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Major milestone 50 YEARS

The Independent Herald celebrated a major milestone in the paper’s history on 6 November. It celebrated 50 years of delivering news to residents of Wellington’s northern and western suburbs.

Current and former staff and contributors, along with long-standing supporters of the paper gathered for the 50th birthday celebration, organised by the Onslow Historical Society.

Continued on page 2.

The Independent Herald’s first Editor, Judith Holloway, with the first edition of the paper. Photo: Frank Neill.

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Independent Herald celebrates 50 years The Independent Herald first hit the streets on 1 November 1972.

The now 50-year-old community newspaper had its genesis in the demise of the Times-Herald, which served the northern suburbs from 1961 until its demise in 1972.

Two local residents, Bronwyn Gray and Judith Holloway, moved with speed to plan a replacement. With the help of local organiser Egan Ogier and financial backing from the Johnsonville Community Licensing Trust, the new Independent Herald was launched.

Judith was the paper’s first Editor while Bronwyn became the Business and Advertising Manager. They led the paper for just a short while, however.

Ruth Thomas took over as Editor shortly after the paper was launched, beginning her 20-year service with the Independent Herald.

Ruth quickly developed a reputation for “crusading journalism”, culminating in several journalistic excellence awards.

“What the Independent Herald was all about could be summed up in one word – community. It was all about community,” Ruth said at the 50th birthday celebration.

“We were getting great stories because we were out there in the community.

People knew us and would talk to us.”

Her reporters were a network of mostly young mothers, or friends, who represented the suburb they lived in..

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Advertisers and community leaders were enthusiastic and so support quickly grew, and the paper moved from publishing fortnightly to coming out every week.

“A good local paper was also an excellent first stepping stone for journalism students preparing to make their mark in the business”, Ruth said.

Martin de Ruyter, then aged 17, credits his work for the Independent Herald as “the basis of my future career”. A career as a top news photographer culminated in 35 years with the Nelson Mail.

Ruth recalls many highlights – serious, funny, such as choosing a team for the council, some involving the threat of closure to the railway line or local children – who knitted enough peggy squares to wrap around the Beehive.

“I need to impress upon all of you the importance of a newspaper as a resource for information,” the Onslow Historical Society President Judy Siers said at the 50th celebration.

“It is like no other.

“I hereby acknowledge all those who have worked with the Independent Herald over the last 50 years, those who ensured its longevity right through to the present ownership.”

Judy noted the words of Sir Bernard Fergusson, when he was touring New Zealand as Governor General in 1965.

“Suburban newspapers have enormous Long serving Independent Herald Editor Ruth value, playing a part out of all propor- Thomas cutting the 50th anniversary cake. Photo: tion to their circulation.”

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Often I have to turn down invitations I recently hosted a meeting which included tolocal attend in and the electorate propertyevents developers because Parliament sitting and as representatives from the is City and Regional Councils.

The background the meeting your MP, naturally I am for required to be the need to ensure all people involved in inwas there. providing more housing in our electorate, Fortunately, last week was recess and whether it be those building them or those soregulating I was able to attend at and permitting thatPrizegiving building, Onslow andtheTawa and understand issuesColleges which govern theeven ability to build the houses everyone agrees the renowned and highly sought after we need.

Melbourne Cup fundraiser for Breast Cancer at the Johnsonville Club.

There are essentially two types of Obviously these events bought me development; greenfields and brownfields. into contact withbuilding a wide variety of Greenfields means on currently undeveloped typically ex farmland on people, fromland, students, parents, club the edges of current urban where patrons and plenty of areas, others.

People infrastructure like sewers, water supply and approach me concerned about what other essential services don’t exist are they arebuilt reading and hearing, and it’s usually by the developer. good to be able to explain the rationale Brownfields means rebuilding behind our development Government’s decisions. existingexample sites, and there has scheme been Aongood is the to considerable discussion in recent times price agricultural emissions, currently around how much intensification should be exempt the Emissions Trading allowed infrom existing suburbs, especially Scheme (ETS) which means every changing of height limits to allow for more apartments. other business must pay for their emissions, but not agriculture Both have their advantages and currently, despite producing around disadvantages; the Regional Council in 50% of our particular seeCO2 their emissions. role to prevent more Government sat down with the

farming to work out runoff andindustry other material ending upainscheme our whereby they would account for these harbours, especially the Porirua harbour in emissions, and an agreed the case of development north of paper, He Johnsonville and Newlands.

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City Council concerned the existing While therearewere somethat extra features infrastructure cannot handle the pressure it in the final proposal, it was essentially comes under when new housing areas are what the Existing farming industryis aging agreed, developed. infrastructure especially as any revenue and needs upgrading across our city, aswould evidenced recent pipeto failures.

An farming go in to byresearch make advantage of intensification of existing areas more carbon friendly. However many means more people, therefore more farmers have since disagreed that ratepayers to pay for those upgrades. they should pay for their emissions so their leaders, Federated Developers of courseincluding need to make a profit, and wish tohave keep their compliance as as Farmers, pulled out. A costs shame low as possible.

Many believe the Resource we simply won’t be able to trade with Management Act is too cumbersome. We as Europe especially if we don’t reduce government for our part have undertaken to our emissions, not to mention the rewrite that act. impact on the The feedback wasplanet. good, but the success will be whenexplained, there are sufficient affordable Once people understand houses to meet demand. my that doing nothing isThat not isancertainly option. goal as your MP. But back to the electorate, we had a fatal motorcycle accident in That, and of course having a vibrant and Khandallah this week.

Our sympathies functioning Johnsonville Shopping Centre we canthe all befamilies proud of. of the deceased and to the other driver, and a reminder that There’ssuburban plenty to be getting with. even roads onrequire our full attention, especially with the Christmas ‘silly season’ coming up.

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Surgeon makes global impact

It’s not just New Zealand that has been experiencing the effects of climate change, such as the torrential rain that fell in the Wellington region this winter.

Extreme weather records have been broken on every continent on Earth in the 12 months since the last United Nations global climate summit, according to a new report from the Climate Council.

“The reality is that global commitments are dangerously off track to prevent a climate catastrophe,” says Climate Councillor and leading economist Nicki Hutley.

“The UN, just last week, concluded that existing targets would result in catastrophic levels of global warming of between 2.1-2.9°C.” The Climate Council planned to highlight the report at the latest UN Conference on climate change, COP27, held in Egypt on 6 November.

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General surgeon Bur ton King suspects he was shoulder-tapped for the New Zealand Army Reserve Force because of his experience with trauma surgery back home in South Africa.

The 62-year-old breast cancer specialist from Wellington joined the New Zealand Defence Force (NZDF) as a civilian volunteer after the horror of the 9/11 terror attacks in the United States.

Then, when he was in his 40s, he didn’t need much encouragement to take it a step further and don a uniform.

“I come from South Africa so that’s probably one of the reasons the military was interested in me, because I did a lot of trauma surgery there.”

His good friend Major Graham Sharpe, an anaesthetist, was also encouraged to enlist by then Lieutenant General Jerry Mateparae, and the pair later deployed together.

He hasn’t looked back, and on top of his day job he has now worked in many different environments, including Iraq, around the Pacific and Christchurch after the 2011 earthquakes.

His most recent task was being part of a specialist team-building activity at Whanganui Hospital, drawing together Regular Force and Reserve Force clinical specialists from NZDF Health.

Personnel, who usually operate in different hospital settings, worked together to complete some elective surgical procedures on adult patients at Te Whatu Ora, Whanganui.

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Normally a breast cancer surgeon, Burton King is also a major in the NZ Army Reserve Force and has deployed around the world using his surgical skills.

provides the capability of initial surgical resuscitation and stabilisation of deployed NZDF casualties.

Major King enjoyed the weekend activity and he was disappointed he only had a few more years left to be involved with the NZDF. Juggling his two roles wasn’t as demanding as it sounded.

“I wish more surgeons would do it,” Major King says.

The general commitment was for two weeks a year with deployments of two to four weeks intermittently, and passing an annual fitness test, he adds.

He got a lot out of being in the NZ Army Reserve Force and working with NZDF personnel.

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Anush Goel is Newlands College’s 2022 Dux, while two students – Jayden Kah and Mazen Khallaf – were named as Proxime Accessit (runner-up to Dux).

The three students were presented their awards at the college’s senior prizegiving on 2 November.

Cara McCully was also presented the Deb Mills Award as sportswoman of the year during the evening and Ngahau Tepaa was presented the Morris Barling Award as sportsman of the year.

As well as being named Dux, Anush won the Gifted and Talented Trophy for five consecutive years of commitment to academic related co-curricular activities.

He also won the BNZ Cup for being top in Business, was first in economics, first equal in statistics, second in physics and third in chemistry. This year he successfully completed a University of Canterbury paper – Maths 199.

Anush played a key role in the Newlands College team that entered the Space for Planet Earth Competition and was a Grand Final Winner. The presentation was judged by a field of experts working in the field of space science.

He gained Distinction in the Australian Mathematics Competition, putting him in the top 20% of participants.

Anush was part of a team of five students who competed in the North Island inter-school Ethics Olympiad and they were highly commended by the judges.

He was also the lead organiser for a hugely successful TedX Paparangi evening at Newlands College where he was able to

ABOVE: The two Newlands College Proxime Accessit winners Jayden Kah (left) and Mazen Khallaf.

LEFT: The Newlands College Dux Anush Goel with his awards.

bring together some of the sharpest young minds for an evening of intellectual musings, challenges and celebration.

As well as being named Proxime Accessit, Jayden won both the Newlands College Senior Science Prize for being overall top in science and the Senior Chemistry Award.

He was a Space for Planet Earth Competition Grand Final Winner and gained Distinction in the Oxford University Computing Challenge. Jayden was also part of the team that organised a hugely successful TedX evening at Newlands College.

Jayden was first in digital technology and chemistry, first equal in statistics and second equal in biology.

As well as being Proxime Accessit, Mazen gained the Newlands College Grant Shayler Award to study IT at tertiary level.

During the year he completed four university courses: Computing 112 at Victoria University,

where he gained an A+, Computing 103 at Victoria University and Maths 199 at Canterbury University.

Mazen has amassed 102 Excellence level credits at Level 3, gained Merit in the Oxford University Computing Challenge and was part of the team that organised a TedX evening at Newlands College.

As well as winning the Deb Mills Award, Cara won the Athletics Trophy for the top achiever.

Cara excelled in athletics, basketball, cricket, netball and touch rugby.

She was runner-up in the shot put at the Grade 15 Wellington Junior Championship, and runner up in both the under 18 shot put and under 18 discus at Athletics Wellington Track and Field Championships.

Cara was a member of the college’s Basketball Senior A girls team and was named in the Cricket under 15 Wellington Black Pathway Squad.

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number one team, Cara was an under 16 Wellington Black Representative, winners of the Marjorie Jenden and Betty Steffensen Tournament and the under 16 Wellington Regional Combined Centres Tournament.

The team was also runner-up in the North Island Junior Netball Championship.

She qualified for the Netball Wellington Centre Emerging Talent Programme and was also a member of the college’s senior girls touch rugby team.

Ngahau added three other awards to the Morris Barling Award he won.

He won the Hoop Club Cup for the best male contribution to the senior A basketball team, the most valuable player in the college’s first 15 rugby team and the senior boys best team contribution.

Ngahau was selected as an under 18 Wellington 0Ɨori Rugby representative and was a member of the college’s senior boys touch rugby team.

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Onslow College celebrates success Onslow College held its 3ǀ Whakanui/Celebration of Success in the college hall on 1 November.

The evening celebrated student success across academic, cultural and leadership areas of the school.

Unlike other secondary schools, Onslow College does not name a Dux or Proxime Accessit (runner-up to Dux).

It did, however, make presentations to a series of winners. These included: s Anuha Som and Jude Anderson – academic group of the year; s Oscar Pierson, George Patrick and Jacob Hemsley – community contribution award; s Benjy Smith – innovative, creative and critical thinker award; s Year 12 Te Reo MƗori class – Onslow Spirit Award (for their work designing a fully Te Tiriti compliant and culturally sustainable leadership structure for the school); s Lucy Smith – leadership award; and s Maria Isaza Puerta – Prime Minister’s vocational excellence award.

Maria won the Prime Minister’s award for her outstanding commitment to her trade training, which was cookery. She studied level 3 cookery at Weltec/Whitireia’s hospitality campus

in Wellington city and gained excellent results in a Gateway Work Experience programme run by Mojo Coffee.

Lucy Smith won her award for her leadership work around the school with various groups and in particular her organisation of the school’s Pink Shirt Day celebrations.

Benjy Smith represented New Zealand at the International Young Physicists’ Tournament as captain of the team, and is a mentor to other students through helping to lead both the physics and programming clubs at Onslow College.

The guest speaker at this year’s 3ǀ Whakanui was Jack McGee, an alumni student, playwright and actor.

A range of student performances provided further highlights of the evening. These included Te Kapa Haka o TarikƗNƗ and NJƗ Manu Tioriori/Onslow College Choir singing “E Tui”, composed by two year 11 students Tia Te Awa-Douglas and Tumanako Waa. This year the student committee also introduced new junior values awards for years 9 and 10.

The student MCs for the evening were Laila Patchett and Lily Harward Jones.

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Peter Chapman, one of Onslow College’s caLucy Smith, winner of Onslow College’s leader- reers managers, presenting Maria Isaza Puerta ship award, speaking after she had received her with the Prime Minister’s vocational excellence award. Photo: Supplied. award. Photo: Supplied.

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Thursday November 10, 2022 ADVERTORIAL

Help shape more people-friendly streets for Johnsonville and Ngā Ūranga Gorge – Have Your Say! Plans for bus, bike, and walking improvements around Johnsonville and Ngā Ūranga Gorge are open for feedback until 28 November.

Visit lgwm.nz/home/have-your-say Wellingtonians have asked for better transport options, more housing, action on climate change, and improvements which give people more and safer options for travel as an alternative to cars.

As part of preparing our city for the future, Let’s Get Wellington Moving is planning to make improvements for people walking, riding bikes and using buses between Johnsonville and the city via Ngā Ūranga Gorge.

Strong northern suburbs voices Three generations of the Graham family from the northern suburbs are key players in an upcoming concert featuring classic show songs.

Wellington Comic Opera, the trading name of the Wellington Gilbert & Sullivan Society, will present the 90-minute concert on the weekend of 18-20 November.

The final show will also have a strong northern suburbs link, as it will be held in the Khandallah Town Hall at 2pm on 20 November.

Lesley Graham from Khandallah is the Musical Director and her husband Ian will join their daughter Barbara, from Wilton, grandson Donovan, from Woodridge, and niece Isabelle Pearson, from Ngaio, on stage.

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show will feature a concert party of 17 people.

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Once a preferred option is developed, the public will again be asked to feedback before design begins mid-2023.

We will be keen to hear from people to see whether there are any other tweaks that could be made to make the changes even better.

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Hey Everyone! With rising interest rates, rent levels dropping and no capital gains in sight, landlords are having to reconsider their business strategy. New Zealand needs landlords to supply rentals to survive and with the current economic and legislative environment, it is very, very hard to turn a profit when you consider true cost and opportunity loss. Being a landlord is a business and it needs to be managed that way, so decisions need to be based on profitability, especially against what other opportunities are available. Basic business dictates that profit/loss is income minus costs, however here are a few areas that I commonly see new landlords forgetting to consider.

1. Opportunity Loss – This is the potential return on your equity, so if you have $500k equity sitting in your investment property, if you had sold it this equity could have been used to pay off a mortgage (giving you 5.5%-6% return, as you won’t be paying interest on $500k anymore. If you don’t have a mortgage, then the $500k could be placed in a term deposit, giving you 4%+ yearly profit. Just because you don’t have a mortgage doesn’t mean you should lose money.

2. Maintenance Costs – Houses need to be well maintained else you will start seeing expensive issues arising. You also need to budget for other things like house wash, gutter cleans, gardens, resealing windows/ doors, etc. On some tenancy agreements the tenant could look after some of those things, but good luck with that.

3. Depreciation Costs – Not only can tenants do ‘fair wear and tear’ to your property, but you need to also budget for bigger items such as painting, carpet, kitchen, bathrooms, etc. If it costs you $25k to paint the house every 10 years, then you need to budget for

$2.5k of cost per year for painting. There is no point in making positive cashflow only to lose it later on maintenance costs.

4. Vacancy – Your property may have a rental assessment of $600 per week, but if it takes 4 weeks to find a tenant, then you need to factor in a loss of $2400 per year. If it is still profitable to reduce rent, it may be a good idea to just take a hit on the weekly rent amount and find a tenant faster.

There are A LOT of properties available for rent, so your business strategy for being a landlord needs to be sound. Maybe your entire property strategy needs to be reviewed for this new market environment.

If you would like to sit down and go through a strategy session to get the most out of your property investments, get in touch – I’d love to help!

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Vino and Anselm Martyn raise $9500 for Youthline

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Khandallah’s Vino and Anselm Martyn raised $9500 for Youthline Wellington in honour of their late son.

The couple says they hope everyone enjoyed their event.

“We enjoyed doing our best for the Youthline Fundraiser and the evening.

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evening had a good time too.”

They began their work in Sydney, moving there just over 25 years ago after their high-performing and very well-respected son Anshan passed away.

While in Sydney, they always held a dinner party for family and friends on his birthday which doubled as a fundraiser for youth in need.

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Buses wearing moustaches Buses in the Wellington region will be wearing moustaches this month, all in a good cause.

It is part of the Movember movement’s initiative to raise funds for mental health and suicide prevention, prostate cancer and testicular cancer.

To date, the Movember movement has funded more than 1,250 men’s health projects worldwide since it began in 2003.

The freshly waxed bus-staches will be seen on all NZ Bus’s Wellington City and Eastbourne bus routes, and will also make an appearance across the region, Metlink says.

“Metlink and NZ Bus are proud to back Movember and men’s health. The cause has really grown on us,” Metlink General Manager Samantha Gain said.

“The giant mos and any lip luggage grown by our front-line team will hopefully boost the fundraising effort.”

This is the second year that Metlink has supported the Movember initiative.

Ian Grose, NZ Bus Chief Financial Officer, who is co-ordinating the campaign, said they raised $20,000 for Movember last year.

This included $10,000 from the operator, who matched the total amount donated to their ‘team’.

“We’re thrilled to be supporting Movember again and will match every dollar up to ten thousand dollars raised through the NZ Bus Team on the Movember website.”

A Metlink bus wearing its moustache to help raise funds for a good cause.

Anyone wishing to donate can visit nz.movember.com and search NZ Bus to donate to their team.

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‘Early’ potatoes grow in a single layer spreading out from the seed potato, while ‘main‘ varieties grow upwards. I use spent potting mix or straw to mound up.

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Roses for Queen’s Platinum Jubilee

Rose Society members in front of Convicts Wall. Photo: Supplied.

Three roses, donated by the Hutt Valley Rose Society, have been planted at Government House to commemorate the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee.

The initiative began with the idea of helping to resurrect Parliament’s rose garden which was dug up by protesters.

An anti-mandate protest in February, in the grounds of Parliament, became a 23 day occupation.

Protesters set themselves up with tents, a commercial kitchen and ablution block.

They dug up the lawn to plant vegetables and herbs and sowed tomatoes in the rose garden.

The protest came to a violent end when protesters lit fires

within Parliament grounds.

The clean-up task was huge.

The fate of Parliament’s rose garden was unknown but it was proposed that Hutt Valley Rose Society, in collaboration with Matthews Roses, donate three roses to commemorate the Queen’s Platinum jubilee.

The Head Gardener consulted the Governor General and it was decided that the roses were best placed at Government House.

‘Glorious’ was selected to compliment the golden colour of the quince fruit on trees espaliered on Convicts Wall. They have been planted along with a golden passionfruit.

This is likely the most shel-

tered part of the garden which is at high elevation and prone to both northerly and southerly winds.

The roses were planted in August and their strong healthy canes are budding up nicely.

“We are sure visitors will enjoy the roses as they stop to reflect upon the history of Convicts Wall,” the Rose Society says.

People interested in roses can come to the rose show on 12 and 13 November at Walter Nash Centre, from noon to 4pm on the Saturday and 10am to 3.30pm on the Sunday. Entry is $3 for adults and children are free. There will be roses on display as well as roses and other plants for sale.

Peace poster winner named Kezia Stevenson from Kelburn Normal School is the winner of the local level of the Lions International Peace Poster Contest, sponsored by the Karori Lions Club.

Her winning poster, along with the other entries in the competition, are now on display on the glass front of the Karori Public Library and are viewable from the footpath.

The display includes the four posters that won a “Merit Award”.

The four Merit Awards were won by Charlotte Robinson from Makara Model School, Adriana McHague from Karori Normal School, and Stephanie Joyce and Hani Tui Muk both from St Teresa’s School.

Kezia’s artwork, imaginatively interpreting this year’s theme “Lead with Compassion” will now proceed to the next (Lions District) stage of the competition.

If continuing to win, it may

progress to the national level, and thence to the international level. Competition will be increasingly tough, with more than half a million children, aged 11 to 13 years, expected to participate worldwide.

The International Grand Prize winner receives an award of $US5000 and a trip, accompanied by two family members, to the award ceremony in the United States.

Karori Lion Beth Anders, local Peace Poster Convenor, says “Our winner, as usual, will receive a prize of $200, and because we have received so many good entries this year, our club board decided to allocate a further $200 to be divided among four ‘Merit Award’ achievers.”

Karori Lions have sponsored two national winners in recent years, and the Peace Poster Contest is one of their treasured programmes.

“Over the past three decades or so more than ten mil-

The Governor General’s husband, Dr Richard Davies, and leader for the Heritage Gardeners Claire Bibby with the rimu Dr Davies had just planted.

Photo: Supplied.

The winning Peace Poster, Kezia Stevenson’s interpretation of “Lead with Compassion”.

Photo: Supplied.

lion children have participated in this international contest, such that many more tens of millions of parents, teachers and peers have engaged with the theme of peace,” Ms Anders says.

Historic planting at Halfway House

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Toy library celebrates 30 years

By Frank Neill

The Ngaio Toy Library celebrated its 30th birthday with a morning tea and open day at the Ngaio Town Hall on 5 November.

One of those attending, Hazel Bidmead, used the toy library as a child when it first opened, and continues her association as a Ngaio toy Library committee member.

Started by Plunket/WKƗnau િZhina in 1992, the toy library spent the next 17 years under the umbrella of the support service for tamariki under five.

In 2009 a group of Ngaio residents then took over the running of the toy library, establishing the Ngaio Toy Library organisation.

After serving Ngaio families for some 25 years, things looked bleak for the toy library in 2017.

The coffers were empty and membership was declining.

The committee did not know whether the toy library could continue.

The committee called a special meeting to decide what to do and this meeting saw an unexpected level of community engagement.

An action plan was developed and the result was a surge in membership and a stabilisation of finances.

Five years later and the Ngaio Toy Library is not only celebrating 30 years, but also a significant growth in the number of member families.

Membership has grown from about 27 families at the start of last year to about 66 families now, the Ngaio Toy Library President, Sarah O’Sullivan, told the “Independent Herald”.

These days “it hums,” Ms O’Sullivan added.

The toy library is open every second Saturday in the Ngaio Town Hall from 9:30 to 11:30am.

Family membership is $80 a year, which gives people an option of giving their children access to toys, games and puzzles without the financial burden of having to buy them.

For more information, the toy library has a website, https:// ngaio.mibase.com.au, where people can also sign up online.

Dr Richard Davies, husband of Governor General Dame Cindy Kiro, planted a rimu tree at Glenside’s historic Halfway House to commemorate Queen Elizabeth II’s Platinum Jubilee on 2 November.

“Earlier this year, Dame Cindy and I were honoured to travel to the United Kingdom for the Platinum Jubilee celebrations,” Dr Davies said during the planting ceremony.

“It was with great sadness that we returned three months later to join others from around the world to pay our respects at Her Majesty’s State Funeral.

“For her Platinum Jubilee year, Queen Elizabeth encouraged a global movement to ‘Plant a tree for the Jubilee’, with over 100,000 planted in New Zealand alone.

“I’m honoured to add to that impressive tally, and to commemorate her 70-year reign,” he said.

Dr Davies said he was returning a gesture made more than 150 years ago when Thomas Drake, who lived near Halfway House, provided a tree to Prince Alfred, the Duke of Edinburgh in 1869.

Prince Alfred was visiting New Zealand as part of the first ever Royal visit to Aotearoa.

Mr Drake gifted two trees – one of them a Totara – to the then Governor General, Sir George Bowen, and Prince Alfred planted the trees at the site of the former vice-regal residence.

“I am here today, over 150 years later, returning the gesture with a rimu for these historic gardens,” Dr Davies said.

“I’m glad to be joined by others who also have historic connections to this area – very fitting given it is Heritage Week.

“So the planting of trees links us to the past, and at the same time is a gift to the future.

“I like to think of this rimu towering over our descendants in 500, perhaps even a thousand years’ time.

“Not only does its planting commemorate the reign of Queen Elizabeth, it also symbolises our care for the planet,” Dr Davies said.

“The message from the husband of the Governor General really resonated with us,” said Claire Bibby, the leader for Heritage Gardeners and President of the Glenside Progressive Association.

“It was a lovely day and he [Dr Davies] is such a lovely person,” she said, adding that now was a “beautiful time” to visit the amazing gardens at Halfway House.

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SPORTS TALK With Jacob Page

Williamson silences social media doubters Kane Williamson proved the doubters wrong against Ireland.

The Black Caps captain has copped it from all sides for his perceived lack of runs and slow scoring rate during the Twenty 20 World Cup in Australia.

However, his scintillating 61 off 35 balls in a must win game against Ireland was proof that form is temporary and class is permanent.

In what is likely a case of New Zealand cricket fans getting greedy and letting the last seven or eight years of success go to their heads, many wanted Williamson out of the team at any cost.

Such was the social media buzz, that many fans did not care who replaced him at No 3 in the batting order or as captain.

Williamson’s form has not been up to world class standards over

the past 18 months, thanks in part to injury, but he is the best batter New Zealand has produced and we should feel fortunate to pick him in any format he wants to play.

Cricket is not like rugby in this country, world class players are few and far between, The luxury to throw Williamson on the T20 scrap heap isn’t there.

His innings against Ireland, which ensured the Black Caps

made the semifinals, was a timely reminder for cricket fans not to get greedy.

It is always a positive, in my view, for fans to be objectively critical of players when they underperform, that shows people care and they want the team and players they support to be held to a high standard but the chatter around Williamson over the past fortnight was similar to

an ungrateful child complaining about the presents they got on Christmas Day. Make no mistake, Williamson is a gift to cricket in this country and much like Ross Taylor, when he does retire, the hole he leaves in the team, in any format, will not be able to be replaced by one person.

Enjoy the Kane Train while it is still on the tracks, we don’t have anyone better.

Johnsonville fall to Onslow in T20 flop

By Jacob Page

Johnsonville completed a disappointing premier Twenty 20 cricket campaign with a six wicket loss to Onslow on Saturday.

After two defeats a fortnight ago and then last weekend’s two fixtures abandoned due to rain, Johnsonville had no hope of Devan Vishvaka’s 65 was not enough to get a win for Johnsonville in the making the final heading into the fifth and final round. premier twenty20 competiton against Onslow. Photo: Supplied.

Batting first, Johnsonville made 152 for nine thanks largely to Devan Vishvaka’s 65 off 41.

The problem was that the opener found little support.

Only two other top-order players made double figures and it was left to No 10 batter David Hudson with 25 not out to inch Johnsonville to a competitive total.

Ultimately it was an 86-run

opening stand between Onslow’s Sam Cooper (54) and Nathan Robinson (43) which proved to be a match-winning partnership.

Johnsonville, with a largely second-string bowling attack could not make in-roads and Onslow won with nine balls to spare.

Johnsonville will start their Ewen Chatfield Trophy 50-over competition at Alex Moore Park against Karori this Saturday.

Wellington defends Freyberg Masters Wellington successfully defended the Freyberg Masters title following a masterful week at the Motueka Golf Club.

The defending champions won their second-straight title with a round to spare at the master’s event, accumulating 6.5 wins and 28 games to be three games ahead of Canterbury going into the final round on 6 November. As Canterbury had a bye, no one could catch the capital side.

They won their final match to cap off a near-perfect week, with their only minor hiccup coming against Hawke’s Bay with a half.

Wellington Manager Steve Weir says it’s been an outstanding week.

“We have a great team dynamic. The golf was quality. I’m very proud of the boys for going back-to-back.”

The capital side came into the final day today with their fate in their own hands.

They played a strong Manawatu-Wanganui team and got over the line 3.5 – 1.5 to tee their final day off.

Wellington number five Matt Pegg, number three Brad Rowland, and number one Jonno Cane all had victories, while Mark Whalen halved his match at number four.

With the title all but sewn up, they still had a job to do against a dangerous Auckland side who, unfortunately, failed to fire on all cylinders this week.

Through nine holes, Auckland had their noses in front and was up in three of the five matches.

The Freyberg Masters winners. Back row (from left) Brad Rowland, Steve Weir (Manager), Mark Whalen, Matt Pegg and Steve Thomson; (kneeling) Jonno Cane (left) and Captain Elton Nicholson. Photo: Supplied.

Wellington displayed why they’re a champion side, flipping the top two matches, which got the side over the line 4 – 1.

Wins went to Wellington’s top four, meaning both Cane and Rowland went through the tournament unbeaten.

“It was a team effort. Yes, Cane and Rowland were unbeaten, but they all chimed in at the right time. I’m just super proud of the team and all they’ve achieved over the past couple of years,” Steve says.

North Harbour finished second on 6.5 wins and 25.5 games, finishing half a game better than Canterbury, who rounded out the podium.

The four finalists in the Johnsonville Bowling Club’s pairs championship (from left) Paul Anquetil, Steve Scoones, Brady Amer and Adam Ryan.

Photo: Supplied.

Top bowling pair Brady Amer and Adam Ryan are the Johnsonville Bowling Club’s 2022 pairs champions.

The final of the pairs was played in brilliant sunshine on 6 November.

Victory saw Brady and Adam lift the Chas Warr Cup, first played for in the 1970/71 season.

The inaugural winner of the Chas Warr Cup was Johnsonville Bowling Club legend Todd Anquetil.

Todd’s son Paul was one of this

year’s finalists, teaming up with Steve Scoones.

Paul was not able to replicate his father’s success, however, and Brady and Adam scored a comfortable win.

The Chas Warr Cup has frequently been won multiple times by some of the club’s most experienced players. This year, however, none of the players had won the trophy before.

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