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ur Lady Star of the Sea School community celebrated the longawaited opening of the covered outdoor learning area (COLA) and turf on Friday July 29. The COLA was blessed by Father John Fitzmaurice (pictured).

Representatives from the Catholic Diocese of Auckland, along with past and present members of the school Board, PTA and gala fundraising committee joined in the celebrations.

Principal Louise Campbell said the school has been looking forward to the transformed space for shade and shelter and the extension of learning facilities.

The next phase in the school’s property development plan is the upgrade of the playground area inclusive of the mud kitchen, loose parts inspirational play area and outdoor learning space.

KILLER SHOWED NO MERCY

By CHRIS HARROWELL

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he man who brutally murdered an east Auckland businesswoman in her home in late 2020 will serve more than 18 years in prison for the crime.

Fang Sun appeared before

Justice Neil Campbell at the Auckland High Court on Tuesday for sentencing after previously being found guilty of the murder of Elizabeth (Ying) Zhong following a six-week jury trial.

During the trial the court heard Sun and Zhong had been business

partners but their professional relationship became acrimonious when their shared commercial interests fell into debt.

Sun took a civil litigation against Zhong and hired a private investigator to follow her.

Zhong’s friends reported her

missing to police on the morning of November 28, 2020.

Her body was found later that day inside her Land Rover vehicle parked a short distance from her Suzetta Place home.

She’d been stabbed more than 20 times and had been placed

inside the boot of her own vehicle.

The Crown’s case, presented in court by prosecutors Gareth Kayes and Sam Becroft, was that Sun was motivated to kill by the millions of dollars his and Zhong’s businesses had lost. ➤ Turn to page 5

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By CHRIS HARROWELL and LAURA KVIGSTAD, Auckland Council reporter, Funded by New Zealand on Air

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n attempt to prevent Auckland Council from potentially being able to sell a local public reserve has failed.

Howick ward councillor Sharon Stewart put forward a notice of motion at the council’s finance and performance committee meeting on July 26 to repeal the revocation of reserve status of the park at 9R Fortyfoot Lane in Sunnyhills.

The reserve is among the properties the council wants to sell under its emergency budget in an effort to raise $244 million through “asset recycling”.

Before it can be sold a statutory process, which is being managed

by Eke Panuku Auckland and entails revoking the park’s reserve status, must be followed.

Stewart’s motion was supported by the Howick Local Board and several Sunnyhills residents who attended the committee meeting and presented to its members.

It would have stopped the council from continuing with the process of potentially selling it.

Speaking during the council committee meeting, Stewart said

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Sunnyhills residents Sue Goldwater, left, and Frank Lombard are among the people who oppose the potential sale of the public reserve at 9R Fortyfoot Lane.

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there would be a tsunami of apartments in Howick and holding onto green spaces was important.

“Once it’s gone, it’s gone. When things come right for council and it one day will, we will need to buy more green spaces.”

Albany ward councillor Wayne Walker said councillors all knew intensification was going to happen with incoming Government policies which made green spaces more important than ever.

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reserve in Fortyfoot Lane accounted for $1.74 million in the council’s budget and was a small sum for the value it provided.

“The public have made it abundantly clear they’re using the park for their enjoyment.

“Reserves are for community enjoyment and not cash reserves for council.”

Deputy mayor Bill Cashmore said the reserve’s sale allowed for reinvestment in the local community.

Without the sale of assets the council would need to implement a 10 per cent additional rates increase, he said.

“I would think every councillor has tossed and turned over the sale

of the reserve land.

“Your heart wants to go, ‘let’s give this one back’.”

Waitemata and Gulf councillor Pippa Coom said the Fortyfoot Lane reserve benefited a very small neighbourhood.

“If we start unravelling every single sale then there is going to be a domino effect.”

Mayor Phil Goff said several councillors who supported Stewart’s motion had voted against the council’s budget.

“I am sorry, you cannot vote against every revenue-raising measure and for every spending measure.

“If you do not want to sell the properties, tell me how you are going to raise that $244 million?”

Goff said if councillors made an exception for the Fortfoot Lane reserve it would invite other communities in Auckland to ask for the same consideration.

Stewart and fellow Howick ward councillor Paul Young were among the councillors who supported her motion, which was defeated by 12 votes to eight.

The final decision on whether the park’s reserve status should be revoked lies with the Minister of Conservation Poto Williams.

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BUSINESS

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s glacial progress still progress?

In February 2018, Foodstuffs North Island heralded the purchase of Highland Park Shopping Centre and its intention to bring a new shopping option to that area.

Fast forward more than four years and little, if anything, appears to have changed at the once-popular Highland Park site.

Foodstuffs, the 100 per cent New Zealand-owned and operated grocery chain, would have known the road ahead would be bumpy given that the only remaining outlet at the site is a Countdown supermarket which comes under the very large wing of Woolworths New Zealand, a subsidiary which is ultimately owned by Australia’s Woolworths Group. Foodstuffs is the larger grocery retailer.

In March 2019 Foodstuffs said it had lodged resource consent with Auckland Council for Pak’nSave Highland Park.

At the time Foodstuffs said, “We’ve submitted plans to council for a fantastic shopping precinct which will include a state-of-theart supermarket and room for other businesses and food service outlets. It’s important to us we provide a superior place to shop, be entertained and to work. That’s what we’re going to deliver.”

The site of the old mall become a boarded-off development zone.

Demolition has begun at Highland Park.

So what’s happening now?

Well Pak’nSave is still going ahead but there is still no date for start or completion.

Emma Wooster, head of public relations at Foodstuffs NZ, told the Times, “We’re really looking forward to building a brand new Pak’nSave at Highland Park and bringing New Zealand’s lowest food prices to the locality.

“When the brand new store is built and open, the store will be owned and operated by a local and the offer will be tailored to meet the needs of the community.

“We’ve applied for resource con-

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Howick as it was early Maori settlement, Howick’s rich history embraces Christian outreach. a strong a Fencible outpost, and

Panmure and Onehunga. in the Telephone lines were laid area in 1909.

200 peoO-ICK as it was pronounced By 1915, approximately is Howick Post Office and 60 regby the early settlers, ple lived in Howick with – 1908. borough Crawford’s &Bus named after the NorthumDistricts Historical Society istered ratepayers on the Photo courtesy Howick who was telephone berland seat of Earl Grey books. Eleven houses had the colonies the Secretary of State of connections. the instigaCatholic in the 1840s. He was also The village boasted the Church, tor of the Fencible scheme.

Church, All Saints Anglican the Marine His property in Northumberland Hardy’s Haberdashery, son, Viswas inherited by his eldest Hotel and the Post Office. of the family count Howick and is still In 1922 it had a population gazetted as seat.

502 and the village was of the populaThe tangata-whenua (people a town district. By 1927 Tai people in 1931 it this land) were the Ngai tion had crept up to 545, had lived it was 850. of Tainui descent. They reached 700 and in 1943 years with came to here for more than 1,000 In 1925, electric power Ohuia Rangi concrete pa (fortified villages) at Howick and in 1931 a new Waiarohia Panmure.

(Pigeon Mountain), Te road was completed from it (Musick Point) and Tuwakamana When this road was constructed accord(Cockle Bay). broke every rule in the book grasses native and in technology hillsides covered Maori called Howick Owairoa ing to modern roading in the Waitemata Harbour and little else. than 40 years was still Otahuhu Fencible arrived the district was called Paparoa.

George could start but after more and Whit- Howick and in three ships, the “Sir concrete portion This meant that farming The Howick, Pakuranga tim- sound although the the “Minerva”, and the part of the settlements. land was Seymour,” immediately but little accessible ford areas were once too narrow for modern transport Most of the remaining Thomas a lack of firewood. was “Sir Robert Sale”. them ber resulted in Fairburn claim. William The Government also own timber supply needs.

A government brig brought and family, sold to settlers.

1960s that Fairburn, with his wife where Until the area’s and returned most of the It wasn’t until the mid Maori supplied fireMissionary paid Maori from Auckland to Howick extending through established a Church to William Fairburn. on Novem- was established, and peat Auckland spread, at Maraetai Wairoa Valley the largest of the they landed on the beach join the vilwood from Waiheke Island Society Mission Station the Pakuranga swamp to Howick was also provided some ber 15, 1847. city. in 1837. villages together with Church and cow pats for heat- lage with the they buy four Fencible The now famous All Saints Auckland households with raw energy The local Maori insisted Howick is now a ward of Onehunga, and Panmure. was built in readiness for the Tamaki Otahuhu, ing and cooking. encompasses neighbourin 1846 to form in Howick first and the 40,000 acres between it planned City held were and They Howick attack Auckland the first Fencibles 21, 6 days after Because of its isolation such as Bucklands Beach, and Wairoa Rivers to prevent a defence chain across the remained a ing areas tribes. service on November grew very slowly and by the Thames and Waikato Pakuranga and Botany. arrived.

Treaty of isthmus. longer than Otahuhu, of soldier the soldiers In 1840, following the met with village much The Howick contingent took The first settlers were Waitangi, the Government from the Imperial Army use of the veterans 36,000 acres for the

Live weekends are an is one of in the area. activities.

ALL SAINTS CHURCH early integral part of village New Zealand’s outstanding the Rev F was the buildings. Designed by at HOWICK BEACH Thatcher, it was pre-fabricatedand landing for the first soldierafter their arrival a St John’s College in Auckland sea. Com- settlers. Soon brought to Howick by was erected by the 58th it was the short wharf pleted in November 1847, use at high tide only. A in How- Regiment for built in 1896, when first building to be erected oldest longer wharf was to ick, and is now the second sea transport was still preferable demolished church in New Zealand. the rough roads. It was HISTORICAL in 1936.

HOWICK settlement OF MEMORIES VILLAGE is a Fencible Park. THE GARDEN located within Lloyd Elsmore colo- in Uxbridge Road was bequeathed There are more than 30 original by the late Miss E M 1840-1880 to the council nial buildings from the is now used as a memoand Nixon, a schools, period on site, including district’s Tainui Maori store. The rial to the European settlers. church, forge and general heritage and to the early gardens are an extensive a museum and whare trees com- It encompases project with many of the homes Kura. ing from the sites of historical

All Saints Church, Howick.

in SHAMROCK COTTAGE vilfrom the Selwyn Road, just down inn, called lage, was Howick’s first in 1848, “The Royal Hotel”. Built oldest it is thought to be the second Originally building in the village. store) built as a “wet canteen” (liquor The Royal for the Fencible soldiers, hospitality Hotel was noted for its was purand fine wines. The cottage William chased in 1894 by Captain it Shamrock C Daldy, who named the Cottage after this first command, This buildschooner “Shamrock”. ing is now a cafe.

BuckMUSICK POINT, beyond promontory lands Beach on the was at the end of Tamaki Estuary, until 1821, a Maori stronghold from the when the Ngapuhi tribe the disNorth descended upon local poptrict and decimated the situulation. The radio station after named ated on the point is Edwin C pioneer aviator, Captain spectacMusick. The point provides Harbour. ular views of the Waitemata

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Auckland Otahuhu, Panmure and a great deal and other attacked – did the and Howick bor- helped research city if Maoris assem- torical society documents used in the use flags, heliograph or McGill.

In the early 1980s, while rate list, a shop- citizens in ough engineer Mr Ian famil- included an 1865 bling a model of Howick flares?

The model boasts some an 1857 map, and an amazed a blockUnion Street ping list, 1860s, Hugh King was Did Stockade Hill have housed a iar street names: map of the Howick and a receipt to discover the district house in 1863? There is Road), Pakuranga 1848 sod cot- (now Union a blockhouse.

Cockle Pakuranga area. large number of pubs and from for the timber for Road, Sandspit Road and tell the One thing Mr King learnt include the tages.

How did the Fencibles the model was that there still be Bay Road. Buildings watches. Did Today the model can Bus Depot, Thistle building and time if they had no cottage at Crawfords Office, were many contradictions seen in the De Quincey the church bell ring regularly? and Shamrock Hotel, Post of Mr Howick Historical Village.

These were just some Hotel, and the site questions. curious to know how months Howick Arms He was questions.

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will pave the way for greater supermarket competition.

Legislation was introduced in June banning major supermarkets from blocking their competitors’ access to land to set up new stores. Minister of Commerce and Consumer Affairs David Clark said on June 28 the Commerce (Grocery Sector Covenants) Amendment Bill amends the Commerce Act 1986, banning restrictive covenants on land, and exclusive covenants on leases. It also makes existing covenants unenforceable.

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sent and once council has given us the go-ahead, we will get on with building of the brand new store. In the meantime, we have some demolition planned for the site. When the store opens at Highland Park, it will create up to 300 new roles and provide meaningful careers.”

Foodstuffs could not confirm any specific timelines “at this stage”.

It will not have escaped either of these two major retailers that the regulatory landscape in New Zealand is changing.

The Government announced a few weeks ago new laws which

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“severely restricts” their ability to shop around for a better range of products and a better price, he said.

“We have officially put an end to the anti-competitive land wars which have been silently hampering competition in the grocery sector for years,” said Clark.

“This is great news for the would-be competitors of the established supermarkets – especially those who’ve found it difficult in the past to find suitable sites to set up new stores.”

And Clark also announced a new supermarket watchdog to be in the Commerce Commission aimed at helping to keep pressure on the grocery sector, by providing annual state-of-competition reviews.

Ultimately, it is supposed to give Kiwis a fairer deal. A new Grocery Commissioner will be appointed “to hold industry to account” and a draft Code of conduct released for consultation which aims to ensure suppliers get a fair deal.

A Countdown spokesperson told the Times, “The covenant relating to Highland Park has been removed from the title and we’re currently in discussions with our landlord around the future of the site. We support the government’s proposed changes around restrictive covenants and we support the clarity that a law change will bring. Nothing more to add at this point.”

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Official quizzed in donations trial

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man who held a key role with the Labour Party has testified in court about an art auction the party held prior to the 2017 general election in an effort to raise money.

Seven defendants are on trial before Justice Ian Gault at the Auckland High Court in relation to donations made to the National and Labour parties. They’ve all pleaded not guilty and are fighting the Serious Fraud Office (SFO) charges in a judge-alone trial which began on July 25.

The SFO alleges the relevant political donations were split into smaller amounts so the donor or donors did not need to be disclosed to the Electoral Commission. Among those charged are former Botany MP Jami-Lee Ross, businessman Yikun Zhang, and twin brothers Shijia (Colin) Zheng, and Hengjia (Joe) Zheng.

Ross, Zhang and Shijia Zheng each face two charges of obtaining by deception. Hengjia Zheng faces one charge of obtaining by deception and one charge of providing false or misleading information.

Zhang and the Zheng brothers also face charges, along with two men and a woman whose names are suppressed, in relation to a donation made to the Labour Party in 2017.

The Crown alleges the money the Labour Party raised from the art auction came from Yikun Zhang and not the five people whose names were provided to it as the buyers of

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The first person called to give evidence in court on Monday morning was Andre Anderson, who served as the Labour Party’s general secretary from late 2018 to early 2020.

Crown prosecutor Katie Hogan questioned him about the action the party took after news media reported in early 2020 that four people had been charged over donations made to National.

Anderson said the party reviewed its records to see if any of those people had also donated to Labour.

He said in reviewing his party email account he found emails exchanged by people involved with the Labour Party about donations the party received from the 2017 art auction.

Anderson told the court he texted one of the defendants, who has name suppression, asking if he knew about any donations Labour received from the people charged over donations made to National.

He said the defendant replied the party had not received any donations from them after the 2017

“GE”, which Anderson thought referred to that year’s general election.

He said the defendant told him the party received donations from the donors before then, “and we are careful to ensure our records are accurate”.

Defence lawyer Paul Dacre QC, representing Shijia Zheng, questioned Anderson about a media statement Labour issued about the donations it had received from people charged over donations made to National.

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Musick Point – Te Naupata Reserve has had a major spruce up thanks to a group of community volunteers and a cash injection from the Howick Local Board.

The land, part of Ngai Tai ki Tamaki treaty settlement, has been neglected for many years and had many phoenix palms, wattle, tobacco plant trees and many other registered pest plants growing there.

Phoenix palms have d a n g e ro u s / p o i s o n o u s spikes and are known habitats for rats. Some phoenix palms have been retained for nostalgic reasons.

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Community volunteers dug deep to give Musick Point – Te Naupata Reserve a much-needed tidy-up.

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The Howick Local Board funded the clearing of the pest species and also paid for the planting of the whole area in native trees and flaxes which was completed last Sunday.

The combinations of these plants will provide

habitat and food for native birds.

Over the next months Ngai Tai and Pest Free Howick will maintain a pest plant control programme to help ensure these young plants will reach maturity.

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POLICE

Missing teens travelled to east

By ZOE GARDEN

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hree teenagers who were reported missing stayed at the house of a local school student before catching a bus back to Tauranga.

Rhianna Whiteman, also known as Toby, Jade Jenkins-Rushton also known as Axl/Axel and Arial Salmon, 13, went missing before school last Monday.

Stacy Whiteman, father of one

of the teenagers, told the Times police were contacted about their disappearance on Monday morning and missing persons reports were filed.

The trio was thought to be heading to school but were seen asking about transport to Auckland at a bus stop.

After taking a bus to Auckland, they apparently spent Monday night at the house of a Macleans College student, Whiteman says.

The families of the missing teenagers reached out on social media and to media in an attempt to locate them. It was theorised they were headed to east Auckland as they had friends there, Whiteman told the Herald.

A local on social media reported seeing them on Tuesday morning heading past the turf towards Macleans College with their friend.

This information was passed on to the police.

Macleans College principal Steven Hargreaves says the three “were briefly outside school by our bus bay on Tuesday morning”.

“They were spoken to by a teacher who enquired about their situation. Few details were forthcoming but the girls were no problem.

“The girls then got into a taxi they had ordered and left around the time school started.”

The trio bussed back to Tauranga

on Tuesday and spent the night at one of the other children’s houses, Whiteman says. They were safely found on Wednesday afternoon.

Police confirmed the teenagers were located “safe and well”.

“They had been planning it on social media,” Whiteman says.

Mum Sharon Whiteman told media that they were “so relieved to have them home”.

The parents thanked the public for their help.

CRIME

Killer sentenced to term of life imprisonment ➤ From page 1 During Sun’s sentencing on Tuesday, his defence lawyer Sam Wimsett told the judge Sun maintained his innocence.

Zhong’s daughter, whose name is suppressed, then read her victim impact statement to the court.

She said her family’s lives had been turned upside down by her mother’s murder and the subsequent trial. She believed her mother had treated Sun with the “utmost kindness and respect”.

“I did not get to see mum until about a week after the pathologist had completed their work. When I saw her I felt so shocked. I just felt numb. I did not expect to have to plan a funeral for my mum, who

Police examined Elizabeth Zhong’s Sunnyhills home after she was reported missing in late November 2020.

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was only 55 years old.”

She said following the killing she and her husband feared for the safety of everyone around them, including their two children, who were aged one and four years old at the time. “My son is so young that

he doesn’t remember my mum at all,” she said.

She said her daughter would say Zhong was her best friend. “No matter how hard I try I cannot fill this void. When they are older how do we explain to them why my

mum has died and how she was murdered? My life has been left with this big empty hole and no one will be able to fill it.”

Zhong’s daughter asked the judge to consider the damage Sun had caused when handing down the sentence. “The killer showed no mercy,” she said. “I will never find the will to forgive and forget him for the damage he has done.”

The judge thanked her and said her mother would be very proud of her. Justice Campbell then said that at about 3.30am on November 28, 2020, Sun had walked to Zhong’s home, which was a short distance from his own.

“You entered her house most likely through an unsecured door.

You went upstairs to her thirdfloor bedroom and you attacked Ms Zhong. You stabbed her 28 times. Your attack was so brutal that you almost decapitated Ms Zhong.”

The judge said Zhong was “kind and generous and deeply loved by her friends”. He said Sun’s offending involved calculated planning.

It involved him going to her house in the early hours of the morning and Sun had entered Zhong’s home unlawfully.

“It was anything but impulsive.

Your murder was brutal and callous to a very high degree.”

The judge sentenced Sun to life imprisonment with a minimum term of 18 years and six months.

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“When you’ve got someone who is independent from the family there is more transparency, which ensures checks and balances.

“This in turn provides security to our clients that everything is being managed

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The organisation’s national executive has suggested to local institutes they look at different ways to attract or help more ladies to feel connected and hopefully not so alone.

With that in mind,

the Maraetai Women’s Institute plans to start the ‘Circle Project’.

Starting on Tuesday August 16, the ‘Concentric Circle of Camaraderie’ will commence monthly meetings at St Hilda’s Church Hall in Wakelin Street, Beachlands.

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n this 175th anniversary year, Howick’s transport history is being celebrated every second Saturday of the month with the popup classic car display at the historic Fencible Walk Park in the middle of Howick Village.

For August 13, the MG Car Club is organising a special display of classic sports cars which have been familiar to east Auckland residents since the 1940s and are still popular today.

One of the organisers, Darryl Bretherton, comments, “A highlight will be having a 1948 MG TC on display. With significant modifications, the car has participated in beach races at Muriwai and racing events at Whangarei, Waipu, Ardmore, Levin and Ohakea.

“It has mixed with racing royalty, including Bruce McLaren at a local hill climb when Bruce was racing his Cooper Climax. These days the car wears its original body and wooden floorboards rather than the racing cycle guards and lightened aluminium body it once had.”

A good number of MGs will be displayed on Saturday morning (August 13). Any east Auckland residents wanting to display their MGs should contact Darryl 021 857 715 or Steve 021 656 024.

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Is this our New Zealand?

Rapid MP for Botany

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National is backing frontline police officers.

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Youth Parliament is held every three years and is a unique opportunity for young New Zealanders to learn first-hand about New Zealand’s democracy, influence government decision-making and have their voices heard.

Grace Pickering was one of the 120 Youth MPs who attended the event.

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Macleans College shines at Showquest Epsom Girls’ Grammar School took out the top spot in the open section National Final for Showquest, the country’s largest performing arts competition for schools.

The winning school based their performance piece on the story of Frida Kahlo.

The team said they had felt inspired to look beyond her painting into her life of duality and to celebrate her incredible life and the artistic legacy she left.

Showquest producer Kelsey Moller says Showquest entrants this year have shown great enthusiasm in creating, performing and sharing their stories on stage.

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members and associates made up almost 10 per cent of ram-raids.

Labour’s soft-on-crime solution to these brazen robberies is to simply subsidise bollards to mitigate damages from cars smashing into retailers. But that is not enough. National knows that offenders must be identified, caught and held accountable for their actions.

Our police are working incredibly hard to keep our communities safe.

Unfortunately, they are not supported by this Labour Government which, by the Prime Minister’s own admission, has taken its focus off the police portfolio.

Police response times have blown out, stories of ram-raids are all over the news, gang membership is through the roof and assaults on police went up 29 per cent in four years under Labour’s watch.

Until this Labour Government cracks down on crime, youth offenders, gang members and organised crime groups will continue to behave and act with impunity.

Unlike Labour, National is backing our frontline police officers and would give them four new tools to make their jobs easier.

National would: • Ban gang patches, which have been the recent fuel for the worst gun violence seen in New Zealand.

• Give police non-association powers to prevent gang members communicating and planning criminal activity.

• Allow police to issue dispersal notices where gang members come together in public to intimidate, threaten and sometimes assault members of the public.

• Give police the warrantless search powers they need to take the guns out of the hands of violent armed gang members.

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eople stealing cars and driving them into retail premises have been causing thousands of dollars of damage for businesses and communities for months – there has even been a large increase in Botany.

I’ve had locals contact my office to tell me they are concerned for their safety and shop owners are saying that the increased crime is scaring people away from the Botany town centre.

Hearing these stories or reading the headlines is not the New Zealand we know.

Unfortunately, recentlyreleased figures revealed that the number of ramraids on retailers have soared under Labour. There has been a more than 500 per cent increase in the number of ram-raids in the first six months of 2022 compared to the same period in 2018.

While communities across New Zealand felt these dangerous acts have been rising, Labour continued to deny the problem was worsening under their watch.

A police report based on a sample of ram-raids show that only 37 per cent of offenders result in enforcement action and that re-offenders are responsible for a quarter of overall ram-raids.

The same report also showed that patched gang

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Feedback GANGS BECOMING MORE DESTRUCTIVE

Re: ‘Some numbers re the gangs’ (Brigitte Horne, Times, June 29).

Clearly Brigitte spends a fair bit of time looking for reasons to discredit the National Party.

It was during their times in Parliament that the gangs were established, she maintains. Their activities certainly became a lot more destructive in the last five years.

As for rehabilitation of some northern European prisoners, that was only possible for those who’d had a reasonable upbringing when they were young.

It would be almost impossible for those who grew up who’d never known decency in the first place.

Maryke Ponse, Cockle Bay

NZPIF SUPPORTS MANY CHANGES FOR A BETTER RENTAL ENVIRONMENT

The NZ Property Investors Federation (NZPIF) is happy to support changes that make for a better rental environment.

We supported compulsory insulation and fire alarms and most of the Healthy Homes changes and many Residential Tenancy Act changes.

The NZPIF has put out our own plan to fix the renting crisis for tenants, including policies for cheaper rental prices, more security and being able to treat their rental as a home.

However, Tenants Action Wellington has today (July 28) made outrageous demands for changes to rental laws. Some of the changes include limiting rental prices to 25 per cent of the lowest benefit level, minimum five year tenancies but with tenants able to end the tenancy at will and rental providers banned from reference checking prospective tenants.

Tenant groups like Tenants Action Wellington do not understand that housing in New Zealand is expensive to provide and tax increases for rental property have

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not helped. Over 80 per cent of rental property is provided by individual New Zealanders. Tenant groups may believe these people are immensely rich but they are wrong.

People do not have to provide rental properties and there is a very vocal view which believes private landlords shouldn’t. However, if private landlords don’t provide the rental properties that tenants need, then this role falls onto the state.

A recent report shows that it costs the Government far more to house people than private landlords. Kainga Ora’s debt is escalating dramatically and each additional state house costs tens of thousands of taxpayer dollars.

Kainga Ora’s Income Related Rent government subsidy is much more generous than the Accommodation Allowance available to tenants renting from private landlords.

If the state needs to provide more rental accommodation because private providers are no longer able to, then we will have less money for spending on health, education and many other things on which taxpayers would prefer their tax dollars being spent.

Andrew King, President, NZPIF

THREE WATERS UNDERMINES DEMOCRACY

There’s much to suggest that our politicians’ justifications for their ‘Three Waters’ proposal are merely cynical manipulations of data and emotion, disguising a strategy to create the pretext for forcing upon our nation a solution to a problem which doesn’t exist.

Further evidence perhaps of our Representatives’ words creating a growing uncertainty around what the true motivation, objective, outcome and consequences of their proposals might actually be.

The ideological fervour underlying their drive to remove this critical infrastructure from direct

What’s on HOWICK ORCHID SOCIETY

Next meeting Sunday, August 7, 1.30pm at Fencible Lounge by Howick Library, 25 Uxbridge Road.

Guest speaker Philip Zhou will talk about his experiencing breeding Chinese cymbidiums in New Zealand. Visitors and new members welcome.

GARAGE SALE

Our monthly barn sale will be held at Trinity Methodist Church, 474 Pakuranga Rd, at 8 am on Saturday August 6. On special this month are shoes – $2 a pair, every second pair half price! Lots of other good quality stock available, very cheap.

DANCE YOURSELF HAPPY TUESDAYS!

Uninstructed dance hour with electronica & hits from 80s, 90s, 00s & beyond. Free entry. Tuesday 7pm8pm in The Lounge, 186 Wellington St, Howick. Organiser facebook. com/DanceYourselfHappy.

THE ART OF HAIKU

Monday August 15-Sunday August 28. Participate in a two-week Howick Local Board Libraries community poetry and art project for adults/teens. Create and illustrate a Haiku in your preferred language on a 20cm-by-20cm surface about what inspires you. Work on your project at home or use one of the art stations at a local library. To get started contact any Howick Local Board Library in Botany, Howick, Highland Park and Pakuranga.

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Migrant Connect Citizens Advice Bureau Pakuranga is hosting a free information session on ‘ Healthy eating on a Budget’. It will be an engaging and interactive session facilitated by experienced health consultants and nutritionists on Saturday August 6 from 10.30am to 12 noon at Pakuranga Library.

Registration is necessary. Email: settlement.pakuranga@cab.org.nz or text 021 459 520.

territorial ownership suggests rather a ploy to tacitly repurpose our constitutional Westminster parliamentary democracy, in effect, detouring the State by handing over the total inherent financial and political power of this resource, to a prejudicial adjunct.

This belligerent disingenuous ideological project offends our hard-won system of government, long-matured to protect against the abuses of excessive centralised power and the stagnating impoverishment of divisive nepotism.

For what reason, if truly seeking to advance the beneficial progress of all, is this government unwilling to offer advice, expertise and resource, if actually needed, to the current owners, in ways which will sustain, rather than endanger, our cherished lawful traditions and enjoyment of ownership; the rights and protections, expressed thereby, remaining intact?

Rees Sutcliffe, East Tamaki Heights

SENSATIONALIST REPORTING

I am sick and tired of the sensationalist reporting on Newshub. Every time there is the slightest mention of ram-raids, they roll out the footage of the ram-raiders at Ormiston Town Centre. It has been commented that these acts are mainly for attention on social media.

Newshub gives them nationwide attention over and over again, far more than they would ever receive on social media.

Dave Ronson, Pakuranga Heights

EXCELLENT ART SHOW

I want to congratulate and thank the management of The Art Lounge in Picton Street [in Howick] for their generosity and thoughtfulness towards eight students from local schools whom they invited to participate in an art workshop Monday to Wednesday, July 18-20. I watched the artists in action and they were very focused,

Lady Joggers of the Pakuranga Athletic Club taken in 1984.

ARE YOU IN THIS PHOTO? I am the chairman of a committee organising the 40th reunion of the Joggers and Walkers Section of Pakuranga Athletic Club. Joggers and Walkers is the mid-week section of the club. We meet every Tuesday and Thursday mornings at the Athletic Clubrooms in Lloyd Elsmore Park. (Currently closed due to Covid).

The photo was taken in March 1984. For our 40th reunion we are trying to trace as many of our original members as possible.

Many of the people in this photo still live locally and we would like to find them in time for the reunion.

While the Athletic Club is 55 years old, our section was ignoring the public moving around and looking over their shoulders.

I visited later in the week to view the eight pieces on display. I was most impressed by their talent. It is wonderful when local organisations and businesses find a way to support locals in their endeavours.

I hope The Art Lounge’s generosity and foresight encourages others to support and promote local talent and endeavours.

Vicky Williamson, Bucklands Beach

formed 40 years ago to provide morning jogging for housewives who had not get gone back into the workforce. Jogging was then in its heyday.

Today we mainly cater for walkers. We also now have a large male membership.

Several of the original members are still with us. Some, like me, have never left. Many returned to the workforce and now are returning to us years later. There are lots of stories and memories.

Our reunion is in September.

Can your readers help us? Email Linda at tlmitch@xtra.co.nz

Linda Mitchell, Chairman 40th Reunion Committee Pakuranga Athletic Club

GOD AND SCIENCE

All science is predicated upon the reliability and rigidity of God’s laws.

The tennis ball I hit into the air always comes down by gravity. The air we breathe contains a constant 21 per cent oxygen which enables all big lung creatures like us to breathe this air and survive.

God is in charge, always has been, always will be. Aren’t you grateful He is?

Ian George, Howick

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DIY HOMEMADE HUMMUS

Learn how to make your own hummus, a delicious dip made from chickpeas and commonly eaten in the Middle East and the Mediterranean. Tuesday August 9, 11am, Botany Library, cost $2 for materials required. For more information email botany.library@ aucklandcouncil.govt.nz.

U3A HOSTS MOON

The ways we see the past are affected by nostalgia more than we realise and our hopes for the future are often shaped by utopian thoughts. Exploring how these concepts work can help us understand how our opinions are formed, and how we see the world. On Monday August 8, at 9.30am at the Howick Bowling Club, Professor Paul Moon ONZM, Professor of History at Auckland University of Technology, will be discussing these ideas at the meeting of U3A, a world-wide organisation formed to continue

learning for people who are retired or semi-retired. Visitors and new members are very welcomed. For more details ph Jan, 027 220 3777.

GOING FOR GOLD

Sunday 14 August 14, 2pm-3.30pm, Come and listen to Bruce Kendall – Olympic Gold Medallist and former world champion in windsurfing and coach to his sister Barbara Kendall, NZ’s first Olympic Gold Medallist in 50 years. Find out how his upbringing shaped him and put him and the family on the path to success. This is a family history month event. To register, please phone 377 0209 or email highlandpark.library@aucklandcouncil. govt.nz, 16 Highland Park Drive.

FREE IMMIGRATION/ LEGAL/COUNSELLING CLINICS

Citizens Advice Bureau Pakuranga opens its free Saturday/Thursday clinics on August 6. The immigration and legal clinic sessions

need to be booked and are of 15 minutes duration as a guideline only to clients. The legal advisers offer general advice and do not cover perusing documents such as employment contracts or wills.

Please phone 576-8331 to book an appointment.

SENIORS FRIENDSHIP CLUB

Meets at Bucklands Beach Bowling Club, Devon Rd on the 1st and 3rd Friday of the month,12.45pm-3pm for entertainment, music & bingo.

Tea and biscuits. Come along and make friends $5. Call Owen 09 533 4390.

TE WAIROA THE BURIED VILLAGE

Join us at Howick Library on August 12 at 10:30am to hear a heritage talk that combines the Māori and pakeha perspectives of the historic Te Wairoa Village, the pink and white terraces and the eruption of Mount Tarawera in 1886.

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Luxon slams Labour List MP’s comments

By CHRIS HARROWELL

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he National Party is hitting back at an accusation it’s to blame for the closure of east Auckland’s only overnight medical service.

The after-hours service at East Care Accident and Medical in Botany ceased operating in late 2020 after more than two decades.

Its funding was provided by the now former Counties Manukau District Health Board from 20142018, then by East Care itself until it closed.

Since then locals needing overnight medical care have had to go to Middlemore Hospital in south Auckland, which is putting extra stain on the hospital’s emergency department.

On July 20 the Times reported Botany-based Labour List MP Naisi Chen said funding decisions by the previous National Government were to blame for East Care’s overnight service ending.

She said the loss of the only local overnight medical service was “devastating” for east Aucklanders.

“Cuts like this have occurred because the previous National Government underfunded the district health boards [DHBs],” Chen said.

“I believe Labour’s record invest-

Pakuranga MP Simeon Brown, left, and National Party leader and Botany MP Christopher Luxon campaigned to stop East Care’s overnight service from Times file photo Wayne Martin shutting down.

ment of $9.02 billion into health should have been sufficient to restore funding for a 24-hour emergency room [locally].

“I have previously made this view clear to the DHB and will continue to advocate for an overnight medical service in east Auckland under the new Health NZ structure.”

National Party leader and Botany MP Christopher Luxon is now hitting back at Chen’s comments.

“The closure of East Care is due to Labour’s lack of funding,” he told the Times.

“For Labour to try to blame National is absurd.

“They are more interested in

doing a bureaucratic health restructure than providing after-hour care for the people of east Auckland.

“As well as withdrawing services from the area, the consequence of the closure is the pressure put on Middlemore’s emergency department, where some wait times are reportedly over 24 hours and resulting in tragedy.”

Luxon says one in five Kiwis are now waiting more than six hours to be treated when they present at an emergency department.

“Why wouldn’t you use the services at East Care?

“East Auckland deserves a Government who will put the health of New Zealanders first, not one who continues to blame their mismanagement of funds on the previous Government after being in office for five years.”

A spokesperson for Te Whatu Ora – Health NZ previously said there are no current plans to reinstate overnight care funding for East Care.

“However, we are always reviewing our service options to make sure we’re doing our best to meet the needs of our Counties Manukau community.

“It’s important to note overall demand is high across the system, including primary and urgent care clinics, all of which are operating at high capacity.”

Times, Wednesday, August 3, 2022 — 11

COMMUNITY

Bridge Club raises $5000

By ZOE GARDEN The Howick Bridge Club’s (HBC) remarkable fundraising efforts were recognised in a certificate and presentation late last week.

Totara Hospice: South Auckland’s events and hospitability fundraiser Jo Davis accepted a certificate from HBC’s president Leo Sim on Friday in place of a cheque.

The club’s annual fundraising event, which featured an auction of goods donated by members and local businesses as well as a bridge tournament, attracted entries from clubs all

over Auckland, totalled $5000.

Davis told HBC members that Totara Hospice has to raise 40 per cent of its funds, equalling about $4m, annually as the remaining 60 per cent is funded by the government. “Thank you for all the support from the communities and people like the HBC,” Davis says.

HBC members were able to win prizes by answering questions with the answers being hidden in Davis’s speech about the hospice.

The club’s 30-year contribution to the Hospice is more than $100,000.

Each fortnight we share a history bite relevant to Howick, Pakuranga and districts marking the area’s settlers’ landing 175 years ago.

The Reverend Vicesimus Lush, the first resident vicar of Anglican All Saints Church in Howick found his congregation turned their backs to the altar, instead of facing the altar towards the east. Was it because they did not believe in the words of the Nicene Creed or were they confused being in the southern hemisphere?

Compiled by Howick Historian Alan La Roche

NEWS BITES GRIEF AND LOSS SUPPORT

Spaces remain available for the next Seasons for Growth adult peer support group. This group is for anyone over 18 years of age experiencing significant change or loss in their lives. The group is not a counselling service or crisis intervention.

It is recommended there has been at least four months since the experience of loss and change before attending. The Seasons groups are non-religious and facilitated by a trained companion and run for eightconsecutive weeks. The group

meets on Saturday mornings at the All Saints Community Centre, downstairs meeting rooms. This is a free service. For more information, contact area coordinator Candice Thum on 022 423 8904 or email griefandloss@allsaintshowick.org.nz.

SCHOOLS WIN GRANTS

The NZ Community Trust recently awarded grants to the value of $527,738.84 in the Auckland region. Among the recipients are Botany Downs Secondary College which received $10,000 for a wicket and net upgrade.

Farm Cove Intermediate was

awarded $10,000 for astroturf. A total of 15 gaming venues around Auckland contributed to these grants including the Barrel Inn in Howick and Rib House in Flat Bush.

UKRANIANS RAISE $5171

The ‘Eat Borsch – Help Ukraine’ event at the Clevedon Village Market (Times, July 13) that offered the local community a chance to try Ukraine’s finest foods raised $5171. Organiser, Beachlands resident and Ukraine-born resident Tetyana Sayenko says the funds will go towards Ukrainians wounded in

Kyiv military hospital. She thanks everyone for their support.

$250,000 LOTTO WIN IN BOTANY DOWNS

Four lucky Lotto players from Auckland, Palmerston North, Wellington and Christchurch will be ending the month on a high after each winning $250,000 with Lotto First Division in Saturday’s Lotto draw.

The winning tickets were sold at Whitcoulls Botany Downs, Vogel Street Pharmacy in Palmerston North and on MyLotto to players from Wellington and Christchurch.

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Powerball was not struck this evening and has rolled over to Wednesday night, where the jackpot will be $6 million. Meanwhile Strike has rolled over and will be $300,000 on Wednesday night.

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Key Attributes for this role: • A flexible team member • Good time keeping and reliability • Common sense • Friendly with a sense of humour • Ability to work unattended • Loyal and trustworthy • Police and Oranga Tamariki Vetting required.

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We are seeking a highly motivated, preferably local, reliable person to be the welcoming face of our community based organisation located in the Pakuranga. Although in general, you will work autonomously, you will report directly to our Houses Manager.

• Do you have excellent written and oral communication abilities?

• Are you at ease in a sole charge environment?

• Do you enjoy supporting and working with members of a diverse community?

• Are you able to use a computer and Microsoft applications?

We are Stand TŪ Māia – a charity that provides a nationwide intensive wraparound service which includes our Auckland village for children and their families in Half Moon Bay Auckland.

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There are a limited number of spaces available for out of zone students in term 4. Applications must be made by 4.00pm on Tuesday 30th August. Should a ballot be required, this would take place on Tuesday 6th September. Results will be emailed within 3 days of this.

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Student who live within our home zone can submit an application at any time. Enrolment forms can be found on our school website: www.macleansprimary.school.nz or from the school office.

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Parents of new entrants are invited to attend this on Tuesday 9th August at 2.00-3.00pm.

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The victorious Somerville Intermediate’s Year 7 football team. Photo supplied Whitford’s Yasmin Bhadha has won gold at the National Powerlifting Championships.

FOOTBALL

Somerville Y7 region’s champs

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Somerville Intermediate’s Year 7 football boys are the Auckland champions.

They represented the South Eastern Zone at the Auckland Championships on July 6 at Ngahue Reserve in St Johns.

The other teams competing were Northcote, Saint Kentigern Boys, Kedgeley and Te Atatu.

After winning their first three games convincingly, the Northcote game was like a final. After a tense start, Somerville took control of the game with some slick passing

and clinical finishing, winning the final game 3-nil and coming home in first place.

They had scored 12 goals and conceded only one on the day. Their coach Dayalan Pillay was extremely proud of his boys. “Playing as a team and supporting one another was key to the team’s success.

They were a talented group of boys to work with.”

Team: Josh K,Thenu R, Ben H, Harry M, Ishaan S, Caleb AR, Ethan C, Zhibin S, Kevin L, Rafael SG, Josh C, Kade N, Daniel S and Matthew M.

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aint Kentigern College student Yasmin Bhadha has picked up gold at the National Powerlifting Championships 2022 in Palmerston North.

Bhadha, in year 13 at St Kents, took out the gold for her weight class and sub-junior category at the championships on Monday. She competed in the U69kg weight class.

She also got the award for the overall best national sub-junior at the competition. Bhadha, from

Whitford, set a new New Zealand record for deadlift at 177kg and broke her own previous record of 170kg which she had set three months ago at the North Island Championships in Auckland.

With this she now qualifies for the Commonwealth Powerlifting Championships in November in Auckland (the last edition was held in Canada).

“We are very proud of Yasmin and kudos to her power lifting coach

Denzil Hogan as well,” her father Burzin said.

Bhadha is in her final year at Saint Kentigern College and is also an avid cricketer and captains the girls cricket team. She also plays for the Howick Pakuranga Cricket Club’s women’s prems.

She is a brown belt strip 3 and is currently training for her black belt karate exams. She wishes to pursue an engineering degree at the University of Auckland next year.

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SAILING

Kiwis win RS Feva world’s open and female titles in UK World Champion is conferred on the top under 18 year old crew. Britain’s Joseph Jones and Charlie Howard were second overall and 2022 Class World Champion. Finland’s Freddie Sunderland and Stella Nygard placed third overall in the open fleet and were runners-up for the world title.

Kate Rasmussen and Madi Russell (Maraetai Sailing Club) – both 13-years-old – finished 8th in the Open fleet and won the female world championship title.

The third New Zealand crew Ashton Cooke and Oskar Masfen (Royal Akarana YC) placed 48th in the 62 boat Open Gold fleet.

New Zealand coach Wade Tresadern reported on the final day of racing sail-world.com: “The final day bought us a delay onshore while we waited for a stable breeze to fill in.

Eventually a SE 6-10kts was ready for the crews to do battle.

Simon and Arthur continued

their consistent series with a first in Race 7 and a second in the final Race 8 to come away as open world champions for 2022.

“This was Simon’s second world title technically, scoring back to back wins. Arthur has picked up his first world title at 12-years-old.

“And to go with that open world title, our Maraetai girls also became 2022 Female World Champions.

They came into the day with a 3 point deficit to a really strong Netherlands girls crew. They banked a 10th place in Race 7 to go into the final race with an 8 point advantage meaning they had to be within eight places of the NED girls at the finish of the next race to clinch the title. After a black flag general recall. The nails were getting thin with the parents. But the girls recovered with incredible pace upwind and good fleet management to finish Race 8 in 23rd place besting the Netherlands girls by 16 places to claim the title.”

Kate Rasmussen and Madi Russell, centre, top the podium at the Female RS Feva World Championship in Weymouth, England. © Phil Jackson

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araetai Sailing Club’s Kate Rasmussen and Madi Russell have won the female world title at the RS Feva World Championships in Weymouth, England.

The championships concluded with New Zealand crews winning both the open and female world championships, sail-world.com has reported.

Both championships were sailed as part of the RS Games 2022, held in the 2012 Olympic Sailing Regatta at Weymouth and Portland. The event, held as part of the 2022 RS Games, attracted a big fleet of 185 crews.

The RS Games – comprising various championships for RS Sailing manufactured classes, attracted an entry of more than 1000 crews.

Open World Champion, Simon Cooke won his second open title, sailing with new crew Arthur Rebbeck (both Royal Akarana YC).

By dint of a decision within the RS Feva class, the title of