Times - 19 July 2023

The National Party will establish a $500 million fund to fix potholes on New Zealand’s roads if elected to Government at this year’s general election.

Botany MP and party leader

Christopher Luxon joined Pakuranga MP Simeon Brown to make the announcement in East Tamaki on July 16.

They say National will also issue a directive to Waka Kotahi NZ Transport Agency to double the current rate of roading renewals and halve the standard response rate for pothole repair from 48 hours to 24 hours.

Brown, the party’s transport spokesperson, says the new Pothole

Repair Fund will aim to urgently address the “shocking state of our local roads and state highways”.

“In 2022, over 54,000 potholes needed repair on state highways around New Zealand, the highest number in 10 years.

“In Auckland alone, there’s a backlog of 1000 kilometres of needed road repairs, with Auckland Transport estimating it will take up to 10 years to clear.

“Potholes are a safety hazard and have been causing significant damage and disruption to freight and motorists all over the country.”

Brown says the fund will see an additional $500m over three years allocated to local authorities and

Waka Kotahi to address potholes and other damage to local roads and state highways.

“The cost of the Pothole Repair Fund will be met from re-prioritising spending within the National Land Transport Programme.

“That includes a reduction in expenditure on activities which unnecessarily slow traffic down such as blanket speed limit reductions and excessive speed bump installations, or the failed Road to Zero advertising campaign, toward investment in safer roads which are properly maintained.

“Rather than wasting money on slowing people down, giant red zeros, or expensive transport pro-

NATS: BACK TO BASICS

jects nobody wants, like the $30 billion Auckland light rail project, National will focus on fixing and enhancing our roading network to ensure people and freight can move around the country safely and efficiently.”

The announcement follows a move by National late last year that saw it ask the public to help highlight the deteriorating state of the country’s roads through a ‘Pothole of the Week’ campaign.

Luxon and Brown held a press conference near a large pothole, which had been patched over but not repaired, on the surface of Cryers Road in East Tamaki.

They asked Kiwis to sign a peti-

tion and send in photos of potholes in their local area via the party’s Facebook page.

Brown said motorists are tired of potholes peppering New Zealand’s roads, damaging vehicles, and causing havoc for motorists. He said potholes are a safety hazard which is why they need to be fixed.

“We’re hearing from people every day who say the roads are the worst they’ve ever seen them.”

Transport Minister David Parker has blamed the previous National Government, which left office in 2017, for the poor state of the country’s due to it having frozen road maintenance.

National Party deputy leader Nicola Willis at Pakuranga Park Village with Pakuranga MP Simeon Brown. Story, p11

Photo Wayne Martin

WE ARE LOCAL

Ethical baby garments make Aussie finals

Asmall Kiwi business based in Burswood which makes organic cotton garments has been short-listed in two categories for its ethically-made items in the Australian Clean + Conscious Awards.

The New Zealandowned family business Paul & Paulie rebranded its business with the assistance of a business coach and chose to enter the awards.

Two of the company’s new garments, the organic cotton natural pointelle bodysuit and baby blanket were selected as one of the top five finalists in the best baby apparel and best baby sleep categories, from more than 400 applicants from New Zealand and Australia.

“This is great validation for us as a small Kiwi business that it is worth the hard work and commitment in the long run,” said Paul & Paulie

designer and director Rachel Emmanuel.

Using ethical, responsible and sustainable practices, I take inspiration for my sketches from the natural beauty of New Zealand.

“I design clothing made from 100 per cent organic Indian cotton

CRYPTIC CLUES

ACROSS

7. Tender? (4,8).

8. Plus covering the point in the agreement (6).

9. Have sense, lady, or dry up! (6).

10. Need to ring on behalf of (4,3).

12. How nervous the hurdler feels? (5).

15. How Nick will move? (5).

16. Felt repugnance towards the freight carried (7).

Luna challenge very close call

Chess fans were treated to a hard-fought match between two young chess stars at Poppies Chess Challenge in Howick recently.

Luna Lu, right, beat Luna Xu with a score of 4 : 2. She scored three wins, two draws and one loss against Xu. Both were gold medal winners in the recent Oceania Youth Chess

Championships.

“The games were extremely hard-fought and very close and of a good standard considering that they were blitz games,” organiser Paul Spiller said.

“We must thank Poppies books and the Howick Village Association for their support in this, the fifth of these annual matches.”

PAIR CAUGHT IN STOLEN CAR

to look after you, your precious little one, the planet and our future.

“Each creation is a labour of love that I am enormously proud of. The Paul & Paulie evolution combines the love and family ties of our two countries, New Zealand and India.”

Police have arrested and charged two people who were allegedly found in a stolen vehicle in east Auckland.

Counties Manukau East Police area prevention manager, Inspector Rakana Cook, says the pair were located in the car park of a Botany supermarket on July 11.

He says the station wagon the two people were in had earlier been sighted in Ormiston at about 5pm.

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“The vehicle was observed travelling along Te Irirangi Drive toward Botany, where it was seen entering the supermarket’s car park.

“Several police units were quickly on scene and blocked the vehicle in, bringing it to a stop. The 31-year-old man and woman were quickly taken into custody by our staff without further incident.”

Cook says enquiries into the stolen vehicle are ongoing.

ACROSS

7. Sad (5-7)

8. Vegetable (6)

9. Spring (6)

10. Breathe (7)

12. Nip (5)

15. Declare (5)

16. Botcher (7)

18. Villa (6)

20. Base (6)

22. Card (4,2,6)

DOWN

1. Self-indulgent (8)

2. Ended (4)

3. Rainy (7)

4. Cut (5)

5. Bird (8)

6. Notion (4)

11. Peevish (8)

13. American Indian (8)

14. Trash (7)

17. Sharpen (5)

19. Fish (4)

21. Duck (4)

THE SUN, THE MOON AND THE TIDES

18. Keen to get away before ten, anyhow (6).

20. Until upset about the second snub (6).

22. How the long way round is superior to the others? (2,3,3,4).

1. Even on the way in, can’t (8).

2. With the sun yet to come out, feels hot on the eye (4).

3. A cut I arranged to get on the sale (7).

4. Had produced an audible moan (5).

5. Tell one to teach (8).

6. Said it’s the inventor of a musical instrument (4).

11. Stop! Don’t put it on again! (5,3).

13. Don’t look so much, though really good (8).

14. Holding on high before tomorrow (7).

17. Bad weather for most: pouring rain coming through (5).

19. She looks at home in an expensive setting (4).

21. Is unhappy, having a bad boss (4).

Luna Xu, left, and Luna Lu are both chess stars. Photo supplied

Burswood business Paul & Paulie has had two baby garments selected as finalists by the Clean + Conscious Awards. Photo supplied

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Man’s disappearance still confounds police two decades later

By CHRIS HARROWELL

June 2024 will mark the 20th anniversary of the disappearance of east Auckland man Jim Donnelly.

The Times is looking back, through a series of stories, at one of the most baffling unsolved cases in recent New Zealand history.

Donnelly was 43 years old when he went missing on Monday, June 21, 2004. He hasn’t been seen since and his whereabouts are a total mystery to his loved ones and the police.

The married father of two was living with his wife Tracey and their two young children in Dannemora when he disappeared.

Coroner Sam Herdson held an inquest hearing on the matter in Auckland in 2007. Her subsequent report states when Donnelly vanished he’d been working at Glenbrook Steel Mill in Waiuku in a supervisory engineering role for 19 years.

Despite extensive searches at the mill and surrounding area, and an in-depth investigation, the coroner found that what happened to him remains unexplained but “the presumption is Jim has died”.

THE POLICE INVESTIGATION

Inspector Dave Glossop previously held the file on Donnelly’s disappearance before it was transferred to Detective Inspector Shaun Vickers of Counties Manukau Police.

While Glossop wasn’t involved in the initial investigation into Donnelly’s whereabouts, he has colleagues and friends who were and he knows as much about the case as anyone.

“When I took over as head of the Criminal Investigation Branch for Counties Manukau South I picked up the file to review it as the previous person who held it had left the police,” Glossop told the Times

“I went out to the mill and spoke to some of the key people. I built a relationship with Tracey and did a few experiments trying to reconstruct timings and other things. The case has been under my skin ever since. I’ve become from the police’s point of view the subject matter expert on it because I held the file for so long.”

Glossop says he takes every opportunity to talk about the case with professionals who he thinks can contribute by sharing their opinions on it.

was searchable has been searched.”

Police talked to experts about sewage ponds located within walking distance of the mill but their contents was so corrosive it would have destroyed human remains, Glossop says. “We’re talking about unfiltered raw sewage. It just wasn’t practical to put divers in because there’s zero visibility.

That sometimes leads to questions he hasn’t already thought of, but it’s happened less often in the past six to seven years, he says.

“Of all the cases I’ve ever dealt with and all the people I’ve talked to about cases, this is the most perplexing one because in every investigation there are always facts to link to and lever from.

“You tease out the facts and it leads to another fact.

“This has just got so many conflicting facts and so many variables and unknowns. It’s been through the coroner a long time ago and Jim’s been declared deceased. The cause of death is unknown and I hope one day we do know for Tracey’s sake, but it really is a mystery.”

THE INITIAL SEARCH

Glossop says when someone is missing there are a limited number of possibilities, including foul play, suicide, intentional disappearance, or an accident. There’s no known evidence Donnelly was the victim of foul play or of an industrial accident at the steel mill, he says.

“There is absolutely no indication of that. If he’d fallen or been hurt somewhere we would have found him by now. The searches done within the mill and immediate surrounds was very thorough and I’ve had those searches redone.

“The initial searches were looking for someone who was injured, so if someone was trying to evade the police they easily could because we weren’t looking for somebody who was hiding from us.

“But when we did the subsequent search of the surrounds we got a whole lot of volunteers, the Army, police, Search and Rescue, and put GPS [units] on people’s backs so we could see exactly where they’d been.

“It was a hard search. We were looking for anything and turning over every rock to see if we could find anything. Nothing came of that. Everything that

“We looked at trying to dredge it but with the time delay and the best advice we had at the time was ‘you’re wasting your time’.

“We even spoke about ground-penetrating radar with the FBI and that sort of stuff but it was a dead end.”

JIM’S UNUSUAL BEHAVIOUR

One of the many unexplained aspects of the case is what led Donnelly to start behaving in an unusual way in the days prior to his disappearance.

Glossop says the behaviour was “really outside the norm” for the dependable family man. The day before Donnelly vanished he turned up in his car at a friend’s workplace. He didn’t see his friend there but had an interaction with the site’s security guard which caused concern.

Donnelly produced his driver’s licence when asked to do so but would repeat the security guard’s questions back to him.

“The way he was speaking he sounded very robotic,” Glossop says.

Several days prior to his disappearance Donnelly had told his wife he needed to attend a meeting but wouldn’t say who it was with or what it was about.

“The day before, when he drove to town to get some takeaways, those are things we know happened because we have CCTV of him and [using] the eftpos card buying the takeaways,” Glossop says.

“But he returned home with that half eaten.

“The time frames that he’d left and come back, we’re relying on memory and they’re very tight timeframes. I drove it a couple of times in different conditions sticking to the speed limit. Both times I attempted it I couldn’t drive in the timeframe.

“Nothing is conclusive but that says any meeting he had must have been really short. We don’t know if he did actually attend a meeting.”

h The next story in this series examines more of the evidence relating to Donnelly’s disappearance.

Police Inspector Dave Glossop previously held the file on the disappearance of east Auckland man Jim Donnelly. Photo supplied

New owner keen to deliver fresh start for Palmers

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Ling Li has a track record as a very successful businesswoman both in China and New Zealand. She’s owned some very successful businesses.

Ling has taken on this great opportunity to join The Palmers Group and she’s very excited to be part of the iconic Palmers New Zealand Brand.

She is determined to make this

store part of the Eastern suburbs community and bring this iconic Palmers store back to life, so it is a store the whole community can enjoy and be proud of.

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Café Botannix is also under new management with Snehpreet and Gurwinder, and they’re looking forward to serving you with great coffee, delicious food and a warm welcome.

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“We know she will take the

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Share views on draft plan

By CHRIS HARROWELL

People have one last chance to have their say on a document that details the Howick Local Board’s strategy and goals for the next three years.

The first round of public feedback on its draft Local Board Plan 2023 informed the document, with phase two of the consultation process running from July 13 to August 14.

It will be finalised and adopted in October before coming into effect in July next year.

Board chairperson Damian Light previously told the Times it’s divided into five areas, being people, environment, community, places, and economy.

Integrated into those categories are efforts to ensure the board contributes to climate mitigation and meets its legal obligations to Maori.

He says the plan is critical as it helps to inform not just local residents but also Auckland Council about what’s important to this community.

“The plan says what we’re looking for, what we need to deliver on, and gives direction to the rest

of council about what our priorities are.”

Board deputy chairperson Bo Burns says its members have been working hard and talking to residents at public events.

“We have a strong grasp and direction from the large volume of feedback already collated, and I’m feeling comfortable with the draft plan.

“Like anything, practice makes perfect, so this is people’s last chance to let us know if they have strong opinions or areas they think we may have missed, or positive support in any areas covered off in this document.

“One key area I’ve taken away from the [council’s] emergency budget is a strong focus on working

with a more collaborative approach with stakeholders, community groups, businesses and residents.”

In his introduction to the plan, Light says the Howick ward’s population has grown, but many of its community assets have not kept pace and are struggling to cope.

“The most urgent need is the Flat Bush Library and Community Centre.

“We need to consider how we maximise the benefits of our existing assets to unlock new opportunities and address inequity.”

The board is holding a community Have Your Say event during the consultation period. It’s at Highland Park Community House, 47 Aviemore Drive, from 2pm4pm on Friday, August 4.

New Bookarama for Kids event a big hit

Large numbers of parents, grandparents and children visited the Bookarama for Kids sale in the Howick War Memorial Centre held between Tuesday and Thursday last week. They went away with lots of books, puzzles, games and even cuddly toys. The event is a spin-off from Howick Rotary’s Bookarama sale that is held each year at Somerville Intermediate in the October school holidays.

The idea for the event came from Howick Village Optometrist owner Frith Jenkins who then approached Rotary to set up the sale from items collected from the Howick community.

“I enjoy the big Bookarama sale and thought that having a special one aimed at kids during the winter school holidays would encour-

age their reading development as well as putting the Information Centre to good use,” Jenkins said.

“Our wonderful Howick community responded superbly again and there are now lots of local kids who have some new books to read and games to play.”

Geoff Thompson, Rotary’s Bookarama organiser, said, “The club loved getting behind

Frith’s idea and working with the Howick Village Association to make it a success. It was good to see the children poring over the large selection of books, puzzles, games and toys and making their own selections.

“Altogether, a great way to extend Bookarama which has become part of the community annual event calendar.”

A young man counting out his pocket money to buy his selection of books watched on by his grandmother and Rotarian Colin Monk. In the background taking a photo for her file is Frith Jenkins, the initiator of the Bookarama for Kids sale event. Photo supplied

The Howick Local Board, including chairperson Damian Light, pictured fourth from right, wants to hear what the community thinks of its draft Local Board Plan. Photo supplied

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The difference between Labour and National

Astark difference between Labour and National was highlighted on Sunday when National announced a $500 million fund for state highway and local road repairs, and Labour announced a campaign slogan.

National has, for months now, been rolling out practical policies that will improve New Zealanders’ daily lives if we lead the Government after the general election. Underpinning our approach is a commitment to run a strong, growing economy. With good economic management, a National Government will bring down inflation and interest rates, deliver higher wages, provide tax relief and be able to afford the improved health and education that New Zealanders expect.

We’re also going to take Labour’s wasteful spending and re-purpose it to achieve the outcomes New Zealanders want. It’s not only about money – National ministers will be accountable for results in their portfolios. That would be a novel idea for Labour.

Everywhere I go in New Zealand, I’m hearing of people struggling with the cost of living, and with services that either aren’t there when they need them, or not working as well as they should. Take the roading network. In Auckland alone there is a backlog of 1000km of road repairs needed, with Auckland Transport estimating it will take

up to 10 years to clear.

Potholes are a safety risk and last year there were more than 50,000 waiting for repair on state highways. So National will start a Pothole Repair Fund with an additional $500m over three years allocated to local authorities and the New Zealand Transport Agency to repair potholes and other damage on local roads and state highways. We’ll also halve the response time from 48 hours to 24, and we’ll require NZTA to renew at least two per cent of the entire network each year – which is more than double the current rate.

The money will come from other part of the land transport programme, including savings from stopping Labour’s wasteful spending on activities that slow down traffic – like speed bumps, and the “Road to Zero” campaign. National respects taxpayers. We will make public money work for all of us, and we’ll put it where it will do the most good.

National’s Family Boost policy is another example of re-prioritising spending so it helps people in practical ways. We will take some of the $1.7 billion that Labour is spending on contractors and consultants, to give families a tax rebate on their early childhood education expenses, up to a maximum of $75 per week, paid directly into parents’ bank accounts. All families earn-

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In addition to adjusting tax brackets for inflation, these policies will make a real difference to families.

National is committed to practical and helpful initiatives to make life a bit easier. We’ll be doing it in a financially responsible way, while growing the economy and getting this country back on track.

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Young writer wins $1000 first prize

Howick College student Elisa

Prattley was a little overwhelmed when she was presented with the $1000 first prize in the annual Kate Edger Trust School Competition.

This year’s theme “How does Music Shape Your World” provided year 12 and 13 students in the Auckland and Northland regions with the opportunity to apply their creative expression across various mediums including music, literature, art and photography.

Prattley, who is in year 12, said music is something very constant in her life.

“I’ve always felt a certain way about it, so I was very happy to write this poem that perfectly explains what music means to me — even better when it won me this amazing prize.”

The prize was presented to Prattley by trust representatives, Sarah McLeay and Katrina Ford.

Elisa’s poem was selected as the winning entry in a unanimous decision from the judges who felt her entry “immediately stood out for its clever formatting and prose”.

The judges also felt her work “was very relevant to the theme and demonstrated a clear sense of the significance of music in her world, using it both as a distraction from and engagement with daily life”.

Prattley says she plans to save the money and hopes to one day “take poetry or writing to a wider scale after school, but at the moment it’s just something I do for fun”.

Elisa Prattley (centre) with her prize and Kate Edger Trust representatives Sarah McLeay (left) and Katrina Ford. Photo supplied

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Nicola Willis delivers election pitch to seniors

By CHRIS HARROWELL

National Party deputy lead-

er Nicola Willis has delivered her party’s election pitch to several hundred residents at an east Auckland retirement complex.

Willis, who is also the party’s finance spokesperson, visited Pakuranga Park Village with Pakuranga MP Simeon Brown on July 7.

She praised Brown’s work in the electorate and told the audience he’s “extremely well respected in Wellington”.

“For such a young man he has one of the wisest heads in our caucus. He is a very good thinker about this country and its future and the policies we need.

“We need that right now, good thinking, because I think many of you will agree with me the country is in a bad way.”

Willis detailed New Zealand’s challenges and how National would address them should it be elected to Government at this year’s general election on October 14. She said the cost of living crisis has “dragged on to its third year”, with high inflation meaning prices have been rising faster that people’s incomes.

“I worry about those homeowners who have got big mortgages. They had to take on a big mortgage to get into this elevated housing market.

“They took on a loan with an interest rate of two or three per cent.

“Now that interest rate is six or seven per cent and they have to spend hundreds more as a family just to pay their mortgage.”

Willis said businesses are struggling due to the recession.

New Zealand’s “really significant” current account deficit shows the country is spending more in the world than it’s earning and its net debt has grown from $5.6 billion in 2019 to $73b now.

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She said people who receive NZ Superannuation will benefit from National’s tax plan, as Super is tagged to the average after-tax wage.

“So when we increase average after tax wages quicker, your Superannuation payments lift more.”

She said National would make it easier to build things, make things, and grow things in New Zealand.

There’s too much “red tape” restricting businesses and people are finding it hard to deal with.

Willis said one of the things knocking business confidence is the “amount of crime in our communities”.

People have the chance to get their hands on a unique artistic print by spending at least $50 in certain local restaurants and cafes.

The project, entitled Feed Your Eyes, is part of the Arts Out East initiative supported by Te Tuhi and the Howick Local Board.

It’s created by Toni Mosley and sees a group of artists supporting local hospitality businesses.

The artists involved are Peatree, Greta Umbers, Louisa Afoa, Sarah Walker-Holt, Reuben Lankshear

and Mosley.

Each of them will make a set of limited edition screen prints with Blue Bathtub Press based on their own creative practice.

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accumulated by Finance Minister Grant Robertson, she said.

“I think we’d have a bit more forgiveness for Mr Robertson and his friends if we could point to wonderful new motorways, reduced waiting times for surgery, and greater achievement in our schools.

“But we’re not seeing those things. Instead, what we’re seeing is potholes on roads, speed signs telling people to go slower, surging violent crime, lower achievement in schools, and people having to wait longer not only to get an operation but just to see a specialist.”

Willis said National’s plan is to get the Government’s books back in order and drive more value for the money it spends.

It’ll set targets for what it wants to achieve and deliver from spending and hold people accountable for delivering on those targets.

“The third thing is when we tighten up the ship, we can afford to give middle-income earners and everyday workers a bit of a tax reduction,” Willis said.

“We’ve put out a plan to do that so a typical family could be up to $2000 a year better off if they’ve got two average income earners in their family.

“A one-income earning family would be about $1000 better off.”

“We have to get tougher on law and order. National makes no apologies for saying under our Government there will be tougher consequences for crime.

“We will sentence people appropriately, we’ll go after the gangs, and we’ll also intervene earlier to stop young offenders careening down the path of crime.”

On education, she said if people looked inside school classrooms today, “we should have reason for concern”.

Many classrooms are empty, or half empty, because so many pupils are truant from school.

“Even when they are attending school, the rates of achievement in reading and writing and maths have dropped. Not just relative to other countries, but relative to how well New Zealand students used to perform historically.

“That’s a real worry because we have an obligation to be teaching each generation more than the last, not less.”

Willis said National will take things back to basics in education.

Every primary-aged pupil will be taught an hour of reading, writing, and maths each school day.

“It’s pretty simple. We will set out a very clear curriculum with what each student needs to learn each year at school.”

Trio charged over alleged historical sexual offending

Three people are facing charges relating to alleged historical sexual offending committed at an east Auckland care provider.

Police say a year-long investigation into allegations of physical and sexual abuse at a contracted care provider in East Tamaki has resulted in the trio’s arrest.

Counties Manukau Police detectives executed two search warrants across South Auckland on July 13, with 36 charges filed so far in connection to the investigation.

Detective senior sergeant Mal Hassall says the investigation began in July last year after a report of concern was made to police.

“Our investigation has examined allegations of historical

Exhibition explores the meaning of home

A new art exhibition in east Auckland will employ radio and sonic storytelling to explore the human experience.

Pacific Frequencies: Mahu is being staged at Howick Historical Village and Highland Park Library as part of the Arts Out East initiative.

The collaborative project connects the stories of ‘home’ between the generations of east and south Auckland communities.

The interactive audio-visual exhibition focuses on the Urban, Polynesian, and Indigenous experience in the city.

The production collective behind the project is ‘Brownalfa’, an all-wahine (woman) film production collective whose work aims to elevate and support the works of upcoming Maori and Pacific artists.

Its members are founder Trina Lealavaa-Ama, Flat Bush resident Roimata Prendergast, and Sally

Ama.

‘Mahu’ is a channel of the exhibition exploring grieving and healing from what a person perceives as their home.

“One might consider home the brick bones of a dwelling place, in this case, home can be identified as a place, person or structure,” according to Arts Out East.

“You may look at Mahu as if it were a station on the radio you have tuned into.

“And with each segment, you begin to understand the stories and experiences of grief, and offering what it looks like to heal, in all its non-linear, nostalgic, and sonic forms.”

Pacific Frequencies: Mahu can be viewed at the Howick Historical Village in Lloyd Elsmore Park from July 8 to August 5, and Highland Park Library from August 7 to September 4.

Arts Out East is supported by the Te Tuhi and the Howick Local Board.

What’s on

WEAVING KETE WORKSHOP

Join us with Sinaa and learn to weave a kete from flax. Botany Library, Thursday, July 20, 11.30am. To register, email botany.library@ aucklandcouncil.govt.nz.

HOWICK COMBINED PROBUS

EASTERN DISTRICT COUNTRY MUSIC CLUB

Next Wednesday, July 26 at 7pm, everyone is welcome to listen to our live music or come and sing or play an instrument. Bucklands and Eastern Beaches War Memorial Hall, Wharf Road, Bucklands Beach. Non-members $5. For more info phone Bev 021 11 56 866.

physical and sexual abuse of young boys in the care of this provider over a period of nearly seven years.

“Those charges filed today relate to offences such as sexual violation, injuring and neglect of a child.”

The alleged offending occurred between October, 2003, and July, 2010.

Those charged are two men, aged 62 and 39, and a 66-yearold woman. All three were expected to appear in the Manukau District Court on July 13. The charges relate to alleged offending against nine victims and further charges cannot be ruled out, Hassall says.

“We have spoken to a large number of former residents of this facility, however, we know

there are still some police have not yet been able to speak with.”

Those people are asked to contact police through the 105 phone service quoting ‘Operation Pocket’ or file number 220721/6568.

“I encourage anyone who has information or concerns they need to raise with police in connection with this facility to get in contact with our investigation,” Hassall says.

“The welfare of victims is our priority and we have ensured there is support available for all of those who have been engaging with the investigation.

“Anyone who is considering approaching police can be assured that their matter will be taken seriously and treated in confidence.”

Why not join us on Tuesday, July 25 at the Howick Bowling Club, 10am – 12 noon to hear speaker Janice Chandler talking about Tunisia and Libya. New members and guests are welcome. Morning tea provided. Phone Mary on 2738804 to confirm or for more information regarding speakers, trips and friendship groups.

LEARN ABOUT WILLS

Citizens Advice Bureau Pakuranga invites you to a free community information session on Wills and Enduring Power of Attorney. It will cover topics like, do I need a will? Risks of doing it wrong, practical guide to creating an enduring power of attorney. The session is at Pakuranga Library on Friday, July 21, 10am to 12 noon. Registration is compulsory. Email settlement. pakuranga@cab.org.nz or text: 021 459 520.

U3A ORMISTON

A club for retired and semi-retired citizens, offering the opportunity to learn and to socialise. General meeting – Thursday, July 27, Flat Bush Old School Hall, cnr Murphys Rd/Flat Bush School Rd, Flat Bush, 10am-12 noon. First speaker Mike Lowe – Belonging; main speaker Willie Iosia – Blue Light (police charity). Visitors welcome (no charge). Morning tea provided. Contact Dave 022 6449650.

What’s On is a free community notice-board for non-profit groups. Send notices to whatson@times.co.nz or drop into our office at 10 Central Terrace, Howick. Notices must be received by the Wednesday before publication. While every effort is made to run the notices, space restrictions may mean notices may not run. Keep notices to less than 50 words. There is no guarantee your notice will run. Where publication of a notice is timecritical, groups should consider placing a classified advertisement to ensure placement.

National Party deputy leader Nicola Willis spoke to a large audience at Pakuranga Park Village on July 7.

Times photo Wayne Martin

THE MASTER STROKE

Let’s not too quickly forget that as our politicians busied themselves during lockdowns rearranging the legislative substrate of our way of life, the toll of their mandates used to skirt around our lawful traditions caused such a widespread, deep-seated sense of shock, alienation and worry that our previous Prime Minister became trapped in the inevitability of her own Quixotic quagmire.

Desperate to salvage its chances in the up-coming election, her party premeditatively transplanted in the next mild-mannered ideological clone in waiting.

Seemingly unburdened with his predecessor’s baggage, after a few token concessions, her comrade pressed forward with the same transformative agenda. What a master stroke.

The public’s abhorrence of Labour’s push to surreptitiously imbed ‘co-governance’—clearly the underlying motive of ‘Three Waters’ – vanished with the exPrime Minster (‘Affordable Water Infrastructure’ is the new patronising blandishment marketing this imposition).

Symptomatic of an enculturated intellectual conceit and general spiritual decline, our rejection of truth is most starkly embodied in the dissembling academic, political, commercial and media rulership that’s relentlessly imposing its ubiquitous moral illiteracy.

So many ‘untruths’ have taken root to displace common sense,

honour and our Christian heritage, that who we once were has been almost completely prised from our hands.

Rees Sutcliffe

East Tamaki Heights

END OF AN ERA

When China abandoned its zero Covid policies at the end of 2022, all bets were on a rapid rise in economic growth.

In reality, it hasn’t happened. Retail sales and investment are far less than expected.

Analysts now think the economy may not have grown at all in the second quarter and will struggle to achieve the modest GDP target of 5 per cent at the end of 2023.

The main culprit? The end of the property boom with scores of significant property developers going bust.

As history has shown, property bubbles rarely end well. Construction companies and all their associated services needed for housing building and, consequently sales, are dragged down markedly, hurting the economy.

Because homeowners are less likely to spend money if they are worried about their most valuable asset, inevitably [this] results in depressed consumption.

Even if China wanted to foster more consumption-led growth, it would not easily be able to do so.

Many of the Government’s economic policies are still designed to promote exports and investment and to suppress consumption.

Sustainably boosting household spending such as building up sturdier safety nets would take years to accomplish.

The current property gloom casting a shadow over China’s economy is not just for the rest of the year, but far into the future.

Lessons for New Zealand perhaps?

Gary Hollis Mellons Bay

ARE 16-YEAR-OLDS MATURE ENOUGH?

Should 16-year-olds get the vote? From my perspective it will depend on maturity, not age. So what is maturity? It is the ability to recognise the evil within and decide to control it.

What are these evils? Theft , vandalism, covetousness, deception, anger, hate, resentment, revenge, murder, pride. Do 16-year-olds have this level of maturity? Some do, most don’t. Do 60-year-olds have this level of maturity? Yes, rather more but not all.

In my experience age tends to unfold maturity by life’s trials but does not ensure maturity.

Ian George, Howick

IRRELEVANT DISTRACTIONS

Re: Argument makes no sense (Dennis Horne, Times, June 28).

Mr Horne seems to have lost the plot. He starts with “[Ryan’s] position makes no sense”. But he doesn’t know my position, so cannot possibly know if it makes sense or not.

He pleads, “No more nonsense about Richard Feynmann”. While insulting Feynmann (and thinking people everywhere) by suggesting, “He never passed comment” is evidence of an opinion.

He advises “[Feynmann] did not write a paper”, when nobody said he did. Meanwhile, my “position” is irrelevant. And demanding that I explain it, a distraction.

I’d rather get back to addressing things that matter. Like the effectiveness of climate police and its effect on New Zealand citizens.

For example: New Zealand citizens generate less than 0.2 per cent of the world’s CO2.

Of that less than 0.2 per cent, when our entire ecosystem is considered, New Zealand “captures” more than 100 per cent. Our total carbon emissions are already “net-negative”.

At the same time, New Zealand is powerless to change the output of China and India against whom our emissions get lost in the statistical noise. But our politicians want us to do more.

Some argue that reducing emissions is doing the right thing, but is it? Is it right or sensible if it

leaves us poorer but doesn’t measurably change anything, or protect us from others’ emissions?

Is there really nothing better we can do?

I have seen no climate policy coming from local or national government that achieves anything more than giving smug politicians an excuse to say, “look how good we are!”, while making life harder for the average Kiwi.

I have seen no climate policy that could possibly have a measurable impact on climate change or our preparedness for the prophesied climate emergency.

Perhaps when Mr Horne is over his weird obsession with trying to disprove a point I didn’t make, he can explain how raising petrol taxes for working-class New Zealanders is going to make a difference to the global climate.

Ryan Price Half Moon Bay

COMMUNITY CONSULTATION

I have suggested that our council representatives spend one day a month at the Pakuranga Library to hear ratepayers’ concerns in their constituency.

By doing so they would get to know what the grassroots ratepayers are concerned about.

No doubt they get plenty of emails regarding problems, but face-to-face meetings would be worth a try.

Arthur Moore Pakuranga

SOLUTIONS

PAKURANGA COLLEGE

Enrolment Procedures for 2024

We have moved to online enrolments and encourage you to visit our website: www.pakuranga.school.nz/enrolments to complete the procedure. Please contact our Reception on 09 534 7159 or via email: info@pakuranga.school.nz if you need to pick up a hard copy enrolment pack.

In-Zone enrolments close on Wednesday 23 August 2023

Online enrolments must be submitted by the end of the day on Wednesday 23 August 2023. Hard copies must arrive at Reception by 4pm on Wednesday 23 August 2023.

Out-of-Zone enrolments close on Wednesday 30 August 2023. Online enrolments must be submitted by the end of the day on Wednesday 30 August 2023. Hard copies must arrive at Reception by 4:00pm on Wednesday 30 August 2023.

If required, a ballot will take place on Wednesday 6 September 2023.

There will be NO places offered for Out-of-Zone Year 10-13 enrolments for 2024.

Enrolment Scheme – Home Zone

Commencing at the coast, travel east along the centre of A Tai Road and along the centre of Pigeon Mountain Road (Compass Point Way included) as far as Himalaya Drive (included). Head east along the northern boundary of Pigeon Mountain to Gills Road. Continue along Gills Road before heading south east along Bleakhouse Road (excluded). Turn south along Ridge Road (53, 60 and above included) and continue south along Botany Road. Head west along the centre of Ti Rakau Drive until meeting the Ti Rakau Culvert, head north west along the creek to join Pakuranga Road, head south west along Pakuranga Road until Johns Lane (267 included), then along the centre of Pakuranga Road until St Kentigern College. Head west along the northern boundary of St Kentigern College before heading north along the coast to the starting point.

Students living outside the Defined Home Zone

If places are available the following students may be accepted, with places offered in the following order of priority:

First Priority Will be given to students who have been accepted for enrolment in the Pegasus Unit, a special programme run by the school and approved by the Secretary for Education.

Second Priority Will be given to siblings of current students.

Third Priority Will be given to siblings of former students.

Fourth Priority Will be given to any applicant who is a child of a former student of the school.

Fifth Priority Will be given to any applicant who is a child of an employee or board member of the Pakuranga College Board of Trustees.

Sixth Priority Will be given to all other applicants. If there are more applicants in the second, third, fourth, fifth and sixth priority groups than there are places available, selection within the priority group will be by a ballot. .

O P E N M O R N I N G

Saturday 29 July 2023

9:00am to 12 Noon

Parents of prospective students and their families, and members of the public, are warmly invited to visit our school on Open Morning to experience our students in action, view displays and meet staff and students.

Michael Williams, Principal

OPEN MORING

Saturday 29 July 2023

9:00am – 12 Noon

Parents of prospective students and their families, and members of the public, are warmly invited to visit our school on OPEN MORNING to experience our students in action, view displays and meet staff.

Please contact our Reception on 09 534 7159 or via email: info@pakuranga.school.nz for more information.

Michael Williams Principal

ENROLMENT 2024 INFORMATION EVENING

Tuesday 1 August 2023 Bill Dimery Performing Arts Centre

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Would you like them to attend Wakaaranga School but live outside of our zone?

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Presentation 1: 4:00pm

Presentation 2: 5:00pm Tour 1: 4:45 - 5:45pm Tour 2: 5:45 - 6:45pm

Howick College is pleased to invite parents, caregivers and students interested in enrolling for Year 9 in 2024 to our Enrolment Information Evening.

Families and students will have the opportunity to visit our college during one of two sessions, beginning in the Bill Dimery Performance Arts Centre.

The student-led tours will enable prospective students and their families to move through the school, meet members of our teaching staff, interact with students of various year levels, ask questions and see the school in operation around the campus. This will be an enjoyable and informative evening and will be the only opportunity to visit the school and experience rst-hand, our commitment to academic excellence through innovative learning and teaching practices.

Enrolments will be completed online and are available on our website. Our prospectus will be distributed through our local feeder schools over the coming weeks.

To register for one of two sessions (beginning at either 4pm or 5pm) please go to ENROLMENT on our website: www.howickcollege.school.nz/enrolment-information-evening

We look forward to meeting you.

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Our term 4 out-of-zone enrolment ballot is now open Enrolment at Wakaaranga School is governed by an enrolment scheme, details of which are available from the school office and on the school website.

Applications for out-of-zone places are now being invited for those students who will become eligible for enrolment in term 4, during the period from 9 October to 15 December 2023. This applies to new entrant enrolments only (5 year olds starting school for the first time).

The deadline for receipt of applications for out-of-zone places is Wednesday 23 August 2023. Application forms are on our website: www.wakaaranga.school.nz

If a ballot for out-of-zone places is required, it will be held in the week beginning 28 August 2023. Parents will be informed of the outcome of the ballot within three school days of the ballot being held.

If you live in the home zone and have not yet signalled your intention to enrol your child later this year, please contact the school immediately to assist us to plan appropriately.

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PAINTER, experienced in int/ext, roof & plastering, free quotes. Phone Mark 022 666 6380

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WALLPAPERING specialist. Strip, hang. Ph Andrew 027 4600048 or 5244 111

ADL PAVING & LANDSCAPING. Phone Adrian 027 603 1919, ah 537

SITUATIONS VACANT

ARE YOU INTERESTED IN CARS?

Cascade for Mazdaparts is an industry leading Car Parts Company in Pakuranga. We are looking for full time, permanent employees to join our friendly team. Multiple positions available working in the Warehouse. Excellent pay and career opportunities for reliable, hard working car enthusiasts.

Please email CV to tom@cascadeformazda.co.nz or call 022 623 6778 DE287442

ADMINISTRATOR

We are looking for an enthusiastic and organised administrator to work within our property management team. Must have accounts experience. This is a permanent, part-time position either Tuesday-Friday or WednesdayFriday, some flexibility required. Applications to hradmin.eastern@raywhite.com

WORKSHOP HAND

Full Time

Formtool Engineering is based in East Tamaki, in our fully equipped workshop we manufacture precision tooling for the local and export markets. This newly created entry-level position is suited to a person interested and willing to learn more about engineering and machining, to help us to run the machines and assist with general workshop duties. In return we will offer:

• Opportunity for learning pathways to new skills and machines

• Possible apprenticeship opportunity

• A friendly and loyal team environment

• Good remuneration based on skills and experience

• Full-time (40 hr p.w.)

• Overtime when available

• Close to the bus route

Preference will be given to applicants with basic machining skills (including school or training organisation). You need to have good command of English and Maths. You must be reliable, honest, organised and focused on detail.

Please phone 021 046 5106 or email sales@formtool.co.nz

SITUATIONS VACANT

PURC U21s off to big dance, Premier’s season now over

RECEPTIONIST

We are looking for an enthusiastic and organised receptionist to work within our Administration Team. This is a permanent, term-time position (secondary school term time), 9.30am-4.00pm.

Start date to be confirmed.

For more details about the position and how to apply, please refer to our website:

www.pakuranga.school.nz

Applications close on 26 July 2023

By BEN PLUMMER

As one week remains in the Auckland club rugby season, only two Pakuranga United Rugby Club (PURC) teams remain, having a chance to walk away with some silverware.

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Sancta Maria Catholic Primary School

TEACHER AIDE REQUIRED (Learning Assistant)

We are looking for a Teacher Aide (Learning Assistant) to support students or individuals with learning needs within the classroom setting, Monday to Friday (25 hours per week). The position commences 7 August until 18 December 2023. Possible continuation of the position in 2024. Patience and understanding are key requisites for the position. A good command of the English language is essential as the position requires reading, writing and mathematics skills. A basic knowledge of computers and ipads will also be required. Please email a letter of application and current CV to clairer@sanctamariaprimary.school.nz including contact details of two referees to support your application.

Howick RSA Poppy Fund Trust & Howick RSA Community Welfare Trust

RSA WELFARE SUPPORT ADVISOR

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Service Coordinator

Primary Options for Acute Care (POAC)

• Training and ongoing support within a fun and dedicated team

• Flexibility for part-time hours (up to 32 hours per week

Mon-Fri)

• Great Botany location

POAC is a regional Auckland service supporting primary and secondary health care providers to access a range of community based health services for their patients.

The aim of the POAC service is to facilitate timely, flexible and coordinated services, meeting the healthcare needs of individual patients in a community setting.

We are a small team, looking for a part-time service coordinator superstar.

The role will involve:

• Utilising your exceptional people skills and experience to provide service and support to a range of healthcare providers. Assist with the navigation of the services and funding streams available to provide optimal service delivery, focusing on timeliness and best care options for patients

• Coordinating high volume referrals and scheduling of both urgent and routine patient appointments

Skills and experience you will bring to this role:

• Strong problem-solving skills and demonstrated ability to use initiative

• A high level of personal integrity

• Ability to work well in a fast-paced pressure environment

• Strong customer service ethic

• Excellent time management and organizational skills

• Excellent written and oral communication skills, particularly the ability to communicate clearly, concisely and in plain language

• Strong data entry skills with a high level of accuracy

• Experience working in a customer service based role (experience within the healthcare sector may be beneficial but not essential).

• Willingness to learn and ability to adapt positively to changes

If this sounds like you we’d love to hear from you.

To apply please forward a current CV and covering letter to aimeew@easthealth.co.nz

A copy of the position description is available from aimeew@easthealth.co.nz

Applications close Friday 28 July 2023

Please note, only applicants with the right to permanently live and work in NZ will be considered for this role.

The job will involve, but not be restricted to:

• Maintaining and continuing to update a data base of eligible recipients of welfare support

• Supporting clients with transport to appointments such as medical/hospital appointments

• Help clients with applications for assistance such as trust welfare grants, funeral grants from the trust.

• Assistance and information around availability of other agencies for support such as VA, MSD Hours will be allocated at maximum of 60 hours per month, allowing flexibility when some weeks are busier than others.

If you think you are the right person for this role please send your CV to: welfare@howickrsa.co.nz

Closing date 4th August 2023

PAYROLL & ACCOUNTS OFFICER

We are on the lookout for an experienced, organised and enthusiastic staff member for the position of Payroll & Accounts Officer to join our team. This position requires experience in:

• Payroll – EdPay

• Xero Accounting

• Student Management System

• Microsoft Office

• Payment of monthly creditors, weekly payments and reimbursements

• (Familiarity with financial management for NZ Secondary Schools an advantage).

The successful applicant will have:

Understanding of relevant tax legislation (GST)

The ability to work both independently and as a team

Attention to detail

Strong communication and interpersonal skills –

verbal and written

Ability to prioritise and meet critical deadlines

Flexibility to assist in other areas of the Administration Team

Remuneration will be in accordance with the Support Staff in Schools Collective Agreement.

This is a 35 hrs/wk term time only position and will commence on 10 August 2023. Additional hours may be required during school holidays.

Please submit CV and Cover Letter to:

Lzimer@ormiston.school.nz

Applications close Monday 31 July 2023 at 3pm MP285869

The unbeaten PURC U21s headline the day for the east Auckland club as their gritty win over Manukau at the weekend has booked them a ticket to the final.

They will face a strong Grammar TEC side with the hope of finally lifting the Arthur Bayliss Cup after falling short in last year’s final.

Meanwhile the PURC premier reserve men will have a final of their own as they compete for the Peter Fatialofa Trophy (5th place play-off) this weekend.

The premier reserves will play Puketapapa, who they beat 29-22 earlier in the season.

It wasn’t exactly a positive end to the season for the PURC premier men, who were upset by Papatoetoe in their Jubilee Trophy semi-final.

Oliver Hughson [with ball] finds a gap in the Pakuranga

U21s match against Manukau on Saturday.

PREMIER MEN RESULTS: Gallagher Shield semi-finals:

SF1: Grammar TEC 17 –Manukau 38

SF2: Ponsonby 17 – University 24

Jubilee Trophy Semi-Finals:

SF1: PURC 15 – Papatoetoe 26

SF2: College Rifles 18 – Suburbs 20

Portola Trophy Semi-Finals:

SF1: Eden 22 – Waitemata 22

SF2:

photo Wayne Martin

HORNETS WIN THREE IN PENULTIMATE ROUND ROBIN MATCHES

By BEN PLUMMER

The Howick Hornets

Rugby League Football Club have peaked at the right time, winning their three premier matches in the penultimate round of the Auckland Rugby League season.

The Fox premier reserves got the club off to a hot start at the weekend as they thumped the Bay Roskill Vikings 82-6.

The Fox premiers were no different as they put away Bay Roskill 40-18 for their fifth win in a row.

Saturday’s win for the Fox premiers was made even sweeter with the celebration of Hornets halfback Liam Prendergast’s 50th premier match.

The Hornets’ premier women (‘Nets) closed out the week on Sunday as they hosted bottom-ofthe-table Taniwharau at Paparoa Park.

While it was a close match up until half time, the ‘Nets showed their class, running in a further five tries in the second half to record win number seven for the season.

Special mention to powerhouse Ma’atuleio FotuMoala who crossed over for a hattrick to complement Taylor Curtis and Lisa Edwards Rua’s brace of tries.

The women have an

exciting week ahead as they will play at the New Zealand Warriors’ home ground, Mt Smart Stadium, on Wednesday night in front of Sky Sport cameras.

HOWICK HORNETS RUGBY

LEAGUE RESULTS

Fox Memorial Premiership Howick Hornets vs Bay Roskill

Vikings

HT: Howick 30 – Bay Roskill 6

FT: Howick 40 – Bay Roskill 18

OTHER FIXTURES

Marist Saints 18 – Point Chevalier

Pirates 38 Glenora Bears 4 – Otahuhu

Leopards 68

Te Atatu Roosters 16 – Mount

Albert Lions 24

Manukau Magpies 4 – Papakura

Sea Eagles 26 Mangere East Hawks 0 –Richmond Rovers 72

Fox Memorial Premier Reserve

Grade Howick Hornets vs Bay Roskill Vikings FT: Howick 82 – Bay Roskill 6

Women’s Premiership Howick Hornets vs Taniwharau

HT: Howick 16 – Tainwharau 16

FT: Howick 38 – Taniwharau 26

Tries: Ma’atuleio Fotu-Moala (3), Taylor Curtis (2), Lisa Edwards Rua (2), Cilia-Marie Po’e-Tofaeono.

Conversion(s): Platinum Marsters (3).

OTHER FIXTURES

Otahuhu Leopards 18 – City 30

Manurewa Marlins 12 – Mount Albert Lions 46 Otara – BYE

HOWICK HORNETS UPCOMING

FIXTURES

Round 13 Women’s Premiership –Howick Hornets Premier Women v Mount Albert Lions Premier Women at Mount Smart Stadium –Wednesday, July 19, 6pm.

Round 11 Fox Memorial Premier Reserve Grade – Howick Hornets Premier Reserve Men v Marist Saints Premier Reserve Men at Murray Halberg Park – Saturday, July 22, 12.45pm.

Round 11 Fox Memorial Premiership – Howick Hornets Premier Men v Marist Saints Premier Men at Murray Halberg Park – Saturday, July 22, 2.30pm

Times

The Fox Premier Howick Hornets are sitting pretty in third place after recording their fifth consecutive win over the weekend.

Photo Graham Alderton Photography

Ex-BBAFC players to start for Football Ferns in World Cup

By BEN PLUMMER

Two former Bucklands Beach Association Football Club (BBAFC) players are set to suit up in the black jersey for the Football Ferns during their FIFA Women’s World Cup campaign.

Milly Clegg and Jacqui Hand will both make their FIFA Women’s World Cup debuts this month as New Zealand co-host the tournament with Australia.

For Clegg, representing New Zealand is in her DNA. Her mother Kylie Clegg was a Women’s Black Sticks player and represented New Zealand at the 1992 and 2000 Summer Olympics.

To add to her athletic genes, Clegg’s uncle Mark Foy also played football for New Zealand, pulling on the All Whites jersey on three occasions.

In 2020, the Times reported Clegg scored 14 goals in just six games for BBAFC during a Labour Weekend National U19 football tournament in Napier.

She was included in the women’s team of the tournament as

well as named in the New Zealand U17 national training team.

Now three years later at the age of 17, Clegg is the youngest player in the Football Ferns’ FIFA Women’s World Cup Squad.

It was recently announced she will not be returning for a second season with the Wellington Phoenix after rejecting a new offer to instead sign with fellow A-League women’s side, the

Western Sydney Wanderers for the 2023-24 season.

As for Hand, she is becoming a regular face in the black jersey after making her international debut for the NZ U20 team at the 2018 FIFA U20 Women’s World Cup and senior debut in 2021 against

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The 24-year-old has now notched up a handful of games for the Football Ferns as well as a couple of goals to boot.

In their pre-World Cup friendly match against Vietnam on July 10, Hand helped the Football Ferns over the line, scoring a goal in the 44th minute.

The Football Ferns’ World Cup campaign will get underway on Thursday, July 20, when they face Norway at Auckland’s Eden Park in the tournament’s opening match.

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Milly Clegg, left, 17, is the youngest player in the Football Ferns’ 2023 FIFA Women’s World Cup Squad; Jacqui Hand, above, scored one of the two Football Ferns goals in their 2-0 pre-World Cup friendly match against Vietnam on July 10. Photo supplied

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