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RODNEY'S

OCTOBER 2010

ISSUE 37

Morepork: A close encounter with New Zealand’s native owl pg 3 Kaukapakapa Hall: An icon rich in local history pg 10 St John Ambulance: Rodney’s rural paramedics pg 6 Landscaping: Thinking big in paddocks pg 15 Spray Sense: What are the rules around spraying? pg 18

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EDITORIAL Thinking backÉ Well, I didn’t expect to experience that much rain in September! But we can’t really complain - the place didn’t fall down around our ears and we survived the weather bomb. Sadly, as we’ve all seen, Canterbury, Otago and Southland didn’t fare so well, with feed shortages a big concern on top of shocking lamb losses. I wouldn’t imagine there will be a lot of surplus feed around in Rodney and Northland after our very short autumn and wet winter, but if you have any you can spare please contact Federated Farmers’ helpline: 0800 327 646. Thoughts of the new super city are occupying our minds at the moment. My view, and I hope I’m wrong, is that the process will follow the old, cautionary wisdom of Six Phases of a Project: Enthusiasm; Disillusionment; Panic; Search for the guilty;

Punishment of the innocent; Praise and honours for the non-participants. Thanks to Carolyn Howden, not only for generously giving up her time researching, photographing and writing the wonderful story on St John Ambulance, but also for supplying the cover image of Kowhai in flower. We participate in a great deal of recreation across rural Rodney and, if it were not for highly trained volunteer staff like Denese and Andrew, many events just couldn’t happen. Right now, St John need more volunteers to share the load, and, as always, more funding. We are running this feature to help meet the shortfall. We’ve passed on our thanks before to those of you who remember to let advertisers know that your enquiry resulted from reading Rural Lifestyle Magazine. It’s from advertising revenue alone that we produce the content, print and distribute the magazine (it is not funded from your rates as someone asked) so don’t be

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their prey if caught alone in the evening and which are understandably keen to move owls out of their territory before the tables are turned. Owls’ haunting call and large round eyes prompted Maori to call them “Ruru Ruru!” though to European settlers the call cried “Morepork!” This species is found only in New Zealand, but there is a close relative living in Australia, commonly called Boobook. (Scary to think the Aussies were thinking literature while we were thinking food).

Nothing like lamb on a spit to attract a Morepork!

The bloody thing is still there, moaned Bryn pointing to the china cabinet and lo and behold, there sat an owl, still as a statue, perched between two of my ornaments. In my sleep-deprived state I had to think really carefully about whether I had purchased an owl ornament recently, but nothing coherent sprang to mind. On closer inspection it was confirmed – largely by the fact that its piercing dark eyes followed us everywhere – that it was very much a real live owl.

Owls are traditionally forest dwellers but have adapted well to life in quite populated areas. They have excellent hearing and swivel their heads to catch the faintest sounds. While unable to glance sideways as their eyes do not move in their sockets, they more than compensate for this by being able to turn their heads 270 degrees – that is from front to back and then some more. A useful feature for any parent I would have thought, those eyes in the back of the head, and vital for a bird of prey.

For light relief between the floor washing and the spitcleaning I set about reading up on these magnificent birds.

Their huge eyes are designed to provide excellent low-light vision while hunting their prey. Insects including huhu beetles, moths and wetas, rodents, lizards and small birds (and lamb ready-roast) are on the menu. Their soft flight feathers have downy filaments along the edges and at the base of the central shafts to absorb the sound of their slow and determined wing-beat, so they can silently stalk their prey – a kind of animal “pink batts” arrangement I think.

Owls are solitary birds when not breeding, so hide themselves away from other birds during the day. This is because while drowsy they can be mobbed by flocks of the very birds, such as starlings or fantails, which will become

Usually their prey is grabbed by sturdy talons and taken in their strong beak back to their tree, where it is ripped apart before being eaten. Undigested ‘bits’ such as bones are then regurgitated as pellets and discarded.

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By this time of year they have found their mates and selected a suitable love nest, often a hole in a tree or among densely growing branches and epiphytes. They scrape out a hollow in the litter present rather than bring in nesting material, and then the female lays and incubates her two or three white eggs for a month. During this time, the male dutifully brings food for her and for the chicks as well, when they hatch. After five weeks or when fully feathered the chicks leave the nest but remain with their parents for a short time while they hone their hunting skills. They grow to 29cm from head to tail and weigh approximately 175grams. In Maori tradition the Ruru is seen as a watchful guardian and as a bird of the night is associated with the spirit world. Its normal cry is said to herald good news, however the less common shriek it occasionally makes when sensing danger signals bad news or death. This owl species is the only remaining native owl, the larger laughing owl becoming extinct last century. The German or little owl is an introduced species brought to the South Island in the 20th century for sparrow control. We believe our visitor brought good tidings and certainly he (or she) was a thing of beauty, from those eyes with their bright yellow rims and long, dark eyelashes a model would trade her last rations to own, to the appealing speckled feathers.

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These emergency services work and train together to help fellow residents. They attend the same first aid training courses but the fire crew carry gear, winches, for example, not available in ambulances. The St John callout assignment could be to crew with a professional ambulance driver, or to attend public events where injury is possible. Denese is more likely to volunteer her time for local rodeos, motorcycle races in Woodhill, horse endurance races, galas, festivals, concerts and major sports meetings. “Few people realise those attending the events are volunteers,” Denese says.

St John Ambulance volunteer Denese Davis attends many of Rodney’s sports and festival events.

In rural Rodney professional help can be quite a long time away, and trained volunteers are often the first to respond to a call for medical help. It’s their chance to make the greatest difference to someone’s life, says one volunteer. Because of the greater road distances and sometimes sparse population, the role of the local volunteer fire brigade also embraces medical call-outs. But when the St John Ambulance officers arrive, they take over that role to enable the fire brigade to continue with other associated duties, like cutting passengers out of a car and ensuring a site is safe.

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Andrew has been a volunteer for 13 years, mostly in the Wellsford area, before moving with his family to Red Beach. A teacher in Wellsford, he joined St John because his wife had been a volunteer in the past in Rotorua. He has done his time in Wellsford’s Dome Valley with its high rate of road fatalities. Now he works full time in the city as a moderator for the New Zealand Qualifications Authority and volunteers his time as a District Volunteer Advisor, Events Volunteer and Paramedic at Pitt St station in central Auckland, responding to emergency callouts. “You get to meet some incredible people, and there is a sense of satisfaction in knowing that what you are doing is making the situation better for the patient,� says Andrew. The caring umbrella of St John also protects its volunteers with support when needed, especially when the incident involves fatalities. They deal with some tragic situations, but there are highlights, like the time Andrew became the first to cuddle a newborn babe. With birthing centres now so accessible in the rural communities that doesn’t happen often, but it was certainly memorable! Illnesses that quickly become critical are more likely to result in a 111 call from patients in rural areas. Heart attacks are top contenders. Inexperienced drivers on rural gravel roads are also high on the incident list, and falling trees and rolling ATVs grab their share of call-outs. Youngsters having great fun ‘paddock-bashing’ in their old cars all too often also end up in trouble. Because of the rural nature of the callouts animals are also occasionally involved. Andrew has never been to such an incident but a Helensville colleague has sometimes needed to extend her help to canines injured in car accidents. Her successful CPR on a dog was above and beyond the call of continued on page 20

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KAUKAPAKAPA HALL Historical records show that in 1858/59, assisted by ubiquitous District Land Commissioner John Rogan, KaukapakapaÕs Ngati Whatua sold almost 12,000 acres to the government for £500, and that the first Europeans, Andrew and Elizabeth Bonar, settled there soon after. As settler numbers grew, so did the need for a community space. Built in a paddock near where the memorial stone now stands and funded by the community and a supplementary government grant, a tiny school-cum-hall opened for business with 17 enrolled pupils in 1873. With the 30’ by 18’ building soon outgrown as the district’s population increased, a second community funded hall was built in 1890. And that’s when the fun started. As the story goes, the settlers saw Kaukapakapa as a place of two halves, one north, one south, and both halves wanted the hall on their patch. In a placatory but totally impractical compromise, the new hall was built in the middle on land, donated by Henley House owners Morris and Eliza Henley, which happened to be flood prone. There were no complaints about the workmanship – Mr Ashton had made a beautiful job of building Henley House on the opposite side of the road in 1887 – but the location was to prove problematic for years to come. Bruce Jordan, Hall Committee Chairperson and fourth generation descendent of early settlers James Byrt and Mary Jane Jordan, recalls seeing a woman carrying dishes down the hall steps after a social as flood water came up the stairs towards her. In Kaukapakapa Through the Children’s Eyes, published in 1999 to commemorate the 125 year school reunion, Sylvia Hubber says stoically, “We were proud of our hall, even if it got flooded at times.”

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transported herself, along with a spare set of clothes, from her home on Jordan’s Island (aka Kukutango Island) to meetings in the hall. After rowing to the mainland she rode the 6 miles to Kaukapakapa on horseback, entered the hall discreetly through the back window, changed into her best outfit - hat, gloves, the works - then sallied into the meeting to make her contribution to the Women’s Division of Federated Farmers. After the great floods of the 1950s the floor was replaced for the second time, and as a War Memorial project additions and improvements were made, with the inclusion of a WWII Roll of Honour and a board listing pre-1873 settlers. Like other rural halls, the Kaukapakapa hall has been used over the years for a myriad of activities: silent movies (with the generator powering the projector driven by a car engine); taekwando; badminton; weddings; funerals; youth groups; after school care programmes; Scouts; Trivial Pursuits; casino evenings; concerts; exhibits; Agriculture Day; dances; public

meetings; Christmas Carols; World War II Home Guard training exercises. Jan Clayton fondly remembers the Beer Fests, organised by Plunket mothers, where babies were put to sleep in rows on the kitchen floor while their elders caroused, the women dressed as Bavarian serving wenches, the men in neck-to-toe aprons, to the cheerfully strident sounds of an oom-pah-pah band. While the hall was the hub of the community in the 1960s and 70s, by the 1990s it had become derelict as the influx of newcomers, attracted by the opportunity to buy lifestyle blocks, changed the close-knit nature of the place. But with the Rodney Council threatening closure, the community rallied to organise another much-needed upgrade. Plans were going smoothly until 1999, when a photo was published in the NZ Herald showing the hall surrounded by floodwater. Leading the charge battling the threatened closure

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out every night and all weekend, often by out-of-towners. The farmers markets held there are legendary. Now change is in the air, as the Supercity looms and as Kaukapakapa prepares to see the enactment of its new structure plan. Meanwhile, the district celebrates 150 years of European settlement from November 26 to 28. For information about the celebrations visit www.kaukapakapa.org.nz, email kaukop150@gmail.com or call Isla Willis on (09) 420-5114.

Kaukapakapa Hall by Sally Lush. Screen print, paper, mixed media on board. Painted in 2010 for Fiona Jack’s ’Living Halls’ Exhibition.

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Administered by the Council, the hall is now in constant use. Kaukapakapa Primary School uses it daily (when I visited students were having a singing lesson in a back room), and it is booked

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Fast and big, this 13-year-old evergreen alder is about 15m tall (Alnus jorullensis).

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A similar situation is developing at present with Mexican alders or evergreen alders (Alnus jorullensis). These are beautiful big trees, but I see them being misused as hedges between townhouses and planted in small residential gardens and, I would have to say, often by people who should know better. Unfortunately it’s the tree that ends up with a bad name. Big trees look their best with room to spread.

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Silver dollar gums (Eucalyptus cinerea) make excellent paddock trees. Planted in a corner between two paddocks, they’ll provide shade for both. I also like to plant them among deciduous trees; their silver leaves contrast well with the autumn colours of yellow and red.

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While we are on the subject of wet spots, Nyssa sylvatica is a good choice. Commonly known as tupelo (also the Mississippi birthplace of Elvis), the Nyssa is slowish growing, but has excellent early autumn colour, changing from yellow to orange to brilliant scarlet. For something a bit different, river birch (Betula nigra) handles wet soils, grows at a smart pace and has interesting bark, which starts off brown and gets darker with age before peeling off in small sheets. A deciduous tree, its leaves turn yellow early in autumn, and it’s not what I would call a heavy or solid tree. Like most birch it’s light and airy, giving dappled shade. The wet-coping trees I’ve mentioned here (alders, river birch, willows, tupelo, swamp cypress and poplars) don’t have to be in wet areas. They are quite happy in normal conditions as well. Every big garden/farm should have room for a liquidambar or two. They are such reliable performers for autumn colour, steady growth and not too many idiosyncrasies. The autumn colours of the liquidambar range through yellows to reds to purples, usually darkening in colour as the tree ages.

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Another couple of classy trees for the turning circle, or anywhere else for that matter, are Cedrus deodara and Cedrus atlantica. Evergreen conifers, they’re both statuesque in form, but in different ways. The deodar cedar is a pyramidal, graceful, weeping form, with blue-green foliage ageing to blue-grey. The atlantic cedar is also pyramidal in shape, but with horizontal, almost rigid branches and green foliage. For a splash of gold in autumn, how about a Liriodendron chinense? Commonly known as the chinese tulip tree, this is a rare, tall tree with large squarish leaves, purple tinted at first, turning green then butter yellow in autumn. The leaves are almost the size of dinner plates.

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Spring has brought the usual influx of weeds and pests and itÕs time for combat.

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Many a neighbourly friendship has been shattered by the use of spray to control weeds or pests on or near boundaries. If you are planning to spray volumes larger than a nonmotorised knapsack you must attend a one-day Growsafe course, for your own safety as well as that of your neighbours. I’ve attended a course and can recommend it.

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This year St John is celebrating its 125th anniversary of service in New Zealand. It has more than 15,000 members nation-wide, 185 ambulance stations, 2200 paid staff, 7500 volunteers and more than 5500 in its St John Youth programme for children aged 6 - 18. There are more than 5000 uniformed St John volunteers and a fleet of support vehicles, ranging from well equipped ambulances to golf carts and even bicycles, available to help make events around New Zealand safe and enjoyable for all those attending. St John also offers a Caring Caller telephone friendship service to support isolated people, first aid training, first

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