodney this year. Working from bases around Warkworth, Helensville and Silverdale, Taratahi’s first students will start their programme on February 11. The Introduction to Farming Programme is a certificate which will allow students to gain a range of skills such as quad bikes, tractors, chainsaws, fencing and handling livestock. This free 23-week programme is open to 16 and 17 year olds who are keen to gain an entry level qualification. The other programme on offer is the National Certificate in Farming Skills (Work Ready), which is open to all age groups. Karl Stevens, who will be tutoring from a base at a Matakana dairy farm, says the course is a great opportunity for local students. “This programme has been running in Northland for a year and already 80 percent of students who undertook it have got good farming jobs,” he says. “We are positive the same will happen here in Rodney, especially with the focus on not only milking on the dairy farm, but understanding the whole farming operation.” Taratahi chief executive Donovan Wearing says there is strong demand

Tutor Karl Stevens teaching fencing best practise to a student.

from the Rodney district for relevant, practical training in agriculture. “We are looking forward to allowing locals to stay in the region and still be able to gain great skills,” he says. Taratahi, which is based in Masterton, has been training Kiwis in agriculture for 93 years. Its philosophy of ‘real farming on real farms’ means students gain agricultural skills in real life environments on local farms. Info: Ceres Sharp on 0800 463 276 or visit www.taratahi.ac.nz

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NorthTec course gives early school leavers second chance A course in vocational studies will be offered in Wellsford for the first time this year. The NorthTec course will give students over the age of 16 a second chance at getting some life skills with a focus on horticulture and agriculture. The programme is for young people who didn’t complete their secondary school education and it will provide the necessary skills to be able to enrol in trade level qualifications. The programme contains various theory and practical components, with a focus on literacy and numeracy. Students can expect to learn how to grow kai for whānau, traditional Māori gardening techniques, farm fencing, computer skills, small concreting tasks and CV writing. Learning will be based at the Coast to Coast PHO site in School Road, starting on February 25, and runs three days a week from 9am to 3pm. In addition, NorthTec has been running programmes in horticulture and sustainable rural development from Te Herenga Waka O Orewa in Silverdale for a number of years and these will continue this year. Tutor Fraser Campbell is running a National Certificate in Horticulture (Level 3 – Organic Strand) and a

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Certificate in Sustainable Rural Development (Level 3) starting in semester one and a Certificate in Sustainable Rural Development (Level 2) starting in semester two. The National Certificate in Horticulture (Level 3) has had an overhaul and is now a year-long programme and covers topics such as permaculture, organic horticulture, budding and grafting, interpreting weather, weeds and other pests and Growsafe certification. The sustainable rural development offers subjects such as plant propagation, food processing, building tasks and practical projects.

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Vale Trevor Cooper In the 20 years he lived in Warkworth, Trevor Cooper became known to many as the face of Warkworth Wellsford Hospice’s garage sales. Wearing his trademark cap, he would be seen almost every day of the week, driving hospice’s silver butterfly van. Much like the men in the TV programme The Last of the Summer Wine, Trevor and his fellow volunteers – including Karl, Colin, Kevin, Trevor and John – would travel the countryside picking up and delivering furniture. From visiting places with real giraffes and real tanks, to getting Colin to jump up and down on the back of the van to get traction on a steep drive, and women not always properly dressed when they arrived, Trevor and his crew had plenty of adventures. Seeing a mattress and a few other items drop out the back of the van when they hit a bump on the main road, Trevor, looking in the rear vision mirror, asked Colin ‘shall we stop or just keep going?’ Trevor was very good at keeping going – he volunteered at Hospice for 17 years and was instrumental in increasing the furniture sales, which made profits soar. Initially training as a Family Support volunteer, he quickly moved on to other things. He helped in the Warkworth Hospice Shop in its first year of opening but

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would ring his wife, Colleen, to come and cash up at closing time. When the first call came asking that items be picked up, he found his niche. He then started taking the excess from the shop to the Salvation Army, until Christine Sanderson started her rag trade and garage sales. From his own car, to trailer, then van, he was unstoppable. Trevor had a good business head. Working with Christine Sanderson and Faye and Lloyd Thomas as garage sale coordinators, and with the team that gathered around them, they built the garage sales into the successful business it is today. A people person and a business person, Trevor had a real understanding of Hospice’s work and he was a great front

person. He got to know his donors and his customers and many of them became regulars. He would answer his phone any time, any day, and if there was a special need, he would open up the garages outside usual sales times. The only thing that really upset him was when people dumped their rubbish on Hospice’s doorstep. With a twinkle in his eye, Trevor had a way of making everyone feel special. He took great delight in teasing family and friends – his 13-year-old grandson believed for a long time that sausages grew in the garden because Trevor would bury them there before taking young Finn out to dig them up. He liked to wrap up unusual or funny things from the garage sales and leave them secretly

for a Hospice staff member, then wait for a reaction. The nurses have quite a collection of nursing memorabilia, such as bed pans, courtesy of Trevor. A humble man with a preference for quiet pleasures and an aversion to dressing up, Trevor grew up in Te Kauwhata and worked at the local hardware store after leaving school. He later moved to Auckland and worked in manufacturing then, in his mid-20s, went overseas with a mate. They worked in London, lived in Canada for a year and crossed the United States by Greyhound bus – an experience that opened Trevor’s eyes to the injustices of segregation. Back in New Zealand, Trevor met Colleen at a friend’s 22nd birthday party and they married three years later. They lived in Pakuranga on the edge of farmland – now an industrial area – and raised two daughters, Sue and L’vonne. After a short stint as a dairy owner, Trevor started a successful floor surfacing business, retiring at 56. He and Colleen moved to a 13-hectare block close to Warkworth, and subsequently moved into town. It was after Trevor and Colleen each lost a brother to cancer that Trevor signed up as a Hospice volunteer. A kind and wise friend to Hospice staff and volunteers, Trevor is survived by Colleen; Sue, Terry and Emily Rayner; and L’vonne, Adrian and Finn Jones. Contributed by Warkworth Wellsford Hospice.

WoW – take a look at us noW! Open Day Saturday 19 January, 11am – 3pm

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riverside villas available. Our next stage includes Summerset Falls just gets better and better! Come along only three more of these stunning villas – so make this Saturday to see the lovely homes we have available sure you get in quick. Sunny rural outlooks, with now – and see the construction team finishing off our two and three bedroom options available. Village Centre, which opens next month. While you’re here you can view the plans for our next stage of riverside villas. These two and three bedroom villas are very special and we recommend you secure yours early. For more information please call Steven Garner on 09 425 1202. You’ll find us at 31 Mansel Drive, Warkworth.

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Dealing with over-indulgence ‘Tis the season to be jolly and merry, but this often means over-indulging in food, alcohol and stress! It is typically a melting pot of excesses that merge from the pre-Christmas do’s through and beyond New Year’s celebrations. Now I’m not just having a self-righteous rave to stop people celebrating or enjoying the season. In fact, far from it. I believe celebrating with friends and family is a very special and important part of life. However, eating well after we are full and consuming mountains of rich, sugar-loaded food is essentially only harming us. The good news, after the event, is that there is a lot that we can do to undo the problems created from over-indulgence. Here are some useful tips while in the season: Enjoy the celebrations but make a firm commitment to when you are going to stop the ‘treats’ and stick to the commitment. Enjoy the foods you eat, but don’t over-eat to the point that you can barely move. Try to keep some balance with lots of fresh and preferably raw veggies. Keep the daily water intake up and limit alcohol as much as possible with as many alcohol-free days as possible. After the season of over-indulgence, actions to cleanse the body for a week or two include: yy Increase water consumption to at least 2 litres a day. yy Stop alcohol consumption, or reduce severely. yy Stop sugar consumption, or reduce severely. yy Stop stimulants, tea/coffee/energy drinks, or reduce. yy Eat mostly veggies and fruit, and as much raw as possible. yy Replace refined carbohydrates (bread, cakes etc) with whole grains (brown rice/Quinoa/oats etc). Fasting is the quickest, easiest and often the most effective way to cleanse and detoxify. This is best performed with the help of a qualified and experienced practitioner as fasting can be potentially dangerous for some people. However, the benefits are far-reaching for the body, mind, soul and bank balance. In nature, we observe that animals stop eating when unwell. Many humans are constantly in a state of being unwell but often don’t know it. For some people, freshly-squeezed vegetable and fruit juices may be needed. Other people may be okay on pure water. Again, unless you are experienced in fasting, it is always advisable to do so with expert guidance. Blood sugars crashing and toxic overload are the main concerns that need to be addressed before and during such an endeavour.

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• Milford Eye Clinic, 181 Shakespeare Road, Milford • Coastcare, Red Beach Shopping Centre, Red Beach • Warkworth, Unit 3, Warkworth Health Centre, Cnr Alnwick & Percy Streets, Warkworth

For all appointments phone 09 422 6871

...and always, we will be here Just one call away

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ELOCIN

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Furnish your f lat from the Hospice Garage Sale 2 stores open Mon-Fri 9am-4pm; Sat 9am-1pm Warkworth Argyll Angle, Queen St behind Gaby’s Wellsford 181 Rodney Street PLUS Garage Sale every Wed 7-11am Hospice House 51 Woodcocks Rd, Warkworth

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p. 425 9535

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Winter food security By Betsy Kettle, Homebuilders organic gardening tutor

Summer is a great time to sit in the shade with a lemonade and design your autumnwinter veggie garden. The autumn-winter veggie garden could easily be larger than a summer garden as it needs to feed you through autumn, winter and early spring until your spring-planted veggies start coming on. Since veggies slow down and even stop growing in the depths of winter, it’s also important to grow lots of frost-tolerant veggies so they can be your “in-the-ground-refrigerator”. An autumn/winter garden can also save you the most money, since vegetables are most expensive in winter. When planning an autumn-winter garden it’s critical to get your seedlings started before the middle of April, and ideally between mid-February and mid-March so they can grow to size before winter. Veggies don’t grow in the winter but can just sit in the garden to be harvested as needed. Knowing which varieties are better suited to autumn planting and which are frost-tolerant is also important if you live in a frosty location. Generally, brassicas, peas, broadbeans, carrots, leeks, silverbeet, cos and buttercrunch lettuce are all frost-tolerant. Other things to think about when designing an autumn-winter veggie garden are adequate winter sun and good soil drainage. Even in winter, gardens need at least six hours of sun a day. Try to find the sunniest spot possible for your winter garden. Raised beds are also useful for winter gardening, especially if you have heavy clay soils. If you don’t have raised beds, planting on a slope and working in lots of organic matter like well-aged manure or compost helps with drainage. Be sure to work the clay and the organic matter together for the best result. Have you heard of using biochar to improve soil aeration and drainage? This specially made charcoal can be added as a permanent form of organic matter in the soil. Compost breaks down over time and needs to be replaced, but biochar stays in the soil holding onto nutrients, water and improving drainage and texture. Research is showing that some forms of biochar greatly improve growth and productivity in gardens and orchards. This will be the topic of an autumn gardening session. The first session this year is a ‘Grow and Eat from your Garden’ series of free courses which looks at designing square foot potager gardens that combine autumn veggies and their companion herbs and flowers. It will be held at Homebuilders on Thursday February 14. If you want to know more or enrol, contact Homebuilders’ courses organiser, Tess, by emailing her at homebuilders.courses@hotmail.com or leave a message for Tess at Homebuilders on 425 7048 with your name and phone number. Betsy Kettle, an experienced certified organic grower and landscape architect, has been facilitating permaculture courses for 15 years.

Specialist Vein Clinic ALL Treatments Offered

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at the Skin Institute Warkworth Skin cancer represents a major health issue for New Zealanders who have one of the highest incidences in the world. Early detection and management offers the best chance of cure. Right now the Skin Institute is offering a FREE spot check. **Affiliated Provider to

As the Skin Institute is an Affiliated Provider to Southern Cross, we will process your Southern Cross prior approval request and claim for you should you require further treatment. We also work with all other major health insurance providers.

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* A free spot check appointment is specifically for those wanting a spot, mole or lesion of concern checked. This is not an offer for a free full skin check. Spot check not available at Albany. **Where medical necessity criteria apply. Southern Cross criteria and conditions apply.

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Hospice Catwalk Arts back by popular demand

Wearable arts will be back on the catwalk at Ascension Wine Estate this year, with the return of Catwalk Arts on September 13 and 14. The wearable arts competition opening the following night and two services include symptom control, was a major annual fundraiser for shows on September 14. practical and social support, specialist Warkworth Wellsford Hospice from All proceeds will help Hospice equipment, counselling , therapeutic 2006 to 2011. It is being re-launched maintain its services for people in the massage and art therapy. this year as a biennial event. community who are living with a life- Information on entering or supporting “We hope all the designers in our limiting illness, and for those who are Catwalk Arts, contact Lesley on 425 community have had a chance to caring for them at home. Hospice’s 9535 or email lesleyi@hospicehouse.org.nz recharge their creative batteries and are keen to get started on their entries,” Hospice fundraising coordinator Lesley Ingham says. The competition will include Open, Student and Family categories, and other specialist sections will be announced shortly. The show will be held in The Belfry at Ascension Wine Estate, with judging on Thursday, September 12, a gala

Fitness league members celebrate

Too big for my boots: Juliette Twhigg and Esther Aruch won the audience’s hearts in 2011 with their Rugby themed entry ‘Too Big for my Boots’.

The Fitness League NZ celebrated its 75th anniversary recently. More than 350 members from Auckland, Tauranga and Hamilton, as well as Silverdale and Warkworth, attended the celebration held at the Netball Centre in Mount Wellington. The Fitness League, formerly The Women’s League of Health and Beauty, was established in the UK in 1930 by Mary Bagot Stack and is now a worldwide organisation. The principles are good posture and ‘central control’ by mobilising joints and lengthening and strengthening muscles. The classes are held on Monday mornings in Silverdale and Matakana, and on Tuesday mornings in Warkworth. The teachers fuse exercise and dance together to create movement in sociable, non-competitive and energetic classes that can be enjoyed by the fit and the less fit, the able-bodied and those less able, and all ages, providing a firm foundation for lifelong exercise and fun. Info: Olive Morrison for Silverdale 09 424 0402 or Carol Wade for Warkworth 09 478 9183.

BODY PAIN? TRY BOWEN Adele Panckhurst

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3 CHANCES TO SAVE UP TO 3 LIVES! DONATE AT… WELLSFORD Community Centre Matheson Ave Tue 22nd Jan 11am – 5pm Warkworth Bowling Club Mill Lane Wed 23rd Jan 10am – 4pm Orewa Community Centre Hillary Square Thur 24th Jan 1pm – 7pm Fri 25th Jan 9am – 2pm

ALL SERVICES ARE FREE FREE pregnancy tests Prenatal classes, birth venue & post-natal stay Own room in peaceful rural surroundings Excellent equipment and atmosphere Water birth a speciality Midwives on call at all times, and as backup Our friendly helpful postnatal staff at the birthing centre for your caregiver (LMC) For further information talk to your  Full post-natal hospital stay LMC/Midwife or Warkworth Birth Centre  24 hour Registered Nurses / Midwives to care for you and your baby  You can transfer from your birth hospital within Phone 09 425 8201 12 hours of normal birth or 24 hours following a Caesarian      

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History

with Judy Waters, Warkworth & District Museum

Kawau’s fascinating past recalled Kawau Island has long provided historians with rich material and interesting stories. The reminiscences of Thomas Harris (1854-1932) give a fascinating account of the relationship between a friendly Maori chief, the Governor of New Zealand and the children growing up on Kawau in the mid 19th century. It all began in 1845, when Mr A.T. Harris arrived on Kawau to manage a store for the company mining manganese. Within a year, the ship Augustine brought Cornish miners, carpenters, bricklayers and their families to work the copper deposits on the island. In charge was Captain Ninnis who came with his wife, six children, a governess, a doctor and domestic servants. Their home was the house that was later enlarged to become Mansion House. The mining venture was short-lived and as the influx of population had come so the exodus followed, leaving just four families living on Kawau. Thomas Harris spoke of the isolation of this time and the threat of attack by war canoes. His father continued to farm and run the store, trading with passing ships. A friend to the family was Chief Patuone, a signatory to the Treaty of Waitangi, who offered them protection. The pakeha children were welcome at the village on the nearby mainland and enjoyed eating potato and kumara and sometimes shark and stingray. Patuone was skilled in traditional medicine and cured dysentery and healed the children’s sores. Gifts of European clothing were passed on by the old chief who preferred Maori attire although he was sometimes seen in the uniform of an officer of the Grenadier Guards. He considered Sir George Grey his friend and he was often consulted by the government on matters of policy. When he died at Takapuna, in 1872, he was given a full ceremonial military funeral. There was no certainty about his age but he maintained he was with Ngapuhi in the Bay

www.wwmuseum.orconhosting.net.nz

Mansion House in earlier times

Tea on the lawn.

of Islands when Captain Cook’s Endeavour came in November 1769 and if so, he must have lived more than 100 years. The day the HMS Sandfly brought Sir George Grey to view Kawau was recalled by Mr Harris. The Harris family stayed on as employees of the new owner and were soon joined by 16 men and their families. Kawau was once again a busy scene as the house and garden were transformed. It was already a place of great natural beauty and the introduction of exotic plants and animals made it a unique botanical and zoological domain. Thomas Harris remembered the zebra arriving on the Dido and emu on the steamer Wonga Wonga. For the children of Kawau, there was now a school,

the teacher being Peter MacDonald who had first come to Kawau in the mining days. It could be imagined that the children lived in a wonderland but Sir George Grey’s diary entries record the deaths of several babies and children proving life was not always easy for the families. Mansion House when completed was a showplace and house guests included many distinguished guests. It was Thomas Harris who directed the gentlemen to the best places to hunt deer and wild pigs while the ladies enjoyed the gracious lifestyle and were served tea on the lawn. Further information – Regarding the column published in the December issue, a member of the Robertson family, who remembers the journey from Huntly to Warkworth in 1929, is sure the car was a Model A and that it was loaded on to the coastal vessel Omana from the long wharf which then stood at Waiwera. It is always interesting to hear first-hand experiences from our older readers. We always strive for accuracy.

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For Tractor Repairs • Servicing • Sales • Spares • Small Engines

Call Dave the Tractor Man Today Unit 4, 6-14 Glenmore Drive, Warkworth

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✆ Works: 09 425 6997 H: 09 425 4654 Mob: 021 947 710 Email: david@fortenz.co.nz Callouts & Recovery 24/7

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

Also see Lance for your supply of Native and Landscaping plants

Fax 09 422 5800

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Contact Jeff mobile 021 996 713 a/hrs 09 423 7310 stevies.fencing@xtra.co.nz

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Decks Ph. (09) 422 6036 Fences Mob. 021 045 0132 General repairs pjkeesing@gmail.com Clean ups All things considered

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General repairs covering a wide range of jobs around the house including decks and fences

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

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

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

PHONE 0800 622 7929

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

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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

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

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Bob Waata Mobile 021 634 484

Tiling & Waterprooﬁng Bricks • Blocks • Paving

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

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

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

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Lamb & moLLoy Ltd SURVEYORS

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

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

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Mobile: 021 990355 Phone: 09 4226160 Email: markysparky@xtra.co.nz

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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

Steves Nursery

Native Trees & Plants Planting Service Garden Makeovers Property Maintenance

Steve Atkins 37 Ward Rd, Matakana RD5 Warkworth

Tel: 09 422 7877

JB’s No 1 LANDSCAPING SERVICES

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

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

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House & Garden Care

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

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

Phone Tim 021 857 433 or 422 9493

Martin Greenleaf

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Registered ACC Referral Provider

TREATS MOST HEALTH PROBLEMS Over 30 years experience Available Monday & Thursday in Warkworth

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

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

For all your property maintenance and small building projects

Parking & back entrance available for customer convenience

175 Rodney Street, Wellsford • Ph 423 8238

Kurt Salmond 0800 FIXMY JUNGLE 021 831 938 www.junglefix.co.nz TOTAL LANDSCAPE CONSTRUCTION for complete quality projects

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

Phone to discuss YOUR requirements 021 423 860 - 423 8619 a/h

Phone Bruce 425 7766 a/h

handyman@bruno.co.nz • www.bruno.co.nz

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Tickidi Boo Property Management

Your one stop Cleaning and Maintenance shop Big jobs, little jobs odd jobs, all jobs Just call to ask

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

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

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

A place dedicated to natural healing for: •people •pets •farm animals For more information contact Tracy 09 423 9636 or www.goldenreikihealing.co.nz

FROG POOL FARM

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DOMESTIC & COMMERCIAL

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WARKWORTH PICTURE FRAMERS office & Internet services • Plan Printing, Colour & B/W Photocopying • Laminating, Binding, Fax and Scanning Service • Internet and Email Service

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fiTness line danCinG leaRneR COURse Warkworth, 5pm Wednesday 6th Feb, followed by Intermediate Advanced Class. Wellsford 9.30am Friday 8th Feb. Phone Jan 422 5191.

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Teacher: Carol Wade (Bagot Stack Diploma) 09 478 9183 or 0274 751 463 Freephone 0508 224 687 www.thefitnessleague.org.nz Cost $7 per class • Annual Reg $15

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200, reasonable rates. Phone Kathy on 422 0891 or email puhoi.hall@hiko.co.nz

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$2.95+GST per line or $8.85 per/cm+GST for boxed adverts. fOR lease WaRKWORTH OffiCe sPaCe Option of three rooms $90-$125 p/wk. Parking, 5mins to shops. Lavender Cottage Info: lightways@xtra.co.nz

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mins $40; 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.

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fOR sale fReeVieW aeRial OR saTelliTe disH ... dOn’T KnOW? For a site survey and quote call JIM THE MAINTENANCE MAN 021 254 2048 or 422 3725 or visit www.themaintencemanjim.co.nz

CHeaP CaRPeT Roll Ends – Room Sizes Overlocking Service Rodney Flooring Centre 4 Station Road, Wellsford Ph: 09 423 8169 CHeaP CaRPeT Roll Ends – Room Sizes Overlocking Service Rodney Flooring Centre 4 Station Road, Wellsford Ph: 09 423 8169 CHeaP CaRPeT Roll Ends – Room Sizes Overlocking Service Rodney Flooring Centre 4 Station Road, Wellsford Ph: 09 423 8169

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GaRaGe sale MassiVe CleaRanCe Everything must go. Saturday Jan 19th, 9 Old Woodcocks Road. First on left from Kaipara Flats Road. Phone 425 5830.

GaRdeninG / PlanTs PlanTs, Quality groundcovers, shrubs and trees. Large and small grades. Wholesale direct to the public. Liberty Park Native Tree Nursery, 90 Jones Road, Omaha 09 422 7307.

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www.jimsmowing.co.nz ReTaininG Walls Wooden retaining walls and fencing. 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. Ph Steve 029 770 7101 or 09 425 9966. Serving Warkworth, Snells, Matakana, Sandspit. TanK WaTeR TesTinG Find out what bad-bugs are in your drinking water. We collect, test and report. Phone Simon at 09 422 9345 or tankwater@ xtra.co.nz WaTeR filTeRs Underbench filters & whole house Ultra violet filters – Kill and remove ecoli/bacteria. FREE site visits. Ph Steve 09 945 2282 or visit www.purewaterservices.co.nz WaTeR PUMPs Low water pressure? Get it sorted. Sales, service and installation. Work guaranteed. Phone Steve 09 945 2282 or www. purewaterservices.co.nz

MaRKeTs MUseUM sUMMeR MaRKeT 1st Saturday of the month, 8am, Old Masonic Hall, Baxter Street, Warkworth. Enquiries Warkworth 425 8482.

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Providing programmes for men who need assistance to change abusive behaviours and attitudes and work on equality and respect. Held in Orewa and Warkworth. For enquiries phone 09 425 8130. We also provide programmes for women that are or have been in abusive relationships. Held in Orewa & Warkworth. Phone 422 2102 or 021 023 20297

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leisuretime

■ BOOK RE VIE WS Reviewed by The Village Bookshop

Flight Behaviour by Barbara Kingsolver

The latest offering from one of our favourite authors does not disappoint. Kingsolver takes on the contentious subject of climate change. Dellarobia is a young wife and mother who is feeling very disillusioned with her life. Accidentally pregnant at 17, she feels trapped in a life she never planned. On her way to a secret tryst, she comes across an amazing sight: a valley filled with what looks like a lake of fire. Dellarobia sees it as a sign to keep on the straight and narrow, but scientists see it in a quite different light. The local community all have an opinion as journalists, sightseers, religious leaders and opportunists flood their small town. As the community lines up to judge her, Dellarobia confronts her family, her church and her town, and has to decide what is important to her and the world she believes in.

The Twelve Tribes Of Hattie by Ayana Mathis

Hattie escapes the racial prejudices of Georgia in 1925 by catching an early morning train to Philadelphia with her mother and sisters. In this beautifully written novel we follow the lives of Hattie and her nine children, their triumphs and failures, from bars and boarding houses to revivalist tents and preachers. Hattie has worked hard to bring up her children but her dream of a better life has been shattered time and again. Beautifully written, this is a compassionate portrait of a family hardened and scattered by circumstance.

Love Anthony by Lisa Genova

We loved Still Alice, and then there was Left Neglected and now Love Anthony. Genova really researches her subjects and this book is no different. Her understanding of autism is brilliant. After reading the book, it felt like we had gotten into the brain of an autistic child and

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understood this condition in a new and revealing way. The story revolves around two women who run away to a small town to overcome their separate grief. Olivia is trying to cope and understand why her autistic son died suddenly and what was the meaning of his short life. Beth is trying to deal with a husband who has cheated on her. This is a piercing story about motherhood, love and, fundamentally, female friendship. If you couldn’t put Still Alice down, you are going to feel the same way about Love Anthony.

Lives We Leave Behind by Maxine Alterio

This is a novel set during WWI. In July 1915, the hospital ship Maheno leaves Wellington with 70 New Zealand nurses on board. We follow two kiwi nurses, quiet Addie and outgoing Meg, as they care for the injured and dying soldiers in horrific conditions in Egypt and France. Some of their kiwi colleagues travel with them, some breaking under the pressure of the conditions and others rising to the occasion. This is a beautifully written novel that gives an insight into the lives of kiwi nurses, doctors and soldiers during the war.

The Rosie Project by Graeme Simsion

This romantic romp is due out at the end of this month and is a fabulous summer read. Set in Melbourne, this is the story of Don Tillman, a professor of genetics with Asperger’s Syndrome who is looking for a wife. To help with this process he has drawn up a 16-page questionnaire. Things are not progressing well when Don meets Rosie, who definitely does not meet any of the questionnaire criteria. Rosie is on a quest of her own, to find her biological father. As Don helps Rosie in her search, he learns some unexpected things about himself. There are lots of laughs, some moments of tenderness, and Don Tillman becomes an unlikely candidate for our affection!

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leisuretime The Dragon’s Tooth by N. D. Wilson

This book is one in a new series by the author of the 100 Cupboards trilogy. Daniel, Antigone and Cyrus Smith have been running a daggy motel since the death of their father. Their mother is in hospital in a coma. Life is very humdrum until an old man with bone tattoos turns up with a strange request. Less than 24 hours later, the old man is dead, the motel has burnt down and Daniel is missing. Antigone and Cyrus have to decide if they want to join an ancient order of explorers who have kept the world’s secrets, relics from lost civilizations and jailers to unkillable criminals. This is an action packed read that will keep you glued to the pages and we can’t wait for the second book in the series.

Crackers give bang for buck Warehouse Stores sold 101,175 KidsCan charity Christmas crackers during their annual appeal to support New Zealand children living in poverty. The $202,350 generated from the $2 crackers is the largest amount raised since the cracker appeal started four year ago. The funds will be used to provide clothing and sunhats for disadvantaged children in the 237 schools receiving support from the KidsCan Trust. Stores at Royal Oak, New Lynn, Dunedin, Albany, Petone, Te Rapa, Manukau and Hastings sold the most crackers. Funds from the 2011 cracker campaign provided 15,000 sunhats for children in low decile schools, and December’s appeal will provide even more support for children who are on the KidsCan waiting list. Funds raised in each store are used locally to support KidsCan partner schools in each area.

Running on time The Omaha Classic Run/Walk will be held on Sunday, April 7. Registrations opened this month and include a 10km run, a 8km walk, a 5km run, and a 2km kids’ dash. Register early and be in the draw to win a $100 Shoe Science Voucher. Earlybird entries close on March 7.Cut off for all registrations is 8am sharp on the day. Info: www.omahaclassic.co.nz

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

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This past Christmas there was a noticeable increase in customers looking for jars, bottles, plates and packages in which to present their homemade food gifts as Christmas presents. It is such a satisfying thing to do and I know how much I appreciate receiving home-cooked goodies. What tends to happen though is that by the time we think of doing this we have lost the recipe or idea that was published in the December magazines and can’t find any suitable containers or ingredients. My resolution this year is to file away in my next year’s diary all the relevant recipes while I still know where they are, to make an effort to collect containers when I find them and to stockpile necessary ingredients well ahead of time. Meanwhile, this is the time of the year when summer really begins. When Mike and I were exhibiting at summer wine festivals I was often asked for my sangria recipe and now that we have sold the vineyard, I feel it is an appropriate time to share it. Don’t be tempted to make it too strong with the brandy as it is a really nice way to enjoy a refreshing wine-based drink in the heat with a lower alcohol level. I also like to use a wine that I enjoy drinking on its own, not a bargain bin special. Serve outdoors accompanied by roasted almonds.

Almond Tapas

• 2 cups whole blanched almonds • 1/2 teaspoon cayenne pepper • 1/2 teaspoon paprika • 1 teaspoon cumin • 2 tablespoons melted butter • 2 tablespoons olive oil • 1 tablespoon sea salt Preheat oven to 150C. Toss almonds with the other ingredients. Place in a single layer on a baking sheet. Roast almonds until golden brown, about 15 to 20 minutes. Allow to cool before serving.

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An afternoon of free music is on offer at Warkworth’s Lucy Moore Park when singing sensation Sal Valentine comes to town. “Oozing with debonair charm,” Valentine will be backed by “jump, swing and soul extravaganza”, the Babyshakes, on Sunday March 10, between 3pm and 5pm. The Auckland Council Music in Parks event is one of 42 concerts, featuring more than 60 artists, being held across the region this summer. The series is in its 20th year and covers a wide range of musical genres. Music fans can check out the full schedule at musicinparks.co.nz. As well as being able to browse the site to see who’s playing when and where, To read this story online and watch a Sal Valentine it’s possible to listen to tracks from performance visit artists to get a feel for those you’re not www.localmatters.co.nz familiar with.

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The Warkworth Area Business Association would like to thank the wonderful sponsors and supporters who made this year’s Santa Parade such a huge success. From the spectators to the participants, it was enjoyed by one and all, and we couldn’t have done it without you. Thank you everyone and we wish you all a safe and prosperous 2013.

Sponsors: Oob Charlies • New World Warkworth Horse Riding Countdown • Masons ANZ • Ashby Consulting Wynyard Wood • Paper Plus The Bach • BNZ • ASB The Warehouse • Ginger Lee&Hart Pharmacy The Farm Butchery •

Richard Sparke carrying his eye-catching installation. Photo, Sally Lush.

Sculptures tell Kaipara’s story More than 50 new works by emerging New Zealand artists are on display at Kaipara Coast Sculpture Gardens. Pieces appear in a stunning garden setting to a backdrop of the Kaipara Harbour. Exhibition 2013 focuses on things that relate to the harbour such as environmental threats, history, colonisation and socio-political issues. The spectacle opened on December 1 with crowds of more than 200 enjoying the art, wine and music by students from Kaipara College’s music department. The sculptures are set along a onekilometre trail that winds through a secluded valley, containing a slice of almost every type of iconic New Zealand landscape. Static, kinetic, Reuben Lee-Robertson admiring sound and installation sculptures have Mariska de Jager’s Four Seasons been selected for each context, creating sculptures. Photo, Crispin Caldicott mini-galleries within the space. Helensville train, the long-gone kauri Artist Carol Green has produced a forests, sand mining and the perilously sculpture called Kaipara Panorama. leaning Kaukapakapa slaughterhouse. It contains a series of large panels The gardens are located at 1481 depicting places and practices of local Kaipara Coast Highway and are open significance including the Auckland to from 9am to 5pm.

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WA R K WO R T H & DI S T R I C TS A & P S HOW – 26 & 27 JANUARY

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Show programme maintains heritage links How fast can a fencer fence? Warkworth will celebrate its rural heritage this month when it stages the annual A&P Show, at the Warkworth Showgrounds, on January 26 and 27. The show is in its 146th year and although there have been changes over the decades, the programme retains many of the elements which early settlers would have enjoyed. Long-serving show secretary Marjorie Blythen says it’s a traditional show, which mixes events and entertainment with plenty of opportunities for public involvement, all with a rural theme. “Greg and Mandy are back with their ewe racing and sheep shearing displays, and it’s quite a spectacle when members of the audience get up and ‘have a go’,” Marjorie says. The animal section, with everything from beef cattle to dairy goats and alpaca, is a big drawcard with farmers keen to take the opportunity to mix with other breeders. The indoor section provides an opportunity for locals to parade their cooking, sewing and gardening prowess. Entertainer Te Radar, who compered the show for the first time last year, is back again this year on the main day, Saturday, January 26. The programme features a variety of

To get a taste of what’s in store, view a video of last year’s A&P show at www.localmatters.co.nz

entertainment from young handlers and calf club, to dog trials, wood chopping, a vintage car display and rabbits. A large number of horse rings will be held on both Saturday and Sunday. Marjorie says however, the miniature horse show will be missing this year as the Warkworth show clashes with the Premier Miniature Horse Show in Whangarei. Live entertainment will include the country bluegrass bands Otherwise Fine and Highly Strung. The Warkworth Ranch Horse Club will run competitions and demonstrations of trail, reining and cattle events in the rodeo arena, while members of the Puhoi Axemen’s Club will swing some winning blows. A new event this year will be the

northern regional fencing final, hosted by the Kaipara Young Farmers Club (see story this page). Snells Beach School will run old time entertainment for children such as egg ‘n’ spoon and sack races, and the Show Queen, Princess and Pirate Competitions will be judged at lunchtime. Mahurangi Rugby Club will host a hospitality marquee and there will be an expanded trade section. The Bayleys Guide Dog Auction will be held during the afternoon. Marjorie says no show would be complete without the sideshows. “There will be a number of great things to try, ranging from The Big Crocodile to the mega slide and obstacle course.”

Members of Young Farmers Northern Region will put their fencing skills to the test when they go hammer-tohammer at this month’s Warkworth & District A&P Show. This is the first time the event has been held at the Warkworth show and contest convenor Mike Bolger says there will be plenty of action to keep spectators entertained. Competitors from Auckland to Kaitaia will by vying for a place in the National Fencing Grand Final, in Auckland in May. The fencers, both men and women aged between 18 and 31, will compete in teams of two and are given two hours to build a 15-metre long threewire fence. While speed is a factor in their performance, the Fencing Federation judge will also be looking at the quality of their workmanship. Mike expects possibly up to 10 teams to be competing on the day. The Warkworth competition is being hosted by the Kaipara Young Farmers Club, which meets at the 3 Furlongs Hotel, in Kaiwaka, on the last Thursday of the month, at 7pm. Mike says the club is basically a social get-together for young people in the area, not just farmers. New members welcome.

WARKWORTH & DISTRICTS A&P SHOW SOCIETY 146th Annual Show 26 January 2013 Extended Gymkhana will also be on 27 January 2013

Gates open 8.30am • official entertainment starts 10.30am

animal competitions start 9am • indoor exhibits open 9am • all day entertainment at the large marquee

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Kids (old fashioned) races eg. egg on the spoon Ewe racing & shearing demos with Greg Vintage displays • Martial Arts display Queen, fairy, princess & pirate competitions (age conditions apply) Music by Otherwise Fine Shearing competitions (including pedal power shearing) Dog Trials Alpacas, beef & dairy, goats, Calf club & young handlers competition

• Paintball Wood chopping Don the Digger • Auckland Rabbit Club Ranch horse club - trail, reining, cattle events Young Farmers Club Fencing competition - Open to all members for the Northern Regional Final, Entry is for Y.F.C. members only, top two finalists go to the National Competition in Auckland, May 2013. Will be judged by a nominated person from NZ Fencing Federation. • Mahurangi Rugby Club - Hospitality Marquee • A wide variety of cottage industries and sales in the large marquee

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championline-up Te Radar relishes A&P outing Te Radar describes himself as an award winning satirist, documentary maker, writer, stage and screen director, failed gardener, and amateur historian. It turns out he is also a great fan of A&P Shows. He returns to Warkworth this month to compere, for the second year running, the annual show. How did you enjoy last year’s event? “I thoroughly enjoyed it. The weather was great, the cattle were as well groomed as the locals, and I took home an inflatable lifejacket, which I won at an auction. The children who entered the dress-up event made the day particularly difficult, as I had to help judge their event and they were in some pretty swanky outfits. They were more difficult to judge than the livestock.” Was there anything you particularly enjoyed last year? “I loved the shearing competition. If you’ve never shorn a sheep it’s jolly hard yakka, so to watch so many shorn so quickly can make one a bit exhausted. I always like watching the axemen and women too. Greg and Mandy’s sheep racing was superb even though I failed to win a commemorative cup. (I did win one from them at the Te Kuiti Running of the Sheep). I also met a young chap who had just bought a still to brew some alcohol. He promised to let me know how it went. Not well at first it seems, as he emailed to say he

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had nearly burnt his shed down, but that he was getting the hang of it.” What made you accept the invitation to return this year? “I’m a big fan of A&P shows so I get to as many of them as I can. I enjoy talking to the stallholders, the breeders, the kids, and the other folk who are there mooching about. It’s an entertainingly wholesome day out.” What are you looking forward to? “I quite look forward to the crafts and produce competition. It’s always great to see the skill of the entrants and I revel in well-grown produce. It’s always a case of thinking “Yip, I’m not doing too bad in the garden”, and then you see how it’s really supposed to be done. I like looking at the winners’ names to see who has done best overall. There are some pretty talented folk out there and this is their stage. Can’t wait.”

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championline-up Operation forces loyal supporter to miss this year’s show When the Warkworth & District A&P Show opens its gates on January 26 and 27, one stalwart on the organising committee will be absent. For the first time in possibly 50 years, life member Lorraine Hatfull, who turned 82 this month, will miss the show after being laid up after a knee operation. “I attended my first A&P Show when I married Arthur in 1950,” she says. “His parents were members of the former Rodney A&P Society and the show really was the biggest event on the local farming calendar in those days. Gubbs Buses used to run a shuttle service from Warkworth.” When the couple started farming, they were milking 60 grade Jersey cows on a farm on Woodcocks Road, about six kilometres out of town. Arthur got interested in breeding and they bought their first bull from the Rockvale Stud. Later, they took bulls from the Parry Estate and over the years, and as they could afford it, they bought from Waikato studs such as Glenmore and Merrieland. “As the herd grew, Arthur got interested in showing them so we joined the society for five shillings a year. We also belonged to the Rodney Jersey Breeding Association, which was quite a strong organisation in those days.”

The Ladies Committee, circa 1960s. Back, from left, Phyl Munro, Margaret Pirrit, Lorraine Hatfull, Ona Price. Middle, Iris Hutchings, Lil Davie-Martin, Eileen Buckton, Mable Nelson. Front, Molly Joyce, Ethel Mabbet, Elsie Jeffs, Dorothy Smith, Lois Joyce, Mary Brown. For more historical photos, read this story online at localmatters.co.nz

Lorraine says as the interest in the jersey group grew, a pavilion was built on the site where the Mahurangi Rugby Clubrooms presently stand. “It wasn’t anything flash but it included a kitchen where we could make tea and scones for the exhibitors. “As our children got older, I got interested in the indoor section. Mrs

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Lil Davie-Martin was president of the Ladies Committee at the time and I was invited to act as a steward. The Women’s Division of Federated Farmers and the Country Women’s Institute (CWI) were also heavily involved. I’d help coordinate the dressmaking and craft sections, and after completing a judges’ course I

went on to judge at the local show, as well as A&P shows around the district, in the Bay of Islands and on Waiheke Island. It was very enjoyable and interesting to see other people’s work. I only stopped judging recently.” Lorraine says it’s disappointing to see the interest in the indoor sections fading. “They were once very popular, but now we find ourselves scratching for entries. People’s interests have changed quite dramatically. There’s very little knitting and sewing, and no embroidery at all. The art section has also gone and the only section still holding its own to any degree is the gardening and flowers.” Each section has its rules and the CWI published a booklet to give new exhibitors some guidance. For instance, flowers must be as fresh as possible and in good condition. While dahlia’s mustn’t be presented with a leaf or bud, when it comes to roses, the more greenery the better. Preserves are judged on colour and if it’s a close call, the judge can open the bottle and do a taste test. For a full list of sections in the Indoor Exhibits competition, go to www. ras.org.nz and look under A&P shows. Entries are accepted at the showgrounds on January 25.

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A peddle-powered wool cutter will be one of the more unusual features at this month’s Warkworth A&P Show. Shearing competition organiser Neil Sidwell came up with the concept and Dargaville engineering company Newman built it. “My mate used to have one which was popular at shows but it had fallen apart,” Neil says. “I put a design together and thought let’s see how it goes. It’s bloody good. It’s direct drive and it’s got an on and off button. It’s just like being in a wool shed.” The 12-speed mountain bike-shearer will be on display at Dargaville Museum before appearing at Warkworth on January 26. Neil says the rules of the competition are simple. “There’s five heats and everyone has to qualify. Then there’s two semis and everyone has eight sheep to shear, until we get three finalists.” “It needs to be neat, fast and clean as. Cuts and roughness will get you disqualified.” Seven experienced judges will be watching and prizes range from $250 for the open event to $100 for juniors. Neil, 68, started shearing as a 16-year

old and has been organising the A&P shearing competition since 1976. He spent 40 years farming in Ruawai and two years ago moved back to his birth town Waiwera. It was supposed to be a place to retire, but hanging up the shears permanently proved too tough. “My granddaughter and I recently spent a day shearing 250 lambs at four or five 10-acre blocks. We got $4 a lamb so ended up with $900 and split it.” He has also organised the shearing competition at Auckland’s Royal Easter Show since 2002 and, in 2007, managed NZ’s successful shearing team, including world record holder David Fagan, that won awards in England, Ireland and Wales. He says dairy and beef has pushed sheep out of Northland and most shearing work now takes place on lifestyle blocks. “In the early 60s there were 40 to 50 contractors in Northland. Now there’s only one or two. “Between 1968 and 1974, my gang was shearing 500,000 sheep a year. Now there wouldn’t be 5000 in the same area. There’s more shearers in places like Gisborne, Hawkes Bay and the King Country.” Neil says what he likes about shearing is the camaraderie.

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Simple steps save water and money, and environment of washing. Instead, use a bucket or part-fill the tub instead of running water. The same applies in the kitchen. If you’re rinsing dishes or food in the kitchen, put the plug in and part-fill the sink instead of running water throughout. Fill a jug Keep a water jug in the fridge in summer so you don’t have to run the tap for ages to get your water cold enough for a drink. It will also help save water when filling pots for cooking or the kettle. If your water is chlorinated, it also reduces the chlorine flavour. Scrape dishes or use dishwasher’s eco rinse Rinsing plates in the sink can waste many litres of water and is often unnecessary. Generally, it is enough just to scrape plates before putting them in the dishwasher. Modern dishwashers can cope with grease and even some food scraps without rinsing first. Also, they often have water-efficient rinse cycles. These cycles may use just a few litres of water to rinse messy dishes when you’re not ready to wash a whole load. Reduce your toilet’s water use Toilets use from three litres (for recent dual flush models) to 12 litres each flush. Many households use one-third of their water to flush the toilet. You can adjust your toilet so it uses less water. Put a displacement device, such as a ‘gizmo’ or a brick,

in a single-flush cistern. Or you can fill a couple of plastic bottles with water and put these in your cistern. You could save thousands of litres of water a year. In older toilets (pre-2004) a full flush uses 11 litres. Check inside your cistern to find how much water you’re using with each flush. Reducing the amount of water you flush is a particularly good investment if you have a septic tank, or are on metered water or rainwater tank supply. Check with your plumbing retailer for the best option for your cistern. Take showers A typical bath uses 180 litres of water. A typical shower uses anything from 20 to 100 litres, depending on how long you stay in. To save water and save on hot water bills, take showers instead of baths and keep showers short. For teenagers, put a clock or a timer in the bathroom and reward them if they keep showers to the agreed time. Choose the right appliances Choose appliances that are the right size for your household, so it’s practical to run them only when they’re full. And choose models that use energy and water efficiently. continued next page

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Ever run out of water with the shampoo still in your hair? By Steve Reynolds, owner Pure Water Services.

I know it’s that time of year you say, Christmas is over, the diet has begun and almost forgotten, the fridge shelves can actually be seen again, the tree is dead and summer’s finally here – time to get on with some serious relaxing and doing nothing – except it’s now mid-January and most of us are back at work! The long, hot, dry summer has been ‘choice’ and you well and truly visited most of the local beaches and even visited some you haven’t been to in a long while – well, not since we last had a summer which was two years ago. Life is pretty good until ‘it’ happens – the day you turn on the shower and nothing comes out! Chances are you had just started to rinse the shampoo from your hair when the water stopped. As you tear around the house bumping into everything trying to find some water to wash the shampoo from your eyes, spare a thought for the bare bottom of your tank, which hasn’t been exposed like this since the last drought. How can this be happening I hear you say? We seem to forget that long, dry summers often mean little or no rain for months at a time and the water tank has been muttering to itself for some time about the 10 minute showers and

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on upgrades and additions to the stormwater network. Landholders pay for this through rates. There are several easy ways to reduce the levels of contaminants that get into the stormwater system: yy Pick up litter before it can wash into drains. yy Clean the car on the lawn, without using detergent, or take it to a car wash that recycles water and detergent. yy Sweep up leaves and grass clippings and put them on the garden instead of hosing them down the drain. yy Pick up your dog’s droppings. yy Never tip paint, oil or other contaminants down a stormwater drain (or any drain) – contact your landfill about disposing of leftover paint or give it to someone else. yy Clean paint brushes in a bucket that can be emptied in the garden. yy Shovel up soil, cement and other debris when building or landscaping. If possible keep it dry and dispose of it at the landfill. Source, www.smarterhomes.org.nz

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Six-month celebration marks Puhoi’s 150th anniversary

Puhoi has started a six-month long party, which will culminate in the village’s 150th anniversary in June. Recollections will be shared at A 9am anniversary mass will be read Puhoi Hall this Sunday, January 20, by Auckland from 11am. A gold coin donation Catholic bishop is requested, refreshments will be Patrick Dunn available and participants are invited to with surviving bring photos to “help jog the memory”. priests who served in the Puhoi parish. On the weekend of February 22 to 24, A hymn will be sung in the Puhoi the Bohemian Association for PuhoiBohemian dialect, a variant of North Ohaupo Descendants is organising a Bavarian. At 11am, an anniversary picnic and activities at Wenderholm opening ceremony will be held in Puhoi Regional Park. The picnic starts at Hall with representatives of Maori who 10am on Friday February 22 with a transported settlers from Wenderholm meet-and-greet at the Puhoi Hall. to Puhoi and aided their survival. Penny-farthing bikes and the Identities from Puhoi’s civic life will Warkworth Vintage Car Club will be speak, as well as representatives of on display at Wenderholm the next day. Puhoi’s ancestral origins – GermanOn February 23, a re-enactment of the speaking citizens of Bohemia in the 1863 winter landing of the first wave of former Austrian Empire, now a region pioneers will be staged. Representatives of the modern Czech republic. of the original Bohemian families will wear costumes and travel in boats built Wherever Puhoi’s elderly Bohemians gather, there’s likely to be a good, long Bohemian dancing and music by the Puhoi and Ohaupo Bohemian Band especially by former NZ Fire Service chat. Pictured are Wech siblings at a family reunion. with dudelsack and accordions will Officer Peter Jones. 30. The wooden Road Board Office The highlight of the anniversary year raise the hall roof from 3pm to 4.30pm. The re-enactment includes the official was replaced by the present little stone will be held on June 29, which is the The evening concludes with a formal opening of two new Puhoi village building 100 years ago on this day. date the first pioneers landed and the dance in the Puhoi Hall for adults wharves before the day ends with the Summer Settlers Ball at the Puhoi Hall. An Honouring of Age dinner will be Feast Day of Sts Peter and Paul to and a disco at the Sports Club for young people. whom Puhoi Church is dedicated. held at Puhoi Hall on June 28. The first of three Puhoi Women’s Dinners will be held at the Puhoi Hotel Motown sound blows into Leigh on April 18, while Puhoi Farmers Market will invite members of the Songs of the sixties are set to get punters swinging at Leigh this month. Eight-piece Motown tribute band Motor City town’s 14 different nationalities to share Family Funk pride themselves on “sharp suits and sharp tunes” and will perform at the Leigh Sawmill Cafe on Friday their food and culture at the Sports January18. The Auckland-based group started in 2006 drawing material from the golden days of the Motown record label, when it produced a cavalcade of number one hits. The aim was to do justice to the songs of the Temptations, Club grounds on Sunday April 28. Aretha Franklin, Stevie Wonder and Marvin Gaye. Motor City Family Funk has gone on to play at events such as the May events include a Puhoi Cemetery Devonport Wine and Food Festival and Summer Series. The band includes two female vocalists, a two-piece horn working bee and a wine and cheese section and a four-piece rhythm section. reception at the Puhoi Library on May

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Contracting pioneer has Mahurangi link John McLean and Sons was NZ’s largest firm of public works contractors at the turn of the 20th century. The company’s founder arrived in Auckland from The following excerpt is taken from a book entitled Pioneer Contractors, written by John McLean, Scotland in 1861, via Nova Scotia. Initially taking up a farm in the “remote” Papakura the great, great-grandson and namesake of the Valley, he joined the militia and “took his share in founder of John McLean and Sons. It was loaned to Mahurangi Matters by another McLean descendant, the country’s defence during the Maori War”. Colin Greenslade, of Warkworth. Upon returning to Auckland, McLean began building bridges and wharves in the Auckland area and soon established for himself, in the Auckland The contract for building the Makarau Tunnel was province, a reputation as a shrewd and dependable let to John McLean and Sons on 13 March 1890 contractor, whose word was his bond. One of the and their tender of £26,616 was the lowest of the earliest wharves he built was at Stokes Point, on seven received. The contract date for completion was 1 March 1892, but it was not in fact completed Auckland’s north shore. From small beginnings building the Makarau until 13 May 1897. Tunnel, the company undertook numerous civil The contractors began their excavation of the tunnel engineering contracts, finally building the Otira on February 1891, and it was dug entirely from one end – the lower end. Since the level of the tunnel was Tunnel through the Southern Alps. on an incline the contractors dug upwards, thereby His descendants compiled a large volume recording enabling water to flow out through the hole. it was this work, taken from company records and other a single track tunnel; the arch was 12 feet high at its documents. It tells the story of the hardship and highest point and the gauge of the railway was three determination to succeed. feet, six inches. And, like Brunel’s great tunnel under NZ had been drained of both resources and the Thames, it was to be lined with bricks. confidence during the native wars of the 1860s and The tunnel was dug around the clock with three development had languished. In one bold stroke, eight hour shifts, six days a week, with the exception Sir Julius Vogel, Premier of NZ, got the country of Sundays. However, some of the men had to going again. Thus between 1870 and 1880, the work for part of Sunday on maintenance. Less than population doubled, the length of railway lines a month after the excavation began, one of the increased from 45 miles to 1182 miles, and some shift bosses was killed inside the tunnel. He was 4000 miles of telegraph lines were laid. This was the John Riordan, who was described as a “thoroughly greatest period of development in NZ’s history and experienced man”. On 6 March 1891, Riordan was it provided virtually unlimited work for contractors. at work and was charging three holes in the tunnel’s By the time the company won the contract for the face with gunpowder. He lit the fuses of two of them Makarau tunnel, in March 1890, John’s two sons, and then lit the third, but thought that he had not Murdoch and Neil, had joined the company. Both done so. The two went off immediately and he ran men had served as shipwrights in the boatbuilding forward to light the third but it exploded just as he yard of Henry Niccol and Son, at Devonport. Niccol reached it. His head was blown to pieces and the was the son of well-known yacht builder Clyde and men of his shift picked up the remains of his body had arrived in NZ on the Jane Gifford in 1842. and carried it out of the tunnel.

Company founder John McLean.

When the excavation was commenced, the ground was found to be thoroughly hard; in fact, it was so hard that it could not even be broken with a pick and so the rock had to be blasted out. This hard sandstone was, in the words of Murdoch McLean, “the very best material for boring through”. This was because, once it was dug, the tunnel through hard rock would stand on its own. However, only eight chains were dug in such ideal conditions for the hard sandstone soon gave way to soft ground which, according to Murdoch, was “the most expensive of all kinds of tunnelling”. The Department refused to pay more than the continued next page

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Contracting pioneer contract rate of six shillings and sixpence per yard when the soft ground was reached, even though that rate had been set on the basis that all the ground was hard. The soft ground soon confronted the firm with some very serious problems. After they had been in soft clay for three or four chains, the weight of the ground caused the brick walls of the tunnel to press inwards towards each other. In order to relieve the pressure on the walls, the contractors built an invert at the bottom of the tunnel. This meant the whole tunnel was now shaped like an egg. In order to reduce further the pressures bearing down on the tunnel, the contractors placed longitudinal timbers at the footing and built cross props at intervals of six feet along the tunnel. The thickness of the brick lining had to be increased from 14 to 22 inches, and this required a slightly wider excavation. The soft ground meant that the tunnel had to be supported by close timbering. The timber props that were used in the tunnel were of adequate strength and were supported by miners’ sills which crossed the tunnel horizontally. Even though the sill propped up the roof of the arch, Mr John Witheridge, the Government Inspector at the site, ordered that the ends of the sills be taken out of the brickwork so as not to impair the “appearance” of the brick lining. And this was inside a dark tunnel. Murdoch McLean refused and before going to Auckland, told the foreman

that, “No matter what Mr Witheridge says about this sill, you are not to take it out”. However, the contractors were eventually cajoled into obeying Witheridge’s stupid order and the result was that on 20 January 1893, the tunnel collapsed over a length of 18 feet. Immediately after this, Witheridge was removed from the tunnel and was appointed supervisor to the cooperative contractors who were building the Otago Central railway line. However, it was not long before he was subsequently removed from this position as well. Witheridge was replaced by Robert McGonagle who had been an inspector for 10 previous tunnels including the Manawatu Gorge tunnel. The collapse of the tunnel was a major setback for the contractors who had to direct their resources to clearing away the fallen clay. The effect of the collapse was to disturb the ground right through to the surface 100 feet above. At this stage, the contractors had already paid more than £1000 in wages since the collapse of the tunnel but were no further ahead. It was becoming obvious that they were heading for a serious financial loss and there seemed nothing they could do to improve maters. On 2 June 1893, they sought the Department’s permission to stop the work for six to seven months to allow the ground to consolidate. Work recommenced in January 1894. After the tunnel collapse, Murdoch

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McLean meet with the Premier Joseph Seddon in Wellington to ask for the contract to be set aside. Mr Seddon, however, said this was not possible. He later visited the tunnel to view the problems and complimented the contractors on the quality of the work, which had been achieved in spite of all the difficulties. During the six years of the Makarau contract, a total of 11,600 cubic yards of earth fell into the tunnel as a result of slips and it all had to be removed by hand shovelling. Nevertheless, the Department claimed that none of the slips were the result of the steepness of the slope. Fortunately for the contractors, the Committee of the House of Representatives that considered their petition did not agree with the Department’s view and the contractors were reimbursed for the cost of removing the slips. By 1897, the end was in sight as the last sleepers, rails and ballast were laid. When the tunnel was eventually completed in May 1897, John McLean and Sons had spent more than £39,000 on the work which had resulted in a loss of at least £7000. The contractors presented a petition to Parliament to be reimbursed the sum of £5371 on the grounds that much of their loss was caused by the errors of the Government officials. They were eventually reimbursed £5000. Eleven years after completing the Makarau tunnel, the McLean firm began the construction of the Otira tunnel under the Southern Alps.

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Across highways and byways, up hills and down dales, from beaches to the bush – there’s something for everyone on the Walking Weekend programme. Pictured are walkers on last year’s Bladrock track.

Walks cover varied terrain

Passionate pedestrians can start preparing for Mangawhai’s Walking Weekend in April following the release of the official programme. Vast arrays of walks are listed starting Walkers can fuel up with a gourmet with a tramp at Ruakaka’s McKenzie breakfast on the Sunday morning Limestone Hill Scenic Reserve on before climbing to the Brynderwyn Thursday April 6. It explores the history Trig, or discover how eco-friendly behind kauri milling in the area. The cottages fit into the landscape in Bush Troubadour Trail on April 7 winds to Bach, at the Marunui Conservation around beaches and cliffs with paid area. performers appearing at specific spots. If running is more your style, organisers The Mangawhai Cliff Top Walk suggest the 10km Mangawhai Pack reveals vistas from Whangarei to Pakiri Run on April 6 and if you’re into and Town Meets Country offers the marsupials, join an experienced chance to see a working milking shed. possum hunter on Weston’s Possum Ramblers’ Food Experience explores Hunt. The walk includes a visit to a Mangawhai’s horticulture, while the waterfall, a talk on possum philosophy Thornleigh Farm Walk examines and rounds off with possum stew. sustainable farming techniques. The weekend’s highlight will be the Those who find an all day tramp too Food and Wine Festival on Saturday much may be interested in Clayton’s night, April 6, in the olive grove Exercise Challenge – a short but brisk opposite the school. Tickets cost $25 if walk via some of Mangawhai’s secret booked early or $30 at the gate. Info: mangwhaiwalkingweekend.co.nz. hotspots.

Staying safe this boating season Auckland boaties have been reminded of the essentials for a safe day on the water. Auckland’s Harbourmaster Andrew Hayton says the following steps will help ensure their trip is safe and successful: yy Make sure that your vessel is capable of completing the intended trip yy Ensure everyone has a correctly fitted lifejacket yy Check the marine weather forecast before and during your trip yy Don’t overload your vessel yy Carry at least two means of

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January 2013

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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

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Live Comedy, Leigh Sawmill Café, featuring Matakana’s Andrew Sutton and friends. Jade River Art Exhibition, Old Masonic Hall, Warkworth (see story p30 ) Motor City Family Funk, Leigh Sawmill Café (see story p51) Bohemian descendants morning tea for Goldcard holders, Puhoi Hall, 11am (see story p51) NZ Blood collection, Wellsford Community Centre and Warkworth Bowls Club (see ad p27) mARTakana exhibition rising funds for Hospice, Matakana School (see story p31) Warkworth A&P Show, SH1 (see stories pgs 36-39) Mangawhai Heads annual Beach Day Info: mangawhaisurf@ xtra.co.nz Whangateau Country Fair and Harbour experience, 10am to 2pm (see story p31)

February 2

Winery Tour, Ascension Wine Estate featuring Fat Freddy’s Drop, Anika, Boh & Hollie and The Adults 2 Garage Sale, Wellsford Co-operating Church, 253 Rodney Street Wellsford, 8am-10.30am. 2 Cornerstone Roots, Leigh Sawmill (see story p50) 3 Warkworth Brass Band big band concert, Leigh Sawmill Café, 4.30pm start (see story p1) 6 Jackman Waterman Classic Info: nickwill@xtra.co.nz 10 Top of the Rock adventure race and scenic walk/run, Kaiwaka. Info: kaiwakasports.co.nz 12 Warkworth Playcentre open day, all welcome. The theme will be summer celebrations with water activities and outdoor craft. 17 Matakana Summer Concert featuring Pat Benatar, Bachman & Turner, and America. www.ticketek.co.nz (see ad p33) 21-23 Northland Field Days, Dargaville, featuring more than 550 exhibitors 22-24 Puhoi reunion picnic, Wenderholm; landing re-enactment (see story p51)

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I, George Nepia, Mahurangi College hall, 7.30pm (see story p29) Sal Valentine, Lucy Moore Park, Warkworth. Info: musicinparks. co.nz

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Section One winners, from left, Chito Tipace, Keiko Pogoni, Benji Tipace and Robin Denton

Section Two winners Laurie Farr, Mike Bleasdale, Josh Atkins and Vanessa Oldfield.

Sportsworld outpaces tennis rivals in Warkworth comp The talented Warkworth Sportsworld team ran away with the Rodney Wednesday evening mixed pre-Christmas competition to win the top section in a canter. The team, made up of regular Saturday top grade interclub players, proved too tough for some of the more social teams but brought the overall standard of play up a notch. Led by captain and selector Keiko Pogoni, team members were Chiti Tipace, Benji Tipace, Robbie Blair, Robyn Denton and chief supporter due to illness, Leonie Meredith. Runners up in the seven team top section was the Warkworth Glass team of Kat Kayll (captain),

Dahnie and Warren Burton, and Jono Boundy. Points for the season were: Sportsworld 40, Warkworth Glass 35, Wilmot Motors 27, Not Just Hats 21, Warkworth Kindy 17, Mahurangi Matters 17, and H20 Pumps 5. In Section Two, Wellsford kept their noses in front over the tail end of the season to take the 2012 title. Team members were Laurie Farr (captain), Vanessa

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Baldrock challenge The annual multi-sport event Top of the Rock will be held on Sunday February 10. Based at the Kaiwaka Sports Association grounds, the event includes three choices â&#x20AC;&#x201C; a five or 10km scenic walk/run, a 30km mountain bike only ride, or a combined 10km cross-country run and 15km mountain bike ride. Free camping is available at the sports grounds, with the events due to start at 8.30am. Info: www.kaiwakasports.co.nz

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