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With a lifetime of sailing experience under his belt, Grahame Carbery has spent the past year teaching children to sail on the Mangawhai Estuary. With the help of other experienced sailors such as Jannette Reid, Wayne McLellan, Howard Jury and Coin Jackson. The children who attend the lessons from October through to April learn everything there is to know about sailing. Having won powerboat racing championship titles and records, Grahame believes that being out on the water is one of the best past times a family can have. continued on page 12 …
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The 2022 New Zealand Dairy Industry Awards for Northland saw Te Hana’s Phillip Payton named Northland Dairy Manager of the Year.
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Phillip is the farm manager for Greg and Ingrid McCracken, milking 350 cows. “My partner Leef and I are newbies to the Northland region, which has been challenging in both positive and negative ways,” he says. “I entered the dairy industry as a farm assistant in 2008 and have progressed through the industry. We made the recent move north to be nearer our families. “We are quite private people and wanted to use the awards programme to network and build industry relationships in the area. “After witnessing the joy my father’s farming contracting position brought him, dairy farming seemed like an inevitable career choice. “I too, can share that joy with my family and have worked my way up to
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alike need to be honest with their intent and future goals.” With short-term farming goals of contract milking and a longer-term goal of incorporating teaching and education into the business, Phillip has set SMART goals towards farm ownership and operating a calf rearing business. “We also aim to have a viable contracting business that provides short-term relief staff capable of running the entire operation. The service will be specifically aimed to give owner-operators, contract milkers and sharemilkers time off-farm. “Leef and I are homebodies and enjoy spending our free time visiting family. I do enjoy golf, fishing and camping, and we travel to Great Barrier Island as often as we can.
For an employer, best practice needs to extend to their workforce management and have planned out our progression pathway. “We have encountered many challenges these past few years, and some have altered the path, but we have reassessed, overcome what was within our abilities, made peace with what wasn’t, and kept ticking off our goals.” Phillip acknowledges the challenges of mental health support within the dairy industry. “For an employer, best practice needs to extend to their workforce. So much of an employee’s livelihood is intertwined with the farm. “Worker-friendly rosters, training, pay rates and healthy housing are just the basics and should be seen as investments. Employers and employees
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“One of the most confronting truths is that for the majority of my farming career, the work/life balance just wasn’t there or wasn’t an option. “We had the ocean and a beautiful coastline one kilometre down the road, and I never managed to dip my toes in. “I advocate for better rosters and milking schedules, which is why we implemented 10 in 7. “The great reputation of the business I work for is one of its strengths. It makes you feel proud to be a part of it. “Education is not only encouraged, but employees are well-supported in their pursuits and progression. “It has been a welcome change to work for a business that is set up not just for its own success but also yours.” ¢
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p Mac Clews looking after a spot prize for the Easter Egg Hunt that was donated by Farmlands
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Northern Helping Hands is preparing for the first Easter Egg Hunt to be held on Saturday, April 16, at War Memorial Park in Wellsford. “Caroline Milner came up with the idea at our Christmas event,” says lead administrator Libby Clews. “We go to the park during the school holidays and on weekends, and it is such a great park we thought it would be a good way to showcase it to others. “We brought the Easter Eggs through the Wellsford Top Shop Four Square. The store manager Mason McKeown sourced them all for me, and they sponsored us by giving us around a $1,000 massive discount.” There are more than 5,000 eggs for the day. “We are so grateful to owners Joe and Stacey Dodd for the community support they give. “For the hunt, we will be hiding poker chips for the children to find around the
park. The nought to two-year-olds will be in the playground area, and the older children will have different time slots for their hunts across the skatepark, playground and tree area. “The chips will be coloured gold, silver or bronze for spot prizes and bigger eggs, while the original colours will claim set Easter eggs. “There are age-specific prizes for each hunt, and the chips will go into the basket and be rehidden for the next age group. We will have marshalls but parents are responsible for keeping an eye on their children as well. “While the hunt is happening, we have a henna artist who will be doing henna on children. There will be music playing and games from Mad Mel Movement in Wellsford.
“The Surf’s Up Burger and Grill food truck and Coffee Zone will be on-site with subsidised pricing as well. “Full Noise Bouncy Castles will be there as well as the local Toy Library. McMassive Concrete is bringing a digger, and tractors are coming from Mike Weber Contracting. “Harrison Photography will be taking photos of the event. The fire service is bringing a fire truck, and the police will have their car and colouring books for the children. They can also get photos with a police hat on. “There will be activities at the library, and they will have a
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Carl Richardson arrived from Kent in the United Kingdom and made Waipū home three years ago, bringing his trusty guitar with him. “My sister lives in Waipū, and I travelled here many times to visit her,” says Carl. “I really like the country, and I decided to move here permanently. I used to mess around with music when I was 16 years old and decided to learn guitar — it was a clear winner. “I am 32 now and enjoy solo guitar, rhythm guitar sessions and rock bands. I was playing gigs in Paihia when I first moved here as a solo artist.” Carl has released his own music and enjoys teaching others the instrument. “I travelled a lot, so I never started up a band. I spent time in Asia playing, and that was a great experience. It is an awesome region to visit — the people are really friendly. “It is only the last couple of years that I have pursued music as a profession. I have always had musical friends around me and have often helped people write songs. “Some people enjoy running or cycling — I enjoy my guitar. It gives me the ability to express what I am feeling better than I can with my mouth. “It articulates my thoughts and feelings better and is a great way for me to let off steam, and that is great for my mental health. “In my opinion, it is one of the coolest instruments ever made — it is versatile and interesting. I am infatuated with it. It is something that you never
finish learning because you will never be the best at it. There is something humbling about that. “Anyone can learn to play. Even if you only have one hand, you can play slide guitar. “I decided to offer private guitar lessons around the area and I am in the process of figuring out whether to extend my lessons into weekends. “I have had a lot of queries from One Tree Point through to Kaiwaka for group adult one-on-one and children’s group sessions. “I believe six years old is the best age, to begin with children. Younger can be exposed to it, but six is a better learning age. It is never too late to learn, and I also think it is a great instrument for older people. “Playing the guitar helps keep the neural pathways healthy because you are p Carl Richardson has played guitar for 16 years and believes anyone can learn to master the instrument doing something that “I am loving the dif ferent requires a lot of brain memory. Any and that helps mitigate many chronic areas around Ruakākā, Waipū, activity that requires brain function diseases that can start as we age. “People can check out my music Mangawhai and Kaiwaka. It is is good. “Keeping your brain active means on my carliosomusic on Facebook certainly different to the UK, in a very good way.” ¢ it has to communicate with your body, or Instagram.
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The bulbs of zing u by Liz Clark
They have a bite like no other, cause tears to well up in the kitchen and are amongst the most versatile crops to grow in the garden. We’re talking about the flavoursome members of that family of bulbs, the onion family, which includes onions, garlic, chives, spring onions and many others. You’ll find them in many different styles of culinary use, from salads to stews and soups. In northern regions, they can be grown year-round; my garden always has a member of the onion family included in the planting plan. Onions come in all shapes and sizes from large, to relatively small, and include shallots, which this writer must admit are challenging to grow. However, across the board, onions are an easy crop to grow.
It’s great if you have the rare elite soil of the Pukekohe region to use. However, if your soil is difficult, either clay or sand, then preparation before planting is essential for successful growing. Choose a sunny, warm location in the garden to plant your onion crops — fork in plenty of compost, sheep pellets or well-rotted cow or horse manure. In the case of clay soil, drainage will be an issue. Create raised areas at least 20cm above the clay layer before planting. During summer, use a layer of mulch to conserve the soil moisture — water well during dry periods. Planting time is usually between February to August, depending on which region of the country you live.
Sow onion seeds into trays filled with good quality seed raising mix and keep moist, not wet. Plant out when the seedlings are large enough to handle without damage, then transplant them into the beds. The beds should be thinned once the onions are larger to 10cm spacings. Harvest once the tops start to die back. Varieties include Borettana, Ishikura, Italian Long Keeper, Pukekohe Long Keeper, Pearl Drop, Purplette and Shallot Zebrune. When it comes to flavour — garlic needs no introduction. While much of New Zealand’s garlic is imported, avoid using cloves bought from the supermarket. Instead, obtain
your garlic corms from a garden centre or reputable grower to ensure healthy plants. Planting is from April to July, which means you can plant your cloves earlier than June 21 — the shortest day of the year. Garlic requires the same light and soil conditions as onions. Plant individual cloves separated from the main corm spaced at 15– 20cm at five centimetres deep. Harvest your garlic when the tops die back using a garden fork rather than pulling them out by the leaves. Varieties include Ajo Rojo, Elephant, Early Pearl, Henry’s Soft Top, Rocambole and White Southern Softneck.
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The Waipū Easter Street & Park Market will be held on Sunday, April 17 2022, from 9am to 2pm across the town centre, including Caledonian Park and the Celtic Barn. “Waipū is a small town with a big heart and big ideas,” says market manager Judy Boult. “This drive to promote and support our local community has driven the street market to grow beyond our expectations. “Run by volunteers, the market raises funds to enable community events to occur in the town, such as the annual Christmas Parade, Winter in Waipū and many more. “The market started before our time in Waipū and was mainly a community market on a Saturday. “My husband Graham and I saw the opportunity to expand and grow the market, and we took over organising them in 2016. Our first change was to move the market to Sundays and to hold it on four long weekends across the year. “The Easter Sunday market is an addition to the usual markets. Normally, we don’t have a Street and Park Market at Easter as Waipū Primary School usually has its fundraising carnival on Easter Saturday. When they cancelled this year’s carnival, yet another casualty
to the pandemic, the idea to run an Easter market on the Sunday was born. “Over the years, the market has grown from being mainly local stallholders, and market visitors can expect live music, food trucks, local gardens, artists, clothing, toys, furniture and so much more.” The market has also expanded from being in the main street to include the Caledonian Park and the Celtic Barn. “Stallholders will often book their place a year in advance for the chance to share their wares with the Northland community. “Sellers come from as far as Raglan in the south to the top of the Far North, and this Easter Sunday Market is no exception. “One of the secrets to the market becoming such a big market in a small town is the enthusiasm and drive of the local community for the market. “Local businesses share the space in front of their businesses for stallholders as well as giving up car parking to allow the market to grow.
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p The sailing students are taught everything they need to know before they begin their lessons on the water, under supervision
Passing on knowledge u by Ann van Engelen
Mangawhai Rotary Club member Grahame Carbery came up with the idea to teach children to sail when he noticed the local estuary was missing something — sailboats. “I looked out my window in Mangawhai one day and thought, children in sailboats are missing on the estuary,” says Grahame. “I took the idea to the Rotary Club, and we decided to start a satellite Rotary Club in Mangawhai, get some boats and offer lessons.” Grahame began sailing at nine years old and later ended up one of New Zealand’s powerboat champions.
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dinghy for Bill, and my dad brought me one as well, and we started sailing at Kohimarama together. “We weren’t taught to sail like the children we are teaching in Mangawhai. We just hopped in our boats and taught ourselves through trial and error.” Grahame and Bill both ended up in the Kohimarama Yacht Club as champions.
waterskied as a sport until I got married and brought my own powerboat. “I ended up being a member of the Auckland Waterski Club and barefoot ski champion. In the early 1970s, I was invited by Sea World in Australia to do their ski show as the clown for three months. “I tired of being away from my children and returned to Auckland and began
The children sail and rig the boats and everything else that is involved
“I went to school in Auckland with a guy called Bill Townsend. Bill’s brother Des was a boat builder in Panmure. We ended up working for him after school removing the staples from his coal moulded boats. “He made all types of sailing boats, including the Zephyr, which is one of New Zealand’s most popular single person sailing yachts suitable for sailors from their early teens to late 70s. “Des was a designer making boats for the Tamaki and Kohimarama yacht clubs. Their dad built a P Class racing
“I had an old boat that went very well in the light, and he had a lighter one that went well when it was blowing. “From there I went sailing with another friend and his mate at Selwyn College who sailed a Cherub. It is a 12 feet long, high performance, two-person planing dinghy and they go very fast. “I continued sailing with a variety of boats until I was 16 years old and began my plumbing apprenticeship. “My boss wanted me to weld up a trailer for his power boat and asked if I would like to learn to waterski. I
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powerboat racing from 1972–1985. I was also a powerboat champion, but I had a very large plumbing business and could afford the $80,000 annually to run the boats. “I ended up doing 120 miles per hour in Lake Karapiro, and one of the boats I raced at 83.93mph still holds the record. “In 1984, I won the Air Pacific NZ powerboat six-race series throughout New Zealand. The prize was a trip to Fiji with the boat to do a speed record that I did at 97mph at Denarau. It was a great feat
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p Children from five years old are able to learn to sail through the Mangawhai Rotary Club sailing initiative, which begins again in October
p Jannette Reid and Wayne McLellan are two of the tutors helping Grahame ensure the students have the best experience possible
p Grahame learned to sail when he was a young child in the Optimus yachts and says once you learn to sail, you never forget
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To me, this is the thing children should be doing rather than being on their computers all day. It gets them outside, and they are learning skills that they will have for a lifetime “I retired from boat racing when I had a bad flip while I was doing 110mph, so my wife said it was her or the boat, and I retired. “My wife and I had a caravan and went to Bland Bay in Northland, and I was sitting in the marquee and noticed a name on a lady’s seat, which was Sue Townsend. I asked if she had relatives in Kohimarama that I used to know Bill. “Sue happened to be Des’s wife, and sadly, Des died eight years ago of cancer. We spent the night chatting, and she sold me a book about Des, and I am in the book. “That is how the sailing initiative began. We came home, and I looked over the estuary and saw something was missing. It was children learning to sail. “Peter Burling, the winner of the America’s Cup, started sailing in a Starling, and I have one here. It suits children 11–17 years of age, so I did one up, thinking it would be a very good training boat. “We began a Rotary satellite club in Mangawhai. I got to know people to start the sailing school through advertising and was inundated with people who
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wanted to help. We now have 16 Rotary members and 28 children in our sailing groups. We have seven Optimus yachts that we teach in. It is the ultimate boat for teaching children to sail. “The Starling is one boat up, and they go in there from 17 years old. We teach them to sail, and they get so interested they want their own boats. “A few children we have taught this year have already acquired their own boats. Some are not necessarily small boats, one is a Power Cat, and it takes three in the family to sail it. “Our sailing idea has gone viral, and they say we are the first Rotary Club in the world to do such a thing. We stopped for winter last week and will start again in October. “Our junior sailors work for a proficiency certificate, and we have three main cups to give out. “Sailing is a cheap sport rather than powerboat racing, and these boats have no maintenance. “It is very invigorating as you use the wind to move, and if you don’t use it properly, you get into a situation called ions. Ions mean the wind is
forward on the sail, and you won’t go anywhere. “You will go backwards, so you have to make sure the wind is on the sail pushing you forward and that you go about without tipping over. You look at the sail constantly and go very fast at times. “To me, this is the thing children should be doing rather than being on their computers all day. It gets them outside, and they are learning skills that they will have for a lifetime. The lessons are all free, and we provide all the equipment needed. If a child has their own lifejacket, that is a help. “We have had $44,000 of sponsorship, which has brought us new Opti Cube boats, and we have two chase boats for safety; they are ribs with outboards. “Chloe Wright of the Wright Foundation brought the boat and there have been gifts from the local op shop, the council and a lady who left money through her son to the sailing group when she died. “Otamatea school donated us boats that they had, and we have six volunteer tutors. It has gone viral internationally
through Rotary, and I am amazed we have put New Zealand on the map and we are very proud of that. “The children sail and rig the boats and everything else that is involved. They practise capsizing and getting themselves upright and back into their vessel again. “There are many skills that they learn both on the water and onshore. Sailing is extremely confidence-building, and as you grow older, you never forget how to sail. It often becomes a lifetime passion. “We have regular Rotary meetings and dinners. For more information, go to the Mangawhai Rotary Learn To Sail Project or Rotary Satellite Club Of Maungaturoto - Mangawhai Facebook pages. “We started a year ago, and we want people from all the local areas to come along next season. One of the tutors is the skipper of the R Tucker Thompson, and he is very good on the job. “It has been a very interesting year, everyone has done well. I couldn’t have done it without my tutors, who are all very experienced sailors. We are looking forward to starting the children’s sailing lessons again in October.” ¢
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A quiet pioneer anniversary u by Paul Campbell
Across the whole country, many people are descendants of the Albertlanders who pioneered Kaipara settlement 160 years ago this month. However, Covid restrictions mean the occasion will be personal and muted compared with a celebration, which marked the 150th anniversary. At the Albertland Heritage Museum in Wellsford, treasurer Rob Lennon assures visitors that “the rich history of the settlement that began on the London docks is there for all to see.” The Auckland Provincial Government of the day had a policy encouraging immigration. A settler was entitled to 40 acres of land with a further 40 for his wife and 20 for each member of his family between the ages of 5 and 18 years. “Shaw Savill was contracted to provide transport for the Albertland settlers to New Zealand at a cost of about £15 per adult, and the first two ships, Matilda Wattenbach and the Hanover, set sail on 29th May 1862,” said Rob. “There were 15,000 people at the East India Docks to farewell them, and descendants of the Albertlanders still commemorate this date today. “Sailing ships of that time did not make landfall en route. Passengers expected to be at sea for 100 days or more. “The Matilda Wattenbach made the passage in 93 days despite losing her main and mizzen topmasts in a storm 300 miles north of the Cape of Good
Hope. About 3,000 settlers were to make the voyage to the new land, the last ship arriving in September 1865. “Scale models of those sailing vessels are a major feature of the Albertland Museum collection.” Maps dished out in London showed wide roads from Auckland to Kaipara clearly marked but were, in fact, non-existent. Wagon wheels many immigrants had strapped to the ship rails were sold before they went by sea up the coast to the then coastal hamlet of Mangawhai. From there, it was a slow and arduous journey over bush-covered land to Kaiwaka and on by tidal waterway to Port Albert, which was planned to be a northern capital to rival Auckland. However, this failed in favour of Wellsford. In the ensuing years, more migrants fanned out to claim land in and around the emerging settlements of Maungaturoto, Whakapirau, Pahi, Paparoa, Matakohe, and on to Ruawai and Dargaville. Later, their offspring moved on to new pastures across New Zealand. Port Albert still stands as a sleepy backwater off State Highway 16, with Wellsford long replacing it to grow exponentially with the advent of the railway and arterial roads. ¢
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