Life + Style - 7 June 2019

7 June, 2019

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THE WEEKEND

Sunset Cruise

Beautiful Broccoli

Valentine Scrivener

Seren-Aid

Poukai

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Sunset Cruise delights Dixie jazz on the Tauranga harbour On Easter Friday in the late afternoon, I joined the Kewpie as it set off on a cruise across the Tauranga harbour.

Twin City Stompers - Kelvin Roy (trumpet) Wendy Caldwell (clarinet), Ross Culver (double bass)

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The one-hour sunset cruise turned out to be a special highlight of the Easter Jazz Festival.

For three evenings over the weekend, lovers of Dixie jazz were able to step back into days gone by on board the historic boat.

Skipper Brandon Stone has used kauri to beautifully restore the 52-foot solid kauri classic cruise boat. As I came on board, placing my hand on the wooden railing, for a moment I felt connected with its past.

The sun was still high above the horizon, the harbour perfectly calm and blue. Climbing the ladder to the top deck I enjoyed the view across the Tauranga waterfront, while below on the jetty, Ross Culver, Kelvin Roy and Wendy Caldwell were being greeted

by Tauranga’s National Jazz Festival manager, Mandy Ryan.

The trio, all members of the Hawke’s Bay art deco jazz band Twin City Stompers, were coming aboard with trumpet, megaphone, double bass and saxophone. Immensely popular with local audiences, they have performed at the 50th, 51st and 52nd Tauranga Jazz Festivals. They joined me on the upper deck and started setting up their gear. Originally forming in the mid-1990s, they take their name from the twin cities of Hawke’s Bay – Napier and Hastings.

I’d missed them playing at the Tauranga Airport the day before and it was rather delightful seeing them

help create the ambience of yesteryear on the Kewpie.

Soon, with music playing and 50 passengers on the lower and upper decks, we headed down the harbour, going under the harbour bridge, past the marina and shipping channels, taking in the sights of the port.

Gliding along to Pilot Bay, we sailed past the bronze Tangaroa statue and across the harbour entrance to Matakana Island, the sun setting and music playing.

Brandon was delighted with the sunset jazz cruises.

“It was very successful,” says Brandon. “It was a booked out event.

“Next year we’re looking at putting on two vessels – the Kewpie and the Bay Explorer which has a bigger capacity and room for a larger band.”

He has received tremendous feedback from the public who came aboard, despite the cruise on Easter Sunday beginning with rain.

“It just rained at the start, and was magical after that,” says Brandon. “People were downstairs chatting and having a drink at the bar.”

After the weekend I asked Mandy what she thought of some of the newly introduced features of the festival like the Vintage Parade, Jazz at the Movies and the sunset cruise.

“There were more people downtown on Saturday than Sunday,” says Mandy. “They arrived for the vintage parade at 11am then stayed on in town. We think there were about 12,000 plus on Saturday.

“There were about 35 cars from the Bay of Plenty Vintage Car Club. They loved it and have ideas for what they’d like to do next year.”

The collaboration with Rialto was the first time for Jazz at the Movies, which Mandy says sold well.

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“With music playing and 50 passengers on the lower and upper decks, we headed down the harbour, going under the harbour bridge, past the marina and shipping channels, taking in the sights of the port”

“We’ve always collaborated with the bars and cafes down town, but it’s great to be collaborating with other groups too that are now joining in like Bay City Swing, Rialto, Hotel Armitage and BOP Vintage Car Club”.

“I was very happy with the whole festival,” says Mandy. “I’ve received so many emails from people saying ‘thank you so much we had such a wonderful time’. People from Northland, from down south, thanking the Jazz Society for putting on the Jazz Festival.

“I’m going to start working on new ideas for next time but we’ll be building on what we’ve started now.”

She plans to meet with Brandon and look at what options they have with including the Bay Explorer boat alongside the Kewpie next year. The Twin Stompers were perfect for playing on board the Kewpie, as they don’t need power or a PA system.

“That’s the beauty of them being a self-contained band,” says Mandy. “They have their instruments, and they use a megaphone for their vocals so you can put them into some unique places where you couldn’t put other bands.”

“There were so many highlights on the weekend,” says Mandy. “Seeing the first Jazz Sunset Cruise off was a special feeling. It had been a beautiful day on the Friday and it was a beautiful evening with the sun going down and the full moon coming up. It couldn’t have been more spectacular.”

Many passengers on board the Kewpie over the last year’s scenic harbour cruises have reviewed their experience on TripAdvisor, with the result that in

May, the Kewpie received a 2019 Certificate of Excellence. This award is justly deserved.

Both the Kewpie and the Bay Explorer finished up their summer seasons at the end of April. They’ll be back again at the end of October. For now, over winter, there’s maintenance, restaffing, staff training and marketing. And for me – dreaming about going on a Dixie Jazz sunset cruise once again.

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Knightrider’s new chapter Seren-Aid – eat good and do good

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I slipped into a seat at Curate Church one evening and turned to say ‘hi’ to the person next to me. A great surprise to find it was none other than “Knightrider” Nathan W. Little, one of my most favourite-in-the-world human beings.

I hadn’t seen him in months.

Nathan W. Little

“Where have you been?” I asked as we hugged and greeted each other. “I thought you were overseas?”

“We’re back!” he grinned. Since I’d last seen him, he’d married the lovely Alyssha and they’d embarked on overseas travels, looking for ways to help support orphanages and areas of need. He was back and working as a greengrocer at Seren-Aid. “Where is that? What is it?” I asked as the Curate band started playing.

I first met Nathan in February 2015, when he was quietly getting on with doing his job on the Z Palm Beach forecourt.

It was a dark and stormy night, and my sister had phoned me from Canterbury to say there was a mother with two children from Auckland stranded in the storm looking for somewhere to pitch their tent in Papamoa.

They’d been up to the Papamoa Beach Resort, but in the high winds and darkness seem to have missed locating the after-hours phone, so they headed to Z where they poured out their tale to Nathan. He helped them phone the local backpackers but they were full, so they’d phoned my sister to see if she

knew anyone with a back yard they could set their tent up in. We were heading into some wild weather, so I phoned Bex Crosby, manager of Papamoa Beach Resort, she rang her camp security person, who then met the mother near the entrance and took them to a cabin for the night.

During this time Nathan was not only friendly, helpful and supportive but had also offered to provide overnight accommodation as soon as his shift was finished.

Soon afterwards I decided to go meet this ‘Knightrider’, as he seemed to epitomize the friendly heart of the Papamoa community. We posted his photo on the Papamoa New Zealand Facebook page to inspire others and were flooded with incoming messages.

“This guy is always happy, gives the best customer service I’ve ever seen,” wrote one person.

Another wrote “This guy is amazing. Love his service!! He always has a smile on his face and has my son laughing in fits! He is what you call customer service.”

I met Nathan again in November 2015, when he draped himself in a French flag and staged a 48-hour sit-in fundraiser at Z Palm Beach from 7am Friday to 7am Sunday to help raise funds for the French Red Cross following the tragic loss of life in Paris.

The following year in July 2016, I called in to buy petrol, only to discover that Z Palm Beach had won top Z in the country, and Nathan’s boss awarded the top boss award.

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“Mark and Michelle McCafferty and Alvin and Helen Allen have joined forces to run Seren-Aid, the first greengrocers in Tauranga to be run as a social enterprise”

Knightrider now managing the new-look place, serving up frozen yoghurts. We posted an update on where he was so all the people inspired by his friendly nature could find him again.

I went out to Te Puna to find Seren-Aid, only to discover it’s the new business in the previouslynamed iconic Mr McGregors Fruitshop.

Mark and Michelle McCafferty and Alvin and Helen Allen have joined forces to run Seren-Aid, the first greengrocers in Tauranga to be a not-for-profit social enterprise.

“Michelle and I owned Mr McGregors for seven years,” says Mark. “We decided a year ago we’d like to do something for the community. Alvin and Helen Allan, our friends in Te Puna, joined us about nine months ago and we decided to run this as a fundraiser for the community.”

Seren-Aid is run as a business, with all the profits made going towards two projects the couples run – ‘Others’ and ‘Beyond’.

‘Others’ focuses on local needs amongst the homeless, for example helping support a shelter in Ohauiti. ‘Beyond’ is for international projects the couples have been working on in Asian countries, helping fund three orphanages, water purification and community development projects, girls’ homes and goat programmes.

The shop has had a makeover. There’s new merchandise and shelving, a fresh paint job and new grocery products from local suppliers. I roamed around. There’s Seren-Aid honey, marinades, dipping oils, spices, fig paste, fig salami, fig chutney, olives, pretzels, wafers and chips. Pickled onions, muffin

mix, brownie mix, confectionery, lots of vegetables, pineapples, cucumbers, tomatoes, broccoli, pesto, carrots, figs, garlic, eggs, mushroom, basil.

“We have free herbs in the garden that people can help themselves to - mint, rosemary, sage, thyme,” says Nathan. “And we have real fruit icecream, drinks, freshly baked bread every morning from Blomquist Bakery in Greerton.”

“If you take ingredients like generosity, kindness and love for people, then it can change a whole community,” says Mark. “That’s what we’re trying to do. We’re trying to do something positive rather than just running a shop and making money.

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Mark and Michelle McCafferty, and Helen and Alvin Allen

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Poukai at Huria Marae Behind the scenes with the kai Charlie Rahiri rang me to see if I’d like to see behind the scenes of an annual royal marae feast.

The team of waitresses carrying on the tradition of waiting on tables that their mothers and grandmothers have done before them at the Poukai at the Huria Marae.

“We’re feeding four hundred,” says Charlie, who oversees the April banquet at Huria Marae. “Two hundred and sixty are seated in the dining room, and we’ll have an overflow. Everything’s getting prepped. Two pigs, two sheep, a beef and a whole lot of seafood.”

Charlie works for Te Puni Kokiri, the Government ministry for Maori Development, and is one of the senior advisers in the Bay of Plenty region. In his own time, he’s also a very friendly version of chef Ramsay.

“My focus is on marae revitalisation and housing,” says Charlie. “And I’ve been running the kitchen here for the Poukai for 11 years.”

This is the 61st year that the Huria Marae has hosted the Poukai. Flags are hoisted at dawn, and the Māori king Tūheitia Paki and his wife Makau Ariki Atawhai, along with a large contingent of visitors are ceremonially welcomed onto the marae at 10am for a day of speeches, performances, music and a large banquet.

Since the 1880s, during the reign of King Tāwhiao, the marae affiliated to the Kīngitanga have been held together by traditions such as the Poukai, an annual circuit of visits by the Māori king to marae around and beyond the Tainui region, that includes feasting

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and cultural performances.

Started in 1885 by King Tāwhiao, at the Whatiwhatihoe Marae, it was intended for te pouaru, te rawakore and te whanau pani (the widowed, the destitute and the bereaved).

Pou relates to a gathering, and kai is about food and a place to come together as one. Poukai is about remembering those who have passed on, eating together, and dining with the head of the Kingitangi movement.

Preparations at Huria marae began days before with one of the key components preparing the large feast.

On the day of the Poukai I found about 20 people busy in the kitchen, another ten outside, and more looking after the hangi.

“I changed it when I first came on,” says Charlie.

“There was unhealthy stuff, so we flipped it around, and made the unhealthy stuff the option, and the healthy the main. It took a couple of years for everyone to get used to it but they did. No more fizzy drinks.

“The hangi is getting prepared up the road, probably one of the biggest hangi pits in Tauranga.”

There are four separate preparation teams in the kitchen, taking care of the king’s menu, the seafood, the meat, and Charlie overseeing the rest.

“The king has a separate menu,” says Charlie. “He’s going to many Poukai around the Waikato, so he probably has hangi all the time.

“I’m just the one to bring it all together and make sure it’s on time and on budget.

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Charlie Rahiri doing a last minute check of the table settings just before guests are seated.

“It’s a very special thing and we look forward to it every year. It’s probably the biggest event our marae holds and prepares for.”

“We started on Wednesday with the cleaning of the marae, mowing the lawns, painting, making it look nice, prepping the food. We probably won’t finish our part until Tuesday.”

Kylie Willison is in the dining room overseeing the table settings with about 15 girls helping.

“The mahi began on Friday,” says Kylie. “Today the girls will be waiting on all our manuhiri - our visitors that come onto the marae. Most of them are from Tanui waka.

“The girls will make sure our visitors have enough kai on their tables, and cup of teas. After the kai is finished they’ll clear the dishes away and then reset to give our whanau from here kai afterwards.”

It’s a long day for the girls, who are following in the tradition set by their mothers, aunties and grandmothers before them.

“We’re very grateful to have them,” says Kylie.

“There’s generations of children that have been brought up on the marae here and have learned to do it as their parents and grandparents have done it before them.

“It’s a very special thing and we look forward to it every year. It’s probably the biggest event our marae holds and prepares for.”

There are only a couple of maraes that host Poukai outside of Waikato.

Poukai were established by the second Māori King, Tāwhiao, who said “Kua whakatūria e ahau tēnei kaupapa hei whāngai i te pouaru, te pani me te rawakore, he kuaha whānui kua puare ki te puna

tangata me te puna kai” - “I have instituted this gathering to feed the widowed, the bereaved and the destitute, it is a doorway that has been opened to the multitudes of people and the bounty of food.”

Dr Maharaia Winiata, who lived from 1912 – 1960 was instrumental in bringing Poukai to Huria, through his friendship with Princess Te Puea Herangi (1883 – 1952). The Huria meeting house Tamateapokaiwhenua was opened in 1956 by Kingi Koroki, who had visited Tauranga several times.

Maharaia once said “Ina aro atu te oranga ki nga mea pai, ka rere te wairua, ka taea nga mea katoa” which means “When our lives and heart are attuned to good things, life is clear, the spirit flows freely.

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Charles Rahiri, Kura Martin and Natalie Rikirangi in the kitchen at Huria Marae.

The Maori king Tūheitia Paki and his wife Makau Ariki Atawhai at the head table.

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The artistic spirit of the late Valentine Scrivener has been brought to life again this week in a Tauranga shop window, showcasing her unique collection of clothing and millinery.

Born on Valentine’s Day 1931, Valentine Templeton was raised by an adoptive grandmother during war time, lived an active life, and died on Waitangi Day, 2017 just before her 86th birthday.

Two years on, her daughters Janice Giles and Judy Alvos have decided that it’s time to part with some of their mother’s creations. I caught up with them at Tauranga’s High St Boutique, a fashion shop that mixes the new with eclectic and pre-loved fashion.

Amongst the collection are felted handbags, over 40 felted hats and knitted berets, and an array of clothing all designed and made by Valentine.

One of the felted hats won first prize in a Franklin Arts Festival Society competition and still has the winner’s red rosette attached. There’s so much colour and texture - a pink and purple quilted and appliqued jacket, a white felted jacket shot with gold strands – all showcasing Valentine’s artistic flair.

One jacket has been sewn from hand-made fabric.

“It’s a work of art, never been worn,” says Judy.

“She was always sewing, making and crafting,” says Janice. “She was really interested in what was going on around her and had a go at everything.”

Her daughters were strongly influenced by their mother, launching design careers of their own, with Judy establishing Expozay and Janice working

as a designer for Moontide. Janice had a couple of shops in Auckland as well as a stall at the famous Cook St Market for seven years. She volunteers one day a week at Macandmor Art Gallery in Tauranga and works as an artist.

“My mum would have loved High St Boutique, because of the way that Mary Borman mixes the old with the new,” says Janice.

“She was very innovative and interested in new techniques and ways of doing things. She had a great hoarding of artistic and creative resources.

“Mum was always very athletic. She was a netball player and later a national level netball referee. I remember her paragliding off the back of a boat.

She’d play three games of 18-hole golf a week and she took up flying, going all over NZ in her tiger moth.”

Captain of the Tauranga Aero Club for a couple of years in the late 50s or early 60s, Valentine made all her children’s clothes, and like many women of her generation, did plenty of knitting.

“She held down two jobs, working during the day as an office manager in my dad’s factory, and at night working as a cashier at the local picture theatre,” says Janice.

“On weekends she went flying.

“She loved making fancy dress costumes, and always did the breast cancer march every year.”

Valentine travelled overseas widely from the late 70s, collecting a huge stack of designer shopping bags. Later, she sewed these together, creating plastic jackets lined with calico. These are now on display in High St Boutique’s shop window.

Photos: Bruce Barnard

The collection of Valentine Scrivener

Janice Giles and Judy Alvos

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Kristian Lomath A new direction

“Concussion is a weird thing and I wouldn’t wish it on anyone,” says painter Kristian Lomath.

Bruce Barnard and I were standing at the door of Kristian’s new studio, marvelling at the canvases and colour.

Having experienced severe concussion myself, I know it can take months to recover from head injuries. Kristian was assaulted in Greerton in April but has no memory of it happening. On leaving hospital with a plaster over the cut above his left eye, he still felt a little shaky but also very lucky.

He headed back to his studio as soon as he could, to continue discovering where his new direction in painting was taking him.

“I think the change was happening anyway, and if anything the assault slowed me down quite a lot in terms of work effort and in terms of being at the studio every day.

“It knocked the stuffing out of me, knocked me for a six. The concussion made me stop and rest.

It’s a change from the last few years of painting all the time, and now I’m finding that balance which is helping the work quite a lot more.”

He enjoys showing us recent canvases, pulling them out into a covered area at the storage lock up where he works. The new direction is quickly apparent.

Expanding from his usual limited palette, he’s traversing a new frontier of emerging ideas and feelings. There’s still the shapes and colour palette for which he is well-known, but new experiences and thoughts are pushing their way through.

His large oil-on-canvas works have always drawn me in and held me in moments of thought.

Sometimes I have found them comforting, as I lose myself in the patterns, but then I’ve stood in front of other paintings with seemingly no pattern, just random shapes, and I find my mind is busy on its own, sorting and reassembling.

I’ve been struck by how Kristian’s sometimes captured my own sense of disquiet at how futile and difficult life can appear to be; and the isolation I’ve experienced when I’ve felt lost, or invisible.

But then as I absorb the paintings and let them

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“Being assaulted is horrible, and it’s best not being able to remember it. But I’m always going to paint. I’m obviously painting through it.

People have noticed the change in my style which is really cool.”

unwind me, I find the shapes are no longer trapping me, but their gentle flow is letting me go, easing my scattered, busy brain. His journey in paint becomes my journey.

Where I see sinews and a microscopic view of nerve endings, others see leaves, faces and landscapes. I know Kristian has in the past fought the black dog of depression, but his paintings always give me the sense that if I go on with life, that there will be something to lift me up.

At his last exhibition I soaked in his lemony yellows. Like a delicate butterfly of hope caught on canvas, that colour was uplifting, softly joyous and life-giving.

Kristian had told me then that he thought anyone looking at his works would find some environment that they are reminded of, something that we all see in our daily lives.

I love, that when I return to his work, it creates questions in my mind. But once where it engaged my feelings with a sense of disquiet, now there is joy emerging, and a sense of rest too.

Now, post-assault, the butterfly has taken flight, with new landscapes, patterns and colours starting to burst forth from the brush.

“It’s highly intuitive,” says Kristian. “It’s pushing paint around, and letting paint do the work. Every day is an experiment with the work.

“Being assaulted is horrible, and it’s best not being able to remember it. But I’m always going to paint.

I’m obviously painting through it. People have noticed the change in my style which is really cool.”

He’s been looking for a new approach to his work.

“It’s nice when it shows up and people respond to it. As artists we can be our own worst enemies. If you’re not having people coming and seeing your work, you can be quite negative towards it and quite single-minded. That’s why we have shows.”

I’d already found his paintings hanging in Macandmore Gallery and High St Fashion in downtown Tauranga, standing in front of them for long periods.

“Lynette Fisher gave me my first solo show in Tauranga about 2013,” says Kristian. “I was running a community gallery in Rotorua at the time. She made some really good sales for me and that encouraged me to come over to live in Tauranga.”

In Rotorua, he had the luxury of being able to paint large canvases in an industrial building. Six years on, he’s decided to go smaller, and rents a small storage unit to work in.

“I need to paint in a way that connects with other people. They can buy this, it’s not expensive and they live with it in their house for the rest of their lives,” says Kristian, pointing at his work.

“I love the connections I make when someone does purchase a work or when you give it away. It obviously means something to them and that makes me carry on doing what I do.” Rosalie Liddle Crawford

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