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But otherwise ‘On The Couch’ at Baycourt on August 25, a prelude to the Garden and Arts Festival, is all very, very Graham Norton-esque sans the Brad Pitts and Angelina Jolies. Tauranga guests may not be the stars of Hollywood but they do know a thing or two about gardens and art.

Substitute hosts Ben Hurley and Michele A’Court and guests Rob McGregor, Brian Watson, Ruud Kleinpaste and Michelle McDonnell and you have all the ingredients for a spectacularly entertaining night at the theatre. The full story is on page 9. Photo: Bruce Barnard.

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Some bad ideas for disciplining brats Don’t try these at home

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Child discipline has come up for much debate this week as the government unveils plans for a military-style boot camp for youth offenders. That’s a great idea; ﬁnally a government with the guts to tackle the problem. It has brought a plethora of comment – it seems everyone has good ideas on how to reign in the unruly; except the parents of the unruly who don’t seem to give a damn. Maybe they should be shipped off to Parent Boot Camp as well. But then everyone thinks they know best. Including me. Much has changed since I was involved in the upbringing of children.

your children as punishment. This was the subject of a RR column several years ago, when it was revealed by good friends of ours, we’ll call them Tina and Steve, that a maternal face-licking was most effective in discouraging bad behaviour. I don’t think they were particularly happy about me mentioning their technique in a newspaper circulating to every home in the western Bay of Plenty, 66,000 copies going to the homes of 150,000 residents. I guess it won’t help mentioning it again, but it’s just such a good story.

Basement ruled out

Uncle Jo Fritzl’s lesson from a few years ago makes it clear that you’re not allowed to lock them, or anyone for that matter, in your basement. We’ve threatened to connect kids to the dog containment electric fence system, but I doubt that is legal either. Apparently you can’t keep any members of the family in the boot of the car, either, after some shocking cases in recent years. But as far as I know, it’s not illegal to lick

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paper. So you need a few options,” he joked to ‘The Daily Mail’. Similar punishment across the Atlantic is known as ‘hot-saucing’ according to Wikipedia. Giving a misbehaving child a dose of hot sauce in the mouth is apparently discouraged by paediatricians, psychologists and childcare experts, but it is popular with some parents in the US.

Kneeling punishment

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Apparently you’re not allowed to use any physical persuasion any more. Not even a teeny, tiny slap. Mind you, I suddenly became cautious of dishing out any punishment after one of my offspring qualiﬁed as a Black Belt. I then found it safer to focus on running. Which reminds me of the day my mother chased me around the house at Paine St. That day could have started in Paine and ended in pain. However the notion that my mother could catch me anytime she needed was an effective deterrent. She did catch me, but years later confessed she knew she had to. She couldn’t lose to a conceited little brat who thought he could outrun the law. My version of the story is: I was laughing too much to run properly. So what to do if you manage to chase the little delights down? There are some very creative ideas here for disciplining your offspring. Remember, these are not good ideas. We’ve highlighted them here purely for entertainment purposes. Do not try this at home.

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It would be good to scientiﬁcally trial this licking technique on a sample of local children, but a lifetime ban from Memorial Park playground wouldn’t be a good look. Nevertheless, I think Tina should send her ideas to Bill English, maybe they can incorporate face-licking torture into the boot camp discipline.

Deterrent value

Some critics of the boot camp scheme say that sending 50 of the worst brats won’t come close to dealing with the problem. However, seeing those 50 shipped off for a bit of hard-core discipline might make some of the thousands of other little toe rags think twice about being anti-social, law-breaking goons.

Chef torture

Celebrity chef Jamie Oliver disciplines his children by torturing them with chilli. He’s admitted feeding the brats chillicoated apple as a punishment. “It is not very popular, beating kids any more, it’s not very fashionable and you are not allowed to do it and if you are a celebrity chef like me it does not look very good in the

Some bizarre school punishments include pupils being forced to kneel on frozen peas for a long period of time. Some Asian schools are known to force students to kneel on frozen corn or rice. The punishment leaves indentations on their skin. Other child torture by parents includes forcing them to kneel on hot concrete and cheese graters. Some caring and thoughtful grandparents in Florida recently made their grandson kneel for nine hours straight, 10 days in a row. Also in Florida, some students were forced to wear the Cone of Shame, a plastic dog collar designed to stop pooches from licking their wounds. The Charles Sumner Elementary School in New Jersey is reported to have forced fifth graders to eat their lunch off the floor as punishment for a student spilling a jug of water while refilling a cooler.

Burning question

Well, at least they didn’t burn the kids at the stake as an offering to the gods, or marry them off to ruthless kings. It’s true, this still happens. I saw it recently on that long-running documentary series, ‘Game of Thrones’. You’d think Trump would have more to worry about than North Korea or Mexico. He should be doing his best to build a wall on the border with Westeros.

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Car system stuffs up transport system Up to 65 young, quality truck driving graduates come off the production line in Tauranga each year but far too few to satisfy the needs of the road freight transport industry. “We are just meeting our area needs,” “says Dean Colville of Toi Ohomai Institute’s specialist road transport training centre in Mount Maunganui. But then, on reﬂection, “In fact, not even that. Because there’s a shortage of thousands”. It’s a national problem and an historic one. For example, the amount of freight carried on our roads has increased 60 per cent since 2000 but the number of people with class 5 licences, the big rig drivers, has increased by only 10 per cent. “The road freight transport industry regularly contacts Toi Ohomai wanting our students but we just don’t have enough of them. And there aren’t too many students left over at the end of the 16-week course who haven’t got a job to go to straight away.” When the students are out on work experience they get snafﬂed up. “If they do half a good job they’re generally picked up or referred on to someone who needs a driver.” That’s because it’s an ageing industry. Since 2013 road freight transport has lost 3000 drivers to retirement, illness or injury. The problem just worsens as drivers get older. A survey three years

ago found 85 per cent of 150 transport companies nationwide were short of drivers and there’s no reason to believe this has improved. “The problem, in a nutshell, is the graduated driver licensing system,” says Dean. “The car system has stuffed up the transport system.” A full car licence is a pre-requisite to enrol for the New Zealand Certificate in Road Transport Level 3 at Toi Ohomai. “So they are 18 to 18 and a half years old and then there’s a six-month stand-down before they’re eligible for the 16-week course,” says Dean. “And 6000 kids leave high school each year and the industry sees none of them because they don’t have a full licence.” They don’t qualify to learn to be truck drivers, so the disenchanted would-be truck drivers go elsewhere to work. Dean says the system means most new drivers are coming into system in their mid to late 20s. “Great having that maturity but we are losing most people in the 18 to 25 year range when they could be really beneficial to the industry, providing manpower that we lose year on year.” However the pull to be part of the road transport industry is hard to shake. “And they come back eventually,” says Dean. “But most of our students are over 25 and they feel they’ve wasted several years getting into the industry they wanted to be in in the first place.”There are a lot of initiatives aimed at resolving the problem. Read the rest of the story at www.theweekendsun.co.nz

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Family-friendly New Year confirmed New Year celebrations in Tauranga will follow the same format as last year with an early evening celebration and ﬁreworks on The Strand, followed by a midnight display. A small scale indoor youth event will also be part of the celebrations. Mayor Greg Brownless is conﬁdent a citywide and safety-focussed take on New Year’s Eve is the way to go for Tauranga’s future. The city council will be working with the commercial sector to encourage user-pays activities within private, purpose-built venues that add to the New Year’s Eve offering already taking place across Tauranga.

Tauranga pet shot with .22 rifle The owners of a Bengal cat shot with a .22 riﬂe have been left dismayed at how someone can do such a thing. Three-year-old Roari was staying at a friend’s in Taranaki while his owners, originally from Tauranga, were away on holiday, when he was shot. Pet owner Rhozie Edmonds says Roari has had to have his leg amputated and may require a second surgery next week. His injuries come after a similar incident occurred in the same week, where another Bengal was shot twice at a property in Christchurch.

Fatal crash investigations ongoing Police are continuing to investigate the crash which killed a Te Puke man on Sunday. Two people were involved in the fatal crash after a people-mover type vehicle hit a large tree in on Jellicoe St about 6pm. Emergency services were called to the accident and a police spokesperson conﬁrmed that the driver of the vehicle had died at the scene. The passenger was transported to Tauranga Hospital in critical condition at the time of the crash. Western Bay of Plenty road policing manager Senior Sergeant Ian Campion says the passenger is now in a serious but stable condition.

Omokoroa glow disks, what do you think? The Western Bay of Plenty Council is asking for feedback on a trial of glow disks along the new section of boardwalk at Omokoroa. The trial is set to occur on the 1.1km section, which stretches from Tinopai Reserve to Lynley Park. Project manager Scott Parker says the council wants to open up a discussion with the public before making a permanent change. “We want to make informed decisions,” says Scott. “There is an obvious cost and we don’t want to go blindly ahead.”

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Election 2017: Transport It’s no secret that transport systems in Tauranga and the Western Bay of Plenty have been under immense pressure lately, with an estimated 10 per cent increase in trafﬁc on our roads in recent months.

One of the biggest bugbears has been the state of traffic on State Highway 2, particularly heading into the city from Omokoroa in the mornings. Residents living in Omokoroa and Te Puna will be familiar with the slow crawl which has prompted calls for change. One proposed idea is for a flyover at the Omokoroa Road/SH2 intersection, as well as four-laning the highway – but those are long-term plans. Earlier this year, The Weekend Sun shared Glen Proctor’s idea of running a water taxi between the Omokoroa Boat Club and The Strand morning and afternoon, five days a week. Anything to get more cars off the road it seems. Further along the highway at Katikati, holidaymakers should expect to hit a chokepoint there this Christmas, with SunLive reporting several long queues of traffic over the holiday period heading into Tauranga. However the government and NZTA have recently announced a bypass will be built, alleviating those issues at some point in the future. But what about Tauranga itself? The city, built as it is across several peninsulas, has several chokepoints, usually near bridges or along the city’s main conduit, Cameron Rd. So what’s the answer to making travelling in and around the city easier? Should we be building more roads, or encouraging people to catch the bus? What about taking tolls off Route K, or four-laning Turret Rd? We asked our local politicians for answers – here’s what they had to say.

Simon Bridges – National Tauranga is experiencing strong growth which is fantastic for our region. There are more jobs, more people moving here and our economy is doing great. Our growing region needs continued investment in infrastructure. We’ve invested more infrastructure than in any other time in New Zealand’s history. We’ve built the Bay’s biggest ever roading project, the Tauranga Eastern Link, a $455 million road connecting Tauranga with the Eastern Bay. More than 2.3 million vehicles travelled on the TEL in the year that it opened – close to 40 per cent more than predicted. We plan to continue this strong investment and have committed to $520 million in the State Highway 2 – Waihi to Tauranga and Tauranga Northern Link. We’ve also started work on the $120 million Baypark to Bayfair link, to name just two of the two projects we are delivering for Tauranga. Simon is standing in Tauranga.

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Angela Warren-Clark – Labour

Emma-Leigh Hodge – Greens

A strong economy needs a well-connected, reliable transport network. There’s been a lack of vision and investment in our transport system across Tauranga and the Western Bay of Plenty. We see that in the traffic jams in and out of Papamoa, on the way to Katikati and through to Turret Rd. The National government prioritised state highways over public transport, regional roads, ports and rail. It’s time to invest in the Bay and get us moving. Labour wants you to spend less time in traffic and more time with your families. But to do that we need a safe and efficient transport network. We need to invest in our regional roading systems and build a vision for reliable, affordable public transport in partnership with local government. Angela is standing in Bay of Plenty.

We must diversify our transport options and move away from reliance on private vehicle use. Tauranga’s layout makes this a difﬁcult task but for too long we have had a government uninterested in taking up the challenge. Four-laning Turret Rd represents a temporary reprieve at best, the old mantra ‘build it and they will come’ has evidently been lost somewhere along the way. We will ensure adequate funding of alternative transport options, including buses, by working with regional councils to improve bus priority measures on all main roads. A fuel tax may be an option but this must be paired with alternatives to private vehicle use and our priority is bringing these to fruition. We have a beautiful city for walking and cycling – we will work on making these options accessible. Emma-Leigh is standing in Tauranga.

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Clayton Mitchell – NZ First After discussions with independent and international advisers we know inter-modal transport solutions exist. Any party that wants to work with New Zealand First has to know central government must work with local government to prioritise funding practical alternatives, making regional fuel taxes unnecessary. With fast, reliable, safe, and sustainable public transport options, transport challenges and trafﬁc congestion will become more manageable. Our roads need to be ﬁt for purpose. New Zealand First will hold National to their electioneering promises of 2008 and 2011 to fully fund the fourlaning of 15th Ave and Turret Rd, but we also need to make sure we’re not just facilitating big money roading projects. We already have two of the three toll roads in the whole country, and New Zealand First wants to take them off Route K to relieve pressure on Cameron and Cambridge Rds. Clayton is standing in Tauranga.

Our reliance on and the dominance of private vehicles in Tauranga is the highest in the country and this will continue for the foreseeable future. Future technologies, driverless cars, and new car navigation systems will have the biggest impact in reducing trafﬁc congestion. The government has pledged $520 million over the next decade for roading projects such as the Northern Link bypass, but this needs to be extended/brought forward with extra funding for a safe on-road, off-road exit intersection at Omokoroa. Local government needs to implement more multi-modal transport options, like Mark Wassung’s Transport Network ideas, combined with a water taxi service. The government needs to keep their promise of funding for four-laning Turret Rd with room for pedestrian/cycle, emergency service and bus lanes extended through to the CBD. The Route K tolls should be removed to ease congestion on other inner city arterial routes, i.e. Cameron/Cambridge Rds. Rusty is standing in Tauranga.

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Edged weapons and accessories, military collectibles, books, medals and uniforms – that’s what is in store for this weekend’s Arms and Militaria Show. Displays and sales tables of all kinds of sporting and militaria accessories will be on display at Greerton Hall Tauranga this Saturday from 9am-4pm, and on Sunday from 9am-3pm. The show is a popular social event for collectors from all over the North Island, with proceeds being used to foster the interest in today's young people. The general public is encouraged to come and see what it is all about. Tickets cost $10 for adults per day or $7 for the weekend and entry is free for children under 13 years.

Plenty planned for Poetry Day National Poetry Day is on Friday, August 25 and local poets will be out in force celebrating their art form. Tauranga Writers, New Zealand’s longest-running self-help group for writers, is celebrating its 50th anniversary this year and is organising a couple of events to bring more poetry to the lives of Tauranga residents. “We number many poets among our 70 members,” says Tauranga Writers president Jenny Argante. “On Friday, we’re ‘poem-bombing’ Willow St, Red Square, Durham and Grey Sts, and the arcades, and we’re encouraging poets and singer-songwriters, include buskers, to locate themselves as Pop-up Performers at Pop-up Art just down from the junction of Elizabeth St and Devonport Rd. “We will also be inviting passers-by to add a poem to the PoeTree, and announcing a poetry competition sponsored by New Zealand’s only magazine for creative writers, ‘Freelance

– Writers Helping Writers’.” In the evening, a poetry open mic night will be held at the Mount Social Club from 6pm. Admission is free and aspiring poets are invited to sign up on the night to read their work. Some performers already signed up include Marcel Currin, Marion Arts, Archaeo (performance poet Dhaivat Mehta) and John Baxter. “We also invite members of the audience who are readers and lovers of poetry to bring along a favourite New Zealand poem and share it,” says Jenny. As it will also be Daffodil Day, audience members are encouraged to wear their daffodil or buy one at the door. These local events are funded by the Tauranga City Council Match Fund for Community Development. National Poetry Day is celebrating 20 years and is supported by Phantom Billstickers and the New Zealand Book Council.

Women footballers on track to top premiership The Tauranga City United Bay SportsMed Ladies squad have had an exceptional season in the WaiBOP Women’s Premier League, having won all of their games. This Sunday they’re taking on Melville Premier at Link Ave Reserve from 11am and head coach Pat Wigley says if the Tauranga women win or draw, then they will win the league overall. Placing ﬁrst in the league means they’ll take on an Auckland contender to determine who proceeds to the

Northern League next year, which is a step up from the WaiBOP competition. It’s a meteoric rise for a team only formed this year, which boasts players from around the Bay of Plenty. Supporters are encouraged to come to Links Ave Reserve this Sunday to cheer the girls on. For more information on Tauranga City United women's football, and to follow their progress, visit www.tcuwf.co.nz

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Bad water leaves bad taste

Illness, ill-feeling and protest – that’s the fall-out from the bad water dumped into the reticulation system in the small western bay towns of Paengaroa and Pongakawa this week. Paengaroa residents Dovera and Gaylene Conroy, Carrie Kidd and her son Quinn, and Michelle Mohi and her son Xakaia. Photo by Tracy Hardy.

It’s also left residents demanding answers and reassurances from the Western Bay of Plenty District Council, and the community Facebook page boiling over with complaints. “I am not going to pay my water bill,” says Ross Phillips of Pongakawa. “Fair’s fair.” “My son went upstairs for a shower one evening and next minute he’s screaming ‘my head’s burning, my back’s burning’,” says another affected resident Michelle Mohi of Paengaroa. “And I am going whaaaaat?” That was Monday night about 8.30pm and she had to rinse her son off with milk and juice. “Anything out of the fridge.” “It made me feel dizzy, queasy and tired the ﬁrst time round” says Gaylene Conroy. “And I am feeling ill again.” This week’s bad water didn’t affect Carrie Kidd this time. “But it’s the council’s approach; they don’t

tell anyone the water is bad, we have to find out the hard way.” And the ‘hard way’ was when she bathed five-month-old son Quinn a few months ago and he broke out in a full body rash. “He had sensitive skin anyway but the water just set his treatment back to square one.” According to the council what happened this week is believed to have been caused by a section of water line that had been out of commission being re-commissioned without adequate flushing. This led to a body of water with higher than normal pH entering the main system, affecting some properties in Paengaroa and Pongakawa. On Tuesday morning the council advised residents it was aware of the issue. It also advised consumers to test their water and if it felt slimy they should run their taps for several minutes. If left running most home systems would flush within 10 minutes. And then what people probably needed to hear most – “Water with high pH is not unsafe, but can cause discomfort to people with sensitive skin,” says the council’s utilities manager, Kelvin Hill. That’s because the water is amore alkaline than it should be. And it’s not the first time. Carrie says high pH levels were present on March 24, again on April 4 and then again Monday night. “There was stuff floating on the surface – like petrol floats on water. And all they tell us is if it’s oily, don’t use it. Well, we are paying for our water and it’s really annoying. We are paying for something we can’t use.” Out at Pukehina, Gaylene says she was suffering another bout of queasiness, dizziness and tiredness for the second time this year. At first she thought it was a bug, now she blames the bad water. “I didn’t see a doctor because I thought I was being overly-dramatic. But now I learn a lot of people were feeling the same way.” An advisory from Toi Te Ora Public Health confirms the main concern with the pH level was a

skin irritation in some people. However Gaylene’s disappointed because she says she trusted someone with her health. “Who is responsible? Who can reassure us this won’t happen again?” On Monday night on SH2 at Pongakawa Ross Phillips’ domestic water supply felt slimy. “It feels like the surface layer of your skin has been worn off, like if you use oven cleaner without wearing protective gloves.” He says he was told that by the time the alarm went up about the pH levels, the water had been dumped into the system and there was no control over where it went or who got it. “People should be warned. Better still, turn the supply off. If no water comes out of the tap, no harm done.”

But if the water that comes out of the tap looks like any other water, Ross says you fill a glass and drink it. “You aren’t rubbing it on your hands to test the pH levels first.” He’s told council that until it comes back and explains the whole story, how it happened, why the levels were so high without any notification and what it’s doing about the problem, then he won’t be paying his water bill. “And they’re not going to do that!” On Monday night, as soon as the problem occurred, the council did arrive with supplies of bottled water. They were well-received. “Because I am certainly not drinking the water,” says Michelle. Read the rest of the story at www.theweekendsun.co.nz

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Lower fruit prices bittersweet Fruit prices fell 5.2 per cent in July 2017, contributing to a 0.2 per cent fall in food prices, according to Stats NZ. Cheaper avocados and strawberries led the fall in fruit prices in July. Avocado prices fell 29 per cent in July, coming off a near-record high in June, and strawberry prices fell 23 per cent. The average price for a 250g punnet of strawberries was $5.92 in July 2017, compared with $7.71 in June. In contrast to fruit prices, vegetable prices rose 1.6 per cent in July, driven

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by higher prices for cucumbers and tomatoes. Kumara rose 2.6 per cent for the month, and 170 per cent for the year to reach a new record high price of $8.39 a kilogram. Restaurant meals have also had the largest annual increase in almost four years. Prices for restaurant meals and ready-to-eat food were up 2.2 per cent in the year to July 2017. This was led by a 2.5 per cent increase in restaurant meals, the largest annual increase since October 2013.

Steamers at boiling point There’s a large banner photograph on the wall behind the reception desk when you walk into the Bay of Plenty Steamers’ engine room at Blake Park.

year with three wins and seven losses. “The win-loss ratio wasn’t fantastic,” admits McMillan. But the stats are pliable and the coach bends and manipulates with aplomb. “When we got to the end of the season our average losing margin across the whole season was 6.3 points. The previous season was It’s a picture of 15 glistening and beaming young something like 25 points.” men in blue and gold hoops. It was August 15, 2004 He’s right – when they won it was close, when and this unfancied bunch had just slipped furtively they lost it was close. Everyone in the Bay shared his into Eden Park and stolen the Ranfurly Shield from disappointment and frustration. Auckland. Oh the delight. It was a Sunday and the “It was a fine line between success and failure. If we Gods had smiled on us. judge ourselves on the win-loss ratio it was failure, But that was almost 13 years ago to the day. but our expectations are higher this year.” “There have been some lean years since,” says a And they did score the second most tries in the reflective but positive-to-the-core Steamers coach competition and played an attractive brand Clayton McMillan on the eve of another of rugby. Mitre 10 season. “You may have seen some It’s that anxious, unenviable time for a improvement, we all have. But we are just coach. The first game of the season against craving for a little bit more.” Northland in Whangarei is on Sunday That day in 2004, the now whistler Glen and this reporter is demanding him be Jackson kicked penalties, conversions, a soothsayer, demanding him to bare his soul. drop goal and scored a try. Scored every He politely fields the questions and runs which way, every way possible in fact, as them back at you. Bay of Plenty beat Auckland 33-28. “Yep, sleep is a bit of a luxury at the And today in 2017 McMillan moment,” says the coach.” But not is wishing for success any because I am stressing over things, which way. No caveats, just more because of all the ideas expectations. floating round in my head. “The bottom line is “I deal with things best by everyone in our division getting up early and getting wants to win promotion. to work.” But there’s a little That’s my ultimate goal inner turmoil. “Have you done and how that is achieved enough, have you selected the is irrelevant to me as right team, getting a gauge on long as it’s achieved.” It trends, looking at the opposition, would help settle a debt where they have improved and the coach feels he has. opportunities defensively and “Our stakeholders and our offensively for you.” supporters – we owe it And look at the opposition, look to them.” at the ‘cattle’ he’s up against – there’s It’s McMillan’s job to move BOP certainly some prime beef in the way. rugby to a better place. “It takes a “Hawke’s Bay, Wellington, Otago, couple of years to embed things, Manawatu, some of these teams are create a culture and assemble a stacked with super rugby players. squad that is truly yours. “It’s bloody hard.” “We have achieved that and from But not impossible. “I have a personal perspective I am entering always said, Bay of Plenty Rugby is the season with high expectations synonymous with have a go – playing from this group and myself – that we with innovation and flair. That’s deliver more than the promise and something we try to embrace.” improvement we have shown There’s a bit of excitement over the past couple of years.” in Whangarei, something And this is where special brewing. McMillan demonstrates “We respect that and a coach’s consummate we’re not going up there artfulness. Mark Twain thinking it will be easy.” once said ‘facts are The man behind May the percentages stubborn things, but the machine – coach be with the Steamers statistics are pliable’. Clayton McMillan. come Sunday at The stubborn undeniable Photo: Bruce Barnard. 2.35pm. facts are the Steamers Read the rest of the story at finished fourth equal in the www.theweekendsun.co.nz Mitre 10 Cup Championship last

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Chatting on the couch It’s an idea bourne out of comfort, from relaxing and not really thinking about much at all.

“Are you ready to rumble!?” Marc Anderson calls for people to come to On The Couch. Photo: Bruce Barnard.

Garden and Arts Festival organiser Marc Anderson says the idea came to him when he was least expecting it. “I was sitting on the couch at home and I was watching the Graham Norton show and I thought: ‘That would be a really good concept. It would be fun! If we had a fun, entertaining yet informative event, it would be really good if we could do it.’” And now, Marc is bringing On The Couch – an informative yet entertaining evening – to Baycourt on August 25. But what is On The Couch all about? “We start off with Ben Hurley and Michele A’Court coming on stage. They’ll talk to the audience, get some banter and some laughs happening, and then get the audience into things,” says Marc. “We have four guests with very interesting stories and talents, and they’ll talk about what they know. “Our superstar guests aren’t the Brad Pitts and the Angelina Jolies but they’re our local superstars of the festival.” The four guests – Rob McGregor, Brian Watson, Ruud Kleinpaste, and Michelle McDonnell – all specialise in some area related to the upcoming Garden and Arts Festival. “Rob McGregor is an artist from Mount Maunganui. Obviously being an artist he’s very creative and very imaginative, and he’s got stories as well – not only about art,” says Marc. “Brian Watson is the founder and co-owner of Good George Brewery. Brian is passionate about developing beer and cider with natural ingredients. “Ruud Kleinpaste is really cool, he’s got the gift of the gab, and he knows what he’s talking about when it comes to bugs. Bugs are synonymous with gardens and they can be sometimes seen as pests

but Ruud assures everyone that without them we’d probably all die,” says Marc. “And Michelle McDonnell is a great landscape gardener, she’s designed concept gardens in the festival. “She’s a local, people know her, she’s funny and she enjoys a laugh, and she’ll be talking about landscape gardening

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Daffodils delivered in style Bay of Plenty Vintage Car Club members Jim and Kaaren Smylie will be helping to deliver bunches of fresh daffodils around Tauranga next week in their Model A Ford as part of Daffodil Day fundraising. Photo: Nikki South.

Daffodils were as scarce as hen’s teeth in Tauranga this week, but come Tuesday the city will be awash with them as more than 1400 bunches of fresh daffodils are delivered to local businesses as part of the Cancer Society’s Daffodil Day fundraiser. Friday, August 25 is Daffodil Day itself when more than 70,000 fabric lapel daffodils will be available to buy from schools, community groups, local businesses and more than 230 street collection sites in the Waikato/Bay of Plenty. More than 2500 volunteers will be involved on the day. But in Tauranga the door-to-door delivery of fresh daffodils is a special event which has been running for the past 27 years. Jo Matthews from the Cancer Society says the fresh ﬂowers will arrive en masse on Monday and will be turned into bouquets by the ladies from Harbour City Lions before being collected by members of the Bay of Plenty Vintage Car Club and other corporate groups to be delivered to businesses around the city on Tuesday. “We’ve got some students from the local colleges coming in to help, loading each of the vehicles with fresh daffodils and a run sheet of their deliveries. “This will be the third year the vintage car club has supported us and it’s worked fabulously.

“We get such good feedback from people who love having a beautiful car turn up with a young person running in dressed in their best outﬁt.” The organisation for the day begins in June with the Cancer Society ringing around Tauranga businesses to take their orders. Each bunch of fresh daffodils costs $35 and some businesses order several bunches. On the day, more than 1000 deliveries are made by lunch time. “We run a tight, mean machine on delivery day, but we certainly couldn’t do it without [the car club],” says Jo. This year the Vintage Car Club of New Zealand, which has 36 branches including the Bay of Plenty, has chosen the Cancer Society to be the recipient of a national fundraiser that will see thousands of vintage cars out and about in their communities at 1pm on Sunday, August 27. Each car that is involved will donate $10 to the Cancer Society. In Tauranga, the Bay of Plenty club will be doing a ‘country run’ and has invited other local car clubs to join in. “Both the daffodil delivery and the country run are really exciting events and are going to be wellpatronised by our members,” says club captain Kaaren Smylie. All funds raised by the Waikato/Bay of Plenty branch of the Cancer Society on Daffodil Day stay in the area.

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What am I supposed to eat? Have you ever really considered what effect the food you put into your body has on your sparkle? It’s a question that Dr Libby Weaver (PhD) has been trying to get women to ponder, and she’ll be coming to town to engage with local ladies. Libby is one of Australasia’s leading nutritional biochemists, an author, a speaker and founder of the plant-based supplement range, Bio Blends.

Armed with an abundance of knowledge, scientiﬁc research and a true desire to help people regain their energy and vitality, Libby empowers and inspires people to take charge of their health and happiness through her books, live events and nutritional support range. Libby will be coming to Tauranga on August 30 to host a two-hour seminar called ‘What am I supposed to eat? – Live Event’ to help women understand what to eat when food is confusing, and to promote her new book ‘What

am I supposed to eat?’ One of her key messages is about how the importance of what you eat internally affects how you look externally. “If I had to pick three foods that I wish everyone would eat more of, it would have to be dark leafy greens such as kale, broccoli and parsley; lemons and organic butter,” she says. “You might think butter is a bit left ﬁeld but it’s a great source of mediumchain triglycerides, a particular fatty acid structure. MCTs are special because, in the digestive system, they are broken down into individual fatty acids. Unlike other fatty acids, they are absorbed directly from the intestines into the portal vein and sent immediately to the liver where they are, for the most part, burned as fuel. They can therefore offer the body an energy supply that is highly efﬁcient. Too many people still fear butter and this is not necessary.” Among other food pitfalls, Libby says eating because it’s convenient is one of the biggest struggles she sees with women. “Plenty of people make less nourishing food choices when they need something fast, and there will be times when that’s unavoidable. “But for many, this has become their default habit,” she says. “Another common one is seeing food only as calories. The food we eat literally becomes part of us; it has the power to support or detract from our health. If we view it as only calories and associated only with burning or storing body fat, we’re potentially

missing a great deal of nutrition. Many people also fall into the habit of eating the same foods day in and day out. We need variety in our diet, particularly a variety of vegetables, all of which offer us unique nutrients.” Libby’s new book ‘What am I supposed to eat?’ delves into the nutritional aspect of her threepillared approach to food. “My goal with this book is to help people get back in touch with how to best meet their own nutritional needs instead of just following a prescribed diet or

food plan without considering their bio-individuality. The live event is about getting to the heart of people’s biggest frustrations with food and enabling them to identify which food choices will best serve their health.” Libby will be in launching her book and hosting a live seminar in Tauranga to launch the book on Wednesday, August 30 from 7-9pm at the ASB Baypark Stadium. Tickets are $39.95 from www.drlibby.com/events

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A fanfare for Annabelle “They gave me a thousand dollars,” says Mount Maunganui College student, Annabelle Stewart, who now has a flash new Bach Stradivarius professional trumpet in her sights. Umm… I suspect it was $2000 Annabelle. Yes, the Tauranga Harbour City Lions definitely gave her $2000. “Oh my goodness,” says a speechless 16-year-old. “It was morning when she rang and I must have misheard her. Oh my goodness.” Throw in the $1200 from a benevolent The Weekend Sun reader after her story appeared in the newspaper recently, plus the $700 savings already in her account, and the new trumpet Annabelle needed but couldn’t afford is definitely now a happening thing. “That particular person mentioned he had been involved in music and brass banding, and he had been a music teacher who’d supported other people. “I am humbled.” Annabelle already has a trumpet but it’s no longer up to the job. “The valves keep sticking no matter how much I oil and clean them. There is an issue with the slides and the air is leaking.” In non-music parlance, her trumpet is knackered, broken, finished. But Annabelle is now playing in an orchestra, is auditioning for a university music degree in two or three weeks and desperately needs a new instrument. But the $5000-6000 price tag for a new professional trumpet was beyond her. The Lions heard about her difficulty and next moment she’s playing that extraordinarily difficult ‘Concert Etude’ by Goedicke for the Lions at their mid-winter Christmas dinner. Then they quizzed about her about her music and her career.

Sing, read and talk with your child The message is simple. “Love grows brains.” It’s the message behind a national campaign launched by the Wright Family Foundation and it aims to communicate to parents the critical importance of talking, reading, singing and interacting with babies and young children. The campaign has the backing of experts in brain development including Dunedin longitudinal study director Professor Richie Poulton and neuroscience educator Nathan Wallis. A series of 20 film clips, developed as public messages to support families, will screen over several months during

primetime television commercial breaks. ”Experiences in the early days set the stage for a child’s lifelong health, intellectual development and IQ,” says the foundation’s chief executive, Chloe Wright. “So do all those special things with your baby,” says behaviour psychologist Gaye Tyler-Merrick. “The housework and other things can wait but spending time with your baby will grow your baby’s brain.” Then we have a lovely, secure child with good self-control, good selfregulation who grows into a super competent person, who will in turn parent well themselves.

A new Bach Stradivarius is in sight for Annabelle Stewart. Photo: Bruce Barnard. And that all translated into an outpouring of Christmas goodwill and the $2000 cheque from Lions was in the mail. “It’s quite humbling the support I have had,” says Annabelle. “If people can support people they do. “It’s quite wonderful. And it makes me wonder what I would do if I was in the position to help others.” Annabelle is planning to leave school a year early to do her music degree next year. “Having the right equipment will help me as a player get there. It would lift me to new levels.” Her present trumpet is too tired to do any lifting. But there’s a Bach Stradivarius professional trumpet, ideal for playing in orchestras and at uni, sitting in the Vanguard Orchestral musical store in Wellington. “It’ll last me 10 years plus.” Annabelle just needs to give it another run. And if the numbers stack up, her music career is very definitely back on song. “I am very, very grateful. “Thank you so much.”

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In the mix – Joan Brown and Annie Innes of Legacy Funerals.

Peter Burling’s bringing the America’s Cup back to Tauranga where it all started for the sailor and he’ll arrive in town on the waterfront by boat at 1pm on Sunday, August 27. There will be a short ceremony, a haka by Tauranga Boys’ College students and speeches from the sailors themselves. After the ceremony ETNZ team members and the Auld Mug will be available for photos and a personal slice of America’s Cup history. “We’re looking forward to Tauranga giving these guys the celebration they deserve,” says Mayor Greg Brownless. The event will take place rain or shine.

Octogenarians cook up compassion It’s a wonderful reservoir of experience, ability and goodwill – probably adding up to a few hundred years. It’s a band of baking women at Mount Maunganui’s Malyon House rest home. And they’re putting up their talents for the beneﬁt of the city’s homeless. “We’re happy to do something to brighten someone’s day” says Joan Brown, one of Malyon’s baking brigade. “And this is wonderful idea.” Since June, Joan and eight to 12 of her colleagues at Malyon have gathered on Mondays to bake – chocolate chip biscuits, caramel slice and rice bubble cake. Ginger crunch is the pipeline. The product is then delivered next day to St Peter’s House – a

community organisation in Spring St offering a range of social services to individuals and families. The majority of the Malyon House baking brigade are in their 80s but it seems you’re never too old to help the less fortunate within your community. And they’ve had the backing of the Legacy Trust which has kicked in $500 towards ingredients. “The homeless issue is touching an increasing number of people in Tauranga,” says Legacy’s Annie Innes. “And here we have a group of elderly women who come from an era where it was common to show you cared through food. “It’s great for them to have good reason to recreate those times. And we applaud their goodness.” The baking brigade has also visited St Peter’s House to see how much their baking is appreciated.

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Exploring your origins Who knew that researching your family history could start with spitting in a cup, popping it in the post and a few months later knowing almost everything you ever wanted to know about your origins?

now have to take bookings. They’re very experienced and knowledgeable,” says learning centre tutor Bev Hodges. “And very generous with their time,” says specialist information librarian Stephanie Smith. A ‘lock-in’ family history night at Papamoa Library last night was only designed to cater for 25 people Well, some of the specialist librarians that work at but staff had to cut it off at 40, proving there is a real Tauranga City Libraries certainly thirst for family history knowledge out there. do and they are a mine of “It is a growing interest and it has become relatively information if you’re wanting cheaper for people to check their DNA, which is to get started on your family quite exciting. I don’t think it’s something that is tree. going to go away,” says Stephanie. August is Family History Stephanie had her own DNA tested month and Tauranga City recently via the ancestry.com website. Libraries is making it easy for “That was very interesting. people to get started by “It conﬁrmed several bits of my offering workshops family history and individual family “I was quite sceptical about but they history research turned out to be true. assistance with the “The results help of volunteer were quite genealogists. enlightening The libraries and let us not also offer underestimate monthly the entertainment drop-in value.” genealogy clinics The process all year round, of collecting the including guest DNA was also quite speakers. Specialist information librarian entertaining. “It’s such a popular Stephanie Smith (left) and Read the rest of the story at service the volunteers learning centre tutor Bev Hodges www.theweekendsun.co.nz

Te reo Maori pin to help korero Maori Development Minister Te Ururoa Flavell is optimistic a newly launched the ‘#korero’ pin will make it easier for people to use te reo Maori when they’re out and about. "Similar pins overseas have been successful in helping revitalise language. It signals that the wearer has an interest in speaking in te reo Maori, even if they are not yet ﬂuent," says Te Ururoa. "When you see someone wearing this pin, or tohu, it’s a sign that you can approach them in te reo Maori and ‘give te reo a go’." The #korero pin was launched to coincide with Rotorua’s celebration of its decision to become the country’s ﬁrst bilingual city. "It is a physical representation of support

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for this achievement. It is a visual celebration and an ongoing reminder to all who wear it to stick to our commitment to revitalise the Maori language and celebrate bilingualism,” says Te Ururoa. "You can expect to see it popping up more and more. It doesn’t matter what level of ﬂuency you have. “What matters is that you are willing to support and breathe life into the language. "It demonstrates that you and the wearer have a positive attitude to te reo Maori, and it says, ‘I want to speak Maori and I want you to speak Maori to me’," says Te Ururoa. The design of the pin is based on Te Pitau-aManaia (the fern frond of Manaia). It depicts a ‘waha korero’ – an active voice. The design also depicts growth, energy and the vibrancy of te reo.

48-hour film-making challenge Bay of Plenty Film is hosting the hp48hours national ﬁlm-making competition in our region and there are only a few more days until registrations close. “One of the best ways to gain skills in this environment is by learning on the job which is why I encourage everyone interested in directing, editing, acting or are interested in other areas of this highly collaborative industry to make projects since it gives them

valuable on-set experience,” says BOP Film chief executive Anton Steel. The hp48hours competition started in 2003 and has grown into a national competition with some impressive prizes. From 7pm August 25 until 7pm August 27 entrants will have 48 hours to write, edit, shoot and submit their ﬁlm. Register online by midnight August 22 at www.48hours.co.nz/2017/register

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Yellow app threatens Bay teens’ safety A new app called Yellow has been making faces red with anger over allegations of child exploitation and paedophilia. The latest social media app has been controversial in the UK and USA and has now made its way to New Zealand. Internet watchdog NetSafe has

confirmed three complaints about the social networking app in New Zealand and that it is allegedly being used by convicted paedophiles in this country as users can lie about their age and identity. Despite the backlash nationwide, Tauranga school principals say their teens seem to be safe so far.

The Tinder-like app ‘Yellow’ isn’t a problem in Tauranga, however, a principal says parents need to be warned.

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Yellow is a Tinder-like app created by a group of French designers with the motto ‘Friends for Life’ and is targeted at 13 to 17-year-olds. It also allows users to do far more on its platform than the popular dating site Tinder, such as sending live video to strangers. There is currently no evidence that the Yellow phone app is being used within prisons, however, NetSafe chief executive Martin Cocker can confirm there has been complaints about suspicious behaviour on Yellow. He says he is concerned about paedophile activity as the app is the perfect platform for that kind of behaviour. Concerns about Yellow exposing children to online predators have been broadcast in several countries such as the UK and the US where the FBI issued a warning about the app in March. “Parents have no idea about these apps,” says Dave. “I mentioned to a few parents about Tinder and they asked ‘what’s that?’. When I tell them it’s a dating site, they are shocked. “Our young people are getting conned I think.”

Make Dad something special this year Bay of Plenty families are invited to head to Bunnings Warehouse Mount Maunganui on the evening of Thursday, August 31 to celebrate Father’s Day this year at a funfilled and free Family Night. Bay of Plenty residents will be able to come together and take part in a range of entertaining, hands-on activities, including

a DIY workshop where kids can get crafty and create a special gift for Dad. The Father’s Day Family Night will be held between 5.30-7.30pm and includes light refreshments. Bookings are recommended. Contact Bunnings Warehouse Mount Maunganui on 07 927 8500 to reserve your place.

The library car park on Hamilton Street will be closed from Monday, 21 August 2017 during demolition of the Council Administration building. It will remain closed until the completion of the demolition, which is currently scheduled to be December 2017. Book drop off is available at the library main entrance. There will also be some changes to the bus interchange on Willow Street.

Mobility parking has been relocated to Masonic Park and Durham Street, near Baycourt. From Monday, 21 August 2017, Stop B on Willow Street will be relocated around the corner to Wharf Street, and the regional bus stop Stop D will be moved further up Wharf Street.

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Social media to help save women’s lives A new website and social media campaign will help encourage women to have regular cervical smear tests and mammograms. The ‘Time to Screen’ campaign encourages and supports women to participate in screening programmes by providing information on when and why they need to get a check-up, how often they need to go, and what to expect from the process. The campaign includes a new mobile-friendly website and a social marketing campaign to help remove some of the barriers to screening and give women the opportunity to connect with others for support and ask questions. "With more than two million

New Zealanders using Facebook on a daily basis the campaign will enable us to reach more women who are not being screened or who don’t get screened as often as they should,” says health minister Jonathan Coleman. "The campaign is supported by a number of important preexisting initiatives that deliver individually-tailored and practical support, such as transporting and accompanying women to screening appointments. "Previous campaigns were fit for the times, but a new approach

is needed to help boost women’s participation in breast and cervical screening programmes, especially among Maori, Pacific and Asian communities." Women aged 20-70 should have a cervical smear test every three years. Since the National Cervical Screening Programme was established in 1990, the incidence of cervical cancer and deaths has more than halved. Women between 45-69 should have a mammogram every two years. The rate of death from breast cancer is reduced by a third for women who have been screened as part of the programme. More information about the women’s health screening programmes is available at www.timetoscreen.nz

What some men endure

The man who co-founded Australia’s sole national advocacy organisation for male victims of family violence and their children will be in Tauranga next week. He’s Greg Andresen, father of a young son and daughter and senior researcher for the One in Three Campaign – a reference to the claim that one in three men are victims of domestic violence. Greg will be one of the keynote speakers at the Kidz Need Dadz ‘Working with Men’ conference at The Historic Village in 17th Ave West in Tauranga on August 24-25. He will outline the experiences of male victims of family violence and their children. He will also look at the barriers to disclosure and finding support, the different forms of abuse

they experience and the impacts upon them. Greg will also cover what he believes to be the scant support available in Australia for male victims of family violence and their children, and the few counselling and support services and the lack of education and prevention programmes. He will also look at some international and Australian support initiatives. Other speakers include Ken Clearwater, manager of Male Survivors of Sexual Abuse Trust and Greg McMillan, director of Men’s Health Services in Australia. For more information and conference registration email manager@knd.org.nz

DOC warns poachers about getting caught The Department of Conservation is warning poachers and others acting illegally on public conservation land that they now have more chance of getting caught. DOC has unveiled a new National Compliance Strategy which places greater emphasis on enforcing laws which are designed to protect our unique wildlife and special places. Director general Lou Sanson says DOC will be undertaking more investigations and significantly stepping up the monitoring of concessionaires in the next three years in response to DOC-permitted tourism operators who have seen and reported an increasing number of tourism operators working in New Zealand without concessions. Poaching in marine reserves and breaching whitebait

regulations remain the most common form of offending he says. “But we also see regular wilful killing of protected species, illegal land encroachment, timber theft and the organised smuggling of wildlife and endangered species. “We will also be looking for any under-reporting of activity for those operating on public conservation land who are not paying their fair share. “This is particularly important in the years ahead with rapidly increasing visitor numbers and the need to put this revenue towards restoring New Zealand’s unique nature which so many come to experience.” There are currently more than 4000 concessions and permits issued by DOC. DOC is also asking people to be its eyes and ears and help by reporting suspicious or illegal activity to its 24-hour hotline 0800 DOC HOT.

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Closing their doors to do good in the Bay Local BNZ staff will turn off their computers for the day and get out into the community to volunteer for the ‘Closed for Good’ project on Wednesday, August 23. More than 3000 staff from BNZ bank branches across the country will be involved.

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Tauranga Girls’ College students won the senior Young Innovator Award with their iBrite LED strips to assist dyslexic students in reading and writing.

Young entrepreneurs have uncovered solutions to real life problems at this year’s Young Innovator Awards. The Young Innovator Awards is a local awards programme for students in Tauranga/Western Bay of Plenty which is designed to promote innovation. Event coordinator Lynne Parlane says this year’s event was the best yet with a total of 505 entries – a rise from 2016 which had 332 entries. “This year’s winners ticked all the boxes,” says Lynne. “It’s all about young people defining a real life problem,

and understanding the needs of a person and using a design thinking process to find a solution. “In a world of increased globalisation we need young people to be able to problem-solve and we want them to be able to think and understand the process of discovering new ideas.” Taking out the senior award was iBrite, a set of LED strips designed by a group of Tauranga Girls’ College students to assist dyslexic students in reading and writing by using coloured overlays to relax the brain and allow it to then interpret information more easily. The product has previously

taken out awards at other local competitions including the regional MashUp and Dragon’s Den competitions. Otumoetai College student Emily Mahon received the junior award for her device, a pressurised steering wheel cover designed to combat texting while driving. The steering wheel cover senses when there is not enough pressure and will beep until both hands are back safely on the wheel. The winning entries, judged by New Zealand’s top innovators, win a YiA Scholarship – a combination of work experience with leading Bay of Plenty businesses and cash prizes. Sam Gardner

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Body found in water at Tauranga Bridge Marina A man was found dead in the water at the Tauranga Bridge Marina on Wednesday. Marina manager Tony Arnold says the deceased man had just got his boat back into the water after working on it for a long time. Friends became concerned when the man failed to answer phone calls, which was described as out of character. His body was later found at around 10:40am. Police say they are continuing to work to identify the body and establish the circumstances surrounding the man’s death.

Manhunt for gunman goes national The manhunt for Rollie Heke, who is accused of ﬁring at police ofﬁcers in Morrinsville early on Sunday morning, has gone national. The operation to locate Heke is now being managed out of Police National Headquarters in Wellington. Detective Superintendent Chris Page says this will allow the best use of the “considerable expertise” police have available to be utilised, and ensure the effective coordination across all districts. “We have the sense Heke is no longer in the Morrinsville area and is being assisted by associates to avoid police,” says Chris. “For this reason, we are coordinating the search for him on a national basis.”

Argument over te reo at bank A woman is shocked after being involved in a verbal conflict with a teller at a Whakatane bank earlier this week. Ripeka Lessels entered the Credit Union Central Kopeopeo branch to withdraw money, writing her withdrawal slip in Maori. A conflict between Ripeka and the teller then occurred, after she was asked to rewrite the slip in English. “The teller insisted I write it in English, which I declined to do as Maori is an official language,” says Ripeka. The manager of the branch was contacted shortly after the incident occurred, and a video of the argument was posted to Facebook where it went viral.

$8.5m paid for motel The government has spent almost $8.5 million on four motels to temporarily house homeless people - and it plans to buy another two. The Labour Party says the government has bought motels in Gisborne, Hastings, Napier, and Auckland _ with each purchase more than double the most recent QV valuations. The party says it is irresponsible to spend those sums while at the same time selling off state homes. Social Housing Minister Amy Adams says the service is more than just putting a roof over people’s heads. “Where we’ve purchased motels it’s not for emergency special need grant placements, it’s for creating a brand new class of housing called transitional housing.”

Ownership of the Mobil Chapel St site is to be transferred to Ngai Tamarawaho.

A 14-year-old promise to Tauranga’s Ngaitamarawaho hapu will be kept with city councillors voting this week to transfer ownership of the Chapel St Mobil site to the hapu. The reason for the decision lies in a promise made by the council to the hapu in 2004 when the city wanted hapu land on Chapel St for the second harbour bridge. The ﬁrst land swap was to be for car park land at the Tauranga end of the railway bridge. When the council decided the southern pipeline would pass through that land it reneged on that agreement. The council of the day’s next promise was the land in Chapel St, which the current council has agreed to honour. The Chapel St site is worth $3.6 million. Ngai Tamarawaho’s Dive Crescent land was sold by the council to the New Zealand Transport Agency. The land near the railway bridge was free, acquired in 1989 from the former harbour board. The city council thought the Ofﬁce of

Treaty Settlements would buy 60 Chapel St, but found out in 2011 that it would not. The hapu previously offered to buy the land from the council at the 2007 value, using the lease payments. Details of the price and sale process have been kept conﬁdential with chief executive Garry Poole empowered to negotiate. Councillor Larry Baldock says if the promise is not kept, the credibility of the council will be questioned. Ngai Tamarawaho spokesperson Buddy Mikaere says he’s reminded that it is 30 years since September 1987 when Ngai Tamarawaho members occupied the old town hall in a dispute over ownership of the city block. “Some people present here today were put in jail for standing up for what we believed was our right to the land,” says Buddy. “The lot 45 issue is still live for us.” The land was purchased from Maori by Alfred Brown for the Church Missionary Society in 1838-39 on the understanding it would be retained under solemn trust and used for the beneﬁt of Nga Iwi o Tauranga

Moana and the church. After the battles of Gate Pa and Te Ranga in 1864 most of the land was transferred to the Crown in 1867, under protest from the Church Missionary Society. Ngai Tamarawaho occupied the old town hall in September 1987, just prior to its demolition. The Tauranga Memories website records: ‘The Council called upon the police to evict the protestors. Reinforcements were called in from Whakatane and Rotorua and on 16 September 1987 the police moved in. Debris including rocks and wood were thrown down the stairwell by protestors and onto the heads of police attempting to gain entry into the Town Hall. Police were then ﬁtted with protective shields and helmets. They used sledgehammers and a chainsaw to smash through the barricades. Fifteen men and eight women were arrested and charged with trespass while press photographers and journalists were threatened with arrest and told to leave the premises by police.’ Andrew Campbell

Funding boost for estuary managers An environmental group’s drive to improve stream and river water quality in the Katikati catchment from the Kaimai Range to Tauranga Harbour has been boosted by $250,000 of government funding over the next five years. It’s the Uretara Estuary Managers group – a bunch of volunteers who focus on improving water quality through riparian fencing, stream bank planting and wetland protection. It also monitors aquatic diversity in Western Bay waterways. The UEM’s work has been necessitated by urban development, intensification of land use and changing farm practices which have accelerated stream bank erosion, sedimentation and stream pollution through five catchments. UEM chairman Lawrie Donald says the funding will enable the group to accelerate the catchment work for many years to come. “The funding is an outstanding result and I am immensely proud of the group’s dedication.”

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Finding the Bay’s next Rising Star Talented young musicians from around the Bay of Plenty will compete for the title of Rising Star 2017 in Bay of Plenty Symphonia’s next concert. This is the culmination of two competitions for secondary school level students: one for composition and the other, a concerto competition, for performance. The concert will be opened by 18-year-old Shamus Baker from Rotorua who won this year’s composition competition with his innovative piece for the orchestra ‘Skylines’. Six ﬁnalists in the concerto competition will then perform a challenging piece accompanied by the orchestra. Among them will be brass player James Robinson, a Year 11 student from Tauranga Boys’ College, performing Haydn’s well-known ‘Trumpet Concerto’. Three ﬁnalists are from Bethlehem College: trombonist Elliot Lee, 17, playing a concertino by the German

Tauranga Boys’ College student James Robinson is one of the ﬁnalists in the concerto competition. composer David; ﬂautist Loredana Kint, 17, playing Mozart’s ‘Flute Concerto’ and pianist Mei Hei Luk, 18, with Chopin’s ‘First Piano Concerto’. Trombonist Leo Read from Taneatua plays a concerto by Bourgeois; and Rotorua’s Rosa Hook plays Wieniawski’s ‘Violin Concerto No. 2’. While the panel of nationallyrecognised professional judges consider their verdict, the

audience will be entertained by the Symphonia’s 2015 winning Rising Star, Soomin Kim, who is now studying piano performance at the University of Auckland. Prizes will be presented by Tauranga Mayor Greg Brownless. The concert is at 3.30pm on Sunday, September 3 at Tauranga Boys’ College. Tickets are $25 for adults; $22 for seniors, $21 for members and Friends of BOPS, and $5 for 18 years and under. Tickets are available at www.iticket.co.nz or in person at i-SITE, Willow St.

The Weekend Sun has one double pass to Bay of Plenty Symphonia’s September 3 concert for one lucky reader who can tell us who the 2015 winner of the Rising Star competition was? Enter at www.sunlive.co.nz under the competition section. Entries must be received by Wednesday, August 23.

‘Wonder Women’ speak about nanoscience Ever wondered what the life of a nanoscientist is like and what it would be like being a female scientist in physics, chemistry or engineering – areas of science largely dominated by men? The free annual MacDiarmid Regional Lecture Series is coming to the Bay of Plenty this week and the ‘Wonder Women’ event will focus on women in nanoscience this year. The public talk will feature personal stories, told by women scientists from the

MacDiarmid Institute, and will take you on a tour of the realities of life as a scientist and the research in the MacDiarmid Institute – from chemistry to physics, to engineering to biology and beyond. The talk is suitable for all levels and ages. Come and hear two MacDiarmid materials science engineers, Dr Jenny Malmstrom and Dr Laura Domigan, talk about their lives and work at Tauranga Yacht Club on Sulphur Point on Monday, August 21 from 6.30pm.

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Drive to bring back bottle deposits A new campaign has been launched to bring back bottle deposits – returning empty drink bottles for a cash return. The Kiwi Bottle Drive is a campaign to bring back bottle deposits. "We used to have bottle deposits," says campaign manager Sandra Murray. "Don’t you remember taking bottles back to the dairy as a kid and getting 10 cents per bottle? That was enough for a big bag of lollies. You never saw a bottle in the gutter when we had bottle deposits." A new PET plastic recycling facility has opened in Christchurch with the capacity to turn 200 million plastic drink bottles a year into high grade food-safe packaging, enabling New Zealand to move away from exporting our waste to other countries. Sandra says at the moment, we only collect about 35 per cent of our drink containers. "A bottle deposit scheme will ensure at least 85 per cent

of PET and other drink containers are collected and sent for recycling. Without such a scheme, the new PET facility risks being underutilised". A bottle deposit scheme is where you pay a small fee when you buy a bottle and you get that money back when you take the bottle in to be recycled. "Bottle deposits are a way for kids to get pocket money; it would create about 2500 jobs nationwide; and it would reduce litter by about 65 per cent," says Sandra. The Kiwi Bottle Drive is encouraging people to send a bottle to the Minister for the Environment to show their support for bottle deposits to be re-introduced. Bottles can be sent to ‘Minister for the Environment, Freepost Parliament, Private Bag 18 888, Parliament Buildings, Wellington 6160. Sandra believes that around 3000 bottles have already been sent and is aiming for 10,000. More information can be found at www.kiwibottledrive.nz

Almost 400,000 Kiwis not reading any more Nearly 400,000 Kiwi adults haven’t picked up a book in the past 12 months, with many saying they don’t have the time or inclination to read. A new survey into New Zealanders’ reading habits has revealed that 394,000 of Kiwi adult survey respondents (31 per cent) don’t have time to read, 24 per cent say they don’t enjoy reading, and 16 per cent say they feel it is easier to watch movies based on a book. The good news is that many Kiwis devour an average of 20.6 books a year, with almost 50 per cent of survey respondents reading at least one book by a New Zealand author in the past 12 months. The majority of us read for relaxation and enjoyment, and our favourite ﬁction genres are crime, thriller and adventure stories. The Book Reading in New Zealand survey was conducted by Horizon Research for the New Zealand Book Council. "It is brilliant to see that so many Kiwis love to

read. However, it is very alarming that almost half a million people in Aotearoa did not read a book in the past 12 months,” says Book Council chief executive Jo Cribb. “The increasing demands of society and work mean more than ever New Zealanders need to understand and apply information across a range of sources in order to function effectively at work and everyday life. Reading is the critical foundation for all types of literacy." New Zealand Book Council patron Albert Wendt says getting reading on the national agenda is a crucial step in breaking the poverty cycle in New Zealand. “There are already some excellent initiatives out there such as the Book Council’s Writers in Schools and Writers in Communities programmes, but more needs to be done. Encouraging reading, particularly reading for pleasure, is critical to ensure all New Zealanders can be part of our nation’s prosperity."

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Tsunami sirens back on the agenda Next year you will have the opportunity to choose between two types of siren for council to warn you during a civil defence emergency (including tsunami).

true (think WWII) method of warning and have lower ongoing maintenance costs over the decades. Unfortunately, this third option didn’t gain the support of a majority of councillors; largely because government is trying to have a consistent ‘national standard’ for tsunami sirens around the country. Cr Bill Grainger and I aren’t satisﬁed that air-raid sirens have been excluded from consideration so things could change, but like anything in council, you need a majority. Keep in mind any sirens will be in addition to a text message system that government is working on.

in-home sirens (working a bit like a smoke alarm); early estimates indicate a $500,000 to $1.8 million installation cost which could be partly funded via rates, or totally user-pays. We could even consider a mix of both outdoor and indoor options. The chief beneﬁts of both these systems is that they can deliver voice instructions as well as an alerting tone. However, my preference has always been for outdoor air-raid sirens because they are a tried and

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Consultation on Veterans’ Support Act underway by September 15, 2017. Consultation meetings will be held around the country, including one at the Tauranga RSA, 1237 Cameron Rd, Greerton at 11am today, Friday, August 18. Information about the independent review, consultation process and discussion document can be found on the New Zealand Defence Force website www.nzdf.mil.nz/corporate-documents/vsa “I’m looking forward to meeting as many veterans and their families as possible at the consultation meetings. They have served our country and the Veterans’ Support Act is there to provide the support and rehabilitation they need as a result of their service,”says Ron. “We don’t often get the opportunity so soon after new legislation comes into effect to independently review how it is working. “I encourage everyone who has an interest to take this opportunity to have their say.”

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A family affair

Dairy intolerance 'not in people's heads' For the ﬁrst time, scientists have shown that dairy intolerance is a physiological condition distinct from lactose intolerance and not "all in people’s heads".

"Lots of people suspect that they have some intolerance to dairy foods, but testing shows they aren’t lactose intolerant," says Dr Amber Milan, a research fellow at the Liggins Institute, University of Auckland. "Before this study, there had not been any detailed analysis of dairy intolerance to see if something

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else could be causing it. "Our findings show dairy intolerance is a ‘real thing’ with a particular symptom profile – not something that’s just in people’s heads. That means sufferers and doctors can better identify it. “Now, we need to find out more about what’s going on and how to measure it better." Amber’s team gave 30 healthy young women who reported being dairy intolerant, and a control group of 10 dairy-consuming women, two dairy ‘challenges’ involving milk.

The researchers closely tracked each woman’s digestion and metabolism of the milk with a battery of tests. Immediately after the women consumed the milk, and at 30 minute intervals for three hours, the researchers took blood, urine and breath samples, measured their waist, and performed MRI scans. The women also recorded how they felt. The clearest difference was that the discomfort and other symptoms came on and subsided sooner in dairy intolerant women, suggesting the underlying issues occurred in the stomach.

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A toddler’s travel lessons She was only two at the time and didn’t understand she had become wonderful advertisement for travel insurance… a cutie with short red hair and quite a yapper for her two brief years.

It wasn’t what she said to endorse the travel insurance but what she did. She tumbled off a ﬁreman’s pole at a playground on the Gold Coast. “Worst parenting moment of my life,” says Mum, who in order to minimise damage to her reputation as a mother, prefers not to be named. Ella broke her almost brand new femur; or thigh bone. She’s screaming in agony and mum’s trying to contain a panic. They get Ella to a hospital in a taxi because on the Gold Coast it’s quicker than waiting for an ambulance. Then the expenses start. Not the hospital because there’s some reciprocal arrangement. However there is the change of ﬂights for the family and that

comes at a premium. And don’t forget Ella’s leg is in a splint and you can’t comfortably lever that into cattle class. We’re ﬂying business class. Ka-ching! And there’s another week’s hotel accommodation until Ella’s well enough to leave hospital and ﬂy home. We’re talking thousands. But you couldn’t insure against what happened next. Right on dinner time, in business class at 30,000 feet Ella poops herself. Where do you go to clean a 2-year-old with a broken leg in a splint? Just when your patience has expired, your dignity takes a battering. “Not my most fun travel experience,” says Mum. But certainly memorable and a lesson to us all. Don’t leave home without a change of undies and socks – and travel insurance.

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What to pack in your wallet for that overseas trip With the New Zealand dollar still doing well against the Australian dollar and the British pound, now is a pretty tempting time to book the tickets, zip up the backpack and head on that longed-for OE. But what’s the best way to spend your hard-earned cash once you’ve landed on foreign shores? Research and ratings company, Canstar, looks at what you should consider to get the best bang from your buck. In May 2017, Kiwis made 2.7 million trips abroad with the most popular destinations being Australia and the United Kingdom. In the same period, $526m worth of overseas transactions were made on NZ-issued cards, showing that Kiwis don’t mind splashing the cash on their travels. "Many of us save up before our trip so we can enjoy ourselves when we’re away, but making

the right choice about how and when you exchange and spend your holiday money can make a huge difference to your budget" says Canstar general manager Jose George. "Exchange rates, charges and security are the three main things that usually top people’s list when it comes to holiday spending money, so to ensure the best possible value, we recommend travellers have a number of different options in their wallets." Travel money cards can be used in a similar way to a debit card, the difference is that it’s not linked to your bank accounts, you simply pre-load the card before you travel. Credit cards are also a good tool to have in your wallet when you’re abroad. They will often offer better rates of exchange then other methods of payment and some providers don’t charge conversion or foreign transaction fees. Debit cards are similar to credit cards but obviously you will be using funds from your bank account and cash is always good for emergencies or incidentals like taxis and tips. Jose says multistop trips are now a common occurrence for Kiwis travelling abroad and this is where travel money cards really show their value. Being able to load them up with multiple currencies means you are ready to go as

soon as you hit the tarmac. “Credit cards are perfect for things like hotels or hire cars because you don’t want to tie up funds on your money card with pre-authorisation, and obviously cash is a great fall back in emergencies or if you are visiting less popular areas." Loading your wallet with different payment options gives you ﬂexibility but you also need to be aware of the pitfalls as using the wrong one could leave you seriously out of pocket, says Jose. "As at home, credit cards can attract hefty charges for ATM withdrawals and cash advances so avoid that if you can. “Travel Money cards can offer good value but do have various fees and charges attached. With cash, if you lose it, you’re pretty much stuck. "Our advice is to do your research before you travel so you’ve got a good idea on what payment suits which situation and importantly, you never going to be in a situation where you have no money."

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The opportunity to have one-on-one English conversation classes with novice monks at Buddhist monasteries in Nepal is the latest offering from International Working Holidays, with travellers staying either in the monastery or in accommodation nearby, allowing for full immersion into the lifestyle of the monks. IWH founder Vicki Kenny says today’s young New Zealanders are looking for something completely different on their OE. “They want more than just travel – it’s volunteerism, the opportunity to see the world and give something back to it. Our working holiday travellers get to see the best part of places overseas because they are living with local people who take them off the beaten track. So they get to see what the

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tourists do and so much more.” IWH travellers start the programme with an introductory week in Kathmandu and then during the teaching phase stay at one of several monasteries in the Kathmandu, Pharping, Namobuddha, and Serlo-Everest regions. “With the growing number of people around the world who are interested in learning more about the philosophy behind Buddhism, people have started seeking

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Child respiratory illnesses have 'big impact' A study has found that childhood respiratory illnesses, especially during the ﬁrst two years of life, have a big impact on New Zealand primary care general practice workloads. The study of 36 primary care practices from the greater Wellington region looked at data from children

presenting to their GP with respiratory illness over six years. The research, led by Professor Tony Dowell from the University of Otago campus in Wellington, showed that respiratory conditions made up 46 per cent of all child GP consultations. "For the ﬁrst time, using a new way of accessing the free text in GP notes, we have been able to investigate and measure impact on primary care

practices of these childhood illnesses," says Tony. "The information will help towards more effective planning of ways of delivering health services, leading to better health outcomes.” The team reviewed the records from 77,582 children enrolled to estimate the presentation of childhood respiratory illness and service use. They analysed the data over six years from January 2008 to December 2013. The research found that upper respiratory tract infection was the most

common respiratory category, accounting for 21 per cent of all childhood consultations, followed by ear infections (12.2 per cent), wheeze-related illness (9.7 per cent), throat infection (7.4 per cent) and lower respiratory tract infection (4.4 per cent). Almost 70 per cent of children presented to their GP with at least one respiratory condition in their ﬁrst year of life. This dropped to approximately 25 per cent for children aged 10-17. The study appears in the British Medical Journal.

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Cycling education is getting a funding boost of around $24 million over four years in a bid to get more kids riding bikes safely.

The NZ Transport Agency and ACC have approved an initial $2.7 million of funding to establish a national cycling education system by June 2018. The total investment, including delivery of cycling education is expected to be around $24 million over four years. Transport minister Simon Bridges has welcomed the initiative. “Cycling is an important life skill and we want to make sure that all kids in New Zealand have the opportunity to learn to ride a bike safely from an early age. “Cycling is a great way to get around, to stay active, or to just have fun with friends and family. Kids love to ride bikes but in recent years there has been a signiﬁcant drop-off in kids cycling. This new system is designed to help reverse that trend and establish a safe systemapproach to cycling that will see a

return of more kids getting around by bike every day.” ACC minister Michael Woodhouse says many councils around New Zealand are already delivering some cycling education. “This new national approach, designed and delivered jointly by central and local government, and the community, will build on the great work already underway. This is all about making it more effective and reaching more people and being able to assess its impact on improving safety and encouraging more people to ride.” The system, aligned with the school curriculum, is focused on giving people the skills they need at the right time in their life – from learning bike handling skills in primary school through to learning road rules and how to ride on-road when they are ready. The system will also offer opportunities for adults who haven’t ridden a bike for a while with programmes designed to help them improve their skills on both standard and e-bikes. For more information visit www.nzta.govt.nz/national-cyclingeducation-system

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Is it a boy or a girl? And what is NIPT? Pregnancy scans are important for pregnant mums to ensure baby is growing well and baby’s anatomy is normal. For many women checking the sex of the baby is important too. Is ‘it’ a boy or a girl? In only about two in 100 women a scan can’t tell, usually because of baby’s position. Many of you have had babies, and had a blood test around 10 weeks and a 12 week Nuchal scan (the MSS1 screening test). The blood test is free at Pathlab, as are all pregnancy scans at Medex. There is an exciting new test which is unfortunately not yet funded. It is called NIPT (Non Invasive Prenatal Testing). This is a blood test from the Mum’s blood any time from 10 weeks of pregnancy. Mum’s blood has a small number of fetal cells in her blood stream so a test of her blood can look at her baby’s cells for conditions such as Down Syndrome, with far greater accuracy than the nuchal scan/MSS1 screening. The blood test results are available in one to two weeks. Three tests are currently available in New Zealand and are done in conjunction with your LMC or obstetrician – Sequenom (blood test in Tauranga), Percept (blood test in Auckland) and Harmony (blood test in Hamilton). They can also tell whether baby is a boy or girl – but an experienced

sonographer can do this for free at Medex 98 per cent of the time. A 12-week scan is still important, even if you have an NIPT test since it picks other things such as twins. If you wish to know more about NIPT ask your LMC, obstetrician, or contact us at Medex.

Telehealth hits a million plus More than a million contacts have now been made to the country's telehealth provider for advice on health issues, including mental health and addiction support. The National Telehealth Service operates a number of health information services and has recently hit a million contacts in just under

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The journey, not necessarily the destination “Every mystery solved brings us to the threshold of a greater one.” – Rachel Carson. How often do we start our journey with the focus being on our destination and, because of that focus, don’t ask the questions that would help us grow along the way? When exploring the mysteries in my life I love how they become more mysterious

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as the horizons open up to the beauty and wonder of their unfolding. I know I don’t need to solve all the mysteries, rather I want to explore them one step at a time and embrace the little pieces that are revealed to me.

At the same time, the greater the mystery, and the deeper I delve, the more enigmatic and wondrous it becomes. What questions are you asking yourself along your journey and what mysteries are you exploring? If you would like to know more about coaching or supervision phone Mary Parker, The Fast Track Coach, 07 577 1200/021 258 2145 or visit www.thefasttrackcoach.co.nz

20 months of operation. This includes more than 600,000 contacts to Healthline, 141,000 hits to mental health and addiction services, 150,000 hits to Quitline and 43,000 hits for poisons advice. In June the ‘Need to talk? 1737’ service was launched – a free fourdigit number people can text or call to talk with a counsellor anytime, day or night.

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Roll-out of national bowel screening begins The ﬁrst letters inviting people to take part in the screening programme were sent to eligible residents in the Hutt Valley and Wairarapa DHBs recently. "This is the ﬁrst step in the phased implementation of the free National Bowel Screening Programme throughout New

Zealand over the next three years," says Jonathan. Once screening is available nationwide it’s expected that up to 700 cancers will be detected annually. In line with international best practice, the screening programme is being phased in progressively. Once it is fully rolled out, more than 700,000 people aged between 60 and 74 will be invited for free screening every two years. "The introduction of the programme follows on from the successful pilot that has been run by Waitemata DHB since late 2011.

Waitemata will continue screening through the pilot until the end of this year and transition to the national programme in January 2018," says Jonathan. Southern and Counties Manukau DHBs will be the next to join the rollout and the nationwide rollout will be completed by 2020. The government has invested $77.8 million into the screening programme’s progressive rollout to date, with a further $19 million invested into delivering more colonoscopies quicker. Further information on the National Bowel Screening Programme is available at www.bowelscreening.health.govt.nz

Aileen McGowan from Waikato Hospital inside a huge inﬂatable bowel with its representation of advanced colon cancer at Fieldays this year.

Do you have eye issues and not realise? The eye condition glaucoma is the leading cause of preventable blindness in New Zealand with the prevalence increasing to 10 per cent for those of us over the age of 70. Glaucoma can occur in people of all ages however, and is more common if someone in our family also has the condition.

glaucoma will cause to your vision. A thorough eye check for glaucoma should involve checking a number of factors, including the pressure of the fluid in the eye (the main risk for glaucoma is a higher than normal eye pressure), a 3D inspection of the optic nerve, assessment of the fluid drainage angle in the eye, measurement of corneal thickness, testing of peripheral vision, and a retinal and optic nerve OCT scan to look for early damage to the nerve fibres. Glaucoma causes With proper care only progressive and two per cent of people irreversible vision loss with glaucoma will go due to damage to the blind in their lifetime. optic nerve in the back Your optometrist of the eye. Glaucoma is is the best person to a painless condition and he gr visit for a glaucoma vis only affects your ability de check. Some therapeutic ion e t to see details like words and ra of s optometrists are also ode ome faces after significant nerve one with glaucoma of a m accredited to manage and treat damage has occurred. glaucoma. If you or someone you For this reason it is known as the know has not had their eyes checked for ‘silent thief of sight’ as many people with the glaucoma in the past two years arrange a consultation condition are unaware of any symptoms. before any potential damage is done. Early diagnosis is important to limit the damage

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Health Minister Jonathan Coleman says the start of the bowel screening programme is a major milestone for the New Zealand health system and will ultimately save lives.

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New optometrist clinic open in the Bay It is extremely important to have regular eye examinations. Even if your vision seems ﬁne the health of the eyes needs to be thoroughly checked.

Tumours in the eyes can manifest at any age, and if they are not detected early they can spread to the rest of the body and become life-threatening. Most people will get their eyes checked only when they start experiencing vision problems, and although tumours are relatively rare,

the consequences can be devastating if they are not detected early. This is what has led Jayesh Unka to start Illusions Optometrists. The core value of his practice is that the level of care provided by the team is the same level that they would provide to any member of their own families. Throughout Jayesh’s time within the profession he has become increasingly concerned with the amount of people he’s come across who have had an eye exam and have felt like just a number on a production line, or like they were being pressured into a purchase of glasses.

He has also noted that there is a wide variety in the quality and thoroughness of testing, often a result of time-saving to ﬁt more clients in. Optometry is a health profession, and Jayesh feels these sorts of issues should not be cropping up. “I am thrilled that everyone we’ve seen so far has been really happy with the service, so much so that the testimonial page on our website is already full. We put our heart and soul in for our clients, and it’s so Owner and optometrist special to see our work Jayesh Unka appreciated,” says Jayesh.

Do I need some extra magnesium in my diet? (Part 2) As a nutritional medicine practitioner, magnesium is one of my most commonly prescribed supplements. This is because it is involved in numerous body processes and can help problems in a number of different tissue types and body systems. The most common reason to supplement with magnesium is for muscle cramps, especially at night. Before I supplemented with magnesium I remember getting cramps in my legs and having to get up and jump around the bedroom to unlock seized muscles. A high-grade magnesium supplement taken before bed will usually eliminate these problems. This means that the magnesium is at maximum beneﬁt during the ﬁrst part of the night to help relax muscles and nerves. It can be helpful for those with restless legs. I also advise a good multi-mineral as low calcium and potassium can also contribute to cramp. Additionally, medications like diuretics can reduce levels of these important minerals. Magnesium is one supplement that requires experimentation. Unfortunately

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many magnesium supplements are one-a-day products making dose experimentation almost impossible. In my experience the dosage of magnesium needed differs a lot. Many supplements also use low-grade oxide which is harsh on the digestive tract. The only real downside of magnesium supplements is they can cause diarrhea. However this laxative effect can be helpful for those that tend towards constipation. I use three different forms of magnesium. Two of these are amino acid chelates where amino acids are bonded to magnesium. These chelated forms are well-tolerated and are very well-absorbed as they are absorbed via protein pathways. I also add non-chelated citrate as it is highly soluble. I deliberately formulate the capsules to have a dosage range. Normally two capsules will sufﬁce but short term doses of four capsules can be used. For more information give me a call

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Changes needed to rural health service delivery The call for a nationallyfocused, multi-disciplinary approach to training rural health professionals is a sensible way to address the longer term health needs of rural communities, says the New Zealand Rural General Practice Network.

The network supports a call by Professor Max Abbott, dean of the Faculty of Health and Environmental Sciences at Auckland University of Technology, to train not only doctors but also nurses and allied health professionals speciﬁcally for rural communities, many of which struggle to recruit and retain health professionals, says chief

executive Dalton Kelly. "Professor Abbott’s assertion that we don’t need more of the same, we need to do things differently and better, goes right to the heart of the matter. "If doctors, nurses, pharmacy and midwives, for example, are training together in a rural health setting, they are going to be far better prepared to work and live in a rural community," says Dalton. "Rural New Zealand’s workforce training, recruitment and retention challenges are well documented. We now also

have the added challenge of a rapidly ageing workforce with 40 per cent of GPs set to retire nationwide in the next ﬁve to 10 years. "We know that replacing every retiring GP in rural New Zealand is probably not achievable, so it’s important that we promote rural health careers for other health professions such as nurse practitioners, rural nurse specialists, pharmacists

and others who make up the integrated rural healthcare team," says Dalton. "To have our leading universities collaborate to train these medical and health professionals to work and live in rural communities is a pragmatic approach." A collaborative and focussed training pathway is also more likely to gain government support says Dalton.

Growing and nurturing careers If you’re interested in a career in horticulture, agriculture or forestry, the New Zealand Certiﬁcate in Primary Industries (Level 2) starting in September at Toi Ohomai Institute of Technology could be a great place to start – and it’s completely free. The entry level, 12-week course gives students a taste of what it would really be like to work in a range of primary industries – an area that is crying out for skilled employees. “There are plenty of jobs available in the primary industries, including work in forestry, horticulture and agriculture,” says group leader primary production Shelley Rose. “We’re giving people the opportunity to get practical skills in a range of areas so they can then

go out and get an entry level role, or carry on to a higher level of study in a more specialised area.” There is a huge range of content, from fencing and weather interpretation, to handling livestock and planting and gardening maintenance. Students are also introduced to safe Toi Ohomai Institute of working practices and Technology is how to identify and helping teach report rural hazards. students about It’s not just practical the real world. skills that get jobs; students will also scrub up on their numeracy, literacy and communications skills to ensure they graduate a well-rounded and employable individual. The next intake for the Tauranga delivery of the New Zealand Certiﬁcate in Primary Industries (Level 2) starts on September 4. This is a free course, so places are ﬁlling fast. Phone 0800 86 46 46 or visit www.toiohomai.ac.nz for more information or to apply.

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Older cars not as safe as newer models People are twice as likely to die in a crash if the car they’re travelling in was built before 2000. That was the ﬁndings of a car-to-car crash test conducted earlier this year by independent vehicle safety advocate Australasian New Car Assessment Programme.

The average age of cars in New Zealand is more than 14 years. And New Zealand Transport Agency data shows cars built before 2000, which represents nearly 40 per cent of all passenger cars and SUVs on New Zealand roads, are involved in 57 per cent of fatalities. Outcomes improve hugely a decade later. Cars produced between 2010 and 2015, which make up 17 per cent of the

fleet, were involved in 10 per cent of fatalities. AA Motoring services general manager Stella Stocks says older vehicles are significantly overrepresented in crashes that resulted in death. “Vehicle manufacturers are playing their part by building better, safer cars packed full of crash prevention technology, but for this to have more impact on our road toll the average age of the fleet must reduce significantly,” says Stella. Last year 328 people died on New Zealand roads. The data from the fleet profile compared against fatalities shows there would be fewer deaths if older cars were not a factor. The May test lined up a 1998 Toyota Corolla against its 2015-built counterpart, which has

a ﬁve-star ANCAP safety rating, and crashed in a simulated off-set head-on – with dramatic results. The 1998 Corolla was built before the current frontal impact rule was applied that sets minimum safety standards for cars sold in NZ. It’s also not equipped with life-saving airbags. “This crash test shows the driver in the older vehicle would likely have been killed or very seriously injured,” says Stella. The crash was at a closing speed of nearly 130km/h – each vehicle was pulled on a wire to a

speed of 64km/h. “On the open road with a closing speed of 200km/h, the outcome would have been even more signiﬁcant for the occupants of both cars and almost certain death for any occupants of the older vehicle.” The test, conducted during the fourth United Nations Global Road Safety week, highlighted the role safer vehicles play in improving crash outcomes for vehicle occupants. The AA is now advising car buyers to avoid buying any vehicle built in the 20th century.

Paddon to compete in Gold Rush Rally New Zealand and World Rally motorsport icon Hayden Paddon will be racing on Coromandel roads that were last used for rallying during the 1979 International Motogard Rally of New Zealand at this year’s Mahindra Gold Rush Rally on Saturday, August 26. More than 60 rally cars are expected to compete in what is round four of the 2017 New Zealand Rally Championship, ofﬁcially called the Mahindra Gold Rush Rally of Coromandel, The Mercury Bay Multi-Sports Park in Whitianga

will be rally headquarters for the weekend and spectators are welcome to come and view the cars and crews up close as they come in for servicing before heading into the Whitianga Town Centre for the ceremonial ﬁnish later in the afternoon.

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Electric vehicle owners unfazed by 'range anxiety' Most electric vehicle owners are unfazed by the prospect of getting stranded with a flat battery. This is the finding of the latest poll by Flip the Fleet, a citizen science collaboration of more 200 New Zealand electric vehicle owners that share data from their cars’ dashboards each month. The poll found 72 per cent of drivers experience no or only very occasional range anxiety. New electric vehicle owners are more anxious at first, but quickly learn the performance of their EV and drive within its range. As one respondent put it: "We are not idiots. We can see how much we have in the tank before we start out". Another said: "In 51 years of driving an internal combustion vehicle, I have run

out of gas three times - I bet I can score just as well in whatever number of years I have left driving a battery around". So do EV owners not get stuck just because they hardly go anywhere? Far from it. Flip the Fleet has already logged 447 randomly selected trips by full electric vehicles – that’s not including any of their hybrids. The average trip out and then back to home base was 54 km. The ‘median’ distance was 27km. Around eight per cent of trips have EV drivers driving more than 100 km before returning to home base. The ﬁgures are not much different from those for trips in conventional vehicles.

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Youth to have voice in education system A ministerial youth advisory group is being set up to enable young people to have their say and have more inﬂuence on the education system and issues that affect them. “Our schools are all about and for our young people, so it’s really important to me that we have a way for them to share their views,” says education minister Nikki Kaye. “This is about ensuring that young people are at the heart of decisions made about education in New Zealand. “I want them to be able to

share their experiences of our education system, as well as ideas about any improvements we can make.” The advisory group will be made up of 10 young people. Another group of young people will be part of an online youth forum which will discuss and test insights gathered from the advisory group, to ensure diverse viewpoints are gathered on selected education topics. “I encourage all

students aged between 14-18 years who are keen to represent their peers to register their interest,” says Nikki. “I will approve the ﬁnal members of the advisory group from a shortlist provided to me by the Ministry of Education.” The ﬁrst meeting will be held in February 2018. “It’s totally up to the students what they want to discuss when the advisory group meets, but as a starter I imagine topics could include things

Giving students practical skills for after school Labour has proposed a ‘School Leavers’ Toolkit’ to give school leavers the practical skills and knowledge they need for adult life. “Our teachers and schools do a great job of teaching our children core knowledge and learning skills,” says Labour leader Jacinda Ardern. “However, the Future of Work Commission identiﬁed the need to do better in giving young people the practical skills that they need, in the workplace, in their day- to-day lives, and as members of the community.

“Having a driving licence so you can get to work, knowing how to ﬁt into a workplace, knowing how to manage your money, and knowing how to take your place in the community – these are all important skills in adult life, and we need to do more to ensure our young people are equipped with them.” The School Leavers’ Toolkit will help students learn to drive, understand practical budgeting, be equipped with workplace skills, and learn how our political system operates through civics education. Secondary schools will be resourced to provide these courses.

Whether you’re just starting your career, looking for something new, or wanting to upskill, the University of Waikato has an option to suit you. Come along to one of our Tauranga Information Evenings to find out more about degrees, scholarships, accommodation, student support and more. DATES: TIME: VENUE:

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like student wellbeing, the education priorities that matter most to young people, and the role of digital technology in learning and assessment,” says Nikki. The students’ insights will be shared with the Ministry of Education’s leadership team, relevant business groups and other education agencies. “I’m really looking forward to hearing directly from young people about their experiences of education,” says Nikki. “I expect them to bring a fresh perspective and insights about our education system, and the most

important issues they’re facing.” Online registrations of interest will open on Monday, August 14 on the Ministry of Education website www.education.govt.nz

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Help prevent nasty injuries caused by slips and falls Balance, eye movements and your spine need to interact seamlessly to create stability and allow dynamic movement to prevent us from falling.

Falling is usually injurious but more common is the sensation of not feeling comfortable while performing tasks such as reaching above your head to take something off a shelf, walking along a slippery path in the dark, or

motion sickness from being in a car or boat. This intrinsic anxiety is telling you to be aware. The vestibular system, joint position sense and your eyes tell you where your body is within your environment; at home, Bayfair shopping mall, playing a sport, driving a car, crossing a road, playing at school or at work. The vestibular system maps how you move in response to gravity; proprioception tells your brain how you are moving; and your eyes observe the environment you are in, how you relate to objects and how those objects relate to the surroundings. As you mine down, this becomes more complex and integration of these systems becomes a measure of how well you do anything. Most commonly, injuries resulting from a slip or fall at home or work; scooter, push

bikes, skate boards, motor vehicle accidents; sports injuries including concussions can all affect how you cope in your life. Critically, to measure balance, eyes, and proprioception precisely you need precise

recording equipment. Measuring with posturgraphy, tracking of spine and eye movements creates an integrated treatment plan. If you are interested contact Greerton Chiropractic to learn more.

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Greerton Swim Club breaks records Greerton Swim Club has several new records pending approval after taking part in a recent short course swim meet last weekend.

He says his daughter’s achievement is “excellent”, especially as she had just come from a full day of netball competition. Both of the Farrell kids began swimming at BaySwim, and Mark says they’re both getting good guidance from their coaches at Greerton, Tai Daniela Among them is young swimmer Caitlin Farrell who and Riccardo Pini. set her first record in the 100 metre Greerton Swim Club president Michael 11-year-old girls’ freestyle. Pugh says four regions from around the She finished the race in 1:04.43, beating central North Island the former record of 1:04.82 by a few attended the Bay of milliseconds. Plenty Short Course “I was very happy,” says Caitlin, Championships, which who came second by only 13 involved swimmers from milliseconds to a 12-yearBay of Plenty, Waikato, old competitor. Taranaki, and Hawke’s BayShe says she doesn’t Poverty Bay. know quite when she “A lot of the kids use it started swimming, but as a chance to qualify for she’s been competing the New Zealand Short for four years. Course Championships “I just enjoy having fun up in Auckland, which and winning races sometimes. have very strict qualifying I want to take it further and grow times,” says Michael. and get better.” “Greerton did pretty well. Dad Mark Farrell couldn’t be I think we’ve got around 13 11-year-old Caitlin Farrell could be swimmers who have qualified for prouder, and says swimming one of Greerton Swim Club’s nationals. success runs in the family. record-breaking swimmers. “We normally have a strong “Her older brother Connor, 15, continent going.” competes at a national level. All records are awaiting approval by Swimming He’s broken some Bay records in the past, which Bay of Plenty. have been bettered since.”

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Lucky Mark wins Mid-Winter Madness prize Thursday, August 10 was the night that we drew our MidWinter Madness winner in the Village Square. The evening kicked off at 5pm with ‘Roro’ the Clown entertaining the kids with his unicycle antics and juggling lessons – have you noticed how the kids always want to copy the clown? Luckily for us ‘Roro’ was only too happy to accommodate. Soon after, the very colourful and vibrant Tauranga Samba Drummers took to the stage – in this case the grass – to beat out their rhythms as the kids walked down the walkway from Lincoln Terrace and displayed their handmade lanterns in the square, and later in the tree – a perfect spot to show off their handiwork. At 6.30pm a crowd had formed to await the moment the winner would be revealed. Under police supervision, ‘Roro’ drew a ticket from the almost 14,000 entries and Mark Whitaker was our winner. We could not reach Mark that evening, however he later described his happiness when listening to the mailbox message at

5am the next day – waking his wife in his excitement to tell her the news. Mark resides in Maungatapu and is a regular shopper in Greerton Village. Mark had made a purchase at Choice of Chadwick, one of the 55 participating businesses in Greerton Village, and is now having a grand

time with his wife, family and friends spending his $5000 – showing that it really does pay to shop in Greerton Village. September 30 will be another really good day to visit us in Greerton Village for our ever-popular Cherry Blossom Festival, incorporating the Street Car Show and Greerton Village Gala Day. More to come on this but mark your calendars now. For more information contact Sally on 571 6347 or email ofﬁce@greertonvillage.org.nz

Tumble along to Orchidland Unlike Alice, whose curiosity led her to tumble down a rabbit hole, patrons attending the Tauranga Orchid Society’s show ‘Alice in Orchidland’ from September 22-24 will be able to stay above ground at the Tauranga Racecourse in Greerton. Secretary Sandra Simpson says patrons can expect a marvellous display of ﬂowering plants at the show, with the theme ‘Alice in Orchidland’ named after the famous Lewis Carroll story ‘Alice in Wonderland’. “We’ll have a tea party display set up as well as potting demonstrations that will roll on through the course of each day. People love those because it’s really sensible advice from a local, experienced grower. They can also ask any club member for advice.” The club has about 60 members, hailing from Katikati to Te Puke, and many of them will be competing for awards for their blooms on the Saturday morning of the show. The types of orchids vying for awards will vary

depending on what members have been able to grow in the lead-up to the event. “This year’s been a bit funny because it was warmer later, but then we had that cold snap which slowed things right down again. And it’s rained and been overcast a lot. Every year is different,” says Sandra. The Tauranga Orchid Society will have plants for sale, as well as a number of commercial growers from Auckland, Whakatane and Gisborne. There will also be a stands selling fertilisers and other growing mediums for orchids, rafﬂes and an on-site cafe. “It’s everything orchids really,” says Sandra. The Tauranga Orchid Show is on at the Tauranga Racecourse, 1383 Cameron Rd, Greerton on Friday, September 22 to Sunday, September 24 from 10am-4pm each day. Admission is $3 at the door.

Greerton Village soon to burst into colour It’s a magical time of year – when Mother Nature graciously touches Greerton with her wand and transforms the village into a picture of pink cherry blossoms.

And the suburb celebrates the arrival of the spring blossoms with the annual Cherry Blossom Festival on September 30 between 10am and 2pm in the Greerton Village shopping centre. There will be the street machines and customs car show

which has become an integral component of the festival. There will be a school gala, kapa haka, live music, dancing and street performers, a bouncy castle and street stalls. The event is organised by the Greerton Village Mainstreet Association.

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Businesses falling behind in corporate social responsibility Some of New Zealand’s largest businesses are lagging behind their international counterparts in their levels of corporate social responsibility, according to new data.

The research, which measured CSR performance across more than 17,000 businesses globally, found New Zealand companies ranked just 33 out of 36 countries across the CSR criteria of community, employees, governance and environment.

New Zealand general manager of GSK Anna Stove says Kiwi companies are potentially missing opportunities from a growing, ethically-conscious market, and at the same time have an obligation to support social causes beyond their immediate interest in shortterm profits. "Increasingly, CSR information is used by customers, suppliers, employees and investors to make socially responsible decisions about who to buy from, transact with, work with and invest in. "It is becoming essential for businesses to extend the traditional measurement of their financial outcomes to include a degree of their social impact as an indicator of performance – in other words, create a double bottom line," she says. Anna says organisations can’t commit to sustainable social investment unless they are profitable. "While business scale helps provide the resources required for major ethical initiatives, it is the development of an

organisational mind-set that is the real prerequisite we need to effect change," she says. Anna says CSR has now evolved to become a key consideration for prospective employees and this trend is being driven by a demographic shift in the employment market. "Millennials are expected to make up half of the global workforce by 2020 and this generation, more than others, is seeking a social conscience in the companies they work for. "Ten years ago, a job candidate would talk about their interest in the products the business sells during an interview, while today the focus is on a company’s work in the community. “This marks a major shift in one of the primary drivers of employment decisions," she says. Anna says that more research is needed to determine why New Zealand ranked below other markets in the latest study. "While there could be a number of methodological reasons why NZ companies performed at this level that are

difﬁcult to identify, the results are a timely reminder for our organisations to assess their investment in CSR. "If our corporate efforts don’t support our approach to marketing New Zealand’s identity, we will start to see an erosion of our nation’s brand equity. That’s something that will affect our tourism market but also other key parts of our economy like the agricultural sector which seek a premium for our food products.”

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Anti-money laundering laws pass Parliament has unanimously passed reforms to strengthen the existing Anti-Money Laundering and Countering Financing of Terrorism Act 2009. "Money laundering and the ﬁnancing of terrorism is a global issue with serious consequences. “It is a blight on society that undermines the hard work of legitimate businesses by allowing criminals to fund their lifestyles and fuel re-investment into criminal activities," says justice minister Amy Adams. The Anti-Money Laundering and Countering Financing of Terrorism Amendment Bill extends the current AML/CFT regime to lawyers, conveyancers, accountants, real estate agents,

sports and racing betting and businesses that deal in certain high value goods. "Extending the regime to these sectors will strengthen our ability to prevent, detect and prosecute many types of criminal activity. It is estimated these reforms will disrupt up to $1.7 billion of fraud and drug crime, prevent up to $5 billion in broader criminal activity, and reduce social harm by $800 million over 10 years," says Amy. "This Bill will help prevent New Zealand being used by international criminals to launder money, and help protect our hard fought reputation as being one of the least corrupt countries in

the world and a good place to do business." New Zealand’s AML/CFT regime is scheduled to be evaluated by the Financial Action Taskforce in 2020. This Bill will assist our preparation for the evaluation by the taskforce in 2020. Amy says the Bill strikes the right balance between combating crime, minimising the cost of compliance and meeting international obligations. Businesses will have a period of time to prepare for the changes. The government will provide guidance and information to help them understand, prepare for and comply with the law.

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CTC – Central Tauranga Coronary? meteorically be created to resuscitate the failing CTCCBC-TCC heart before the last breath escapes. The fourth/last component: Baycourt rebuild 50 per cent plus bigger; say good-bye to another ﬁtfor-purpose building demolished. When the dealing’s done there will be $200 million in new debt and $35 million plus/pa rate increase for generations to come. Then add other spends/debt, $236m government loan, inescapably most likely to reach around three quarters of a billion dollars TCC debt. This is TCC ratepayers’ fate in a couple of years. Will the desires of the few for another bronze plaque sate an ego of a few? TCC ratepayers are being unwittingly lined up to pay for all; a binding referendum allows all a say. I Stevenson, Tauranga.

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The Civic Transformation Committee plans to single-mindedly ‘transform’ the CBD heart to something wonderful. All storylines/ creativity ﬂowing thick and fast to self-justify that single purpose, all else ignored. This scheme is indeed nefariously impressive, lots of shiny/ bright/glowing/coloured bling-bling to distract many with the ‘feel-good’ facade. The fantastically expensive multilevel glass tower housing ‘mushrooming’ TCC staff levels, including all creative dreams imaginable, are only there to hide the ‘dark-side’ of the scheming. This malevolent-type puzzle isn’t what it seems. The truth looks like ‘think-big’ revived, revelations for total destruction TCC-CBD-heart means just that. Everything at Willow St must go, 100 per cent gone. Daydreamers hope that somehow a Phoenix will

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Labour water woes Our government has correctly always stated that no individual owns the water. In reality the NZ government administers water for everyone, including fresh water and its use and allocation, in a ﬁduciary capacity as guardian and trustee for all Kiwis. Total NZ water use is around 2 million cubic metres (2 trillion litres) per annum. The Labour Party is currently mouthing off about charging commercial water users, potentially targeting one trillion litres per annum, and has taken to its ridiculous conclusion a one cent levy per litre would return $10 billion per annum. You don’t have to be Einstein to realise that living costs will go through the roof and every ordinary Kiwi will pay through the nose for this aberration. Labour’s manifesto and race-based

Ramping up the conversation Last week Ms Sue McArthur had a moan about her Farm Street development being refused resource consent (page 3, The Weekend Sun, August 11). She is quoted “the conversation in the community about how the city is going to grow has to be ramped up” and “how to go about making (the city) a really great place to live”. I’ll start the ramping by asking Ms McArthur: would she be perfectly happy for the three-storey plus lift tower building to be constructed right beside her home? P Harlen, Mount Maunganui.

utterances indicate they would give 50 per cent of all water revenue to vested Maori interests and that’s scary, unacceptable racebased preferential treatment. Maori interests will, of course, be exempt from any water levy and a white elephant water bureaucracy will emerge. Labour has no legal right to charge anyone for water at common law and even the Romans with their Justinian Code 535AD Book of Things stated “by the laws of nature these things are common to mankind, the air, running water, the sea and consequently the shores of the sea”. New Zealand First’s freshwater policy is spot on. R Paterson, Mount Maunganui. (Abridged)

One people

We certainly have an interesting situation on the political scene. Don Brash has a very good point in that he wonders how long New Zealand will have ‘The People, and ‘Our People’. He does raise an important point, very skilfully avoided by most candidates for parliament who might just lose a couple of votes along the way. Is this a system that will go on for another hundred years because many chose to look the other way; perhaps the head-inthe-sand trick? Some political parties use the above to score a point and a seat in parliament. The Metiria Turei saga is an example of the many who ﬁnd it too easy to work the system. Let’s have ‘One People’ with equal rights for all, then we all win. It will happen, the question is when Jacinda? R Chamberlain, Otumoetai. (Abridged)

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Thank you for the article on ‘Poorer households, poorer hearts’ (page 12, The Weekend Sun, August 4). The Finland report mentioned puts the real issue of community welfare and child health into perspective. When I was nursing in the mid-1960s, we were all proud of the 1964 World OECD child health statistical report that placed New Zealand in fourth place in child healthcare. During those years we had a thriving Plunket Society and Karitane nursing community service, based on traditional treatments, prevention, hygiene education and home support. A standard I applied when contracted to manage the new children’s ward of the Taumarunui Public Hospital. By 2014, New Zealand was shockingly placed in 24th

place in the World OECD statistics for our child health level. This is outrageous, and an indictment on our present medical system. During the decades between 1970 and up to the present day there has been more emphasis on medical drugs, medical services, vaccinations and police intervention in social services and less emphasis on traditional family care, as well as poor government and DHB support for the Plunket Society’s role in community welfare. As a consequence New Zealand is now shamefully placed low in world child health statistics. A comparative research study would point out a solution. J Priest, Tauranga.

Be careful how you vote Great to have an early election while all National’s excesses are imprinted on our minds. Billions have been paid in treaty settlements and apologies while government infrastructures – health, welfare, education, transport – suffer. Claims are underway for title and control of the whole NZ coastline, and thanks to Nick Smith, iwi control of the RMA will cost the country dearly. The National government is almost solely responsible for the housing crisis since it abrogated its responsibilities, sold off state houses and passed onus to district councils whose only responsibility is to provide the infrastructure. Housing is part of the mandate for which all parliaments are responsible. We can remember when nature’s gifts were held in trust by the Crown for ISSUE 2, 2017

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A clever marketing ploy to sell old stock So quick to condemn. The Greens co-leader does not surprise me, and yes what she did was wrong, but not out of place. There would not be many of us out there that have not lied nor deceived to our gain. In fact, you would be surprised to know just how many of us have indeed done the same act to achieve or advance ourselves, but alas, we will never know because we would all deny it. It surprised me to

hear the attack by National on the idea to charge commercial industries for the use of water considering they hail and promote user-pays, and, of course, not to forget the farming community and commercial industry making money from a free resource whilst everybody else has to pay. Comments like price rises and cost passed on to the consumers dished out in a scare campaign makes me wonder if these groups

are mature enough to be where they are today. You see, we have been overcharged continuously for years and prices will go up regardless of a charge on water. There are no specials or discounts people, just a clever marketing ploy to sell old stock that was overpriced in the ﬁrst place, and yes the consumers have been and still are lied to by fraudulent acts to the commercial gain. R Stewart, Te Puke.

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all New Zealanders before National traded rights and ownership to a few. Numerous people are paying extravagant rentals and ordinary New Zealanders are paying to go on beaches, around lakes and up mountains and down rivers. Cultural expression seems to go hand in hand with economic development. The Greens will rubber stamp all Maori claims when huge settlements have not ﬁltered down to improving poverty, employment and korero and they also appear to condone beneﬁt and electoral fraud. A recent hikoi where Maori protested against Maori for Tauranga district control will be nothing to the one when NZers wake up to being tenants in their own land. Be careful how you vote this year. R Stephens, Mount Maunganui.

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Speaking of obedience to God may not win you popularity, but obedience is not only central to our entire social structure, it is central to the Christian faith. God’s glory, our ability to recognise and enjoy God’s blessings, the Church’s testimony, and the world’s response to the gospel is directly affected by how we obey God, or not. Obedience to God begins with obeying the gospel of Jesus Christ and continues with persevering through obedient living. When times of failure come, and they do, we rise in repentance to continue walking in obedience. The blessings of obedience are many and the cost of disobedience is high – our entire human history gives evidence to this. Listen to how the Lord explains the importance of obedience to Israel. “Be careful to obey all these words that I command you, that it may go well with you and with your children after you forever” (Deuteronomy 12:28). The very best that we can do for ourselves, our children, and everyone else around us, is to trust and obey the Lord. Why, because blessed “are those who hear the word of God and keep it!”(Luke 11:28). We were created by God to bear His image and salvation recreates us in Christ to bring Him glory. We walk by faith to express His character through our obedience; for His pleasure, for His glory, as a good testimony to the world, as encouragement to one another, and for the renown of God’s glorious name. Lincoln Forlong, Bay Bible Fellowship

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The Weekend Sun’s ever popular guide to ‘What’s On’ in the Bay. Pg 50 THE WEEKEND SUN

Age shouldn’t be a brake on creativity Is it ageist to be impressed by something an ‘older’ person has done?

Leave Your Hat On’, ‘Simon Smith and the Amazing Dancing Bear’, ‘Short People’, there are many... These days he's better known for his film music, hence those 20 Oscar nods. Which seems fitting as it appears a popular pastime in the Newman family: three uncles were noted Hollywood film-score composers, Alfred Newman, Lionel Newman and Emil Newman, a profession continued by his cousins Thomas, Maria, David, and Joey. It's easy to think of Newman as the sweet guy who wrote ‘You've Got a Friend in Me’ and other Toy Story songs (and those for Monsters Inc and other Pixar films), and it's easy to forget what a confrontational figure he once was.

Randy Newman. I'm not really sure. (Apologies up front to anyone who was hoping for a deﬁnitive answer.) A few weeks ago I mentioned it was bugging me when people show surprise at how good a local band/ singer/songwriter/album/whatever is. Because why shouldn't it be? The surprise always strikes me as a sort of caveat, a way of saying: ‘We're all kinda average here so how did we produce something so good?’ And I wonder if I'm doing the same when I'm blown away by a guy in his mid-70s producing music as strong as any young whipper-snapper. Regular readers will notice the re-emergence of a favourite theme: what happens to rock 'n' rollers when they get old? The answer, still, is that we don't really know. I say this because it's happening right now. There was a distinct new generation of music that began roughly in the mid-60s – singers and bands who were also songwriters. Most 50s pop stars were pretty people with great voices but essentially just performers. With the 60s came the Stones and the Beatles, Dylan and Cohen, Neil Young, Joni Mitchell and Lou Reed, creative artists on the same level as authors or poets. But is it possible to grow old in what is and was – back then in particular – regarded as a young person's business? Well Mick and Keith are still out there ﬁnding out and despite Lou and Lenny leaving us it was reassuring that their later work was every bit as insightful as their most famous moments. MEDIUM

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His 1974 album ‘Good Old Boys’ set off something of a ﬁrestorm, its opening song ‘Rednecks’ containing the refrain “We're rednecks, rednecks, we can't tell our ass from a hole in the ground.” It also uses the ‘N’ word several times. One imagines that, despite being born in New Orleans, touring the American south became a nervous venture for a while. The new one, ‘Dark Matter’, is stunning stuff. It has long funny philosophical pieces (‘The Great Debate’ pitches scientists against Christians), pokes the borax at current affairs (‘Putin’), and reinvents the life of a murdered bluesman (‘Sonny Boy’). Yet in its quieter

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Friday 18 August

Baywave’s Friday Fun Night 6pm–8pm

Celebrate International Youth Day. There will be games, prizes, music, the hydroslide and waves, anyone under the age of 16 will receive FREE entry. Cards 500 Senior Citizens Te Puke every Friday 12.45 -3pm. Lyceum Club, 8 Palmer Court Te Puke. New members welcome. Brian 573 9444 Chess Tauranga At Tauranga RSA, Greerton 5-7pm, for the whole family. Longer if necessary for longer games. Incl casual games. Standard Chess Rules. Werner 548 1111 http:/www. westernbopchess.weebly.com/

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AGM Friday Aug 25 10am Community Centre Gravatt Road Papamoa Counselling Need to talk? First session free at Arataki Community Centre. To book your appointment Karen 021 579 249 Embrace Dancing Classes Learn West Coast Swing. First class free. Elizabeth Street Community Centre 6.45pm. Vero 021 191 161 embrace.dancing@gmail.com Genealogy Research Members of Papamoa Genealogy Branch at Papamoa Library 10am – 12pm to assist researchers with their family history. Greerton Indoor Bowling Club Amity Triples, Tauranga City Silver Band Hall, Yatton St. Names in by 7.15pm. Sally 571 8914 Katikati Folk Club, Nukes Don’t miss the Nukes at Katikati Bowling Club. Tickets at the door. Doors open 7 pm concert starts at 7.30. see katikatifolkclub.co.nz for details Mah Jong - Mt Maunganui Every Fri at St Andrew’s Church Hall, Dee St 12.454pm. Joy 578 7310 New Zealand First Winston Peters public meeting, Red Square City Centre Tauranga at 12.30 Share a Poem National Poetry Day 11.30 Aug 25 Lighthouse Café 10 Lockington Rd Read or listen. Donation to the Cancer Society for Daffodil Day appreciated. Inquires 0272748753 www. christinaproductions.co.nz

Table Tennis Tauranga

Memorial Hall. Social doubles singles 1-3pm. Junior Club 3.30-5.30pm. Training squad 5.30-7pm. Club night 7.30-9.30pm. Paul 021 884 021 Tauranga Leisure Marching Display Day QE Centre. Free admission. Come along to watch this fabulous spectacle of marching precision. 27 teams from Tauranga, Waikato & Auckland Tauranga Lyceum Club Women’s friendship club. Catered lunch ﬁrst Fri of month & dinner 3rd Weds with interesting speakers. Other activities include painting, music & bridge. 68 1st Ave. Margaret 543 3244 Tauranga Society of Artists Life drawing classes every 1st & 3rd Friday of month. 9.30am-12.30pm All skill levels welcome. 171A Elizabeth St West 576 9592

- 7.30pm at Waipuna Park Hall 25 Kaitemako Rd, Tauranga. Ph Julia 0210 268 1046 email: juliathuy26@gmail.com

Saturday 19 August

Arms and Militaria Show Greerton Hall, Tauranga. 19-20 Aug. All kinds of ﬁrearms, edged weapons, accessories, military collectibles, etc. A popular event for collectors where everyone is welcome Baycourt : Silent Cinema The Circus by Charlie Chaplin, 5pm at Addison Theatre www.ticketek.co.nz or 0800 TICKETEK Bay Network Singles Social Club 55+ who wish to make new friends & enjoy club activities, dining, shows, trips, bbq’s etc. Mary-Anne 027 207 1690 or 576 9988 Carboot Sale Evans Rd Community Church Papamoa. 8am -11am today. $5 a site, food, real Coffee, Car wash. Enquiries Arthur 021 163 7691 Computer Lessons Learn in your own time, at your own pace. Tauranga Library has a free course online to meet your needs. Visit one of our libraries to register. Discover Your Life’s True Purpose

Why am I here? How can I have a more meaningful Life? Create an action plan that works for you. Starting soon. Info and register interest at www.eventspronto.co.nz/meaningfullife Free Blues Rock Concert Starring the amazing “Skeleton Crew” & Maria Fuller. Refreshments provided. St James Church, 70 Pooles Rd, Greerton 2pm. Peter 022 323 9102 Friendship Force International Friendship & Home Hosting exchanges with other clubs worldwide. Barbara 574 5711 or email: regclothier@gmail.com www.thefriendshipforce.org Greerton Hall Market Last Saturday every month except Dec-16th. 8am 12pm. Crafts, plants, produce, bric-abrac. Stalls inside/outside. Refreshments available. Phone/text to book. Tricia/ Gary 5431487, 0279082952 www. facebook.com/greertonhallmarket Labour Pop-up Office OpenTauranga Labour Party ofﬁce open on Mondays, Tuesdays and Saturdays from 10am 4pm at 933, Cameron Rd,Greerton. labour.tauranga@mail.com Leisure Marching Fun, ﬁtness & friendship. Teams made up of adult members practice this non-competitive activity on various days & times throughout the week. Frances 544 1318 or 021 297 3407 LOL Laughter Wellness Laughter IS the best medicine. 11.00 - 11.45am Arataki Community Centre, Mt Maunganui. Koha. Call Trish 022 036 6768 email lollaughterwellness@gmail.com Messianic Meetings Every Sat at Hillier Centre, 31 Gloucester Rd, Mt Maunganui 10am. Seek to unite together in our walk to put truth into action on a daily basis. 544 7424 or 0210 226 3515

Narcotics Anonymous Open Meetings

Sat 7.30-8.30pm & every Sun 7-8pm, Hanmer Clinic, 1235 Cameron Rd, Greerton. Mon 7-8pm & Fri 7.308.30pm, Hillier Centre. 31 Gloucester Rd, Mt Maunganui. 0800 NA TODAY

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1pm. Equip available, all levels welcome. Arnold 544 5598

Reducing Household Waste Workshop

Free workshop with Wellington couple No-Waste Nomads. 3.30pm-5pm today Scout Hall, 13 May St, Mt Maunganui www.facebook.com/littleyogafestival/ Revealing The Positive Stunning new art by Christie Cramer. Macandmor Gallery, Goddards Centre Tauranga. 9:00 to 2:30 Mon-Sat. Continues until the 27 August Taoist Tai Chi New Beginner classes 8.30am. 15 Koromiko St Judea. Come and have a go, contact Dianne 021 146 6890 or 578 9116

Tauranga Friendship and Social Club

Walks, dinners and outings for the over 50s. Couples & singles all welcome. Ph Barbara 544 7461

Tauranga Leisure Marching Day

Display Day QE Centre. Free admission. Come along to watch this fabulous spectacle of marching precision. 27 teams from Tauranga, Waikato & Auckland Tauranga Meditation Group Intro to meditation classes 1st Tues of month 7-8.30pm. General classes every 2nd & 4th Sats of month. $5 koha. Blind Foundation, 160 17th Ave, Tauranga. Village Radio Community radio broadcasting from Tauranga Historic Village 1368 kHz AM. Music of 1940’s - 90’s weekends 9am - 5pm, weekdays 10am - 5pm. www.villageradio.co.nz or 571 3710

Sunday 20 August

A Healing with OEFT Heal your illness

at the emotional level. Grindz, 50 First Ave 12:30 Coffee. 1 - 2:30: Tuition + Practice Optimal EFT. Koha. Info at www.eventspronto.co.nz/meaningfullife Accordion-Keyboard Oldtime Musicmakers at Welcome Bay Hall 3rd Sunday every month 1-4pm. All welcome. $3 entry and Ladies a plate please. Contact Ces or Joy 544 3849 Bay Bible Fellowship/Lord’s Day Join us for our Worship service at 1 Peter 3:10-12. Pastor Lincoln Forlong. All welcome. Welcome Bay Primary School Hall, 309 Welcome Bay road. 10.00am. Visit us at www.bbf.net.nz Bible Seminars Sunday 1:45pm at Greerton Senior Citizen’s Hall, Maitland St, Greerton. “The Good news Jesus taught” Interactive, Q & A. All welcome. Refreshments provided. Vic 543 0504 Croquet Every Sun, Tues & Fri at Tauranga Domain, Cameron Rd 12.45pm. Beginners welcome. Peter 571 0633

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Czech School and Playgroup 10am 12noon, Tauranga Boys College, Devenport Rd, guests welcome!

Farmers Market - Mount Mainstreet

Held every Sunday 9am - 1pm rain or shine! Right in the middle of Mount Mainstreet at Phoenix Car Park, Maunganui Rd. www.mountmainstreet.nz Historic Village Market Every 1st and 3rd Sunday monthly 8am - noon, wet or ﬁne. Inquiries: hvm@lionsclubs.org.nz A Bethlehem Te Puna Lions Club Project.

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& Crafts Centre, Elizabeth St. West, on last Sun of month, from 9:30 am until 12:30 pm. More info Ph 544 2067 Introduction to Buddhism Classes Join us for a ten week course based on the DVD “Discovering Buddhism”. Facility donation/Koha of $5 gratefully received. Email buddhismbop@gmail.com for details Quakers in Tauranga In hall behind Brain Watkins House, cnr Elizabeth St/Cameron Rd 10am for an hour of mainly silent worship followed by tea/ coffee & talk. 544 0448 www.quaker. org.nz Radio Controlled Model Yachts Meet Sun 1.30pm & Thurs 1.30pm at pond behind 24 Montego Drive, Papamoa to sail Electron & similar 3ft long yachts, for fun. Adult beginners welcome. Graham 572 5419 Spiritual Centre Psychic Café There will be no Psychic Café meet this Sunday, because the hall has been pre-booked. Next event ﬁrst Sunday of September, 3rd September, 2017. www.psychiccafe.nz Sunday Funday Games & activities for the whole family at Greerton Aquatic & Leisure Centre 12-3pm. Parents & caregivers are welcome & encouraged to participate. BBQ hire $15 TePuke Country Music Club AGM 11am followed by club day 1pm. At Citizens & RSA Club. Gayle 573 8255 The English Cantata Le Mont Baroque Flute, Recorder, Soprano, Organ, Harpsichord, Piano - 2.30 pm St Peter’s Anglican Church, 15 Victoria Rd, Mount. $20. School children free. The Tauranga Kennel Assn. 30 Aug at Ribbon Parade at Waipuna Park, Kaitemako Rd, Welcome Bay. Entries taken from 9am Judging starts 10am Open to all Purebred dogs. Public welcome.

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Walks, dinners & outings for over 60’s. Barbara 544 7461 Toastmasters Corkers Club Meets once a month 3rd Sunday 2pm at Zone Café, Bayfair join our happy group Phone text 021 044 5654 Wellness Art Workshop With Mira Corbova/ Professional Artist & Inspirational Tutor: 13, 20 & 27 Aug, 11am-2pm @ The Art Lounge, 32 Devonport Rd, Tauranga Info/To Book: theartloungenz@gmail.com www.theartloungenz.com

Monday 21 August

Achieve Toastmasters Keep speaking,

keep helping, keep succeeding. 1st, 3rd & 5th Mon of month at St Stephen’s Church Hall, Brookﬁeld, Tauranga 7.309.30pm. Frank or Chrissy 543 9493 Active Adults Fun Fitness Aerobic, weights, yoga. Every Mon at Arataki Community Centre 9-10am. $7. Lynda 574 0457 or 029 230 0162 Al Anon Support offered to those affected by someone’s addiction to alcohol. Every Mon at St George’s Church, Cameron Rd, Tauranga 7pm. Chrissy 281 0933 Badminton Club Every Mon, Aquinas College, Pyes Pa 7.30-9.30pm. Adults &

year 12 & above. Racquets available. Sue 0211 944 335 www.taurangabadmintonclub.co.nz Beginner Ballroom & Latin Would you like to Dance? Free introductory lesson every Monday. Just come along. Udance2- The Dance Centre. Club Mount Maunganui 8pm. Dean & Miki 542-1295 www.udance2.co.nz Email: udance2@xtra.co.nz Body & Soul Fun Fitness For over 50’s, social events & guest speakers. Mon & Fri Greerton Hall Cameron Rd. Tues Wesley Church Hall, 13th Ave. Weds City Church cnr Otumoetai Rd/ Sherwood St. Thurs at Tauranga Senior Citizens Hall, Norris St. 9.15-10.15am. Dianne 576 5031/027 431 4326 Bowls Every Mon at Bethlehem Hall, Main Highway 7.15pm. First 3 nights free. Wendy 578 2585 Chess Mount Maunganui Mount RSA Chess Club every Mon at Mount RSA, 544 Maunganui Rd. Early programme 6-7.30pm during school term. Late programme 7.30pm onwards. Standard chess rules. Incl casual games. Noel 579 5412 Concert Bowls: Mount Senior Citizens, 345 Maunganui Rd. Today at 1.30pm. Entertainer Raymond Solomon followed by afternoon tea, everybody welcome. $3 door cover Dance Along Learn to dance & new dances at a great spot. Rumbas, waltzes, new vogue sequence, tangos, Cha Cha & more. Te Puke Citizens & RSA club every Mon 6.30 - 8.30pm. No cover or entry charge. Gordon/Diane 572 0060 Fitness League Low impact exercise set to music using the Bagot Stack technique, for women of all ages & abilities. First class free. Mon at Settlers Hall Omokoroa 9.30am & Tues St Johns Anglican Church Waihi 9.30am. Dorothy 549 3378 Free Healing & PXP Event With Jeanette Wilson. 7:30pm, Mt Maunganui Golf Club. An insight into healing with the Entities of Light Amanda 021 811 779 to register

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Every Mon 10am & Weds 7.30pm. Find peace & the joy of life. Stop those thoughts. Enjoy good health & better quality of sleep. David/Trisha 570 1204 Friends of the Library Greerton Library Book Group 10.30am. Theme – Stories About Pets. Jenny 543 4760 Genealogy Friendly Group Mako Room, Papamoa Community Centre, 1.30 pm to 3,30 pm. We offer assistance to anyone with an interest in researching their family history. Contact 5754674 Harmony A Plenty Barber Shop Chorus. Mon nights. Bethlehem Community Church 183 Moffat Road. 543 5240 Indoor Bowls Citizen’s RSA Te Puke – held every Monday 1pm and Wednesday 7pm. All welcome. Alma 573 8773 Mah Jong Every Mon at Arataki Community Centre 1-4pm. 576 3455 Mah Jong Every Mon at Tauranga South Bowling Club, 11th Ave 12.45-4pm. Visitors & beginners welcome - free teaching available. Shirley 576 0014 Mt Maunganui Bridge Club Every Mon 12.45-4.15pm, with junior & novice sessions 7-9.15pm. Weds 7-10.15pm.

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Omokoroa Beach Indoor Bowling

Meet at Settlers Hall, Omokoroa Rd Mon 1.30pm & Tues 7.30pm. Cost $3. Anne 548 1636 Otumoetai Indoor Bowls Aggregate, Matua Primary School Hall, Clivedene St 7.15pm. New members welcome. Karen 576 0443 Piloga Classes Fusion of Pilates & yoga movements. Every Mon & Fri at Arataki Community Centre 10.05-11.20am. $15 per class. Mel 022 187 1295 or Claudia 021 192 7706 Plunket Car Seat Clinic Car seats checked & ﬁtted by qualiﬁed Child Restraint Technicians. No appointment necessary. Every Mon & Thurs. Donation appreciated. 471 Devonport Road, Tauranga. 578 7813 Recycled Teenagers Gentle exercise for 50’s forwards. Mon & Weds, 14 Norris St, Tauranga Senior Citizens Club. Tues at St Mary’s Church Hall, Girven Rd. All 9 - 10.30am. First class free. Jennifer 571 1411 Sequence Dancing At Norris St Senior Citizens rooms, 7-10pm. Come, look learn and enjoy. Ph 543 9125. www. sequencedancing.org.nz/plenty

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Otumoetai Rd, Cherrywood. Names in by 7.15pm, 7.30pm start. All playing levels welcome. Paul 576 6324

TaiChi QingGong 18 moves

A good way to improve your energy. Every Monday at 169 Elizabeth Road (Community Hall). 6.15-7.00pm. All welcome. Gold coin donation. 571 5168 Tauranga Creative Fibre From 9.30am Mondays 177 Elizabeth Street. Learn and share spinning, weaving, knitting, crochet, felting. Margaret 5713 483 Tauranga Rock n Roll Club Inc Every Mon at Legion of Frontiersmen’s Hall, 165 Elizabeth St 7- 8pm. Lessons & Social Evening of Dancing. Members $3, non-members $5. Ph 576-7461 Tauranga Senior Citizens Club Cards, 500 & Bridge Mon & Thurs. Indoor Bowls Tues, Weds & Sat at 14 Norris St, behind Pak n Save 1-4pm. Register by 12.45pm. $2 incl afternoon tea. Te Puke Floral Art Group Meets Methodist Church Hall, Oroua Street Te Puke. 11am. All welcome. Ph Val 07 573 7804 Three Day Challenge Starts every Monday. Healthy me, Healthy you project. Svetlana 0276162124 Walk for Wellness Free group for people with cancer & their supporters. Departs 9.30am from Mount 1st, 3rd & 5th Mon of the month & from Yatton Park, Greerton 2nd & 4th Mon of the month. Women’s Art Group Every Mon at Lyceum Club Rooms, 68 1st Ave 9am - 12pm. Margaret 543 3244 Zonta Tauranga Promoting & protecting the rights of women & girls in our community & internationally. Meet every 2nd Mon 5.30pm. Tauranga Club + Dinner. Suzy 021 266 5044

Tuesday 22 August

ABC - Avenues Badminton Club Every Tues at Tauranga Boys’ College Gym. Juniors 6-7.30pm (term time), seniors (adults) 7.30-9.30pm. Adults $7, student $5. Delwyn 027 212 4720 Addiction Help Programme Spouses, partners, family/whanau etc who have an addiction. 7 week sessions starts 5 Sept-17 Oct, 1-3pm, 1235 Cameron Rd, Greerton. Free. 579 6940 or 0800 842 426 Alcoholics Anonymous Meet every Tues at St Peter’s Church Hall, 11 Victoria Rd, Mount 7.30-8.30pm. 0800 229 6757 Altrusa Women’s Community Service

Meet 2nd Tues evening for dinner/ business. 4th Tues for social evening monthly. Email: president.tauranga@ altrusa.org.nz Argentine Tango “The dance that makes you feel” *FREE Intro classes. *No partner required...(need more guys). Come challenge your senses.

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FB/”Tango in Tauranga”. Denise 0204 006 1340 Bureta Garden Circle Bureta Garden Circle’s monthly meeting at St. John’s Church Hall, 94 Bureta Rd, Otumoetai at 1.30 p.m. Visitors welcome. Jenny 576 3026 BOP Linux Users Share and learn about the Linux computer operating system 1st Tuesday 7-9 pm L J Hooker, Cnr Cameron Rd, 8th Ave. Experts and beginners welcome. $2

BOP Plenty Shirley Club Walking Group

Meet outside Mount Surf Club every Tuesday 9.20am sharp. Walks about an hour and at Deckchair afterwards for refreshments and chat. New members welcome. Fran 574 9060 Cards 500 Every Tues & Thurs at Mount Senior Citizen’s, 345 Maunganui Rd 12.45pm. Garry 576 3033 Changing Lives Opportunity Want to be financially rewarded for Helping People? Come to our No Obligation evening 021 811 779 to register Euchre Have fun playing Euchre. Tuesday at Greerton RSA 7-9pm. $2 per session. 543 3441 Falun Dafa Ancient wisdom applicable in 2017. Welcome to Free Exercise and Meditation Classes during school terms. Huia Rm, Hillier Centre, 31 Gloucester Rd, Bayfair @ 7pm. Ph/text Judy on 021 0425 398 Fitness League Ladies exercise with dance, weights, floor work every Tues at St Columba Church, 502 Otumoetai Rd, Cherrywood 9.30-10.30am. Gloria 021 139 2448 Free Community Fit Club Low impact, full muscle workout. Historic Village 9.15am. 576 3642 or jen@nzhealthnow.com Friends of the Library Mt Maunganui Library Book Group meets 10am. Theme this month – Middle East. All welcome. Gail 574 3376 Greerton Lions Club 1st & 3rd Tues of month at Fairway Lounge, Tauranga Racecourse 6pm. Bill 543 4424 Inachord Chorus Womens singing group. New director, new direction Bethlehem Community Church Building. 183 Moffat Rd, Bethlehem 7.15. Debbie 021 1291 126 or 548 2483 Israeli Dancing Every Tues, Gate Pa Primary School, Cameron Rd 7-8pm. All ages welcome, no partner required. Maria 544 1680/022 165 2114 Katikati Bridge Club 2 sessions a week. Tues 1pm & Weds 7pm. Alison 549 0797 (Tues) or Lyn 552 0924 (Weds) Meet the Candidates Event Today in the Wesley Church Hall in 13th Av. 7pm Confirmed: Emma Leigh Hodge, Vanessa Lee, Clayton Mitchell, Todd Muller, Jan Tinetti Mount Morning Badminton From 9-11.30am. Mount Sports Centre, Blake Park. Social all ages. Beginners welcome. Racquets available. $5pp. Margaret 575 9792

Otumoetai Matua Walking Group

Every Tues at Kulim Park 9am. 576 7339 Petanque Bayfair Petanque Club, every Tues & Thurs at Russley Drive 1pm. Equipment & coaching available. Margie 542 0084 or 021 0293 7459 Petanque - Tga/BOP Club Club Mt Maunganui 1pm start. Equip available, coaching given. Linda 544 2818 Pilates Classes Weekly 11:15-12:15 at Arataki Community Centre. $12 per class. Claudia 0211927706

Saintly Shakers Preschool Music

Every Tues during the School Term at St Peter’s Church, 15 Victoria Rd. $3 per family includes morning tea. Ph 575 9945 Sequence Dancing Tauranga Social & Leisure Club, every Tues in St John Anglican Church Hall, 94 Bureta Rd 7-9.30pm except 2nd Tues each month, afternoon dancing 3.30-6pm. Visitors welcome. Murray 576 3294 South City Indoor Bowls Club Box Drawn Mixed Pairs (Mounted Bowl). Greerton Hall. Mary 541 0687 Taoist Tai Chi New beginners class starting July 1pm, 15 Kiromiko St Judea, all welcome to come and give it a go Ph/Text Wade 021 606 133

Tauranga Astronomical Society

Tonight, 2 separate speaker presenta-

“What’s On” is a FREE service for non-profit clubs & organisations. Email : office@thesun.co.nz or Fax : 571 1116 or post to PO Box 240, Tauranga. DEADLINE 3PM TUESDAY. Contribution should be less than 20 words. tions - star clusters and relative sizes and distances of objects in our solar system. Fergusson Park Observatory 7.30pm Tauranga Meditation Group Intro to meditation classes 1st Tues of month 7-8.30pm. General classes every 2nd & 4th Saturdays of the month. $5 koha. Blind Foundation, 160 17th Ave, Tauranga. (Vehicular access opposite Historic Village) Tauranga Samba Brazilian drumming/percussion at Mount Sports Centre cnr Hull & Maunganui Rds 7.15-9.15pm. No experience needed. Rob 021 232 7185 Tauranga Scrabble Club Tues at Tauranga Bridge Club, Ngatai Rd 8.50am. 3 games $3. New players welcome. 544 8372 Tauranga Target Rifle Club Shooting every Tues 7pm. Ellis 578 0098 Tauranga Toastmasters Weekly at Tauranga Lyceum Club 7.15 - 9.30pm. Learn public speaking & leadership skills. Alan 544 5989 Widows’ and Widowers’ Club The club invites people living alone to join us at the Arts & Crafts Centre, Elizabeth Street, at 2.00p.m. For more information ring Margaret on 576 5292.

Wednesday 23 August Age Concern Walking Group Mt

Maunganui Paciﬁc Ave Carpark Ph 578 2631 Alcoholics Anonymous Reﬂections at Te Puke every Weds at Te Puke Baptist Church, Station Rd 7.30-8.30pm. 0800 229 6757 Baycourt : Te Puna School Show Te Moana 11.30am & 7.30pm Addison Theatre www.ticketek.co.nz or 0800 TICKETEK

Belly Dancing with Arabian Spice

Every Weds at St Columba Church Hall, 502 Otumoetai Rd, Tauranga 6.30-8.30pm. 0211 245 982 or 576 4112 arabianspicebd@gmail.com Bipolar Support Group Support for people with Bipolar. 6.30-7.30pm. Junction 543 3010 for info or if you require transport Bolivia Every Wednesday 1-4pm Lyceum Club, 8 Palmer Court Te Puke. Entry $3 includes refreshments. Beginners welcome. Ph Marie 573 9219 Bowls Indoor Every Weds & Fri at Mount Senior Citizen’s, 345 Maunganui Rd 12.45pm. Nancy/Ernie 575 4650 Community Bible Study Int Every Weds at City Church, 252 Otumoetai Rd 7-9pm. Bible study on “The Book of Genesis.” Julie 552 4068 Community Tai Chi Class Bethlehem Hall 1-2pm. First lesson free. Term concession rate. Qualiﬁed tutor & instructor Trish member AATC. EmployNZ Offer Free Courses Welcome Bay Community Centre 9.30am to 10.30am, ﬁnd out more about the free Retail, Hospitality, IT, Foundation Skills and Fitness Courses. Call Sally on 027 652 1429 for more information.

Fernlands Water Exercise Class

Every Weds 10.45-11.45am. Suitable for accident or illness rehabilitation. Helpful in weight loss or arthritis. Classes held rain or shine. Jennifer 571 1411 Gate Pa Indoor Bowls Championship Triples at Greerton Hall 7pm. Names in book. Wallace Cup. Kevin 543 4044

Greerton Scout Group - Cub Pack

Open to boys/girls yrs 4-6. Meet Weds during school term at Greerton Scout Hal, Hynds Rd, Tauranga 5.30-7pm. Email: greertonscouts@outlook.com Healing Rooms Experience God’s healing touch, Weds 1-3pm. No charge all ages welcome. Now upstairs at Graced Op Shop, cnr 11th Ave & Christopher St. 021 110 0878 Kiwi Toasters Building communication & leadership. 1st, 3rd & 5th Weds of the month 3 Palm Springs Boulevard (Palm Springs Pharmacy building) 5.30pm-7 pm. Chrissy 027 296 7939 Let’s Learn Courses, classes, workshops, activities - options galore. www. letslearn.co.nz Shelley 544 9557 Mah Jong Every Weds at Tauranga Citz Club cnr Cameron Rd/13th Ave 12.45-4pm. Wendy 579 2851

Papamoa Outdoor Bowls Roll Ups Weds & Sun, Gordon Spratt Reserve 12.45pm. Gail 574 0177 SAYGo (Steady As You Go) Exercises at St Johns Church Hall Bureta, Weds 2-3.00pm Except 1st Weds each month. Improve balance and overall wellbeing. Contact Alison (07)576 4536 Sequence Dancing At Norris St Senior Citizens rooms, 7-10pm. Come, look learn and enjoy. Ph 543 9125. www.sequencedancing. org.nz/plenty Scottish Country Dancing Every Weds at Senior Citizen’s Hall, Maunganui Rd 7pm. Lynne 573 5055 Singles Social Coffee Club 60+ Looking for something new to do or make new friends, this could be it. Gayle 027 439 3267 or 578 1878 E: mixandmingle@xtra. co.nz Tauranga Embroiderers’ Guild Every Weds at Tauranga Rowing Club, Devonport Rd 10am - 2.30pm & 7.30-9.30pm. Beginners welcome. Jenny 07 219 7740 Tauranga Mid-Week Tramping Group

Tuahu from Hot Springs Rd towards Motutapere Hut via Abseil Rock. Grade mod/hard, approx. 6.0 hrs. Bruce 543 1034 Tauranga Table Tennis All grades. Singles & Doubles. Memorial Hall 12.45 - 3pm. Mixed Social Doubles 7.30 - 9.30pm. Roy 578 7800 Te Puke Spiritual & Healing Centre Meet the Mediums. Sue Buckland, Kevin Reed. Lyceum Club, 8 Palmer Court, TePuke. Doors open 6.30pm $10 includes light supper. Proceeds to Daffodil Day Toastmasters - City Early Start Build your conﬁdence, ﬁnd your voice & open doors of opportunity in 2017 Classic Flyers Avgas Cafe every Weds 7.00-8.15am. Lani 0210 445 654 www.cityearlystart.co.nz Yoga Body & Mind Every Weds 9.45am11am at Greerton Hall 1263 Cameron Rd, Tauranga. Ph Julia 021 0268 1046 email: juliathuy26@gmail.com

Thursday 24 August

A Place to Bee Free craft session every Thurs at Lighthouse Church 11am - 1pm. Learn a new skill, have coffee, meet new friends & have a chat Adult Adoptee’s Support Tauranga Meet every 2nd Thursday 6pm Oyster Catcher room Arataki Community Center Zambuk Way Bayfair. Scott 027 565 6459 An Improved Memory Preserve and improve your memory. Documentary, discussion and practice. 2-4pm Arataki

Community Centre. Booking essential. Koha entry. info www.eventspronto.co.nz/ meaningfullife Text 0210 274 2502 Bay City Rockers Social Rock n Roll dancing as well as Neon Moon, Rock n Roll Waltz. Every Thurs at Senior Citizen’s Hall, Norris St 7-9.30pm. $3 entry. Gavin 027 643 6222 or Steve 027 277 9569 BOP Plenty Shirley Club Walking Meet in carpark outside ‘Maudes’ at the Lakes Shopping Centre every Thursday 9am sharp. Walks about an hour and at Maudes Cafe afterwards for refreshments and chat. Shirl 543 1170

Community Bible Study International

Every Thurs at 14th Ave Gospel Centre 10am - 12pm for a Bible study on “The Book of Matthew.” Jack/Betty 544 3809 EmployNZ Free Course Tauranga Library 10 – 11am to ﬁnd out more about the free Retail, Hospitality, IT, Foundation Skills & Fitness Courses. Sally 027 652 1429 Fitness League Safe, effective, low impact exercise Bagot Stack technique. Free 1st class. Thurs: Central Baptist Church Hall, cnr 13th Ave/Cameron Rd 9.30am. Weds: Katikati Memorial Hall 10am. Pam 549 4799 or 021 117 7170 Free Guitar Lessons Every Thurs at Historic Village 10-11.30am. Limited to 3 people per day. Register with Joseph 020 408 97462 Free Meditation Classes Every Thurs at Meredith Hall, Fraser St, Merivale (near Yatton Park) 7.30pm. Enjoy good health & better quality of sleep. David 570 1204 French Connection For lovers of all things French. Meet fortnightly Thurs at La Mexica on the Strand 4.30-6.30pm. agohns@yahoo.co.nz Friends of the Library Greerton Library Chat Group 10am tea/coffee. Speaker Leslie Goodliffe - ‘Services provided by the Information Team and future of Information Services in Libraries’. Pam 571 2566 Happiness & Our Mind Drop-in meditation classes, beginners welcome. Classes are self-contained so start any date. Every Thurs at Greerton Library, 139 Greerton Rd 7-8.30pm. Cost $15 per class. www. meditateintauranga.org Katikati Toastmasters Building communication & leadership1st, 3rd & 5th Thurs of the month. Katikati Community Resource Centre, 45 Beach Rd Katikati. 7.30pm-9.30pm. Chrissy 027 296 7939

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THE WEEKEND SUN ...continued Keynote’s Inc Keynotes 4 part harmony Women’s Chorus Meet Thursday 7.00 pm @ Wesley Church hall 13th Ave Sing for fun and health Phone Nora 5442714 More Than Crafts Greerton Bible Church cnr Oropi Rd and Chadwick Rd. 9.30am. Crafts and a cuppa $3. Enquiries Ruth 543 4879 Narcotics Anonymous Closed men’s meeting every Thurs at Waipuna Park Hall, 25 Kaitemako Rd, Welcome Bay 7.30-8.30pm. Petanque Bayfair Petanque Club, every Tues & Thurs at Russley Drive 1pm. Equipment & coaching available. Try a new sport. Cherie 570 0480 or 021 044 989 Pilates Classes Weekly 11:0012:00 at Omokoroa Settlers’ Hall. $12 per class. Claudia 0211927706 Saintly Shakers Preschool Music Every

Thurs at St Mary’s Church, Cnr Girven Rd & Marlin St. $3 per family includes morning tea. Ph 575 9945 Simplee Cre8ive Every Thurs at Arataki Community Centre, Bayfair 9am - 2.30pm. All crafts. Jenny 574 7401 Square Dancing Fun Easy walking dance, learners welcome club night Thurs. 7.30pm. Frontiersmen’s Hall Elizabeth St. Tga. details other sessions Ph 543 1063. View Facebook, Orange City Squares Rounds.

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Sunshine Dance Group Learn sequence dancing every Thurs at Baptist Church Hall, cnr 13th Ave/ Cameron Rd 7-8.30pm followed by dancing until 10pm. $2pp entrance includes supper. Jan 544 4379 Taoist Tai Chi Exercise for body and mind. A new beginners class starts Thursday 6th July 5:307.00pm, 15 Koromiko Street. All welcome. Diane 021 343 324 Tauranga Creative Fibre

Every second and fourth Thursday of the month from 7pm. Learn and share spinning, weaving, knitting, crochet, felting. Margaret 571 3483

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Low impact group exercise class for those with or at risk of heart & associated diseases. Mon & Thurs at City Church, Otumoetai Rd 9.30-10.30am. $4pp. Diana 021 0476 155

Tauranga Model Railway Club

Meets every Thursday at 7.30 pm in the club rooms cnr of Cross Rd & Mirrielees Rd, Sulphur Point. Ph Alex 544 5230 Tennis Seniors WBOP Players 35 years plus. Tauranga Lawn Tennis Club, Wharepai Domain 9am - 12pm. $3 ball fee. Lynda tswbop@gmail. com 021 057 6601 Women’s Singing Group Every Thurs at 68 1st Ave 11am. Beginners welcome. Marie 576 1300

Friday 25 August

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of Plenty Garden & Art Festival 7.30pm Addison Theatre, live talk show. www.ticketek.co.nz or 0800 TICKETEK Cards 500 Senior Citizens Te Puke every Friday 12.45 -3pm. Lyceum Club, 8 Palmer Court Te Puke. New members welcome. Brian 573 9444 Chess Tauranga At Tauranga RSA, Greerton 5-7pm, for the whole family. Longer if necessary for longer games. Incl casual games. Standard Chess Rules. Werner 548 1111 http:/www.westernbopchess. weebly.com/

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AGM today 10am Community Centre Gravatt Road Papamoa Counselling Need to talk? First session free at Arataki Community Centre. To book your appointment Karen 021 579 249 Embrace Dancing Classes Learn West Coast Swing. First class free. Elizabeth Street Community Centre 6.45pm. Vero 021 191 161 embrace.dancing@gmail.com Genealogy Research Members of Papamoa Genealogy Branch at Papamoa Library 10am – 12pm to assist researchers with their family history.

Greerton Indoor Bowling Club

Amity Triples, Tauranga City Silver Band Hall, Yatton St. Names in by 7.15pm. Sally 571 8914

Mah Jong - Mt Maunganui Every Fri at St Andrew’s Church Hall, Dee St 12.45-4pm. Joy 578 7310 Papamoa Genealogy

10-12noon at the Papamoa Library. Members will assist researchers with family history. Betty 0274475448 or Kate 079297884. Table Tennis Tauranga Memorial Hall. Social doubles singles 1-3pm. Junior Club 3.30-5.30pm. Training squad 5.30-7pm. Club night 7.309.30pm. Paul 021 884 021

Tauranga Leisure Marching

Display Day QE Centre. Free admission. Come along to watch this fabulous spectacle of marching precision. 27 teams from Tauranga, Waikato & Auckland Tauranga Lyceum Club Women’s friendship club. Catered lunch ﬁrst Fri of month & dinner 3rd Weds with interesting speakers. Other activities include painting, music & bridge. 68 1st Ave. Margaret 543 3244

Tauranga Society of Artists Life draw-

ing classes every 1st & 3rd Friday of month. 9.30am-12.30pm All skill levels welcome. 171A Elizabeth St West 576 9592 Yoga Body & Mind Every Fri 6.15pm - 7.30pm at Waipuna Park Hall 25 Kaitemako Rd, Tauranga. Ph Julia 0210 268 1046 email: juliathuy26@gmail.com

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The Ladykillers on stage Don't miss ‘The Ladykillers’ – a hilarious and critically-acclaimed adaptation of the classic Ealing comedy, written by renowned comedy writer Graham Linehan (‘Father Ted’, ‘The IT Crowd’, ‘Black Books’) at 16th Ave Theatre.

Mrs Wilberforce has new tenants but they are not the musicians they claim to be; they could even be train robbers. If Mrs W should stumble onto their secret, her life could be in danger. Tickets on sale now through iTicket.co.nz, over the counter at the Willow St iSite, via phone on 0508 484 253, or on the door.

The Weekend Sun has two double passes to 16th Ave Theatre’s ‘The Ladykillers’ for two lucky readers who can tell us who wrote ‘The Ladykillers’? Enter online at www.sunlive.co.nz under the competition section. Entries must be received by Wednesday, August 23.

All the fun of the circus, now in Papamoa

Locals will have another chance to experience all the fun of the circus at Papamoa Beach this weekend. Cirque Grande, presented by Zirka Circus, has moved from Fraser Cove to Papamoa Beach and features world-class circus acts from around the globe. The two-hour performance is suitable for all ages. Shows include 7pm, Friday, August 18; 2pm and 7pm, Saturday, August 19 and 1pm and 4.30pm on Sunday, August 20. Tickets available from www.eventﬁnda.co.nz

‘Last Legs’ coming Wonder women to Baycourt and their exploits First there was Diana, princess of the Amazons, who became an unconquerable warrior. Then she became Wonder Woman.

Mark Hadlow and Alison Quigan in ‘Last Legs’.

Auckland Theatre Company is bringing the work of one of New Zealand’s most popular and prolific playwrights, the unstoppable Roger Hall, to Tauranga’s Baycourt from October 13-15. ATC’s production of Roger Hall’s ‘Last Legs’ will play in Auckland from September 12-27 before heading off on tour to Hamilton’s Clarence Theatre from October 5-7 and Baycourt from October 13-15. ‘Last Legs’ is a lethally-funny black comedy about sex, death and politics, with an irresistible appeal to the old and bold of heart. News that Bill English is to open a new wing of the Cambridge Retirement Village sparks a revolution among its residents. Though many want to turn on something special for the PM, others are less enthused and plan to stage a protest. Soon, new fractures appear along old fault lines, transforming the swanky facility into a hotbed of insurrection, intrigue and infidelity. ‘Real Housewives of Auckland’ star Louise Wallace will make her Auckland Theatre Company debut, alongside the star-studded cast which includes some of our country’s most illustrious theatre actors, including Mark Hadlow (‘The Hobbit’,’ King Kong’, ‘Nell Gwynn’), Ray Henwood ONZM (‘Lord of the Rings’, ‘Heroes’, ‘The Crucible’), Catherine Wilkin (‘Mcleod’s Daughters’, ‘Trees Beneath the Lake’), and Alison Quigan (‘Shortland Street’, ‘Calendar Girls’, ‘August Osage County’). “Anyone who has enjoyed Roger’s past works will find this play funny and recognisable, but particularly those who are retired or nearing retirement. Roger has managed to chronicle a whole generation,” says Alison.

Now Tauranga has a chance to hear from more worldly wonder women at a free Wonder Women event, a free quarterly speaker series on August 22 hosted by law ﬁrm Lyon O’Neale Arnold. Tauranga nurse Josie Calcott will share her story about how a cochlear implant and gift of sound changed her life. Eco-warrior Tegan Arnold will talk on the state of world’s oceans and what we can do to help. The event is held upstairs in the lounge above Macau Restaurant on The Strand. Food is served at 5pm and the speakers begin at 6pm. Places are limited so email ww@loalaw.nz to secure a seat. RSVPs close today.

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public notice ANNUAL BOOK SALE Books wanted for Tauranga Harbour City Lions November book sale. Drop off points are Living Quarters, Bethlehem Town Centre; Payless Plastics, 414 Cameron Rd; Mobil Service Station, Cameron Rd; Liquor King, 140 Otumoetai Rd, Brookﬁeld. No magazines, videos or encyclopedias please. Ph 544 9929

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FOUND KITTENS VARIOUS places various colours Ph SPCA 07 578 0245

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ELECTRICIAN, 18+ years experience, NZ registered. Residential & commercial, maintenance & service, new builds, renovations. Fast, friendly service. Ph Andrew 022 354 1960

PLASTERER INTERIOR 30+YEARS Skimming Walls make good Ceilings Walls Cornice Cove Plasterboard Stopping New Builds Small Jobs Free Quote Contact Stan 021 130 2621

HANDYMAN BUILDING and section maintenance, decks, fencing, pergolas, painting, water blasting, odd jobs. Free quotes. Ph Rossco 027 270 3313 or 544 5911

PLASTERING, INTERIOR WALLS & ceilings. Tradesman 30yrs exp. Skimming, painting prep. Small jobs OK. Ph Murray 027 266 5657

HANDY MAN CAN-DU Bathroom renovations, decks and stairs, pergolas, small plastering and painting jobs, water blasting. Free quotes. Ian The Fix it Man. 45 years tradesman. noknoi@clear.net.nz 021 670 770 RETAINING WALLS Specialist in all timber retaining walls, new builds and repairs. All associated earthmoving, design and engineering. Ph Mike 0274 942 966 INSECT SCREENS Measure. Make. Mend. Ph Rob at Magic Seal 543 4940 NEED A BUILDER? Licensed, 20 years experience. Available for all types of projects and alterations. Attention to detail and quality assured. Ph 021 209 0972 PAINTER/DECORATOR Interior and exterior. Quality workmanship, friendly service. Over 20 years specialising in residential and more. Quality paint at trade prices. For your best advice in all areas. Ph Shane Mount/Tauranga Decorators 07 544 6495 or 021 575 307

ROOF REPAIRS Free quotes for all maintenance of leaking roofs, gutter cleaning & repairs. Chimney maintenance & repairs. Registered roofer, 30yrs exp. Ph Peter 542 4291 or 027 436 7740 TREE SHRUB and hedges trimming, topping, rubbish, palm pruning or removal, satisfaction guaranteed free quote. Ph Steve Hockly 571 5958 or 027 498 1857

travel & tours AAA 1. WAIHEKE ISLAND ESCAPE (2) Cirque du Soleil Premium Tickets (3) World of Wearable Arts Tour Premium Tickets (4) South Island Autumn Tour + main highlights (6) Great Barrier Island (7) Discover Chatham Islands. Door to Door Service. Phone Hinterland Tours 07 575 8118 ANOTHER SPECIAL W.O.W (World of Wearable) Art trip to Wellington. Just 2 Premium Plus tickets left now. Hurry for this opportunity. Same cost as last year. Ph John’s Tours 576 9305 ZEALANDIER TOURS TEXT CHANGES WEEKLY 31st August – Amazing food and spectacular location – Peppers on the Point truly is “Fine Dining”

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venues FOR WEDDINGS, FUNCTIONS OR MEETINGS+ check out No.1 The Strand, a beautiful historic setting. Email: bookings@ no1thestrand.co.nz or www. no1thestrand.co.nz WEDDINGS, PARTIES, MEETINGS etc - The perfect venue. With stunning Harbour views, fully licensed bar & kitchen onsite. Restaurant open every Friday from 5pm & Sunday from 4.30pm, kids under 12 years dine free with every paying adult. Tauranga Fish & Dive Club, 60 Cross Rd, Sulphur Point. Ph 571 8450

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