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ity for about a month but a faded chalk board advertising Christmas events remained. ■■ The Howick Local Board threw out a request to approve installing a storm water pipe on a public reserve to service a neighbouring private residential development. It deferred approval to run the pipe through Bucklands Beach Domain, a request from former Pakuranga Community Board chairman Ross Warren and his wife Shirley, a former Community and Howick Local Board elected member. They had resource consent for a three-lot subdivision at their property in Devon Road, Bucklands Beach and wanted approval to install a public storm water pipe through the park land from their Devon Road property to connect the site with existing lines in Bucklands Beach Domain.

■■ Plans got underway to

raise $3 million for construction of a climate-controlled facility to house the Howick Historical Village’s textile collection and other artefacts. The delicate garments were stored in boxes on the second floor of the Puhunui Homestead and 15,000 other items were in cupboards and drawers in buildings around the village. As well as providing more appropriate storage, the facility would allow many of the items to go on public display.

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■■ A man who fought bureaucracy for as long as he could to have a tree on his neighbour’s property cut down died in his 80s. Henk Van der Vliet, who became affectionately known as the tree man, died in the South Island where he had moved to live with his family. The gum tree in Willow Way, Pakuranga cost him more than $20,000 repairing damage to his drains, roof, ceiling and carpet over 10 years, not to mention the cost to his health. He became a major supporter of Howick Ward councillor Sharon Stewart who helped him negotiate the path between bureaucrats and lawyers.

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■■ Counties Manukau East crime prevention manager, inspector Jared Pirrett, said vehicle crime had dropped significantly. Police officers and partners all worked together smartly and did a lot of work around public reassurance and crime prevention, he said. The partners include volunteer groups such as patrols, volunteers from the Fo Guang Shan Buddhist Temple and Asian Council on Reducing Crime. The number of vehicles stolen in the Counties Manukau district in December 2015 were 304, down from 391 during the same period in 2014.

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■■ Eastern Beach painter Merv Appleton presented his painting of a field ambulance during the World War I Gallipoli campaign to the Howick RSA. The painting was originally destined for a significant exhibition on the Greek Island of Lemnos. Mr Appleton was one of two Kiwis selected to submit paintings to the ‘In Red’ exhibition commemorating 100 years after the Gallipoli campaign. ■■ The Tamaki River Festival had

loads of activities for children to do on the water, in the water and by the water. They had a go at sailing, kayaking, learnt more about the river and native skinks and geckos. There was also a raft race that had some adults having more fun than their kids! ■■ Jeremy Hamish Kerr, of Mellons Bay appeared in the High Court at Auckland before Justice Geoffrey Venning facing two charges of blackmail. The 60-year-old Mellons Bay man who admitted blackmailing Fonterra and Federated Farmers with 1080-laced infant milk formula wrote a retraction letter and apologised, but disputed some of the facts presented by the Crown.

residents to have a shift in the proposed rural urban boundary (RUB) to the edge of the unique ridge line over-turned. Tenders for sites in the 20 lot subdivision, called Point View Estate, were advertised. The Point View Heritage Society said it was extremely disappointed and felt let down by the elected councillors. “It looks as if our efforts will have been to no avail.” ■■ Howick & Eastern bus drivers

went on strike. A 24-hour demonstration outside the depot on Ti Rakau Drive coincided with city-wide industrial action of bus drivers against NZ Bus which served central and west Auckland and the North Shore. The Howick & Eastern bus company, serving the eastern suburbs, came under the In Motion Group owned by Scottish billionaire Sir Brian Souter and protests were directed towards him. ■■ Despite concerns about the process followed, the Howick Local Board agreed to an application to run a storm water

■■ After a 12-month hiatus, a Citizens Advice Bureau was reinstalled at the Botany Town Centre. Its new premises next to the Botany Crime Watch Patrol offices at the back of the Foodcourt were officially opened. ■■ Numbers of residential dwellings sold in the year to January were down by a third in Eastern Beaches following the Auckland regionwide trend, according to Real Estate Institute of New Zealand figures.

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schools around the country were real for locals when police were called to Howick Primary School in Willoughby Avenue after a sinister call was received similar in nature to threats made around the country the day before. Inspector Jared Pirrett of Counties Manukau East Police said the situation was defused and “everyone was safe and sound”. ■■ Being told there was no fatality in 15 years at a Half Moon Bay intersection that causes regular car smashes, often requiring an ambulance, raised the already near-boiling ire in Keith Ingram. In a response to Auckland Transport (AT) officials who accompanied him to the busy Sunderlands

■■ Parents, teachers, past and present board of trustees, officials from the Ministry of Education, National Library of New Zealand and students of the Bucklands Beach Primary School (BBPS) attended the opening of the new library and information centre at the first original school of the area, opened in 1955. ■■ Arrival of bulldozers on a prime Point View Drive site in Howick signified the end of the fight by a group of concerned

blaze: An arsonist was believed to have started a fire that consumed a Flat Bush School Road house earmarked for demolition. The vacant property was illegally used as a rubbish dumping site. Times photo Natalie Brittan

Road/ Prince Regent Drive intersection with Pigeon Mountain Road, the chairman of the Half Moon Bay Residents and Ratepayers Association said the reason for not making fixes at the intersection a priority was not an excuse, nor was it acceptable. AT had rejected suggestions of traffic lights or a roundabout at the intersection and did not accept that the alignment of the island on Sunderlands Road for crossing traffic was a hazard. ■■ Howick RSA poppy day coordinator Jan Lawrence was the recipient of the 2016 Times Veterans’ Community Service Award. ■■ After a widespread furore,

Auckland Council voted to remove ‘out of scope’ zoning changes from the proposed Auckland Unitary Plan. Howick Ward councillors, Sharon Stewart and Dick Quax were among the 13 who voted to withdraw the contentious changes which were not directly supported by any public submissions. ■■ Howick Residents and Ratepayers Association (HRRA) went into bat a second time to have the ‘special character’ status of Howick recognised in the Auckland Unitary Plan (AUP). President Gayleen Mackereth said the notified AUP said, in the case of the Howick special character business overlay, particular attention was to be given to the intimate scale of buildings in Picton Street, the views to and from Stockade Hill and from the Ridge Road entry to Howick. However, in a subsequent planning document the special character overlay for the Howick business area was deleted. ■■ Luke MacKenzie was on his way to work when he was killed in a head-on collision caused by 27-year-old drink-driver Xingyu Shang in the early morning of February 24, 2014. Shang was subsequently sentenced in the Manukau District Court to nine months’ home detention after pleading guilty to his charges. He would then be deported back to China. Luke’s father Martin and mother Tania said there would never be any forgiveness towards him and the punishment he got would never be enough for them. ■■ The former wife of an imprisoned Chinese drug lord, Haiyan Luo (Sherley), the former owner

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was charged with careless driving causing death relating to the crash near the school on October 15.

■■ Robert Burrett, a 64-year-

old grandfather and caretaker pleaded guilty to raping and abusing young Christchurch schoolgirls in an underground shed. The child rapist taught at 13 New Zealand schools, including Howick Intermediate from 1980 to 1988. ■■ The vice-president of the NZ Secondary Principals’ Council, Mike Williams, also principal of Pakuranga College, was concerned about the lack of consultation over proposals to dump the school decile system and introduce a system targeting underachievers. He said principals needed to have a stronger voice in shaping the direction of education in New Zealand. ■■ Ross Spiller, founder of the

iconic Howick family business Spillers Hardware, died aged 90 after a short illness. In 1942 Ross and his parents Oswald (Ossie) and Gladys moved to Howick from the King Country town of Ohakune and purchased the general store in the main street (located where Paper Plus is now situated) which the family operated until the mid 1950s. ■■ Jeremy Kerr, of Mellons Bay,

the man behind the 1080 infant milk formula contamination scare, was jailed for eight-and-a half years. He faced a maximum 14 years in prison. His blackmail attempts cost businesses and the Government $37 million. ■■ Louise and Darren Clark returned to Botany Downs with baby Clark onboard and scheduled to be born the following October. The couple had spent six weeks in Nashville, Tennessee undergoing IVF treatment at the Centre for Reproductive Health. ■■ The long-standing matriarch

of interior design Nanette Cameron didn’t really want to retire but conceded that “the time has come”. But the 87-year-old was happy that her Nanette Cameron School of Interior Design at Te Tuhi, Pakuranga, was in good hands. ■■ A proposed cycleway/walkway at Bucklands Beach was of “deep concern” to waterfront property owners and many other local residents. Bucklands and Eastern Beaches Residents and Ratepayers Association chairperson Evelyn Brown said the

touching base: The new Botany Crime Watch patrol base, at the rear of the food court in Botany Town Centre, was officially opened by Wendy Spiller, Counties Manukau East Police area commander; Auckland Council Howick Ward councillor, Dick Quax; and chairman of the Botany Crime Watch Patrol, Dick Marshall. Times photo Wayne Martin

creation of a 2.5m-wide shared pathway “impacts greatly” on the green grass beachfront reserve. “This will reduce the area for recreation access for small boats, canoeing, water board sports, training junior yachting and a number of other school and sport groups using Little Bucklands Beach,” she said.

April

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Offender’s Squads were used as a precautionary measure to gain entry into property in Botany as part of a massive national police operation targeting an alleged meth ring. Properties in East Tamaki and Botany were among numerous suburbs and towns raided. Eighteen people were arrested. ■■ The run-up to the annual Anzac Poppy Day was in full swing at Howick RSA and, as is the case every year, more volunteers were being welcomed to help spread the load. Jan Lawrence and the Poppy Day committee had been planning for April 15 since before Christmas. Boxes of poppies were delivered to 36 schools throughout the Howick Ward. ■■ Ralph Witten, who worked tirelessly for Howick and surrounding communities for more than 50 years, died. Mr Witten was named Howick Citizen of the Year in 2006. He served on the Howick Borough Council and Manukau City Council for 12 years. ■■ For the fifth year, Eastern

Beach artist Merv Appleton entered a painting in the Gallipoli Art Prize and was a finalist in the event conducted by the Gal-

lipoli Memorial Club in Sydney, Australia with his tribute to the World War I Light Horses. It featured the heroic work of horses in the World War I battlefields of the Somme and Passchendaele. ■■ An investigation continued into how two boys had their throats cut during a performance at Saint Kentigern College. The college cancelled the remaining scheduled musical performances of Sweeney Todd – The Demon Barber of Fleet Street after two students’ throats were cut on stage on opening night. ■■ Students from 10 local schools got a first-hand account of the realities of war when they took up a Howick Returned and Services’ Association (RSA) invitation to an Anzac awareness day. Accompanying one group was Somerville Intermediate principal David Ellery who said it was good to hear personal accounts. ■■ Riverhills School students won the top award in the Primary and Intermediate Schools section of the Eye on Nature Wearable Art Competition. Hosted by the Manukau Beautification Trust, the competition featured 83 outfits created by students from across the Auckland region. The winning entry ‘Kaitiaki o nga Awa’ (Guardian of the Waterways) was created by a class of Year 5 and 6 Riverhills students and was modelled by Year 6 student Jaydah Tonga.

■■ Mount Roskill MP Phil Goff said he would take a strong stand with central government if Aucklanders voted him in as Mayor of the SuperCity. The political strength of the Mayor was to speak on behalf of the city to central government because it held the purse strings, he told a capacity crowd in Howick at a meeting organised by Botany MP JamiLee Ross. ■■ The Howick Local Board released proposals to transform the previous Greenmount Landfill site at East Tamaki into a native forest alongside leisure areas, children’s play and fitness facilities, an off-leash dog area, walking and cycling tracks and access to the summit. The 54ha site on the corner of Harris and Smales Roads in East Tamaki was used as a landfill by Envirowaste Services Limited (ESL) until 2005 and since 2006 was undergoing managed fill operations to restore its original landform. ■■ A $6 million lobster processing plant was officially opened in East Tamaki. Owned by Ngati Kahungunu, New Zealand’s third largest iwi, the new facility in Ron Driver Place consolidated a longterm commercial and strategic relationship with the Fiordland Lobster Company (FLC) with whom it had conducted business for a decade. The new factory was the largest live lobster facility in the country. ■■ The Greater East Tamaki Business Association (Getba) wanted to see police better-resourced and

thieves dealt with more severely said Jane Tongatule, Getba’s general manager, responding to data showing the East Tamaki industrial precinct was one of the hardest hit with more than 250 burglaries recorded in the 18 months after July 2014. While the figures represented an increase on the previous two years, and halted a downward trend she said the 18 month period reflected a re-categorisation of burglaries nationally by the police to include attempted burglaries and also some of what used to be termed theft; also reflecting an increased confidence in reporting crime. ■■ East Auckland Zonta president, Eleanor Moonie presented Zonta District Awards to Lynne Anderson, Joan Swift and Gretl Bass in recognition of their service to their communities. They were among 50 women throughout New Zealand recognised to celebrate Zonta International’s establishment in New Zealand 50 years before. ■■ Judith Collins, Minister of Corrections and Minister of Police, MPs Kanwaljeet Singh Bakshi and Melissa Lee, Race Relations Commissioner Dame Susan Devoy, were present to mark the first anniversary of Gandhi Nivas in Otahuhu, a unique early intervention facility providing free counselling and temporary accommodation to men involved in family violence. Counties Manukau Police District Commander John Tims awarded a special Challenge Coin to founder of East Tamaki Healthcare, Ranjna Patel for having spearheaded the groundbreaking project that would be replicated in Wellington and Hamilton. talent: A sketch of Michael Jordan by Jeremy Kyle was commissioned by the NBA’s Chicago Bulls for their 50th season celebration. The 23-year-old commercial artist and graphic designer was working from his home studio at Eastern Beach, on global campaigns with powerhouse brands like Under Armour, Dior, 2pac Brand and Chicago Bulls – former team of basketball icon Michael Jordan. Photo supplied

■■ A man was charged in relation to the death of Josh Martin, the Year 13 Pakuranga College student killed on his motorbike in a crash the previous year. Police confirmed a 45-year-old man

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■■ On World Environment Day Peter Young JP was one of more than 100 people from the local community to clean up the grounds of the Fo Guang Shan Buddhist Temple in Flat Bush, in preparation for Buddha’s Birthday celebrations. The Botany community leader was one of the guiding lights behind the creation of the impressive Fo Guang Shan Buddhist Temple in Flat Bush.

■■ The first grants from the Li family’s $10 million cancer research gift to the University of Auckland, were made to support research into cancer biomarkers. The previous September the Bucklands Beach entrepreneur Liangren Li and his family announced a record $10m endowment fund to provide annual interest for investing in cancer research. ■■ A challenge – a Wero – was

laid down for novice paddlers to Olympic champions as the waters at New Zealand’s first manmade white water facility were switched on and Prime Minister John Key declared the park officially open. After 10 years in the making, the park, next to the Vodafone Events Centre in Manukau, came to life as a waka led a procession of kayakers and rafters onto the water, among them members of the New Zealand Canoe Slalom paddling team who tested the waters over Anzac weekend. ■■ After a two-year break the doyen of beauty pageants Val Lott was ready to re-launch the Miss Howick contest but this time on an international scale. She was invited by organisers of the Miss Regal International Pageant, to send a New Zealand representative to the event on the Caribbean island of Antigua. ■■ Anzac services recognised

100 years since Kiwis and Australians first commemorated Anzac Day. A tangible recognition of the anniversary was the completion of a sealed path up Stockade Hill to the centotaph with the shape of Anzac poppies indented on each side. As the parade of veterans filed into their seats at the 11am Civic Service the renewed interest from young people was spectacularly demonstrated. Students from Macleans, Pakuranga, Botany Downs, Elim Christian, Sancta Maria, St Kentigerns, Ormison Senior and Edgewater Colleges and Mission Heights Junior College, followed by intermediate school and youth group representatives, filled up the eastern flank of the memorial area. ■■ Recent fears that the Auckland residential real estate market was cooling off were overstated, with median prices across the city rebounding to reach a new record high, the Real Estate Institute of New Zealand (REINZ) said. The Eastern Beaches residential dwelling price in March was up 13 per cent to $990,000 compared with $878,000 the same time last year, according to REINZ figures.

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who went missing two years before and became Half Moon Bay Marina’s much-loved moggy, capturing the hearts of the many people who looked out for him, was reunited with his owners. He told the Times his story. ■■ Howick and Botany residents, Mary Ann France and Kim Callard harnessed the energies of women prisoners and retirees to help them make comfort blankets and pikau bags for traumatised kids. They formed Comfort Kidz, an organisation dedicated to helping traumatised children, and gave the products to the Multi-Agency Centre, a Middlemore Hospital facility dealing with traumatised children, bringing together health, welfare and police. ■■ Police looked into an inci-

dent in which drunken teens – possibly from a gang – were alleged to have terrorised a family in Northpark. ■■ Intrigue mounted following the sighting of a mysterious bright light in the north western sky. Times staff member Clare McGillivray snapped a photo from her Beachlands home, at first thinking it was just the setting sun reflecting off a wispy cloud, but wondered if it was a meteorite as it appeared to leave a large trail as it dropped through the sky. There were numerous comments from apparent witnesses on the WeatherWatch. co.nz site. ■■ Residents and staff at Ambridge Rose Villa were ‘udderly’ thrilled to have their long lost cow back. Young Farm Cove party-goers had finished celebrating a fifth birthday at the Doull household and decided to burn off some energy at a nearby suburban reserve. When they ventured into their favourite bush hideaway, they discovered the rather lonely looking cow.

■■ Elias Worrall-Bader returned from the 2012 Peter Blake Youth EnviroLeaders’ Forum determined to go on a Peter Blake expedition on the Auckland Islands. The Year 12 Howick College student joined student leaders from throughout the country at the Nelson forum.

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residents feared the move was an accident waiting to happen. Rather than crossing busy Ridge Road to reach Picton Street, AT said people could cross Picton Street a short distance up from the Ridge Road junction. But local resident, Robert Finley, asked since when would teenagers in a hurry take a longer route?

■■ Grieving mum, Clare White

believed the man who admitted careless driving which caused the death of her son, Joshua Martin who was killed in a car crash near Pakuranga College, should be jailed. She was at the Manukau District Court when 46-yearold Pakuranga man Josef Kadlcik pleaded guilty to the charge. The Year 13 Pakuranga College student was on his motorbike heading to KFC to collect his pay cheque when the accident occurred. ■■ Los Angeles Mayor, Eric Garcetti, visited staff at Seedling NZ, East Tamaki. He was part of a group of senior political representatives from the USA and Guangzhou, China, attending the annual summit of the Tripartite Economic Alliance in Auckland. ■■ Mike McGrath, 70, teacher of hard materials technology at Farm Cove Intermediate for 30 years, retired. He had taught more than 7000 students at the school over the years. ■■ Brett Meyer from Cockle Bay

decided to run one in one of the most remote parts on earth, the North Pole. The dedicated marathoner was aiming to run the 42 kilometres North Pole Marathon – because “it was there to be done”. ■■ The driver of a ute who pleaded guilty to careless driving causing death following a collision on Whitford Road was sentenced. Tradesman Carl Brown was sentenced to six weeks community detention, 200 hours community service, banned from driving for 18 months and was made to pay $12,000 to his victims at $40 a week. ■■ Nineteen-year-old AUT stu-

dent Kristie Toms of Half Moon Bay was selected to show off her project at the Oscars of the architectural world, the Venice Architecture Biennale. ■■ Demolition work started on

the site of the controversial proposed Thurston Place College in Bucklands Beach. The former Waimokoia School property was purchased by the Whenua Haumi Roroa o Tamaki Makaurau Limited Partnership the previous August. It was offered to the Partnership under the Right of First Refusal (RFR) provisions of the Nga Mana Whenua o Tamaki Makaurau Collective Redress Act 2014. Auckland Council confirmed it received an application for a 43-lot subdivision at the site but it was subsequently withdrawn.

cruze control: Byron Elrick and his wife started to raise money for their three-year-old son Cruze who was born with a condition called grade 3 Microtia and Atresia on his right ear, a congenital deformity affecting the outer ear (pinna) where the ear does not fully develop. They had found Dr John Reinisch a specialist in the US who could create an ear for their son. Photo supplied

■■ Increased house prices were putting pressure on budgets set aside to buy properties required for the south-east’s major transport project. In a report to the Howick Local Board, Auckland Transport (AT) said progress on the AMETI (Auckland Manukau Eastern Transport Initiative) was slower than anticipated because of internal project resource constraints. Subsequently there was a delay in property acquisition. An AT spokesman told the Times AT had a limited budget for capital projects that required property purchases, including AMETI. Increased house prices were putting further pressure on these limited budgets causing potential for delays in purchasing properties required. ■■ An afternoon of creative excitement was planned at the Uxbridge Arts and Culture Centre to celebrate the completion of the first stage of its redevelopment. The first stage of the redevelopment involved demolishing the main building and Keall House. In its place was a new building hosting the Malcolm Smith Art Gallery, studios, a lounge and a light open-plan cafe facing onto Uxbridge Road. ■■ Shirley and Colin Ford celebrated their 60th wedding anniversary, 58 of them spent at their much-loved home in Paton Road, Howick. They said they had “never regretted” coming.

June

■■ Despite going back to the

drawing board at Howick Local Board’s behest, Auckland Transport continued its plans to relocate the bus stop at the intersection of Picton Street and Ridge Road further down Ridge Road at the base of Stockade Hill. Local

■■ Long-time Times photographer Wayne Martin snapped up the Best Newspaper Photographer award at the NZ Community Newspapers Association national awards. His entry from Times publication, Botany and Ormiston Times, was described by the category judge as “colourful and strong with emotion”. ■■ The man behind the 1080 infant milk formula contamination scare admitted five drugs charges. At the 1080 scare trial it was heard Mellons Bay man Jeremy Kerr’s blackmail attempts cost businesses and the Government $37 million. ■■ Finalists in the 2016 Estuary Art Awards were about to share in the event’s 10th anniversary along with a showing in the Uxbridge Arts and Culture Centre’s newly-completed Malcolm Smith Gallery. Entries opened for the awards, the only contemporary art prize in New Zealand with ecology at its core. ■■ The most important part of the SuperCity’s new leadership would be the council’s work with central government on the Auckland Transport Alignment Project outgoing Mayor Len Brown told the Times. In the overwhelming vision of Auckland, transport was always the main bugbear, he said. ■■ Franceska Banga, of Farm Cove was made an Officer of the New Zealand Order of Merit for services to business and the community. Garnet Donald Tregonning, of Howick was made a Member of the New Zealand Order of Merit for services to orthopaedics. And Clifford Henry (Cliff) Deery, JP, of Kawakawa Bay was awarded the Queen’s Service Medal for services to the New Zealand Fire Service and the community. ■■ Former Pakuranga College head boy, 21-year-old Ben Dowdle was invited as a Global Changemaker to the prestigious Global Youth Summit in Zurich, Switzerland. He was one of 60 from 4000 applicants. ■■ Multi-award-winning wildlife photographer, David Lloyd and former Howickian (now resident in London) held his latest exhibition titled As Long As There Are Animals for Howick’s Monterey Art Gallery. ■■ Half Moon Bay residents were angry about the loss of 26 car parks on both sides of Pigeon Mountain Road to accommodate changes to the Prince Regent Drive/Sunderlands Road intersection and to install metering signals to improve traffic flow in evening peak commuter times. Half Moon Bay Residents and Ratepayers Association chairman, Keith Ingram said: “We need more car parks, we should not be losing them.”

pier pressure: The first sods were turned at the site of the new Half Moon Bay ferry pier by Auckland Transport (AT) director Mark Gilbert, Howick Local Board chairman David Collings, Minister of Transport Simon Bridges, Auckland Mayor Len Brown, and NZ Transport Agency director Nick Rogers. Times photo Wayne Martin

■■ Senior citizens, believing they had to present identification in person to load their SuperGold AT HOP card concessions, lined up at the Botany Town Centre

good time: Rhys Runciman celebrated his 100th birthday saying every day was a good-time day. He admitted to getting into trouble often because he said what he thought because he had no time for PC: “It gives me a pain”. The Botany Downs centenarian continued to walk one-two kilometres a day. Times photo Marianne Kelly

Auckland Transport customer service centre taking some people one-and-a-half hours to get their cards loaded. An AT spokesman said they could get their concession loaded onto the card by post or online at the AT website as well as in person. ■■ Liquidators chased almost $210,000 allegedly owed by the owner of the closed restaurant, The Beach House, at Bucklands Beach. ■■ Two local area radio stations that had broadcast in East Auckland for eight years were merged, forming a new one called East FM. The new station replaced Howick Village Radio and Botany Radio that ran for eight and five years respectively. ■■ Joy Oxford, the former chair of the governing board of Uxbridge Community Projects, the incorporated society set up in 1982 to drive the Uxbridge Creative Leisure Centre in Uxbridge Road, Howick, was a guest speaker at the celebratory opening of Uxbridge Stage One. She reflected on the long journey to reach the new state-of-the-art facility, including the Malcolm Smith Art Gallery, art studios, a lounge and open plan cafe. The adjacent church building, being upgraded to a dedicated theatre, was due to be opened in October. ■■ At the same time as fielding media questions about a bomb blast near the Iraqi camp where Kiwi troops were based, Defence Minister Gerry Brownlee also got down to grass roots advice in East Tamaki. He was hosted by Botany MP Jami-Lee Ross at a quarterly business leaders’ lunch, but also met with veterans and management of Howick RSA and visited the Hynds Pipe Systems East Tamaki factory. ■■ The spirit of the former architect and staunch supporter of what was now known as the Uxbridge Arts and Culture Centre, the late Malcolm Smith, was close to many hearts as the Malcolm Smith Gallery was officially opened. The function ran in conjunction with the official opening of Uxbridge Stage one, consisting of the gallery, art studios, a lounge and open-plan cafe. Mr Smith’s wife Christina and members of his family were special invited guests. ■■ A veteran of beauty pageants, Adele Krantz pursued a double mission – to win a new title for New Zealand and also provide valuable feedback to Howick’s Val Lott about an event on the Caribbean island of Antigua. Ms Krantz responded to an article in

the Times about Mrs Lott’s invitation to send a New Zealand representative to the Miss Regal International Pageant. ■■ Counties Manukau Police followed some strong lines of enquiry after a spate of ram raid burglaries in the eastern suburbs. A number of commercial premises experienced ram raids in which stolen vehicles were driven through the doors and then stock loaded into other waiting vehicles. They included businesses in Botany, Pakuranga, Burswood, Flat Bush and East Tamaki. Kathmandu in Botany Town Centre was hit twice within a week.

on song: Sixteen-year-old soprano Emily Briggs, a Year 12 student at Macleans College, and Emily Young, a 17-year-old alto in Year 13 at St Kentigern College, were chosen for the 60-strong choir which would take part in the International Choral Kathaumixw Festival in Powell River, British Columbia. Times photo Wayne Martin

■■ Guta Goldstein, during visits to Macleans, Pakuranga and Saint Kentigern Colleges, talked about the unfathomable six years she endured under the Nazi jackboot as a child and that hell-onearth, Auschwitz. She was part of programme in which every year since 2011 the Jewish Federation of New Zealand runs the HOPE Project, bringing a Holocaust Survivor to tour New Zealand schools. ■■ Clare White, the mother of 17-year-old schoolboy Josh Martin who was killed following a collision near his school, was so distraught following his death she considered ending her own life, she said in an emotional victim impact statement in the Manukau District Court. Josef Kadlcik was sentenced by Judge Jane Lovell-Smith to 200 hours of community work, disqualified from driving for 15 months and ordered to make reparations of a little over $24,000. He pleaded guilty the previous month to careless driving causing death.

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for the Pakuranga subdivision under the Vision & Voice ticket, having done one term on the Pakuranga Community Board, three as a Manukau City Council councillor and two with the Howick Local Board. Katrina Bungard took her second tilt at the local board’s Pakuranga subdivision.

■■ Howick Historical Village got

itself on the regional radar being granted a $9200 allocation from a new Auckland Council heritage grants programme. The Howick & Districts Historical Society, which administered the village, was one of seven organisations in the Super City to receive a grant from the $80,743 regional historic heritage grants programme for 2015/2016. ■■ Plans for a shared pathway

along the Bucklands Beach waterfront were shelved in favour of fixing erosion and the deteriorating sea wall. Public reaction to plans for a new and upgraded pathway from the Warren Boardwalk to Grangers Point was mixed, with many asking the Howick Local Board to address erosion issues and repair the seawall first. ■■ Talks with local iwi, business people and lawyers were on the agenda for Government Minister Chris Finlayson who was given a tour of the Howick Ward by Botany MP Jami-Lee Ross. During his visit to the Times and wearing his Minister for Treaty of Waitangi Negotiations hat he said Ngai Tai ki Tamaki Iwi was anxious to get its Treaty settlement legislation into the house. The Iwi’s deed of settlement was signed at Umupuia marae at Maraetai the previous November.

July

■■ Loas Toung, aged nearly 84,

admitted she had been ripped off to the tune of almost $8000. She fell for Steve, a man with no surname, no contact phone number that worked, and no address that seemed to be kosher. ■■ Hunua National MP Andrew Bayly proposed changes in the law to address the problem with methamphetamine-contaminated houses. After months of research, the MP - whose constituency covered Flat Bush, Beachlands and Maraetai – planned to put a Bill in the members’ ballot that would give landlords more power to test and remedy their rental properties of dangerous levels of contamination. ■■ A group of Year one students from Elm Park Primary School visited Pakuranga College as part of their science studies. Senior students from the college’s Year 12 applied science group showed the youngsters how to prepare and view microscope slides. ■■ Jim Doyle, Vodafone Warriors CEO, addressed the Rotary Club of Somerville that fundraises by manning car parks outside Mr Smart Stadium during Warrior games. The Cockle Bay resident traced his life from humble beginnings of a Scottish electrician to being a former boss man of the rich and powerful Australian National Rugby League (NRL) and then chief executive of the Warriors. ■■ Caleb Kendall’s friends and

family thought a P lab caused a fire which razed their garage and destroyed a car. Kendall and his girlfriend and another couple lived in a flat adjoining the garage on Latham Avenue, Pakuranga. They had no car or contents insurance and there were items stored in the garage, including a family member’s ashes. ■■ A drive to put Howick on the tourist map moved on from con-

super star: Jennie McCormick, who operated an observatory at her Farm Cove home overlooking the Wakaaranga Estuary, was recognised by her peers, becoming the thirteenth Fellow of the Royal Astronomical Society of New Zealand. Times photo Wayne Martin

cept plans to hands-on work which was expected to result in reasons why local and international visitors should visit the south-east. Howick Tourism Incorporated chairman, Des Topp retired and Charmaine Chapman, marketing and events team leader at the Howick Historical Village, took over the reins. ■■ The man behind the 1080 infant milk formula contamination scare had an extra 15 months added to his jail term after pleading guilty to five drugs charges. Jeremy Kerr of Mellons Bay was earlier sentenced in the Auckland High Court to eight-and-a-half years in jail. ■■ Samuel Young, who was found guilty of careless driving causing death, failed in a bid to be discharged without conviction. On April 11, 2014, Young’s action in pulling out of Topland Drive in Flat Bush onto Stancombe Road resulted in 17-year-old motorcyclist Brody Sutherland falling from his bike. He was subsequently struck by a vehicle travelling in the opposite direction and died at the scene. ■■ Walter (Wattie) Fleming, who took special delight in tutoring students in all aspects of mathematics across his long teaching career, died aged 96. Before moving to Howick, he was a teacher at Paeroa and Waiuku District High Schools. He was head of mathematics and physics when he joined the Pakuranga College foundation staff in 1960 and became deputy-principal two years later, a position he held until 1968. He moved on to Edgewater College as its foundation principal in 1968 and retired in 1979. ■■ Grant Taylor was appointed

club president of Howick Lions Club. A resident of Howick for 39 years, he served on the Cockle Bay Residents & Ratepayers Association as chairman for 25 years. ■■ Former Macleans College stu-

dent Camilla Hand was chosen in the top 20 finalists for Miss Universe NZ. The Half Moon Bay resident was studying towards a postgraduate diploma in clinical perfusion.

■■ The police staff torch relay marking 75 years of women in policing made a stop at the Fo Guang Shan temple in Flat Bush. The two halves of the illuminated torch, which represented the New Zealand Police tohu, started a tour of the 12 policing districts simultaneously in Cape Reinga and Bluff.

■■ After 14 years working at the

Eastgate Christian Centre Op Shop and approaching the age of 70, Wendy Bell, earlier in the year, decided she was going to retire. But she decided that God had gone deaf on the idea so she would “work until he told her to stop” - not that she was disappointed. She regarded herself as the mother hen of the Eastgate Op Shop family. ■■ Fred Thomson, 104, celebrated the milestone with his club mates from the Bucklands Beach Bowling Club where he had been a member for more than 20 years. He joined the club after moving into the Pakuranga Park Retirement Village in 1991 and was an enduring presence on the green after that. ■■ One hundred and three-yearold Dorothy looked like the queen mother waving to pedestrians as she drove in a regal 1937 Rolls Royce driven by Gary Thomason on her birthday. ■■ Clevedon’s Richard Sumner got a phone call at his office to say his house had been struck by lightning. He later found out that lightning had struck two pine trees on his driveway on McGregor Rd stripping bark – before the power surge arced across to a fence, onto power lines and then into his house, blowing the fuses on the power supply. ■■ Fewer buses to the city centre

and more terminating at the Panmure rail station were in store for south-east public transport travellers as the result of the proposed new Auckland Transport (AT) network, scheduled to be implemented the following year. The rationale behind the change was that journeys between Panmure and the City Centre were faster by train which also offered more consistently reliable travel times as it was free from congestion. ■■ With more than 50 years of encouraging artistic inspiration the Howick Art Group again attracted close to 200 entries for its mid-winter competition. Well-known Eastern Beach artist and teacher Merv Appleton carried off the best overall prize for his oils painting ‘Lifting Fog’. ■■ Having completed his first term on the Howick Local Board, elected member for the Botany subdivision Garry Boles decided to run again on his home patch in the Pakuranga subdivision where he had lived for 51 years. Howick Local Board chairman David Collings stood again

■■ An eight-strong group of St Kentigern teens completed a 100km walk within 40 hours to raise funds for the children of Malawi. The crew, which couldn’t take part in the 40 Hour Famine due to sporting commitments, finished their walk around the Hunua Ranges almost three hours early, clocking in with a time of 37 hours. ■■ Long-standing Pakuranga MP Maurice Williamson announced he would not seek re-election in 2017. The Times understood he would take up an overseas posting. ■■ Veteran local body politician Bob Wichman abandoned his traditionally independent status to join the Vision & Voice Botany subdivision ticket in the Howick Local Board elections. Lucy Schwaner decided to make a third bid for the local board on the Botany Vision & Voice team. It was her fourth in local government, having served for a term on the previous Botany Community Board. Peter Young, just pipped at the post for a seat on the board’s Botany subdivision at the previous election, decided to stand again on the Vision & Voice ticket. ■■ Tamsyn Cornwall, 26, was one

of the 20 selected contestants for Miss Universe and spoke about her suffering from Crohn’s Disease since she was just eight. The former Macleans College student said she wanted more people to be aware of unseen illnesses. ■■ Nirvana Health Group director

and Pakuranga resident Ranjna Patel was a finalist in the Ernst & Young (EY) Entrepreneur of the Year Awards. Eighteen finalists were announced for one of the world’s most prestigious business awards.

■■ Founding parish priest of St Mark’s Church and School in Pakuranga, Monsignor Raymond Green, celebrated a special Mass to mark 60 years of ordination to the priesthood. The priest, holding a position as Emeritus Pastor at Owairaka Catholic Church, would turn 90 later in the year. ■■ Christian

Woodbridge, an 18-year-old former Macleans College student, prepared to leave for Uganda to volunteer in a sport education project at Hebron Junior School in Nalugala Village, Entebbe. The Mellons Bay man planned to spend six weeks at the school through International Volunteer HQ. He would teach young children sport and help out with other aspects of school life. ■■ Mexican dancer, Azul Fernanda Ulloa Ocana, left her home and school to come to New Zealand and dance with her idol, the iconic dancer Parris Goebel. The 12-year-old knew she had to be a part of the world-famous dance crew, the Royal Family at the Palace Dance Studio, the moment she saw the auditions held by the global hip hop dancer Parris Goebel on Facebook.

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■■ When the Times visited the

scene of a minor, single car crash on Cascades Rd, Botany, it found residents angry, scared and desperate for action. A white van had lost control negotiating the roundabout on the corner of Aviemore Dr and Cascades Rd. But an anxious resident said lots of accidents had happened on the road. ■■ One of the country’s foremost contemporary art critics said the Uxbridge Arts and Culture Centre’s annual Estuary Art Awards were “exciting and never predictable”. Announcing the winners at a function at the newly-opened Malcolm Smith Gallery, Jon Bywater said he was excited by the richness of the diversity assembled. ■■ Encouraged by the cohesive and productive way the Howick Local Board had operated throughout its current term, John Spiller opted to run on a team ticket in the local body elections. He scored second place as an Independent candidate in the previous local board election and decided to run with the Vision & Voice team for the Howick subdivision. Somerville Intermediate School principal, David Ellery, didn’t pull enough votes to get onto the Howick Local Board at the previous election, but decided to stand on the Vision & Voice team ticket. The board’s deputy-chair Adele White also decided to take another tilt at the election on the Vision & Voice ticket. ■■ Botany Town Centre fashion stores Valleygirl and sister company Temt were closed. A sign in both shops read: “Valleygirl New Zealand Limited was placed into receivership on 26 July 2016 and this store has now closed.” ■■ Police warned of a wave of immigration scam phone calls. Immigrants in Howick, Pakuranga, Botany and Flat Bush area were getting calls demanding huge sums of money and scammers were phoning Indian nationals claiming to be from Immigration New Zealand and threatening deportation. ■■ In quick response to the Manurewa Marae opening its doors for the homeless, Botany Life Community Church in Burswood jumped into action to support the Whakapiki Ora project at the marae. ■■ The Macleans College Chorale, the school’s premier choir which in 2015 won bronze in the Big Sing Finale in Wellington, rallied an urgent fundraiser to get to the 2016 National Finale. For the seventh year in a row, the choir was selected as one of the 24 choirs nationwide out of some 200 to compete in the National Finale in Dunedin. ■■ Auckland Mayor Len Brown was looking forward to taking a holiday once handing the mayoral chains over after the Auckland Council election. He said he would enjoy spending time with his wife Shan and their kids. ■■ Twenty-year-old Olivia Montgomery said she wanted to stay “really true to [herself]” if elected onto the Howick Local Board Howick subdivision, or as one of two Auckland councillors for the Howick Ward.

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■■ It was déjà vu when a car

crossed the centre line and hit another – the second in two weeks at the same time and on the same corner in Botany. It hit another vehicle travelling in the opposite direction on the roundabout on the corner of Aviemore Drive and Cascades Road. Locals were in disbelief. ■■ Twenty-nine-year-old Matthew Cross challenged members of his generation and younger to get interested in local body politics and learn from recent international events such as Donald Trump’s bid to become President of the United States and the Brexit vote which left Britain out in the European cold. The exArmy officer, born, raised and educated in Howick, was standing as an Independent for Howick Ward councillor seat in the Auckland Council elections. ■■ Police investigated a suspicious fire – possibly the work of a serial arsonist – following a blaze which destroyed a Pakuranga garage and a car within the previous month. ■■ New colour-coded zones, along with a new fare table, were due to be introduced making it simpler to work out the cost of travel on the SuperCity’s bus and train services. Auckland Transport (AT) established 13 zones across the region and fares would be calculated according to the number of zones travelled through for the entire journey. ■■ Ron Dixon was angry that tickets written outside his shop, many for warrant of fitness or car registration infractions, were wrecking his business and the Pakuranga Plaza mall. Auckland Transport said the car park had different restrictions - 180, 90 and 60 minutes – which should be ample time for most shoppers and was similar to other shopping areas in Auckland. ■■ Out-of-scope changes which had the potential to block iconic view shafts from Stockade Hill and Crawford Park, Howick, were left in the Auckland Unitary Plan (AUP). But the Howick Residents and Ratepayers Association (HRRA), armed with more than 1000 petition signatures, hoped to appeal this part of the AUP. ■■ Local businessman Ron Longstaff was presented with a milestone award for 40 years of service as a chartered accountant in Howick. He was honoured by the Institute of Chartered Accountants Australia and New Zealand at a high tea ceremony at the Heritage Hotel in the Auckland CBD.

■■ Zai Jian Liang, who ran the Tasty Zone Restaurant in East Tamaki and filed 113 incorrect tax returns between 2009 and 2015, was sentenced to three years and two months in jail after evading $787,996 in tax. An Inland Revenue investigation revealed he and his wife Guan Hong Liang avoided paying GST by failing to declare over $1 million in cash sales and almost $500,000 in PAYE. ■■ David Hay pitched for a councillor seat representing Howick Ward in the Auckland Council election and also the Mayoralty. While he didn’t live in the southeast, he worked for a period as a senior policy analyst on the former Manukau City Council strategy and policy team and then as principal policy analyst at the Auckland Council’s Social Policy Unit and said he knew the Ward’s background and history well. ■■ Peter Howie, of Beachlands, was elected and installed as Master at Lodge Howick. The retired electronics engineer was a member of the local Lodge for 28 years and Master previously 10 years before. ■■ Botany pianist, Delvan Lin, was awarded an Arts Excellence Award from the Dame Malvina Major Foundation. The 17-year old was studying Performance Piano at the University of Auckland and was accepted into the prestigious Curtis Institute of Music’s Young Artist Summer Programme in Philadelphia. He was awarded $5000 to assist with this venture. ■■ The rafters of the Uxbridge Presbyterian Church were about to ring again with music and laughter as the longawaited upgrade of the old building was to be celebrated with a two-week festival. Renovation of the church was part of stage two of the $6.4 million redevelopment of the Uxbridge Arts and Culture Centre in Uxbridge Road, Howick. The refurbished space would have fixed theatre seating and some on the flat designed for cabaret events, a new lighting and sound system and a larger cinema screen. It seated more than 200 people.

September

■■ Local school leaders ex-

pressed outrage after Education Minister Hekia Parata introduced the Community of Online Learning (COOL). Michael Williams, deputy chair of the NZ Secondary Principals’ Council and principal of Pakuranga College said while using technology was important, his main objection was that it trivialised education as mere content acquisition, ignoring the important part of the curriculum. David Ellery, principal of Somerville Intermediate, said schools played a vital role in educating the child intellectually, physically, socially and emotionally to help them become well rounded citizens. ■■ Rehabilitation work started

on the crash-prone roundabout on the corner of Aviemore Dr and Cascades Rd in Botany to the delight of nearby residents.

running: Jim Donald, at the age of 70, decided to run for a third term as an independent candidate on the Howick Local Board, representing the Howick subdivision. He told the Times he was “definitely not done. I have a sense of wisdom, I’ve been around”. Times photo Scott Yeoman

People living on the corner were desperate for action after a string of near-misses. Cars were regularly losing control negotiating the roundabout, with some vehicles crashing into and through fences, parked cars and even houses.

■■ As part of the Fencibles United Association Football Club’s 20th anniversary celebrations, a special exhibition match was planned. The Pakuranga Town AFC old boys would take on the Howick AFC old boys for the inaugural Danna Mandry Trophy. The trophy was named after the current club secretary who had been with Fencibles United since the amalgamation of the two local clubs established in the 1960s. ■■ The Cockle Bay Residents and Ratepayers Association chairman Laurie Slee and secretary Graeme

Lane were alarmed to find height limits and regulations for the ‘business mixed use’ zone surrounding the Howick Town Centre had changed in the Auckland Unitary Plan, adopted by Auckland Council, to allow buildings as high as 27m or eight storeys. The adopted document was radically changed from the submissions which preserved the appearance of the main views immediately adjacent to Picton Street by imposing height controls. ■■ Julie Zhu, 23, was frustrated that young peoples’ voices were not represented well in local government. But rather than complaining about it, she decided to show that representation was possible by standing as a councillor for the Howick Ward and as an elected member of the Botany subdivision of the Howick Local Board in the Auckland Council elections.

■■ Rosa Chow, who moved to New Zealand 20 years ago, decided to stand for the Howick Local Board elections (Pakuranga subdivision). ■■ The Howick Hornets Open Age Restricted (OAR) side suffered a devastatingly close loss at the weekend, falling one point short in what was a dramatic championship final. The U85kg side came up against Hibiscus Coast and limped away with an 18-19 defeat, despite a courageous comeback. ■■ Fisher & Paykel Appliances – the iconic fridge maker – was just weeks away from letting go the last of its staff and shutting the gates on its East Tamaki factory for the final time. The previous April the company briefed staff on plans for the closure of the factory which manufactured a range of small refrigeration products. The factory at that stage was operating four days a week and employed 186 staff.

high tech: Pakuranga College digital technology teacher Tyne Crow had his hands full with a classroom of eager teenage students using the school’s brand new stateof-the-art virtual reality headset and hand controllers. He said the students were not just playing around with the new technology, but were programming original content Times photo Wayne Martin for it.

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for a seat on the Pakuranga subdivision of the Howick Local Board. His key focuses were on community safety and accessible government. ■■ Paul Young, standing in the Auckland Council election as a councillor in the Howick Ward, was taking another tryst with politics. In the Botany 2011 by-election to replace

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■■ A trio of Macleans College students came up with an app designed to help students manage their classes and assignments. Developed as part of the Lion Foundation Young Enterprise Scheme by Year 13 students Kerman Kohli (18), Andreas Knapp (18) and Keerthana Ananth (17), the Ed.life app made it impossible for students to lose track of assignment deadlines. ■■ Tania Mahoney said fresh faces and fresh ideas were needed on the Howick Local Board which meant a changing of the guard. Her Labour Party running-mate Allan Hawea, also standing for the board’s Pakuranga subdivision, said there was complacency on the board.

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Pansy Wong, Mr Young formed the New Citizen Party and scored third highest after Jami-Lee Ross and Labour’s Michael Wood. However, this time he was standing as an independent and was not putting up any signage.

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achieve a Bachelor of Business in Economics and Finance.

■■ Howick College Year 11 stu-

dents Izzy Williams, Maja Ranzinger and Seb Judd finished the debating season undefeated, and crowned their run in style winning the grand final of the senior open division of the Auckland Schools Debating competition. ■■ Joe Kalasimi, who worked with Clevedon Coast Oysters, won an all-expenses-paid trip to the Japan Oyster Opening Championships followed by a trip to compete at the world’s biggest oyster event – the World Oyster Opening Championships in Galway, Ireland. ■■ Howick Ward councillor Dick Quax, who had battled throat cancer for the previous three years and was given the all clear from his doctors, said he “came very close at one stage” to not running for another term on Auckland Council. The 68-yearold former Olympic distance runner said he could be going into his last three years if elected. ■■ A heritage listed ‘dairy man-

ager’s cottage’ on the corner of Smales and Chapel Roads went up for sale by tender. Known as Smales cottage, the house was one of the few historic buildings left in the Flat Bush-East Tamaki area. It had protected heritage status over the exterior but not the interior. ■■ Olympic windsurfer Bruce Kendall, having made a career out of racing, got ready for a different kind of race: election to the Howick Local Board. Running in the Pakuranga subdivision, he said he wanted to help solve local issues that he was tired of seeing unresolved, such as deterioration of Little Bucklands Beach. ■■ Botany MP and Parliament’s

junior whip Jami-Lee Ross drafted a Bill to stop window washing on roads and give police the power to fine window washers. He also launched a petition asking for public support for the law change. ■■ A fight to save Howick’s iconic views from Stockade Hill and Crawford Park got underway. The Howick Ratepayers and Residents Association (HRRA) lodged appeals to the Environment and High Courts against Auckland Council’s decisions on the Auckland Unitary Plan (AUP) and called on Howick locals to help support its fundraising appeal to fight the plan changes which threatened views of the Hauraki Gulf from Stockade Hill and Ridge Road. ■■ Aotearoa was put on the space map with an asteroid orbiting space being given the name ‘New Zealand’. It was discovered by Farm Cove astronomer Jennie McCormick who submitted the name which was officially approved by the International Astronomical Union. ■■ The Village Jeweller in Picton Street, Howick was one of 10 premises ram raided. Store owner Chris Schweder said the culprits made quite a mess but, because very little jewellery was left in the cabinet at night, he and his team lost about $1500 of silver jewellery, “so all very pointless”. With extensively reinforced steel fronts, this prevented the car going right into the shop and causing a “ridiculous amount of wreckage”.

■■ Kanti (Ken) and Manjula (Mandy) Patel, members of their family, friends, Foodstuffs North Island executives, along with past and present members of staff and a cluster of loyal customers, celebrated 30 successful years at the Patel’s Four Square supermarket in Pakuranga.

los angeles posting: Pakuranga MP Maurice Williamson was recognised for his IT skills with an appointment as New Zealand’s ConsulGeneral in Los Angeles, USA. The politician of 30 years said it would be possible to take up the job six months before next year’s general election without triggering an expensive and disruptive by-election. The initial threeyear posting could be extended. Times photo Wayne Martin

■■ Thieves targeting more trailers in the area prompted the police to issue a warning. Thirty trailers had been stolen in the previous three months in the East Area almost half of the whole districts total of 62. ■■ After close to 50 years in the real estate industry, one of Auckland’s most well-known and respected real estate personalities, David Clifton, moved on. It marked the end of an era for the team at Harcourts New Zealand, who proudly called David (owner of Harcourts Howick, Pakuranga and Meadowlands) one of their own for 17 years.

filter. The 16 and 17- year- olds created the product as part of the Lion Foundation Young Enterprise Scheme. ■■ Four more sailings were added

to the Half Moon Bay ferry service. Auckland Transport (AT) said it would add 9.15am and 3.15pm sailings from Half Moon Bay to Auckland city and 8.35am and 2.30pm sailings from Auckland city to Half Moon Bay. AT said ferry patronage on services to Half Moon Bay had grown by nine per cent in the previous two years.

■■ Police called for witnesses to a fatal crash in Kawakawa Bay. Sakaria Poutasi, 39, was killed after another vehicle crossed the centre line and collided with his vehicle on the Clevedon Kawakawa Bay Road. Mr Poutasi died at the scene.

■■ Jaedon Burgess, 10, a Year 6 Wakaaranga student with Asperger’s Syndrome, won the Auckland APPA speech finals judged by newsreader Peter Williams and Kate Hurst. His speech was about having Asperger’s Syndrome. He also made the Auckland finals in 2015 when he was nine.

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schools worked together to raise money for Sir Ray Avery’s Lifepod incubator programme. The initiative among the head prefects and senior leadership teams from Macleans, Botany, Pakuranga, Elim, Sancta Maria and Ormiston Senior Colleges raised $14,231.31 for seven Lifepod incubators.

October

■■ The Howick Ratepayers and

Residents Association (HRRA) was shocked that a Housing New Zealand counter-appeal in the High Court left it having to find additional funds for its appeal to save Howick’s iconic Hauraki Gulf Views from Stockade Hill and Crawford Reserve. HRRA had already paid a barrister several thousand dollars to lodge an appeal in the High Court against Auckland Council plan changes which would allow multiple 13-metre high buildings to be established from Bleakhouse to Parkhill Roads on the seaward side of Stockade Hill. ■■ Over 40 years Dr John Malcomson tended to thousands of patients over four decades, delivered babies who became patients and was general practitioner to four generations in a handful of Howick families. However he left his Howick practice for the last time, estimating he had seen more than 10,000 different people over the years. ■■ Macleans College students, Vincent Wang, Isabella Meltzer, Andrew Hu, Khorshed Tarapore, and Tanuvi Garimella turned their love of tea, fruit and protein into a multi-functional, awardwinning product - FLO, a fruit detox and tea infuser drink bottle made fully out of glass, with a bamboo lid and a stainless steel

College English teacher, Desire Truter was awarded the NEXT Foundation Expert Teacher Award for her studies at the Unitec Mind Lab. She completed her post-graduate certificate in applied practice (digital and collaborative learning). The award recognised her commitment to up-skilling herself in order to best equip her students with skills needed for 21st century careers. ■■ For the second year running students at Macleans College Hillary House raised a large cheque for the Himalayan Trust to help recovery from the 2015 devastating earthquake in Nepal. The house presented $11,000 to the trust, the most it had ever raised. ■■ Year 13 Howick College stu-

dent Michelle Isemonger was crowned Miss Auckland 2016. The 18-year-old won the title after six months of charity fundraising. Her ambition was to

■■ Successful Howick Local Board contendors for the Howick subdivision were John Spiller (Vision & Voice, 6176), Adele White (Vision & Voice, 6168) and fourth-placed Jim Donald (Ratepayers and Residents, 4748) who moved up a notch because Mrs Stewart won a council seat. Peter Young was the only new face clocking up the highest number of votes in the Botany subdivision (Vision & Voice, 4991), followed by Lucy Schwaner (Vision & Voice, 4852) and Bob Wichman (Vision & Voice, 4824). In the Pakuranga subdivision, Vision & Voice dominated with Katrina Bungard (5906) and David Collings (5665) returned to the seat and Garry Boles (4534) taking the third seat, formerly held by Steve Udy who retired ■■ Auckland’s new mayor Phil Goff was to receive about 5000 signatures as the fight to save Howick’s iconic Hauraki Gulf views from Stockade Hill and Crawford Reserve continued. The petition, circulated by the Howick Ratepayers and Residents Association (HRRA), had reached 4848 signatures, including those hand-written and handed in to local businesses. Along with the petition the HRRA was asking for public donations to help cover the costs of lodging an appeal in the Environment and High Courts against Auckland Council which was proposing plan changes allowing multiple 13-metre high buildings to be established from Bleakhouse to Parkhill Roads on the seaward side of Stockade Hill. ■■ Changes to dog access rules in the Howick Ward were mainly the result of the need to protect birdlife and ecologically sensitive salt marsh and intertidal bird habitats along the ward’s coastline. There were few other changes in the main recreational dog walking areas. ■■ Plans were announced to develop a three-hectare site in residential Bucklands Beach, blighted by years of controversy, into a boutique retirement village. BeGroup New Zealand purchased the Thurston Place property from the Whenua Haumi Roroa o Tamaki Makau-

safe seats: Sharon Stewart and Dick Quax – both Independents - won back their seats on the Auckland Council for the Howick Ward, sharing the council chamber with new mayor Phil Goff (Independent, 186,445 votes received) who easily romped home ahead of nearest rival Vic Crone Times photo Wayne Martin (Independent, 110,926).

rau Limited Partnership which acquired it from the Ministry of Education under the Right of First Refusal (RFR) provisions of the Nga Mana Whenua o Tamaki Makaurau Collective Redress Act 2014. The site formerly housed the Waimokoia residential school which was closed in 2009. It then became the focus of fierce resident resistance when, in 2010, the Ministry of Education proposed to build a secondary day college for children in CYF (Child, Youth and Family) care. ■■ As the countdown to Diwali, the biggest Hindu festival began, hundreds of brightly dressed men, women and children swirled in unison at a local festival of Navratri organised by the Art Of Living Foundation at the Howick Leisure Centre. ■■ Piling foundations for the new Half Moon Bay ferry wharf were complete. The Downer construction team was moving on to installing the marine foundation and the pontoon. The fitting out of the wharf and the installation of the permanent concrete deck was also about to start. The new pier was due to open in early 2017. ■■ A leaflet was delivered to Howick residents’ letter boxes urging them to give generously to the Save Stockade Hill and Crawford Reserve appeals. The Times sponsored the leaflet drop to support the Howick Residents and Ratepayers Association (HRRA) fight to save iconic Hauraki Gulf views from Stockade Hill and Crawford Reserve. ■■ World famous Kiwi diva, Dame Kiri Te Kanawa shared her thoughts with Macleans College students during a visit to the college. It was more than 25 years since Dame Kiri visited the school which named one of its ‘houses’ after her. ■■ A cat apparently thrown from a moving car was on the mend although mystery surrounded the incident and who the moggy’s owners might be. It was seen to be “ejected” from a light blue Suzuki Swift-type hatchback window as it crossed the Pakuranga Bridge heading towards Panmure. The cat went under the Greenlane Veterinary Centre’s care after a member of the public witnessed the event and retrieved him off the road. ■■ Howick Historical Village undertook a strategic planning exercise to ensure that it was well placed to present Fencible and early settler history to the public of Auckland and national and international tourists. The museum opened in Lloyd Elsmore Park in 1980. New President Rob Mouncey said changes in the region’s museum sector ,with MOTAT and the Auckland War Memorial Museum developing their own future plans, it was timely that the village undertook a similar exercise. ■■ Thirty new terraced residences were planned to be built on what was formerly the site of the White Horse Tavern in Pakuranga. The three-storey mixed-use development, called East Link on Ti Rakau Drive, would have a selection of upmarket food and beverage outlets plus convenience retail on the ground floor, with roomy twostorey terraced residences above.

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head of Bucklands Beach Primary School, Dorothy Bigwood moved on to become the new principal at Cockle Bay School.

■■ A Beachlands burglar was

busted after a stealing spree went all wrong. A 25-year-old local man was pinged after the quickthinking actions of homeowner, Alistair Davidson, who saw the alleged thief trapped until police arrived. ■■ Stephanie Chamberlin and Matthew Brajkovich shared a vision of turning a neglected public reserve in Pah Road, Cockle Bay into a special place where children could experience nature. Consequently they called for buyin to the idea from the local community. Auckland Council said it needed to see community buy-in before it increased its investment in the reserve. ■■ Local companies Boardertown, Rayglass Boats and Chancellor Construction each won their categories in the southern region at the prestigious Westpac Auckland Business Awards 2016. ■■ The New Zealand National Party confirmed Jami-Lee Ross as the Party’s 2017 General Election candidate for the Botany electorate, seeing him contest his seventh election in the wider Howick area. ■■ Talented

students of Elim Christian College, 12-year-olds Oli Isom and Tyler Wolsky, who participated in the Tournament of Minds (TOM), took first place at the national competition. TOM was touted to be one of the fastest growing international problem solving programmes. ■■ Four Macleans College stu-

dents, Ben Payne, Catherin Chen, Charlene Lo and Zachary Wong, represented New Zealand against a team from the Queensland Academy of Science Mathematics and Technology in Brisbane. The trip came about after they won the New Zealand National Secondary Schools Business Case Competition. ■■ Barbara Rosie, the 61-year-old owner of Readaway Bookshop in Howick told the Times about her lifetime love of books and her much-loved family business, which would turn 60 in 2017. ■■ Composer and Howick Brass

trombonist Anthony Young was commissioned to write a musical composition based on the swash buckling hero of the New Zealand Wars, Gustavus von Tempsky. The opportunity came with Howick Brass securing a $4574 Creative Communities grant to commission a New Zealand work for the band to tackle. The band’s musical director Luke Christiansen wanted to programme more New Zealand music into its major performances. ■■ Students from 22 New Zea-

land schools, including Bucklands Beach Intermediate (BBI) School, Macleans, Botany Downs Secondary, Pakuranga and Saint Kentigern Colleges, were recognised for outstanding mathematical achievement. The Australian Mathematics Trust (AMT) celebrated top secondary students – and those from BBI - who participated in the 2016 Australian Mathematics Competition (AMC).

November

■■ A 58-year-old senior caregiver

narrowly escaped a prison sentence after admitting stealing $32,000 of jewellery from two

■■ A boy impaled on a fence at Owairoa School was taken to Middlemore Hospital’s emergency department in moderate condition and later discharged after treatment.

mystery woman: Police conducted enquiries into a fire mystery on uninhabited Browns Island, north of Musick Point, Bucklands Beach. The puzzle involved an unnamed woman who found herself stranded there for three nights after leaving hospital, and an apparent signal fire that burned out of control and went on to engulf 13.2 hectares. Photo supplied

elderly women in a local retirement home. The court heard Sinei Lisiate aka Christina Aiavao’s first victim was an 88-year-old woman (details were suppressed) residing at the Pakuranga Park Village retirement home. The second victim at the home was 79 and had since died. Lisiate, who at the time resided in Bucklands Beach, was sentenced to six months’ community detention. ■■ Louise and Darren Clark, of Botany Downs celebrated the arrival of Breeannah Paige Devon Clark, the miracle baby they had longed for. The couple spent six weeks in Nashville, Tennessee, USA, undergoing IVF treatment at the Centre for Reproductive Health. ■■ Howick’s Stevenson Village, the long-standing returned servicemen’s 36-unit complex, was placed on the market for sale. It opened in 1975 as a charitable joint venture between the Howick Returned Services Association and Sir William and Lady Stevenson. ■■ Year 5 student at St Mark’s Catholic School, Pakuranga, Cyprus Causer ,10, was awarded the highest score at the Auckland Catholic Schools Chess Tournament organised by Chess Power at St Paul’s in Massey. The school team secured a second place. ■■ Seeing a disoriented lady trapped in a car screaming for help was the last thing Becky Williams expected when she stopped by to drop stuff off at the charity clothing bin in Howick. A navy blue Audi parked in the Central Terraces car park suddenly rolled backwards and onto the expanse of the wide bank before crash landing on the other level of the public car park at Fencible Drive. ■■ Matt Dowdle set out taking a

bus and then a shuttle from the city lights of Auckland to the Cape Reinga Lighthouse where the 24-year-old would start walking 3000 kilometres with the intention of arriving in Bluff in early-to-mid-April 2017. ■■ Nicholas Webber of Pakuranga College was the only winner from Auckland who qualified for the 13th International Geography Olympiad (iGeo 2016) held in Beijing, China. ■■ Speculation mounted that Botany MP Jami-Lee Ross could come under pressure – possibly from his own National Party – to reflect on his alleged behaviour involving the selection of a new Howick Local Board chairman. Two of the board’s members

at its inauguration ceremony said they had been bullied and approached to vote for Ross’s wife Lucy Schwaner as chairman of the newly-elected board. Within minutes of the board members making their oaths, Ms Schwaner walked out after failing to win the vote to become the new chair. Shortly afterwards, her resignation was sent to media citing no confidence in David Collings, who was voted back in as chairman. ■■ Police issued a “seasonal” warning to some local schools about safety around strangers. A special notice from Botany Downs School to parents earlier asked parents to discuss with their children issues raised by the Counties Manukau School Community Police. ■■ A special 50th anniversary concert to celebrate the Howick School of Music’s golden anniversary was planned. The concert would showcase performances from its students and HSM bands, orchestras and the Howick Youth Orchestra. ■■ A Pakuranga man faced a string of charges in relation to multiple burglaries after police found up to $50,000 worth of stolen property at his house. The 25-year-old allegedly committed a spate of burglaries in Howick, Pakuranga and Golflands, breaking into homes and fleeing on his bicycle with small, valuable items. His alleged stealing spree came to an end after an electronics item taken during a burglary was tracked down to a local second-hand dealer. ■■ The Howick Ratepayers and

Residents Association (HRRA) prepared to head to court to begin its legal fight against Auckland Council. It had lodged appeals in the Environment and High Courts against the Council in an attempt to stop changes that would allow multiple 12-metre high buildings to be established from Bleakhouse to Park Hill roads on the seaward side of Stockade Hill, blocking views over the Hauraki Gulf from Stockade Hill and Crawford Reserve. However the $16,790 raised was well short of the amount needed to pay the legal bills. ■■ The by-election for the Botany subdivision seat of the Howick Local Board was set for February 17, 2017. The by-election was triggered by the surprise resignation of newly-sworn in Howick Local Board member, Lucy Schwaner. ■■ After nine-and-a -half years as

■■ Spice Boyz, a team from Ormiston Senior College made up of Year 13 students Hetu Shah, Paramveer Basra and Sohan Karangalpady, took out first place in Dragons’ Den, part of the Young Enterprise Scheme, earlier in 2016. They were named East Auckland Company of the Year and prepared to take their winning Telza sauce to the National Awards in Wellington where they would battle it out against 15 teams from around the country. ■■ Redoubt Road residents called for safety measures following a fatal car crash in which a young woman died after the car she was in left the road and travelled 10 metres across a paddock before hitting a house. Police confirmed the 19-year-old female passenger died at the scene after 15 minutes of CPR treatment. The female driver – also 19 – was taken to hospital with moderate injuries, however the two people who were in the house at the time were not injured ■■ The by-election for the vacated Botany subdivision seat on the Howick Local Board was estimated to cost more than $100,000, Auckland Council confirmed. The by-election was triggered by the surprise resignation of newly sworn-in member Lucy Schwaner. Ms Schwaner, wife of Botany MP Jami-Lee Ross, quit minutes after being sworn in at the Howick Local Board’s inauguration ceremony after narrowly losing the vote for chairmanship to David Collings, 4-5. ■■ An estimated 30,000-40,000 people thronged the streets for the Howick Village Business Association’s annual Midnight Madness.

December

■■ Police warned women not to

use Mellons Bay Beach alone following reports of men doing indecent acts while watching female beach users. ■■ Jess Potter, considered the matriarch of the Howick RSA women’s section, died at the age of 84. ■■ A meeting hosted by National MP Jami-Lee Ross was attended by Transport Minister Simon Bridges and around 150 business people from the Greater East Tamaki Business Association (GETBA). Mr Bridges confirmed the Government’s investment into Auckland’s transport situation would not be affected by funds being poured into quakestricken Kaikoura. ■■ The

Howick Lions Club worked over eight months painting buildings at the Howick Historical Village as well as helping to repair some of the buildings under the watchful eye of local Howick historian Alan La Roche. ■■ Botany Downs Secondary College students were left reeling with frustration at NZQA’s round of mistakes made across

all levels of the year end’s examinations. Year 12 student Kimberley Jayapalen sat the Level Two calculus and Level Two probability papers, only to receive a text from her tuition centre later that day, asking whether she had seen the reports about errors in examination papers. ■■ The Howick Ratepayers and Residents Association (HRRA) was left waiting until early February for the results from its High Court hearing. The HRRA lodged appeals in the Environment and High Courts against Auckland Council in an attempt to stop changes that would allow multiple 12-metre high buildings to be established from Bleakhouse to Park Hill roads on the seaward side of Stockade Hill, blocking views over the Hauraki Gulf from Stockade Hill and Crawford Reserve. ■■ Waakaranga and Farm Cove Intermediate Schools sent messages to reassure parents following reports of students being approached and spoken to by strangers in Farm Cove. ■■ A 51-year-old man from Pakuranga was charged with one count of committing an indecent act at Howick Beach in November. ■■ Half Moon Bay author Vicki Jeffels was delighted her book had risen to the number one spot on Amazon.com in the Free Kindle – General Humour section. She published From Pavlova to Pork Pies the previous October after eight years of crafting the true story into a 269-page novel. ■■ A 17-year-old local high school student was due to be charged with drink driving and her licence suspended for 28 days after she crashed through two fences in Ridge Road, Howick, stopping just short of a house. She also struck two other vehicles during the incident, but it wasn’t known if those vehicles were parked or driving. ■■ Two more reported incidents of men doing indecent acts in public emerged, this time at Eastern Beach and Lloyd Elsmore Park. ■■ Italian restaurant Casa Tua in Farm Cove closed. Signs went up in the windows of the popular restaurant and tapas room saying the landlord had taken possession of the premises. ■■ Half Moon Bay agent Sharine

Burns was named No 1 in the World for the Professionals real estate brand, among about 3500 agents under the Professionals real estate brand globally.

■■ The female driver of a vehicle which flipped on Somerville Road near Mangemangeroa Reserve sustained serious injuries, police confirmed. The accident occurred near the Somerville Rd/ Clydesdale Ave intersection. ■■ Police said they could not rule out a link between four service station burglaries in Pakuranga. Three stolen cars used in the aggravated burglaries were taken from and dumped at similar locations in close proximity to each other and all the offences occurred in the early hours of the morning at 24 hour service stations – three of them on Pakuranga Road and one on Reeves Road.

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INSTALLATION

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021 764797 or 532 8930

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East City Stove Repairs

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for over 20 yrs

021 022 46711

GLASS & GLAZING

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535 6227 021 726697 Sam 027 4981810 Adrian

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PAVING

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CARPET & VINYL

FENCING & TRELLIS

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HAYNES GLASS

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0800 24 LOCK

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FENCING & TRELLIS

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271 1125 021 264 6080

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GARDEN CARE

BUILDERS

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CATERING

CD243383

BUILDERS

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ACCOUNTING SERVICES

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CLASSIFIEDS

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TILING

Gas & Plumbing Services

TILING

Quality guaranteed Free Quote Waterproofing Best Prices Wall and floor Underfloor Heating David Yang 273 6566 or 021 1867 361

WATERBLASTING

COVERS

For all Shades & Blinds plus outdoor furniture Contact

“i won’t sting you” K54011

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(Also Whangamata)

Ph Murray

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LOCAL Master Plumber, Gasfitter, Drainlayer. Over 20yrs exp. competitive rates, excell customer service. Call Steve at Majestic Plumbing Ltd 021 625378 PLUMBER All maint wrk, no job too small. Prompt service. Ph 535 9567

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RUBBISH REMOVALS

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Professional Ironing Since 2000

Dog and Cat Boarding Dog Grooming Doggy Day Care 24 hours on site care

BOOKINGS FOR XMAS & NEW YEAR STILL AVAIL

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Free pick-up/delivery Satisfaction guaranteed

Times Newspapers & Times House Publishing are closed until the 9th January 2017 We wish all our clients success this year.

Christian LINK Looking for a church home? One Lord One Faith One People

EARTH GROOMERS Landscaping

Sunday morning 9.30am (with children’s programme) Sunday evening service TBA Youth Group every Friday 7.00pm

All Tree Work & Stumps, Hedges, Chipping, Rubbish Removal Discount for Seniors

James 09 235 2948 or 021 866 125

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“Seeing lives transformed by Christ’s saving power. Being a community of hope, love and care.”

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SIZZLING SUMMER SUNDAYS

All Tree Work - Fully Insured - Qualified Arborists Over 25yrs Exp. 535 9093 027 476 0246

TREES

Cnr Wellington & Picton Sts Phone 534-5142

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PHIL’S TREE & STUMP GRINDING

Also Pauanui

4/302 Te Irirangi Dr, Botany South Ph 09 265 2865

HOME HELP OFFERED

DS TREES & Landscapes, all tree work & stumps, hedges, mulching, rubbish removal. Ph Doug 021537171/537-8595

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Ph: 0800 789 248

PINKYS PET BOARDING AND GROOMING

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STUMP GRINDING Household, Garden Waste & General Rubbish

FOCUS ON FEET. Home visits. Professional Gentle Care. Marlena RN Ph 5331150

Ph: 532 8385

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GARDEN Household & General, also garden work & waterblasting. Fast, friendly service. Ph Peter 021 393384

TEACHER AIDE VACANCY We are looking for an experienced teacher aide to work with students who have learning and behavioural needs. 15-25 hours per week. Applications close Friday 13 January 2017. Please email your CV to Storm de Villiers Associate Principal stormd@howickint.school.nz

GBR088

ROOFING

ALL TREE WORK Stump Grinding Fully Insured Free Mulch Ph Brett 533-0473 or 021-279-9118

Safe, low pressure, exterior cleaning Houses, Roof treatments, Paths, Drives, Decks CALL YOUR LOCAL OPERATOR CRAIG 535-5661 www.chemwash.co.nz

Sports Massage

Unit 19, 325 Ti Rakau Dr, East Tamaki. Ph: 273 5519 or 022 330 8633 Open 10am to 9.00pm CD205971

CD162756

PLUMBER Certified 19yrs exp. New or RENO work/ Hot Water Cylinders. Brad 022 671 8125.

BRANCH MANAGER

CHEMWASH

MASSAGE

QUICK PUZZLE NO. 7789 - SOLUTIONS Across - 7, Rainbow Trout. 8, Adhere. 9, Escape 10, Grampus. 12, Truck. 15, Brace. 16, Sparrow. 18, Panama. 20, In case. 22, Irish Whiskey. Down - 1, Wanderer. 2, Knee. 3, Doleful. 4, Steep. 5, Sorcerer. 6, Stop. 11, Moccasin. 13, Chop-suey. 14, Upright. 17, Lathe. 19, Aria. 21, Cash. CRYPTIC PUZZLE NO. 7789 - SOLUTIONS Across - 7, Eat one’s words. 8, No fear. 9, Una-wed. 10, S-tiff-en. 12, Is-Sue. 15, Admit. 16, Finnish (finish). 18, Closer. 20, Th-re-at. 22, Fifteen forty. Down - 1, Garotted (anag.). 2, Fore (four). 3, Terrier. 4, Own up. 5, Breaks in. 6, Isle (anag.). 11, Flies off. 13, Up-starts 14, Distant. 17, Tried. 19, Li-ft. 21, Rook.

K54146

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Brett 534 3562 027 493 0181 Warren 534 3551 027 281 9454

RUBBISH REMOVAL

Reducing Thinning Shaping Full removal Chipped onsite/removed Good rates Great refs Free quotes

De Bon Vouloir Servir—To serve with goodwill

FREE ICE-CREAM!!! 1ST JAN – 5TH FEB AT 10AM

Our Sizzling Summer Sundays are back with one service at 10:00am, from the 1 st of January to the 5 th of February. Make plans to join us this summer at Eastgate! 5 Ben Lomond Cres. CD248677

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All work guaranteed Over 35 years in area

TREES

& STUMP GRINDING

Call Chris 021 366615 or 0508 932 532

INTERMEDIATE SCHOOL

CD248788

and drainage Hot water cylinders Bathrooms, kitchens New and repairs

All about

House/Building Washing Roof & Gutter Cleaning Roof Treatments Moss/Lichen Removal Decks, Paths, Drives, Fences PLUS: Carpet/ Window Cleaning Pest Control

HOWICK

PETS

K6D084

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Hill Plumbing Certifying plumbing, gas

Ph Josh 536 4603 or 021-074-8027

BLADECUTTERS, Tree work landscaping stumps rubbish removals hedges com weed spraying. Ph Eric 021 732 147 or 534 8797

Prompt Reliable Service Bathrooms Kitchens General Maintenance Hot Water Cylinders Spouting & Roofing

Ph: 533 0437 027 600 6232

Exterior Soft Washing of:

We are Hiring! Afternoon and night shift vacancies Countec / Shrink wrapper / Blisters Blending, Compression, Encapsulation, Coating Commencing January 2017 If you have sound previous experience in any of these processes APPLY NOW! To apply go to: www.vitaco.co.nz

Property Manager

We are looking for someone to take up this fulltime role. If interested, you will be a person who shows initiative, can work independently, and has lots of enthusiasm, energy and a sense of fun. “Handyman” skills would be an advantage, but are not essential. Duties primarily entail caring for and maintaining our large school property, to a high standard. Visits to our school by prospective applicants are welcomed. Please email your written applications, including the names of at least two referees, to the principal, abtrezise@gmail.com, or phone 027 6828328.

HEALTH & BEAUTY

All tree & hedge work Rubbish removal Garden Clearouts Free Quotes Fully Insured

Qualified Arborist

WATERBLASTING

K54159

Plumbing

A-CLASS TREE SERVICES

WINDOW’S in/out, exterior housewash, gutter clearing. Exp operator, Ph Keith @ Panoramics 027 245 3444 or 530 8136

CD145278

Handy Andy

Trees, hedges and stumps Trim’d, removed, chip’d Pruning/shaping, rubbish and Section clearing Phone 536 5955

KAK007

K54065

Work guaranteed ► Maintenance ► Hot Water cylinders ► Roof repairs/spouting ► Blocked Toilets ► Renovations (027) 244-9767 (09) 577-5767

WINDOWS, frames, sills, I will give a free quote today. Kevin 535 7321 or 027 496 9784

A1 TREE HEDGE & STUMP CD229507

BRIAN Certifying Plumber

WINDOW cleaning. Best price. Phone Grant 533 0522 or 0211 576 963

Ph Terry, NZ Arbor Tech 027 4989 080 - 0800 244 748

GMP Packing & Manufacturing East Tamaki

CD248692

CD248792

CD155961

GALLAGHER PLUMBING

Please send CV’s to Jo at frog.puddles@xtra.co.nz

Machine Operators

Botany Downs School

MR SPARKLE, Your local window cleaner, top jobbottom price. Ph Richie 0212067671

CD246777

Chipping etc. Established 49 years Free Quotes

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Looking back at 2016 ➤➤From page 20 ■■ Brooke Manak, of Bucklands

dent, Regan Mooney, notched up an incredible win in the recent North Island Secondary Schools Snowboard Competition beating entrants from 43 other schools to win the Boardercross event. Elim Christian College’s Baylin Kelin Ovink took overall top junior girl’s award. Elim Christian College won the girls’ combined team award while Macleans College was fourth in the boys’ combined team.

Beach tamed her challenging horse in only a few months to win Level 1 Dressage Pony of the Year at the Horse of the Year competition in Hastings. ■■ Howick Pakuranga’s (HPK) para-swimmer Tupou Neiufi took out first place in the women’s 50m backstroke at the New Zealand Open Swimming Championships in Auckland. .

November

■■ Howick Pakuranga Swim Club

(HPK) sprinter Daniel Hunter came within a blink of reaching the Rio Olympic qualifying standard when he set a national record in the 50m freestyle heats on day two of the 2016 New Zealand Open Swimming Championships.

April

■■ Pakuranga

United Premier Rugby team won the 2016 Waka Nathan Challenge Cup defeating Waitemata 27-23. Premier Coach Pita Alatini was impressed with his team’s performance after what turned out to be a battle mid-match. ■■ Former Sancta Maria College

students, 20-year-old Taylor and 19-year-old Robbie Shrimpton blitzed the competition at the BP Surf Rescue New Zealand Championships in Papamoa. ■■ Salem Notter was the national mounted games champion after winning the under-14 category at the New Zealand Mounted Games Individual Championships in Pukekohe.

■■ Howick College open girls sev-

JULY: Plenty of local talent was on display at Paradice Ice Arena in Botany Downs as the Auckland Ice Figure Skating Club (AIFSC) held its 2016 Club Championships. For many, it was their first competition of the year and their first chance to showcase new routines. Times photo Wayne Martin

wick Sports Awards. ■■ Howick College pupil Jordan

Nathan-Welch was selected to represent his country at the 2016 World Taekwondo Junior Championship in Canada.

June

■■ Twelve Pakuranga United Rugby Club players were named in the Auckland under 19 training squad to prepare for the 2016 NZRU National U19 tournament through September and October. ■■ Six Howick College current students and three former students were selected for the U22 and U18 men’s and women’s underwater hockey teams to represent New Zealand in the TransTasman underwater hockey competition.

september: The Howick Hornets Open Age Restricted (OAR) side suffered a devastatingly close loss at the weekend, falling one point short in what was a dramatic championship final. The U85kg side came up against Hibiscus Coast and limped away with an 18-19 defeat, despite a courageous comeback. Times photo Wayne Martin

wondo Junior Championships in Canada after winning gold in Australia.

August

■■ The Howick Hornets Fox Pre-

miers beat top-of-the-table Papakura Sea Eagles winning the inaugural Lia Johnston Memorial Shield. ■■ The Pakuranga United under-

21s won the Arthur Bayliss Cup at Eden Park coming away with a hard-fought 27-24 win over Grammar TEC. Meanwhile, the Pakuranga United under 85kg Rattlers won the U85kg plate final against Suburbs. ■■ Arzan Todywalla was named player of the year by international sport travel company AM Sports Tours after a sizzling performance for New Zealand at the Super Cup NI 2016 in Northern Ireland. Todywalla, 15, a striker for Fencibles United U15 Metro and the U16 Junior New Zealand team, was highest scorer.

■■ Macleans College took out the first XV rugby competition, premier boys’ hockey competition, premier boys’ basketball, and 9A netball competition at a threeday pre-season winter tournament hosted by the college.

■■ Sacha Earnest rode her way to victory in the 10-year girls’ category at the UCI 2016 BMX World Championships held in Medellin, Colombia.

■■ Former Pakuranga College student Ata Hingano earned his place in the Warriors reserve grade to prepare him for the bruising physicality of the NRL.

a creditable third in the Auckland Inter Zone Rugby Competition. The team earlier won the South Eastern Zone competition to qualify for the Inter Zone.

May

■■ Saint Kentigern student Sarina Wang was crowned the overall winner in the female category of the eighth National Sport Stacking Championships.

■■ Ryan Fox carded an incredible nine-under 62 to surge to victory in the European Challenge Tour’s Northern Ireland Open. Starting the day three shots off the lead, the 29-year-old Beachlands player quickly changed that with a birdie and an eagle in his opening two holes to wipe the deficit. He went on to complete a four-shot victory and claim his second European Challenge Tour title.

■■ Two Botany brothers headed to the Under 15 Baseball World Cup in Japan. Tukuteihu and Huriwaka Repia, from the Howick Pakuranga Baseball Club, were part of the Kiwi side that would come up against Panama, Venezuela, the United States, Mexico and Chinese Taipei in Group B at the Under 15 Baseball World Cup in Iwaki, Japan.

■■ Local cyclist and Saint Kentigern College student, Connor Brown, won gold at the 2016 Junior Track Cycling World Championships in Switzerland, smashing a world record in the process. The 18-year-old was part of the four-person New Zealand team that competed in the U19 Men’s Team Pursuit at the World Champs.

■■ The New Zealand Olympic Committee and New Zealand Golf named 29-year-old Beachlands star, Ryan Fox, in the New Zealand Olympic Team.

■■ Jacob Hollobon was named Auckland College Rugby League’s “Most Valuable Player” for the under 85kg division. The Pakuranga College student who lived in Bucklands Beach, played for Pakuranga College and the Howick Hornets Rugby League Club.

■■ Saint Kentigern College stole

the limelight in the New Zealand Secondary Schools water polo national championships. In the division 3 competition in Hamilton Saint Kentigern girls’ premier team pulled through with a narrow win against Hamilton Girls’ High in the final to take the title of national champions. ■■ Howick lost one of its special characters with the sudden passing of Tony Moore, aged 69. A former tireless second rower for the Howick Hornets senior rugby league team, he later coached the seniors having done stints with the club’s junior sides. ■■ Gymnast Samadiana Fariz of

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■■ Howick Intermediate finished

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September

■■ As part of the Fencibles Unit-

ed Association Football Club’s 20th anniversary celebrations, a special exhibition match was planned. The Pakuranga Town AFC old boys would take on the Howick AFC old boys for the inaugural Danna Mandry Trophy. ■■ Local teenager Ryan Oliver struck gold at the AIMS Games in Tauranga. Competing for his school Farm Cove Intermediate, he backed up his 2015 success in the pool, winning eight gold medals including the overall best 13 year male for the swimming event. ■■ The Fencibles United Conference Women won the AFF Women’s Knockout Cup playing Ellerslie in the final, scoring the winning goal in the last minute of extra time.

October

■■ Local Brazilian Jiu Jitsu star

Brandon Meyer, a 12-year-old, Year 7 student at Farm Cove Intermediate, won the Australasian Brazilian Jiu Jitsu (BJJ) title for his division at he Pan Pacific Champs in Melbourne in 2015. ■■ Saint Kentigern College won the New Zealand Secondary Schools Netball Champs in Lower Hutt. The premier netball side beat defending champions Mt Albert Grammar School 35-34 in the final to become the best high school netball team in the country. ■■ Pakuranga’s Rose Zheng won

her first event on the Jennian Homes Charles Tour. She carded a brilliant final round score of seven-under-par at the 2016 John Jones Steel Harewood Open in Christchurch finishing the event at 17-under-par. ■■ Close to $14,000 was raised for Pakuranga United Rugby Club’s Under 15 and Under 18 junior academies at the 11th annual Bledisloe Luncheon and Fundraising Auction which attracted 220 participants. Guest speaker was All Black rugby legend Wayne ‘Buck’ Shelford. ■■ Year 12 Pakuranga College stu-

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ens team won the 2016 Auckland Secondary School Sevens competition qualifying for nationals. The final against Southern Cross Campus was a tight, hard-fought match decided in the last 20 seconds, with Howick coming out 21-17 ahead. ■■ Inspirational Howickian Garry Donoghue, 71, finished the Auckland Marathon (42.195km) in 4 hours 40 minutes and was second out of 11 for his age group. ■■ Pakuranga’s Rose Zheng won the women’s 2016 Cobra Puma New Zealand Amateur Championship at the Royal Wellington Golf Club. The 14-year-old was the second youngest golfer in history to win the title behind world number one Lydia Ko. ■■ Pakuranga College’s new 1600m2 multi-purpose, double gymnasium was officially opened by the school’s own Olympians, board sailor Bruce Kendall and swimmer Rebecca Linton. They were joined by Special Olympians, Edward Borkin and Monique Irvine (both swimmers), in cutting the ribbon on the $4 million building. ■■ Eleven-year-old Finlay McKechnie, of Howick, scored a hole-in-one at the Whitford Golf Club’s junior club day competition. ■■ Howick Pakuranga Cricket Club’s Colin ‘Dutchie’ de Grandhomme notched up a brilliant record on his debut for the Black Caps. He was also named Man of the Match as the Black Caps cruised to victory against Pakistan in Christchurch. The Auckland Aces all-rounder recorded a brilliant 1st innings 6/41. ■■ Beachlands golfer Ryan Fox finished tied for fourth at the Australian Open in Sydney. Fox, the son of All Black great and selector Grant Fox, began the final round in a tie for second, two shots back from leader Geoff Ogilvy.

December

■■ The Howick Softball Club pre-

mier women made history, winning the Bev Smith Memorial Tournament for the first time. ■■ Pakuranga College finished 12th, Howick College ninth, Saint Kentigern College sixth and Macleans College fourth at the 2016 New Zealand Secondary Schools (NZSS) national touch rugby championships.

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Cheng, 22, was awarded the 2016 KFC Golf Scholarship, worth $12,000, for the second year in a row. Cheng’s impressive efforts the previous year saw her secure full tour rights for the 2016 Symetra Tour.

■■ Botany-born and bred motor

racer Andre Heimgartner got ready to join the Australian GT Championship for the 2016 season. The young gun would drive an MY16 Audi R8 LMS, prepared and run by Australian Audi Sport Customer Racing agent Melbourne Performance Centre (MPC). ■■ The Blues were lined up to

kick off their 2016 Super Rugby season with a free admission game at Pakuranga United Rugby Club in February. ■■ After an arsonist burnt the

clubrooms to the ground in 1999, Howick Pakuranga Cricket Club was determined to rid itself of debt following the rebuild of the new $800,000 pavilion in 2001. Fundraising and marketing manager Ted Waters said getting out of debt was an important goal with the club’s 150th anniversary approaching.

champs again: Howick boys Daniel Chapman and Cameron Meyer, both 18, helped Auckland become back-to-back champions of the Under 19 softball national championships. Keen softball players at Howick since the age of six, Chapman and Meyer joined Marist before making the Auckland U19 representative softball team at the end of 2015. Photo supplied

for the Trans-Tasman and Six Nations events in Christchurch the following March.

February

■■ Auckland MMA fighter Ev Ting

took out Eric Kelly with a thirdround guillotine choke in the One Championship 38 Clash of Heroes headliner at Stadium Negara in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.

engineer Clint Van der Mescht, 43, got ready to chalk up his 25th marathon in Taupo. He and five other locals were part of the massive field taking part in the 32nd Kellogg’s NutriGrain IRONMAN New Zealand.

■■ Susan Mudford and Stuart Mudford, Peter Clark, and Chris Clark of Howick dared to take on a 100km walk in Whakatane to raise funds to fight poverty overseas. The team completed this challenge in 2008 in Taupo as ‘Muddie’s Mob’ in just under 25 hours.

■■ Howick’s bowls star Selina

■■ The Howick Pakuranga Pre-

■■ Beachlands

Goddard started 2016 on a bright note after being named in the New Zealand Black Jacks squad

mier Women’s Cricket team was given a surprise when its team photo was photobombed by

Black Caps players. ANZ Dream Big introduced the team to some of their heroes from the Black Caps including Henry Nicholls, Luke Ronchi, Kane Williamson and Colin Munro. ■■ Howick boys, Harrison Valk, 16, and Daniel Chapman, 18, were named to travel with theTemperzone Junior Black Sox to Michigan, USA in July to compete in the Under 19 Men’s World Championships. ■■ The Howick Premier Wom-

en’s team made history for the Howick Softball Club competing at Waitangi weekend in the Doreen Hutchings Annual Tournament, hosted by the Marist Softball Club at Simson Park and going through undefeated to make their first ever final. ■■ Howick’s promising golfer, Liv

■■ Botany Swarm’s goalie Grace Harrison was the first Kiwi ever to win an NCAA scholarship to play top level college Ice Hockey for St Lawrence University (SLU) in upstate New York. .

March

■■ The Howick Hornets Rugby

League Club welcomed back their “inspirational coach” Jason Tavita. The former Howick Hornets premier player returned to the club to coach and mentor the under 18s after finishing his playing career at Richmond. ■■ The arrival of new centre manager and competitive coach, Tania Gavilan, was expected to see the Howick Gymnastics Club grow in size and talent. ■■ Howick Pakuranga (HPK) took out the honours as the leading swimming club at the New Zealand Junior Championships in Auckland. The club won the title for a second straight year. ■■ Pakuranga College Year 13 student, Dale Phillips took on some of the world’s top juniors in the ICC under 19 Cricket World Cup in Bangladesh.

■■ The incomparable Cameron Brown, from Dannemora, once again defied the sands of time as the 43-year-old bagged his 12th victory in the Kellogg’s NutriGrain Ironman New Zealand in Taupo. He extended his own world record as the oldest winner of any Ironman race and also became the first professional man to win the same Ironman race on 12 occasions. ■■ Howick Pakuranga Hockey Club’s Dominic Newman made the cut as the only debutant named in the 2016 New Zealand Black Sticks squad. ■■ Jacob Stroud, the eldest son of one of New Zealand’s greatest riders, Andrew Stroud, claimed his first national superbike title at the New Zealand Superbike Championships. . ■■ Howick Pakuranga Cricket Club’s (HPCC) Rowan Armour and Kerry Walmsley were honoured as they became Legends of the HPCC in a Legends Induction Evening. Mr Armour, the current board chairperson, was recognised for his service, including cricket playing, to the club and the Auckland Cricket Association. Mr Walmsley was also recognised for his service, including cricket playing, to the club and for representing the Auckland Aces and Black Caps. ➤➤turn to page 19

New kitchen on the menu for 2017? The season of entertaining has finally arrived and with it, some much-needed rest and relaxation.

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But after the hustle and bustle of Christmas, it may be evident that certain areas of the house are in need of improvement – the kitchen especially.

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What were some of the styles seen in 2016? Gloss white kitchens with engineered stone tops were very popular, says Lesley. “In terms of functionality, we’re seeing lots of pantries with internal drawer systems that offer easy access to everything, including items tucked away at the back.” Tricky areas have also been utilised with the use of corner mechanisms, she adds. “Aesthetically, we have seen the use of more lighting in and under kitchen cabinetry.”

To see all this and more, check out the Jag Kitchens showroom which is open over the holidays in Botany’s Danske Mobler Home Centre. The newly refurbished space features six diverse kitchens displaying trends from around the globe.

And with all the family back home for the holidays and summer wining and dining on the cards, it’s a good chance to talk about rejuvenation plans for the most hardworking space in the house.

Here are some trends to take note of, according to owner Lesley McLagan.

also growing, with a wealth of colours, formats, and effects to choose from.

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What about 2017? Texture will become a focal point for many new and emerging designs, says Lesley. These include textured woodgrain melamine cabinetry which look and feel like real timber. “By combining these with plain colours you can create a very ‘European look’ at a realistic price,” says Lesley. Engineered stone styles have also changed from predominantly speckled to a real marble or slate effect.

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“We’re also seeing the thinner benchtop trend that has been popular in Europe for some time now becoming a firm favourite here.” In addition, more people are opting to make a statement with splashbacks. “The number of options available for splashbacks are

on the rise – this can add a real point of difference,” explains Lesley. “With glass and mirror varieties as well as printed, antiqued and textured, we’re spoilt for choice. There are also large sheet porcelain products that look like stones and marbles, again going for that more natural look.” The kitchen lighting arena is

Experienced designers will be available every day over the holidays to work with new clients wanting to explore what they can achieve with new kitchen. Jag Kitchens specialises in custom-designed kitchens and has its own manufacturing plant. The staff also use a stateof-the-art 3D computer design programme to show clients beforehand exactly how their new kitchen will look. Jag Kitchens has an excellent reputation for designing and building for all budgets and for providing an outstanding design service with sound advice. Visit www.jagkitchens.co.nz for more information on a wide range of materials and design options or to see more kitchen examples.

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