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even people are defending charges in an Auckland High Court trial relating to alleged wrongdoing over large donations made to political parties.

Among the defendants are former Independent Botany MP Jami-Lee Ross, businessman Yikun Zhang, and twin brothers Shijia (Colin) Zheng, and Hengjia (Joe) Zheng.

Ross, Zhang and Colin Zheng each face two charges of obtaining by deception.

Joe Zheng faces one charge of obtaining by deception and one charge of providing false or misleading information.

The charges were laid by the Serious Fraud Office and all four defendants have pleaded not guilty.

Their trial got under way before Justice Ian Gault on Tuesday.

Part of the case relates to two large election donations made to the National Party.

A donation of $100,000 was made in June 2017 and one of $100,050 was made in June 2018.

The Crown alleges the two donations were split into smaller amounts so the identity of the donor or donors was not disclosed in the National Party’s annual return of party donations, as legally required.

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On trial alongside Ross and the three businessmen are two men and one woman charged over election donations made to the Labour Party in 2017.

The trio have interim name suppression.

The Crown case is being presented in court by prosecutors Paul Wicks QC and John Dixon QC. Dixon delivered the prosecution’s opening statement on Tuesday morning.

He said the case involves the manipulation of political party donations.

The defendants intended to deceive the secretaries of the National and Labour parties “and thereby the Electoral Commission and the public”.

Dixon said the Crown alleges Zhang, or Zhang and one of the Zheng brothers, was the true donor of the donations made to National in 2017 and 2018. ➤ Turn to page 3

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By ZOE GARDEN What was defined as Auckland City in 1950s was as far as the trams terminated.

Once the tracks ended, it was considered country, says 99-yearold John Lawrence (Laurie) Ernest Hamlet.

And a small town out east seemed very far away for city dwellers.

“Coming out to Howick was like going on holiday,” Laurie says.

Once Laurie and his wife travelled to Howick, they knew it was where they wanted to go. With their young children, they settled on their first property on Gibraltar Street in 1955. Laurie describes the small community, with a population he estimated to be about 12001500, as very village-oriented and tight-knit.

“Once you got established, it didn’t take long to get to know everybody.”

There was an only a concrete strip coming out here on Pakuranga Highway with no curbing or channelling, Laurie says.

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they altered the highway from Panmure, that’s when Howick started to balloon. All the properties on the side of the road coming from the bridge up onto Ridge Road were nearly all farmland. The shopping centre on Ti Rakau Drive was all swamp.

“Your living conditions, the development of the whole area, you more or less fell in with progress.

It’s expected, really.”

Laurie and his wife moved into his second property on Bleakhouse Road in 1987. He retired two years later. Now living on Union Road in his own apartment, Laurie, having celebrated his 99th birthday last month, continues to drive his Toyota. He is involved in the local classic car scene and holds a lifelong interest in avionics, including refurbishing WWII aircrafts.

In February, Laurie had the incredible opportunity to fly in the back seat of the P40 Kittyhawk, an ex-Royal Australian Air Force machine that, during its restoration, was converted to two-seat status. “It was something you only dream out,” Laurie says.

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Before arriving in his new home, Laurie was as a ground engineer in the Royal New Zealand Air Force during World War II, serving two tours in the Pacific. After discharging from the Air Force in 1946, he rejoined the automotive trade until 1967 when he became employed as an avionics engineer for Air New Zealand where he stayed for more than two decades.

“The experience I gained during the war set me up for joining Air NZ later in life,” Laurie says.

Settling into Howick, Laurie, interested in photography through his two younger brothers, was one of the founding members of the Howick Photographic Society.

Additionally, he was in Pakuranga Probus and Howick Sailing Clubs.

“One of the reasons we moved (to Howick) was because it was close to the water,” he says. “I was very keen on sailing.”

Laurie’s wife, a stay-at-home mother, was a stenographer for Howick X-Ray. It wasn’t until the 1960s that Laurie started to take note of the rapid progression of Howick. “Once

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Shags are dying in Panmure Basin

By LAURA KVIGSTAD, Auckland Council reporter, and ZOE GARDEN Funded by New Zealand on Air An Auckland councillor is calling for stronger protections for bird species in the Panmure Basin.

At the council’s environment and climate change committee meeting on July 7 a notice of motion was passed allowing councillor Josephine Bartley to advocate for a fishing hook ban in the basin to protect shags.

Bartley was initially looking for council controls to protect the species but was told by council staff the issue was out of council’s hands.

Bartley said limited food sources and fish hooks being caught in shags’ necks was leading to a decline in their numbers.

“Anything is better than the status quo,” she said.

Corina Hooper, who feeds the shags in Panmure Basin daily, spoke to the committee.

“Birds are not getting to breeding age … adult (shags) have a huge amount of pressure to find food that is already scarce,” Hooper said.

“The colony is definity in trouble.”

Councillor Alf Filipaina asked Hooper what the difference between a hook ban and a fishing ban would be.

Hooper said it was a matter of picking your battles.

“Someone with a net fishing for blue crab is not going to effect the colony,” Hooper said.

Howick ward councillor Sharon Stewart called attention to Auckland Harbour Bridge pouring light into the basin.

“Are you aware that breeding of shags is disrupted because of the blue light?” she asked Hooper.

Hooper confirmed the light had impacted the shags.

“Some of the birds are moving further down the estuary because of the light. They are being hit from all sides,” Hooper said.

“Every bird needs to get rest. If you’ve got constant light on them it is not a natural environment.”

Council chief of strategy Megan Tyler said while the council did not have the tools to protect the species, iwi implementing a rahui could be a solution.

Bartley was encouraged to advocate to both iwi and Crown agencies with the help of council staff.

Birds dying from hooks Local bird expert Shaun Lee and Tamaki Estuary Environmental Forum cochair Bruce Kendall observed three or four red-billed gulls under the Panmure Bridge that had died as a result of getting hooked and tangled at the bridge.

“There must be many more,” Kendall says.

Kendall has recently posted several pictures online of autopsies and x-rays of shags with fish hooks inside them.

“I’ve seen they are pretty determined to get bait on hooks or small fish on hooks.”

He notes the proposed fishing ban may be a good step

toward helping the shags, but this only helps at hide tide.

“The lagoon completely drains at low tide and so the shags are still at risk from middle tide through low tide for the rest of the Tamaki Estuary.”

Lee said the council has a new responsibility to protect indigenous biodiversity from the effects of fishing.

“It is sensible to ban fishing near seabirds, especially juvenile sea birds that are learning to forage.”

Lee agrees with Kendall the ban should be extended to the Tarapunga / Red-billed Gull colony.

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Defendants on trial over political party election donations ➤ From page 1 He said given the size of the donations the names of the donors would have to be declared to the Electoral Commission, but weren’t. The true donors wanted to conceal their identities from the Electoral Commission and the public, Dixon said.

He said the donation of $100,000 made to the National Party was split into amounts

under $15,000 and transferred to the bank accounts of people who had agreed to be “sham donors”.

It was then transferred to the party as if the money was the sham donors’, when it wasn’t.

Dixon said the sham donors were represented to the party as the true donors and the party’s secretary was kept in the dark.

He said Joe Zheng lied and provided false documents in an

attempt to mislead during his interviews with the SFO during its investigation into the National Party donations case.

Dixon said Ross was the National MP for Botany at the time the two donations were made in 2017 and 2018.

Ross was in frequent contact with Zhang and Colin Zheng and was one of the people who supported Zhang’s nomination for a

royal honour, Dixon said.

“The Crown alleges Ross knew Zhang was the true donor, yet he provided the National Party with a list of names of sham donors and represented to the party that they were the true donors.”

Dixon said the Crown will show Ross “admitted his conduct” regarding the 2018 National Party donation.

The trial is set for 10 weeks.

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The candidates for the Auckland mayoralty who fronted a question and answer session in Howick on July 23 are, from left, Viv Beck, Leo Molloy, Craig Lord, Gary Brown, and Efeso Collins. Times photos Wayne Martin

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By CHRIS HARROWELL

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ive of the candidates hoping to replace outgoing Auckland mayor Phil Goff have spoken of their personal stories and detailed their visions for the city in front of local voters.

Goff is not standing for re-election at the Auckland Council elections being held in October this year.

Mayoral candidates Viv Beck, Leo Molloy, Craig Lord, Gary Brown and Efeso Collins spoke to an audience of more than 100 people at the event run by the Howick Ratepayers and Residents Association in Howick on July 23.

Beck is chief executive of business promotion group Heart of the City and has been endorsed by centre-right local-body political ticket Communities and Residents (C&R).

Brown is chairman of the Hibiscus and Bays Local Board on the North Shore, an entertainer and sports referee and he’s involved with his local surf lifesaving club.

Lord is a former engineer who works as a freelance media opera-

tor and he’s also an events master of ceremonies and marriage celebrant.

Collins is a former chairperson of the Otara-Papatoetoe Local Board and serves as a Manukau ward councillor, a position he’s held since 2016.

Molloy is a high-profile restaurateur who runs the well-known HeadQuarters bar at downtown Auckland’s Viaduct Harbour and previously worked as a jockey and veterinarian.

Each candidate was given several minutes to introduce themselves and explain why they’re standing for mayor before answering questions from the audience.

They fielded questions on issues including housing intensification, infrastructure, Auckland Transport (AT), the sale of local public assets, support for businesses, lowering council rates and spending, among others.

Beck said standing for the mayoralty wasn’t her aspiration until people began talking to her about it several years ago.

The spark was a battle over pedestrian access to Queen Street in the CBD, she said.

“What mattered there was the council didn’t listen to the needs of significant stakeholders.

“It really upset communities and decisions were made that do not fit the communities we want.

“I had a similar experience with the City Rail Link. I don’t think anybody should lose their livelihoods over a public project.

“We really had to work hard to get some money for those people.”

Molloy said he’s lived in the city for about 25 years and talked about the deterioration he’s seen in the area.

“Not just in value systems but in behaviour, in the enforcement of laws and the use of the council and council’s assets.

“My view is we should do a compare and contrast analysis with best practice cities around the world and the one we’re looking to at the moment is Brisbane.”

He said Brisbane doesn’t have the same system as Auckland with council-controlled organisations.

Molloy said Brisbane’s City Council has 8000 staff compared to Auckland Council’s 12,000.

“They’re a much more progressive city than us and they’ve got

5000km of cycle lanes.

“I think we’ve got a lot of work to do.”

He said he’s “unconvinced” about the super-city model and believes suburbs such as Howick should control local assets.

“You know how to spend your money better than the council does and there is no one-size-fitsall for this city.”

Lord said the job of a mayor is not to be the “boss of council”.

“You are a leader. You [the mayor] are a communicator who represents you. The job of mayor is to represent the city and you.

“What I want to do as mayor is bring in a new era, a change of leadership, a new direction and have council do what it’s supposed to do - focus on core services.”

Brown said the council is lacking co-ordination and as mayor he will “combine and collaborate all the people together”.

“The CCOs all work separately because they want to be of their own distinction but they’re actually controlled by the council.

“I will bring two members of the council governing body back into that committee, that board, so

there are some people who have to be accountable for their decisions.”

Brown said the local board he chairs has achieved 94 per cent of its projects, which is “unheard of”.

“All the local boards need to have their special projects completed because that’s what you are asking for. You are asking for results.”

Collins said he learned the values of working hard and taking advantages of opportunities at a young age.

“The leadership style I bring is one that will listen authentically, collaborate with people around the table and then make the courageous decisions that are going to be needed.

“We are a growing city. We’re going to be 2.4 million people in the next 20 years and we want to be thinking about the future the way I think about the future I’m working for, we’re working for, for our children.”

The council elections are scheduled to be held on Saturday, October 8 and are conducted by postal vote. ➤ For more information or to enrol to vote go online to www. voteauckland.co.nz.

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The students will go head-tohead against their peers in a live

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he East Tamaki business community was delighted to welcome in a new era for the association at the rebrand launch on July at the BNZ Partners Centre in Highbrook.

The business group, formerly the Greater East Tamaki Business Association or Getba, has been rebranded Business East Tamaki.

“It was a great night to celebrate what those present agreed is a stronger platform to better communicate the value of East Tamaki businesses,”said Business East Tamaki general manager Ruth White.

“The new visual identity celebrates a contemporary logo, new colours and a striking wave design that acknowledges the unique Tamaki River, connecting the Business East Tamaki entity to the local environment.

“Key taglines align the new branding with Business East Tamaki’s strategic plan and key priorities of advocacy, leadership and member value.”

You can find out more about how Business East Tamaki supports the East Tamaki business community at www. businessET.org.nz

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Recent statistics released from the New Zealand Initiative about the state of our education system, including numeracy, literacy and truancy rates, paints a concerning picture that will have parents across the country worried about their children’s future.

The recently-released results of an NCEA pilot study that assessed the abilities of students in Year 9-10 in reading, writing and numeracy standards showed a higher-thanexpected failure rate across all three categories.

Almost two-thirds of students who sat the writing test failed, while around a third of the students who sat the reading and maths tests failed. In an increasingly competitive world, a top-notch education system is key to ensuring New Zealand can remain

economically relevant on a global scale. But under this Government, standards are clearly slipping. And despite claims that this pilot isn’t representative of Kiwi students, it’s backed up by last year’s NCEA results, which showed literacy and numeracy attainment dropping significantly from the previous year.

To make matters worse, truancy rates are growing rapidly as well with around 40 per cent of students not attending school on a regular basis, a number that has increased by around 50 per cent since Labour took over in 2017.

It’s no wonder so many kids aren’t doing well at school. It’s hard to learn when you’re missing dozens of school days each year, and that’s time our children can’t get back later.

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On Saturday, Sir Peter Leitch popped into Howick Village markets in the morning, caught up

with old friends, and had a “very good” breakfast and strawberry milkshake at Hancock’s Cafe.

“Haven’t been to the Howick Village Markets for quite a while,” Sir Peter said on social media. “(It) was good to be back.”

His old friends included chef

Peter, who he used to do the Good Morning Show with, and the headmaster of his granddaughters’ school, Lindsay, both of whom are vendors at the market.

The Mad Butcher seems to have enjoyed his visit!

Winners of Art Lounge Generation Z art competition announced

By ZOE GARDEN The Art Lounge’s Inaugural Generation Z art competition’s winners have been announced.

Eight local schools nominated students to compete in the competition.

The pupils spent Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday painting at the gallery in Howick.

The work was completed at 4pm on Wednesday. All the art pieces were exhibited until July 23.

The winners of the competition were announced on Saturday.

The winners were determined by a public vote and announced at 1.15pm on Saturday. Mackenzie Alley

from Saint Kentigern College took first place with Monique Preisig from Howick College and Rij Rivera from Botany

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Downs Secondary College snagging second and third place, respectively.

“Thank you to Arts Out East, Howick Local Board, East Auckland Tourism and Te Tuhi for their support,” Pieter Miering says.

The schools involved are Botany Downs Secondary College, Edgewater College, Elim Christian College, Howick College, Macleans College, Pakuranga College, Saint Kentigern College, and Sancta Maria College.

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et another east Auckland business is repairing the damage caused by offenders during an attempted ram-raid burglary.

The Noel Leeming store at Botany Town Centre was targeted by thieves on Tuesday night.

A police spokesperson says reports were received at about 10pm of a vehicle attempting to force entry to the store.

“The offenders’ vehicle damaged the front of the store.

“However, metal bars prevented the vehicle going further in, and nothing was stolen.

“Police attended, but the vehicle had left the scene. Enquiries are ongoing.”

Work was under way on Wednesday morning to repair damage the vehicle had caused to the store.

The incident drew a heated response on social media with numerous east Auckland residents expressing outrage over it.

The latest attempted ram-raid follows a long list of such incidents, as well as robberies, at local businesses in recent months.

The Michael Hill jewellery store at Botany Town Centre was targeted in an aggravated robbery by multiple people on July 18.

A police spokesperson said a group of offenders carrying tools entered the store and smashed several glass cabinets at about 5.40pm.

They stole a number of items

and left in two vehicles, both of which were later found abandoned a short distance away.

Prior to that incident, two thieves ransacked the Tj Handcrafted store also at Botany Town Centre on July 11.

Security camera footage recorded inside the business shows one of the offenders use an instrument to smash a glass cabinet before stuffing items into a bag.

Both thieves then smash their way into a second large cabinet on the other side of the store and place more items into their bags, before breaking into a third cabinet and taking some of its contents.

Tj Handcrafted was also broken into at about 1.30am on April 20, and it was the site of an alleged

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Ram-raid burglaries have also been carried out at stores in Howick in recent months.

David Fels Jeweller in Picton Street was damaged in a ram-raid just before midnight on April 4.

The offenders drove a stolen vehicle through the front of the business, then reversed out and manoeuvred the store’s grill to gain access.

They got inside, smashed several cabinets, and “helped themselves to the stock”, owner David Fels said at the time.

A group of people caused extensive damage during a ram-raid at LiquorLand Howick in Elliot Street at about 5am on April 3.

A vehicle was driven into the store before the thieves created

a gap under a window frame and crawled inside.

They allegedly stole multiple bottles of alcohol and then fled.

Ormiston Town Centre in Flat Bush was targeted in two ram-raids in April while Centre Superette in Wharf Road, Bucklands Beach, was damaged and ransacked by thieves during a ram-raid just before 4am on January 19.

And three stores in Howick village were targeted by thieves in the early hours of March 8.

Paper Plus on Picton Street and Honeybun Jewellers and Vaporian Republic vape store in Moore Street were each broken into.

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“We consolidated all our funds and split the shipment into three portions,” Boyko says.

The shipment is to be distributed in August.

A third shipment will be a combination of general medical and tactical supplies and humanitarian aid and is planned for late September.

Boyko and Artyukh are grateful for all the community support throughout their fundraising efforts.

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General medicine supply was given to the National Medical Clinical Centre in Kyiv.

Oceanbridge Shipping delegated its resources and time and provided them with free air freighting and clearance on both sides local and European. “That was really massive support,” Boyko says.

Shipment two will be food products: baked beans and tomato sauce packed in 400-425mm tins. “It’s easy to eat, easy to open, especially when cooking is difficult or unavailable,” Boyko says.

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Their first shipment of medical and humanitarian aid successfully arrived in Ukraine in late May. Ecoblankets were given to displaced families forced from eastern and southern Ukraine to the central part of the country, such as Poltava, Kremenchuk and Dnipro, and also to a hospital in the Donbas region.

Tactical medical items were converted into 75 immediate first aid kits (IFAK) by a group of volunteers from the Poltava and Mykolaiv area, and then passed on to a medical emergency services operating in close to a combat

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The Noel Leeming store at Botany Town Centre was targeted by thieves on July 20.

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Sunshine got people out on Saturday with a good crowd popping into the Classy Crafts Market in Bucklands Beach.

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CROWDS ABUZZ AT BUCKLANDS BEACH VENUE A blue sky day, delightful sea views, a fabulous range of handcrafted products and an eyecatching Lego display attracted many visitors and regular clients to Bucklands and Eastern Beaches War Memorial Hall for the Classy Crafts Market on Saturday.

Crafters arranged their stalls inside and outside the hall, and colourful bunting, balloons and spot prizes combined with cheerful chatter and music courtesy of radiowavnz.com, added to the buzzy atmosphere.

A big thank you is extended to everyone who came along to support their local artisans.

It was lovely to see young and old enjoying the Lego display and thirsty stallholders and shoppers supporting the local café. They nearly ran out of coffee!

Classy Crafts returns to the Picton Centre, 120 Picton Street, Howick, from 9am-1pm with a full range of crafts. Come along and shop for those unique gift ideas for your mid-year Christmas celebration and enjoy the vibe.

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WE CAN ALL HELP WITH EMISSIONS

Re: Carbon crazy (Times, June 22).

Ian George tells us what I always suspected – that our CO2 emissions are only 0.17 per cent of the world’s output.

Instead of blaming the cows, perhaps people can get into the habit of not driving the kids to school or having their holidays in New Zealand instead of flying overseas then perhaps it might become 0.16 per cent.

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My daughter and her husband have two dogs like Bella. I’m the only one who can walk them both and for me they are lovely dogs.

If they attack (they get into a frenzy) and you still have a face afterwards, I would consider you lucky. If you’re less than 45kg and actually survive, you’re also lucky.

But like I said, for me they are 98 per cent nice polite dogs. It’s not about aggressive breeds, but which ones do the most damage if they attack.

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CO2 GREENHOUSE GAS

Your correspondent John Caldwell (Times, July 13) claims: “CO2 is vital in regulating the Earth’s temperature”.

He also claims: “The percentage of CO2 in the atmosphere has been constant at 0.028 per cent for 4 million years” [prior to 1800].

If CO2 controls the planet’s temperature, and has been constant for 4 million years, how is it that the Earth has been through multiple ice ages and inter-glacial periods in that time?

Through periods where most of North America was under hundreds of metres of ice and through periods where you could grow grapes in Northern England and farm in Greenland?

Through periods where sea level changes have made it possible to walk on land from what is now London to what is now Amsterdam? And have turned seas into deserts?

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that he dug out of the ground.

And how is it that even though human consumption of ‘fossil’ fuels has fluctuated dramatically over the last 150 years, that CO2 concentration has risen at a more-or-less constant rate in that time?

And how is it that even though the increase in CO2 concentration has risen at a more-or-less constant rate, temperatures have fluctuated from the dust-bowl highs of the early 20th Century to “the ice age is coming” lows of the 70s and now back to the levels of a hundred years prior in the early 21st Century?

Either he is wrong that CO2 was constant, or he is wrong that CO2 is the ‘vital’ controller of the Earth’s temperature.

I would argue that the evidence suggests he is wrong about both.

While CO2 may be a factor in the Earth’s climate equation, it seems to me that the geological and meteorological records contradict the claim that it is ‘the vital factor’.

The Earth’s climate changes on cycles that we’re only just beginning to recognise, never mind understand.

The only constant of climate is that it changes. It is absurd to try and control it and a conceit to think that we can.

Even climate scientists do not dispute that we are currently between ice ages – in a rare (geologically speaking) inter-glacial period where the temperatures are warm enough to support a flourishing of civilisation.

If we’re lucky, we’re still near the beginning of it. If we’re unlucky, then the “ice age is coming” predictions of the 1970s may come to pass sooner than we’d like. And an ice age will be much worse for us than even the worst-case warming scenarios.

The trillions of dollars being spent on trying to prove that humans are causing climate change by burning fossil fuel and in efforts to undo the alleged damage, would be much better spent learning how to adapt to an everchanging climate.

On how to build infrastructure to protect humans, plants and animals from the inevitable future changes.

And on helping to raise the millions of still impoverished people around the world into something resembling prosperity, so that

they too can prepare their environments for the ever-changing future their children will inherit.

Ryan Price Half Moon Bay

NEIGHBOURS, THANK YOU FOR YOUR HELP

On Saturday June 18 in the morning, I went to get into my car to go out.

In doing so, I could not release the handbrake as I have weak hands.

So I looked down the street and saw a lady walking by and I asked her if she could release the handbrake for me.

She sat in the car and released the handbrake. I was standing at bottom of the drive. The car door knocked me down on my head.

Then I had a lot of help from two people in particular. One is a student nurse, Mikala, and the other one is Michelle, who both live in Galvan Avenue which is directly opposite my drive, so they can see straight away what’s going on and they came to help.

By this time, I was bleeding profusely. Mikala and Michelle went into my house and grabbed plenty of towels to put my head on, as well as ringing an ambulance.

Mikala sat with her pillow underneath my head and towels round.

We waited and waited. It didn’t come after about two hours so they said they’ll take me in the car.

They took me to my doctors, nobody was there.

So from there we went to A&E and Mikala went and got a wheelchair for me.

They took me inside. A nurse said it looked like a fractured skull.

Then they got me into the ambulance and took me to Middlemore Hospital by which time it was 11.30pm. At about 6.30am the doctor came to see me. I had a few sips of water.

The doctor took me to have my head stitched, and then I slept.

Another neighbour I would like to thank is Shelly who has been bringing me food and sweets.

I said to my family in England: “You wouldn’t believe, I was lying on driveway for two hours with people I’d never seen before, who got me where I needed to be.”

Thank you to all my neighbours who helped me.

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INSANE AMOUNT OF MONEY

The New Zealand Transport Agency will spend $25 million on a fit-out for its new Wellington offices.

Questions to National transport spokesman Simeon Brown show the fit-out of 8700sq m of Wellington office space will cost $25m, or about $2870 per square metre.

That’s significantly higher than the roughly $1600 a square metre fit-out costs that got Kainga Ora in trouble earlier this year.

That’s an insane amount of money just for a fit-out. Hell, you can almost do a new build for less than that and this is just a fit-out.

But don’t worry…it is only taxpayers’ money they are spending.

Arthur Moore Pakuranga

RE-THINKING LAWNS

Many thanks Het Conroy for your community garden proposal (Times Feedback, July 11).

Bringing that concept to our front/backyards creates another opportunity. Let’s talk lawns. Yes, they are traditional, beautiful and a great kid’s space. However, when lawns become mainly decorative or a mowing chore, why not consider replacing them with: • fruits and veges to reduce reliance on ever-increasing costly and chemically-sprayed goods • greater carbon sequestering/bird enticing plants • landscapes that reduce waste – using compost to reduce food waste; grey water, rain capture to reduce water waste • Income and food generating jobs for gardeners to support non-gardeners.

Pre-Covid, emphasis was often on self-sufficiency. Het’s community garden proposal, alongside a lawn-replacement strategy, fosters a healthier way forward through shared sufficiency.

This a re-think of how to blend past traditions with ways forward that catalyse more efficient and regenerative behaviours and mindsets.

The time has come to put nature’s restoration and our children’s future front of mind. Let’s consider strategies to work better as a community. It’ll be a fun, challenging, fruitful endeavour.

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n east Aucklander’s foundation that aims to help striving students has been named as one of the Y25 2022 recipients.

Founder and chief executive of Good Start Foundation Michelle Prasad has been chosen in the final selection of the YWCA Tamaki Makaurau’s Y25 2022.

The Y25 is a one-year programme with 25 young women who have raised their voices, challenged the status quo, and are fighting for a farier Aotaeroa. All have been nominated by members of the public or themselves and are aged 15-25.

A former student and head girl at Edgewater College, Prasad, despite numerous accomplishments, found her applications to multiple scholarships rejected.

She decided to make sure that wouldn’t happen to other students.

The Good Start Foundation aims to help students who continually strive to serve their community, in and out of school, while also maintaining their academic potential and success.

The Times reported on June 15 two Edgewater College students, Charis Prins and Sonali Patel, had won scholarships offered by the Good Start Foundation.

They’re the foundation’s first scholarship recipients.

Both are excellent students and committed volunteers in the community.

Prasad says she feels “absolutely amazed” to see her work recognized on a national level.

“It just gives me more inspiration to do more and more for the community,” she says.

The Y25 is a great opportunity for the recipients to connect, get access and support from the Y’s networks throughout the year, and to take part in training on a variety of business and creative subjects.

The 25 final recipients were announced at AUT University on July 12.

COMMENT

More cost of living support for Kiwis The Government has taken the next step in our plan to support New Zealanders with the cost of living. To fight inflation and ease the pressure on people here in east Auckland, we’ve extended the fuel tax cut, reduced road user charges and announced half price public transport for everyone until the end of January next year.

Right now, the fundamentals of our economy are strong. Unemployment is at a record low, exports are up and our economic activity has continued to grow over the past year.

But, with inflation rising around the world and the war in Ukraine driving up fuel prices, we know that cost of living pressures are making things tough for many New Zealanders.

This extension is one way we can help to make life more affordable for people here in east Auckland and across the country, as well as provid-

ing more certainty in the face of volatile prices at the petrol pump. Our Ministers are keeping the pressure on to stop Kiwis getting short-changed. I watched the fuel prices fall at the station opposite my office the day after Minister Megan Woods wrote to the fuel companies asking why prices were so high.

There’s no easy fix for the cost of living, but we’re taking a range of actions to ease the pressure on households. Soon the first of our new cost of living payments will go to more than two million New Zealanders, including many here in east Auckland. Alongside the winter energy payment, we’ll be supporting 81 per cent of Kiwis aged 18 and over with their bills this year.

We’re also fixing the supermarket sector and increasing competition to make sure that Kiwis pay a fair price at the check-

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fter more than six months of debate a decision about how an east Auckland community facility should be managed has still not been made.

Howick Local Board members were asked during their business meeting this month to approve a new community-led management approach for the Howick War Memorial Hall building in Picton Street.

But when they arrived at that item during the meeting no vote was held, leaving its future undecided.

The building closed in the first half of 2020 along with most other Auckland Council-owned facilities when New Zealand went into a Covid-19 lockdown.

It’s now operating as a venue for hire but is yet to reopen full-time.

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Auckland Council closed the Howick War Memorial Hall in Picton Street during the 2020 Covid-19 lockdown and it’s yet to be reopened full-time.

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board members said last year council staff began an expression of interest process to transfer the hall’s management to the community.

Nine applications from interested groups were received.

Following direction from the board, council staff ran workshops to see how the parties could work together on a collective management

approach. The applicants preferred one of them to take over the building’s management while “ensuring broad community access”.

They couldn’t identify a preferred group but the two favoured applicants were Howick Village Association (HVA) and Uxbridge Community Projects.

The board invited applicants to another workshop on June 30.

Council staff then recommended the board approve the HVA as the preferred applicant to manage and operate the building under a “community centre management agreement”.

The recommendation presented to the board at its July 18 business meeting asked it to approve the agreement as the preferred option, and to approve the HVA as the preferred applicant to manage the building.

Board members were also asked to approve a maximum annual budget for the building’s operation of $81,451.

And they were asked to approve council staff to investigate improvements to make it fit for purpose.

When the item arose during the meeting chairperson Adele White called for members to move and second it.

That’s done so they can discuss it, ask questions, and vote on it.

No board member moved or seconded the item, but several asked questions.

Once their questions had been answered, board member David Collings raised a point of clarification.

He said: “You’ve called for a mover and a seconder for the item and no one has come forward.

“I’m not even sure why we’re asking questions? The item just falls if it doesn’t have a mover.”

White replied that Collings was correct.

Another board member then asked a question, before the item failed and the board moved to the next item in its meeting agenda.

The board has held several previous votes relating to the building’s management. It received a recommendation at its business meeting in December last year to approve the HVA as the preferred applicant.

When the board came to

the item Collings moved an amendment giving approval to council officers to talk to multiple groups about working together for the benefit of the Howick community and then report back.

His amendment was passed six votes to three.

The building’s management was then raised again at a board business meeting in April this year.

Council officers again recommended the board approve the HVA as the preferred applicant.

Collings moved an alternative to the recommendation for the board to defer the decision pending a workshop with prospective applicants.

His recommendation was passed by five votes to three, as one board member was absent.

A council spokesperson told the Times the building will “continue to operate as a venue for hire”.

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Taking the first step

By ZOE GARDEN Two local real estate agents and a former rugby league player will be freefalling off the Sky Tower to face their fears and raise awareness for health and wellbeing.

Raywhite real estate agents Fran Jordan and Sinead Dunne and rugby league star Richie Barnett all have a fear of heights – and on September 5, the three, with the addition of Isaiah Kinney, will be conquering their fears by taking a leap of faith off Auckland’s tallest building.

The three say it sends a message out to young people regarding taking the first step and asking for help.

“We are living in an unusual world; you are not alone and there are people who care.”

The funds raised in the Sky Tower free-fall will go towards their newly-started charity Team4Life which is focused on helping people in the east Auckland community.

For example, if an individual is going through a tough time and they have a psychologist or therapist they use, Team4Life will pay for the sessions if the individual cannot afford it, Barnett says.

“Or, if they do not have someone they can talk with, we’ll put them in contact with a person in the local community who has expertise in the area required.”

Barnett says Team4Life wishes to bring awareness and funds to specifically support those within the Howick Local Board area.

“The reason why we

thought about this is because of my alignment with Key to Life (charitable trust) and Mike King’s organisation Gumboot Friday.

“I thought it’s quite timely between Fight for Life and Gumboot Friday for the local community into what we can do as a community to support our own community, and to inspire other local boards in Auckland and New Zealand to do the same,” Barnett says.

“The current system is very slow in getting support to the people that are in need. They have to wait longer.”

Team4Life wishes to get local schools and groups involved as well in the open discussion of health and wellbeing, creating aware-

Team4Life’s Fran Jordan, left, Sinead Dunne and Richie Barnett.

ness to have that discussion on a regular basis and to fund people who need help.

“There is a need, especially now with Covid-19,” Barnett says.

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By ZOE GARDEN A mother and daughter artist duo’s new exhibition had its grand opening over the weekend.

Cockle Bay residents Megan Murphy and Greta Umbers partnered to produce independent bodies of work they would later integrate as one as “grief is both a collective and an individual experience”.

In 2019, Murphy and Umbers lost their son and brother, Callan, to mental illness. Their pieces of work are around grief, loss, love, and dealing

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with mental illness. “It was a natural way for us to process our grief over the loss,” Murphy says.

“With these works we would hope to open up a conversation about mental health.”

Their exhibition, titled 16:34 16:34 | 16:35, runs until August 9 at the Railway Street Gallery in Newmarket.

Additionally Umbers has a drawing which has been accepted into New Zealand’s premier Parkin Drawing Awards in Wellington. This runs from August 2 until September 11.

Pakuranga College student and cohead girl Charlotte Tukiri won three awards at Ngā Manu Kōrero in June in the Senior English Cateogry – Best Prepared Speech, Best Impromptu Speech, and Best Speaker Overall.

Ngā Manu Kōrero is a significant event on the Māori education calendar, nurturing the oratory skills of students.

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Greta Umbers, left, and Megan Murphy’s exhibition runs until August 9.

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By ZOE GARDEN

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Howick filmmaker and his company have won six awards at an international film festival.

Five Continents International Film Festival is an online festival with live screening of the winning films where feature films, short films, video clips, web series and video arts from all over the world come together to compete for various prizes.

Founder and creative director of film and digital video production studio Wow Now Productions Howick-based Kam Sharma and his crew won Best Short Thriller

Film award for their short film Froggie Whoosh.

The film is written, conceived and director by Sharma under the banner of Wow Now Productions and co-produced by Greenwall Productions, and is a psychological action thriller based on and exploring how childhood trauma and violence can affect the socio-psychological behaviour of a human being. It was shot in Auckland with local artists.

Froggie Whoosh also won awards for direction, lead actor (Mukhtiar Singh), best editing, cinematography and sound design.

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and make it as competent as the global film industry,” Wow Now Productions says.

“Filming in New Zealand has been a very tough, challenging and very costly job. But we have been persisting in making a mark for five years and have weathered all tough times, including lockdowns that almost killed many businesses like ours.”

The Froggie Whoosh crew won six awards at an international film festival.

From left to right, Dallas Tusi Tipau, Greg Capper, Richard Kamariera Whare, MJ Vries, Mukhtiar Singh, Kam Sharma, Harry Hundal and Shreyas Photo supplied Beltangdy.

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Friendship Group for Seniors held weekly in Howick, Panmure and Pakuranga. Come for morning tea and lunch. To find out more phone Communicare on 09 631 5968.

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All visitors welcome, Wednesday July 27, 7pm. Come and be entertained with live music or come and sing or play an instrument.

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The newly-established Highbrook Medical Health Hub is to host a business showcase.

The showcase, for East Tamaki members and businesses, is on Wednesday August 17 from 4.30pm.

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THURSDAYS @ SEVEN CONCERTS This week Jade Quartet, some of our most skilled and popular string players, offer another exciting and stimulating presentation. This time they perform Dvorak’s American Quartet, composed while Dvorak was serving as director of the National Conservatory of Music in New York City, Thursday July 28, 7pm8pm, All Saints Church, Howick.

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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.

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Maraetai Woman’s Institute, Tuesday August 16, 10am-12

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SENIORNET MEETING

Pakuranga SeniorNet monthly meeting is on August 5 at 10am, St Andrew’s Church, corner of Ridge Rd and Vincent St, Howick.

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Enquiries please phone Warren 09 534 3482.

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Residents, ratepayer group to be resurrected

By CHRIS HARROWELL Keen locals are needed to help breathe new life into a once active east Auckland community group that’s been dormant for several years.

Steve Udy is spearheading an effort to re-establish the Bucklands and Eastern Beaches Residents and Ratepayers Association.

The former Howick Local Board member is holding a public meeting in Bucklands Beach on August 8 and he’s asking anyone who might be able to get involved to go along.

“With significant events of late impacting our community driven by Auckland Council, council-controlled organisations, and central Government, there’s a real public demand to ensure our opinions matter on issues that impact our community,” Udy says.

“The Bucklands and Eastern Beaches Residents and Ratepayers Association was established over 40 years ago to represent our community, but it needs revitalising to better serve our community.

“We need enthusiastic Bucklands and Eastern Beach residents to help re-establish our association [and] we need volunteers to help form a steering committee.

“If people don’t want to join a steering committee that’s fine, we would like them to help us confirm what we think

Steve Udy is working to get a local residents group up and running again.

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are the major issues impacting our community.”

Udy says some of those challenges relate to road safety, fishing, infill housing, beach erosion, visitor behaviour, and public transport.

“These are by no means all our issues but unless we work together as a group we are unlikely to see resolution or progress.”

He says the association has been inactive for a variety of reasons including people being too busy or just not wanting to get involved.

Many of the active participants in ratepayer groups have traditionally been among the community’s more senior residents, he says.

“What has changed clearly is we have

By ZOE GARDEN A Howick woman’s exhibition works have been displayed in Farm Cove Intermediate’s library for students to enjoy and learn from.

Local author and artist Marilyn Bakker has lived besides Pakuranga Creek for more than 50 years. During the first lockdown is 2020, Bakker created a scrapbook and sculptures from rubbish she’d found at the creek. Pages from the scrapbook have been blown up into a series of largescale ecology-inspired posters.

The scrapbook and posters contain documentation, observations and information about the body of water including highlighting the environmental factors that harm and affect it.

Using recycled materials and collected rubbish, photos and sketches, Bakker’s exhibition Reflections on the Pakuranga Creek, Tamaki Estuary, was a three-day event at a vacated Howick Village butcher shop that occurred earlier this year.

Now her large-scale posters are displayed in the Farm Cove Intermediate library. Combining reading and the environment, students will have the opportunity to learn more about Pakuranga Creek and the Tamaki Estuary.

“We have a sustainability thread to our curriculum,” Lynn Dunbar, specialist science and Enviroschools lead teacher, says. “We’re also an enviroschool.”

Dunbar says her class has made a questionnaire where students must find out the answers from within the posters. Some of these answers will be in a competition with the prizes being Bakker’s children’s books that she donated to the school. Bakker has also created a video that documents and raises awareness of Pakuranga Creek and Tamaki Estuary. For more information, email Bakker at marilynjbakker@gmail.com.

council-led initiatives, like the housing density issues within the new Auckland Unitary Plan, having a significant impact like never before on people’s properties and communities.

“Others like transport issues impact people’s lives from a safety perspective, or just being able to get to work on time.

“The net result is more Bucklands Beach and Eastern Beach residents are becoming increasingly concerned at council-driven issues impacting our community.

“A number have asked to re-establish the association, which I’m pleased to drive.”

Udy says one positive change is he’s getting enthusiasm from a “young demographic and new residents”.

“More importantly I would hope we can establish an organisation that can utilise changing communication methods such as Facebook and others.

“What I’m looking for at the conclusion of our meeting is a revitalised steering committee that will represent our whole community taking advantage of today’s communication methods.

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Elm Park School seeks expressions of interest from those looking to work alongside an individual and/or groups of students who have specific learning and/or behavioural needs. This person will show an ability to relate positively with both students and staff and be part of a highly effective team. The role may also involve some administrative tasks.

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Finding meaning and friendship in Jesus

As the first point of contact for our patients you will have exceptional communication skills, be able to work effectively under pressure while being patient focused and have a caring and professional manner.

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Pakuranga Park, is an evolving and growing village.

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Jayco Auckland is New Zealand’s largest retailer of New and Used Jayco Caravans and RV’s and with our business continuing to expand we are looking for a reliable and professional cleaner to join our team to keep our building spik-and-span.

This is a permanent position, for the right person and an excellent opportunity to join a great company. Hours of work are Monday Wednesday, Friday 9 to 4.

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Our Lady Star of the Sea School is looking for a part time Learning Support Worker to support a primary school student with additional needs. Experience working with students with additional needs is preferred, but not essential. A successful police vet is a requirement for this position.

This is a fixed term part time, term time only position consisting of 15 hours per week (Monday-Friday) commencing as soon as a suitable applicant is appointed. The pay will be in line with the NZEI support staff collective agreement.

Please email a letter outlining your qualifications and experience for this position, along with two referees, to: syandell@starofthesea.school.nz.

Stand Tū Māia works to support tamariki who live with whānau or are in care, and are vulnerable to cumulative harm and have complex needs.

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RUGBY LEAGUE

ADVICE

Reserves fall in close battle

Your rights and the police

I

t was a bittersweet weekend for the Howick Hornets in their Auckland Rugby League knock-out quarter finals.

It began with the reserve grade who lost in a close contest 21-18 against a Manukau Magpies side that has stepped up in a big way from the second division this season, making the most of the opportunity to challenge the top sides.

While the players are understandably hurting from the loss, the club remains extremely proud of the efforts and passion they put in week after week.

Not only does this side give its all, but it also plays a vital support role to the premier team, with many of the lads stepping up to the top team during the season.

This not only covers injury, but also keeps pressure on the top side to perform, or risk losing their position to one of the talented reserve graders who are all hungry to earn a spot in Howick’s Fox Memorial Premier side – which is a big reason why there is also sweeter news to speak of from the weekend’s results.

Howick’s Premier side finished second in its pool and earned a home final against a Bay Roskill side which not only was one of just two losses for the Hornets during the regular season, but also quite possibly the biggest following in Auckland Rugby League.

Supporters from both clubs turned up in their hundreds.

It was the local fans however, led by members of The Firm (Hornets’ amazing official supporters club), that had most reason to be at full volume throughout.

The Hornets began strong and played the first half at a tempo the Vikings couldn’t match, sapping their opponents’ energy, remaining patient in attack and setting up a very entertaining second stanza for the home crowd.

The second 40 saw the Hornets take maximum advantage from thier dominant start.

The lads began really shifting the ball running Bay Roskill ragged, scoring some great tries off the back of finals level desperation in their defensive efforts.

Howick brilliantly finished the game 44-6 victors. The whole club realises nothing is won yet.

Next week it’s on to Mt Smart stadium #2 to take on the unbeaten Pt Chevalier Pirates with the winner going on to play for Auckland Rugby League glory in the Fox Memorial grand final.

Josh Garry ➤ Howick Hornets v Pt Chevalier Pirates, 2:40pm, Mt Smart stadium #2, entry on O’Rourke Road. $8 adults, $2 children U15. U5s free.

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SAILING

Girls rug up for winter sailing Sailors from the Pakuranga Young Mariners are competing in the Pakuranga Sailing Club’s winter series.

The series runs on Sundays through the months of June to September and is an opportunity for the girls to build up their sailing race experience.

“This experience is invaluable,” says Scott Trumper, leader of the Pakuranga Young Mariners.

“It allows them to develop their skills for our annual national and open regattas.”

The Young Mariners are wellequipped with numerous sailing dinghies including two Sunbursts, one Cutter and five Optimists. They also have two patrol boats to keep the girls safe on the water.

The girls also meet on Thursday nights from 6pm-7.30pm. “It’s a bit like Sea Scouts for girls,” says assistant leader Sammy Gundlach.

“We like to mix it up with some fun activities as well as learning about sailing. This term we have built rafts, cooked on outdoor fires, kayaked up

Prem dev squad top of the table T

Aimee Moriarty, left, and Violet Ching.

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the Tamaki estuary, as well as rigging practice, sailing theory and knot tying.

“The group caters for girls aged 8 to 19 years and term fees are only $55 for the first term and $75 thereafter. Girls are welcome to come along for a couple of free try-outs before signing up.”

Check out the Facebook page “Pakuranga Young Mariners” or visit www.youngmariners.org.nz for more information. If you are keen for a free try-out contact club secretary Diane Moriarty at ratpak.secretary@gmail. com.

he Premier Development (PDs) side has finished top of the table winning the Tramways Memorial Cup after beating East Tamaki 29-19 in the last game of the round robin.

Also locked away in the cabinet is the Lawrie Knight Challenge Cup, a Ranfurly Shield-esque cup the PDs have held since winning it from University in Round 5 in 2021.

The team remains undefeated on home ground Bell Park.

The U21 Cannons have also finished top of the table winning the Whetton Brothers Trophy after they sneaked past Papatoetoe to finish 2 points ahead following their impressive 34-17 victory over University. The Cannons have been firing all year and earlier in the season picked up the Sir Wilson Whineray Challenge cup, locking it away for the year.

Pakuranga’s Cameron James about to offload a pass to Marcelle Tausinga.

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Moving on to the finals the PDs and U21 Cannons both take on College Rifles at Bell Park, a great achievement for the club to have two senior teams competing for the top prize. With the round robin still going for the U85kg Black Panthers, that squad too is also

in the hunt for a top four finish.

A challenging season for the premiers sees them missing out on competing for the top prize as the prems have finished the round robin in 8th position. The prems will now travel to Marist to play in the jubilee semi-final.

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