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By: Gerald Rillstone Ever since the council cleanfill on the Coast Road Wainuiomata was granted consent there have been well intended concerns over its operation and continued breaches and the recent appointment of a new chairperson to facilitate between the consent holder and the community.

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A cleanfill site at 130 Coast Road Wainuiomata continues to flout the rules and avoid prosecution. Photo Gerald Rillstone.

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Concern over continued breaches Continued from page 1 Formerly the site of a sewerage plant it opened in 2011 and locals were assured it would close in April 2017.

Up to 165,000m3 was going to be allowed to be dumped there in two stages over six years. Once it reached capacity, the area would be regenerated with native trees.

Since the beginning nearby residents have had to contend with continued noise, dust and the worry of what is really being dumped so close to the treasured Wainuiomata River.

Hutt City Council doesn’t have a great track record in the valley having allowed a previous site to be used. Residents had to

battle waste management over a previous cleanfill, at Waiu St, in 2009 when the council dumped truckloads of toxic sludge from Lower Hutt’s Waiwhetu Stream, one of New Zealand’s most polluted waterways, at the site.

And locals fought a years-long battle against a battery factory over a history of dumping sludge in a nearby landfill, and lead contamination of Wainuiomata Stream.

One of the biggest struggles for concerned community members is getting notification from the council of what is happening with the site, when it will close, how it will be planted out, and whether any action has been

taken over continued flouting of the rules.

At a recent meeting of the council, the contractor who is employed by the council to manage the site and employees from the council involved with the site appointed a new chairperson paid for by the Hutt City Council.

This has caused frustration for members of the Community Liaison Group and with the continued breaking of the consent rules there is mistrust in a council appointed chairperson.

“They never told the Community Liaison Group they were looking for a new chairperson without getting a mandate from the group,” fierce defender of the

environment Sally-Ann Moffat says.

Previous meetings involved a rotating chairperson but it was fraught with conflict.

The new chairperson is Charlie Hopkins a principal planner at The Catalyst Group and hopes to get the council and liaison group on a better footing.

“I would like to think that eventually my role as chairperson decreases and I am not there to tell them what to do but to make sure it is all fair,” Charlie says.

One of the promising indications to come out of the meeting was the possibility the site may be closed and planted in the next six months.

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inbrief news Heritage New Zealand Open Day Waitangi Day Three Heritage New Zealand sites in Wellington will be open on Waitangi Day Saturday 6 February: Old St Paul’s (34 Mulgrave St), 10am4pm Old Government Buildings (55 Lambton Qy), 10am-4pm Antrim House (63 Boulcott St), 11am2pm Free entry. No booking required.

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Ray Wallace has been awarded an Officer of the New Zealand Order of Merit for his decades of dedication to the community.

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Ray awarded for dedication

By Gerald Rillstone

Former Hutt City Mayor and dedicated contributor to the community Ray Wallace has been recognised for his three decades of hard work being awarded an Officer of the Order of Merit in the New Years Honours.

For Ray it is the culmination of thirty years in local government and it all started with involvement on community boards and is humbled by it and shares the accolade with his family and also the thousands of volunteers he has had the pleasure of working with of the decades.

“Community boards are an important part of the commu-

nity and that’s where I started my career being elected to the Wainuiomata Community Board,” he says.

“I had five years on the board and stood for the council by-election in 1995. Won that after Tony London stepped down and I was the youngest by a country mile at 29-years-old.”

Helping people in being in the thick of what is going on in the community is what he’s enjoyed most and the recognition for it is not something he ever thought of.

“That has come from my upbringing and 30 years of community work couldn’t be done without the support of my family, my mum and dad and sister and my wife,” Ray says.

As a Councillor Ray led the

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establishment of the Hutt Youth Council in 1998 and championed youth initiatives, including fundraising for the establishment of a skateboard park.

He helped establish the Wainuiomata Community Patrol Group and as Deputy Mayor, he joined the Board of the Hutt Rape Crisis Centre and drove fundraising to help keep the Centre open.

As Mayor he oversaw a major rejuvenation programme for Hutt City, with several new community facilities built and was a key driver of the Wainuiomata Hill shared cycle/pathway, completed in 2019.

Ray organised fundraising for the Wainuiomata Volunteer Fire Brigade, founded the Wainuiomata Youth Awards and

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co-founded the Wainuiomata Budget Service. He chaired his local community trust for more than 10 years, overseeing school holiday programmes and a work initiative for long-term unemployed people and was Secretary of the local food-bank for seven years and organised many community wide food collections.

He continues to be Vice President of Sister Cities New Zealand and initiated Hutt City exchanges with Japan, China and the United States.

Even though he is no longer mayor Ray still remains a patron of a few clubs and organisations in the community and in doing so is still part of the rich fabric of Wainuiomata.

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readers have their say... Find out the WORD on the Street.

Question: Did you find the roads busier than usual over this holiday break?

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“ I stayed around home for the break and avoided peak travel times.”

“It was busier than other holiday breaks but I expected that.”

“Yip it was the slowest going north of the city I have ever been in.”

“I got away early for Christmas day and was back before new year and found it pretty busy even then.”

“I really don’t travel that much during the break so it didn’t effect me.”

“Yes I wanted to see family up north and the traffic out of Wellington was the worst I have experienced in a while.”

New year new garden

By Gerald Rillstone

A fundraising raffle for a new vegetable garden run by Kokiri Marae Paataka Kia has seen a new maara planted out for Rachael Markland.

To get funds to buy tools for the Pataka maara a raffle was held offering the winner the opportunity to have a garden created in their own backyard and it has proved successful with $1,000 raised.

Pataka’s Moana Williams organised the raffle to help boost the ability to do work in the maara.

“We always had plenty of hands volunteering to help but no tools so it was hard to work with one wheelbarrow three spades and we needed more trees and resources,” Moana says.

Because Rachael already had planter boxes at her property this

has given them the opportunity to hold another raffle Moana says and this week they will hold another raffle.

“We can make raised beds that are about ten metres square or the winner can have a garden dug in because some landlords won’t allow a garden to be dug,” she says.

“We will bring in the plants, the soil, the mulch, everything to make a garden.”

To enter the raffle you can go online on Nui Natter or Moana’s facebook page and choose a number and the winning bonus ball in lotto at the end of the week is the winning number.

Tickets are $25 dollars and if the winner doesn’t need the garden they can donate it to another family member, friend or someone who needs one.

Pataka maara’s Moana Williams with the winner of a free vegetable garden, Rachael Markland.

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Part of the new garden planted out with an array of edibles. Photo Gerald Rillstone.

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inbrief news Final week of Gardens Magic Until 31st January at the Botanic Garden Soundshell.

The third and final week of Gardens Magic returns with a bumper line-up of performances. Don’t miss the Shenanigans, Sky Canvas, Darren Watson, teen bands Mel Stevenson and Girl Scout Cookie, and more! Check out the full programme, grab your friends and whānau, pack a picnic and get on down to the dancefloor, Free.

Upoko-A-Urunga Kohanga Reo reno complete

Pilot of new NCEA More than 30 secondary schools and kura across the country will be piloting the new Māori Performing Arts subject at all NCEA levels and for University Entrance this school year, marking a significant step towards ensuring parity for Māori knowledge in our education system says Ellen MacGregor-Reid, the Deputy Secretary, Early Learning and Student Achievement.

Around 900 students in both English-medium and Māori-medium education settings will be studying Te Ao Haka, as the new Māori Performing Arts subject is called, earning credits towards their NCEA this year.

“This is a significant step in our efforts to ensure Māori knowledge, culture and approaches to learning are valued and supported in accordance with the Government’s obligations under the Treaty of Waitangi,” Ms MacGregor-Reid says.

Te Ao Haka is a performance-based art form grounded in knowledge of Māori culture, language and identity.

As part of the NCEA Change Package, the Government committed to develop new ways to recognise mātauranga Māori, build teacher capability, and improve resourcing and support for Māori learners.

Head teacher Ripeka Hori in one of the new open plan spaces created during the renovation. Photo Gerald Rillstone.

By Gerald Rillstone

After two years in temporary accommodation Upoko-A-Urunga Kohanga Reo have finally been able to move back to their Wood Street home.

The long overdue one point five million dollar renovation to what was once the Wainuiomata RSA was to be completed sooner but Covid caused a few delays head teacher Ripeka Hori says.

Upoko-A-Urunga Kohanga Reo has been in the building for the past 30 years and up until

the renovation Ripeka says they were working with what the RSA had left them with.

“I have been here ten years and this building has been 20 years waiting for renovation,” she says.

“We got our funding from Kohunga Reo Trust to get our funding and it was way more than we expected it to be. Our budget was only three hundred thousand and this was about one point five million and the goal is we will have another 30 years of learning space in our whare.”

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“The original goal was to revitalise our reo but I think it is here now and it is about maintaining it and it is being recognised a lot more now days.

A lot of early childhood learning organisations are recognising the importance of reo,” Ripeka says.

To make the transition from the Upoko-A-Urunga Kohanga Reo to mainstream education she says over the past nine years they have been teaching school work getting the kids to write

their names, recognise numbers and their shapes.

They have a ratio of one teacher to ten kids Ripeka says. They can cater for up to 50 kids at a time with 20 under two-yearolds and 30 over two’s.

“We will have to change our routine as now we don’t have separate rooms it is one big open area where before we had four rooms we divided up into,” she says.

A grand opening is planned for Upoko-A-Urunga Kohanga Reo in the next month.

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Sonya’s passion for old auto’s

By Gerald Rillstone

Sonya Chambers has a love for old cars that goes a long way back and when it came to a daily driver she choose a 1963 Hillman Humber Super Snipe and loved every mile she covered in it.

She has taken in a collection of assorted Hillmans, a Bedford truck, Triumph Renown and her latest project is a 1948 Bradford van.

Up until recently Sonya’s daily driver was the 63 Super Snipe until it failed a warrant because of rust but it is not a major fix and she plans to have it sorted and back on the road soon.

“When I saw my first Super Snipe I thought if I can’t afford a Chev I will buy one of these because it was modelled off the 57 Chev.”

“When I am in it and I am driving I am like a kid in a candy store, grinning,” Sonya says.

Tucked away in her workshop is another Super Snipe, a 1966 model that took six months of negotiation to buy.

“I bought it off a lady in Carterton. I had to show her my other one to prove I do love cars and I would

take good care of it and drove it home,” Sonya says.

While on a trip to Alicetown a Mini rear ended the Super Snipe and pooped the chassis and when the insurance company wrote it off Sonya kept the car and is sorting it out to put back on the road herself.

When the 1948 Bradford van came on the market Sonya couldn’t resist one more project.

The owner wanted it to go to a good home and after a few conversations over what Sonya planned to do with the van it was hers.

She intends to keep it as original as possible, retain the original signage and get it up and running.

Hidden in a compartment in the floor was all the original paper work for the van including the ownership papers, factory hand book and a log book of services.

Sonya who is an office manager during the day intends to do a welding course and do as much work on her projects as she can herself and sell some of the cars once they are back on the road while keeping an eye out for her next purchase.

For her it’s about saving New Zealand motoring history and putting it back on the road.

Another project the Bedford truck.

Sonya Chambers with one of her many projects a 1948 Fordson panel van.

A special find in a compartment in the Fordson revealed the original ownership papers, service history and instruction book. Photo Gerald Rillstone.

With plenty of character Sonya is looking forward to keeping as much of the patina as possible. Photo Gerald Rillstone.

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Eddy Bellet Dad and keen fisherman  What food do you crave most often?

A feed of oysters.

 What was the last photo you took?

Of my dog Spinner

 When you have had a bad day, what do you do to feel better?

Grab my rod and spend some time fishing along the coast.

 What thing do you really wish you could buy right now?

A new surfcasting rod.

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To do the Tongariro Crossing.  Who has been the biggest inspiration in your life?

My mum she showed me what love and patience can do.  What’s the most beautiful place you’ve ever been?

Lake Wanaka in the summer.

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A 1970’s Skoda every day owning it there was something going wrong.  Favourite programme currently watching?

Saving History on demand.  If you had to flee the country, where would you choose to live?

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Home invasion by ants: By Wally Richards

New Zealand has 11 known native ants with an additional 29 ant imports, most of which have arrived from Australia.

The first problem with ants is home invasion, especially in the kitchen.

Over the years I have heard some incredible stories. People open their wardrobe and move the hanging clothes to find thousands of ants falling out, or light switches on the wall burst into flames after electricity arcs across the dead bodies of ants.

Piles of dead ants in heaps several inches high on the ground where dead ants are tossed out of a nest in the eaves. Benches in the kitchen, black with thousands of ants.

Even outdoors there have being cases where someone walking across the lawn is suddenly in a hole up to their knees when an ant nest underground collapses with their weight. One ant problem gardeners often ask me about is ants climbing up into their plants such as citrus trees etc.

If you see ants on plants, then the reason is there are sweet substances that attract them such as honeydew or nectar.

Honey dew is the more common one and this is caused by pest insects such as aphids, scale, mealy bugs or thrips sucking/rasping on the plants foliage and then peeing out honeydew which turns to black sooty mould. Ants

collect this sweet substance and take it back to their nests.

To stop the ants in the tree you need to firstly get rid of the insect pests causing the problem. A spray late in the day with Super Neem Tree Oil and Super Pyrethrum will knock back the pests.

The spray should be for total coverage under and over the foliage followed up about a week later with another good spray of the same.

Placing Neem Tree Granules under the citrus tree is a nice longer term control of any insect pests feeding on or in the tree. The black sooty mold is not nice and it does effect the health of the tree as those leaves do not get energy from the sun because of the mould.

There is a product called Karbyon which comes in a 500 gram container. You simply take 50 grams and dissolve in 5 litres of water then spray the mix to run off over the foliage with sooty mould on. You leave it for 48 hours then hose off. This should wash off the mould unless its a very heavy layer and a further application maybe need to break down what is left.

You can either kill the pest insects first and then attack the mould or do the mould first and insects second. Do not mix Neem Oil etc with Karbyon.

Karbyon is available from some garden centres or otherwise by mail order. I have recommended over the years a number of solutions for ant problems and here they are again.

Ants coming into the kitchen simply set up one of those Can things that hang on the wall and sprays every so many minutes a dose of pyrethrum. Ants sense the natural product and stop visiting as long as the can is working. When the can runs out of pyrethrum then about a week or two later ants will start to appear.

If ants are in cupboards/ pantries where the pyrethrum spray is not reaching then remove all the food and containers and spray the walls and shelves with X-it Ant. The product lasts for months affecting any ants/cockroach etc. If you wash the cupboard after about 2-3 months you will need to reapply.

Do not put food on the bare shelves, its low toxicity but still not good in your diet. X-it Ant is not cheap at about $50 a container but still less cost than to have an exterminator come and use it.

Also you should treat the ants outside and the cheap way to do this is to use either Borax to make up a powder bait or to use Granny Mins ant Bait for a liquid one.

For Borax you measure an

equal amount of Borax with icing sugar, mix the two together and place the bait outside where there is ant activity.

If concerned about pets place the bait in a small glass jar and lay on its side, with a little sprinkling of bait from trail to jar. This is a good method to use anyway as rain will not wash your bait away.

Granny Mins Ant Bait comes a jar that contains Borax and Boric Acid in equal amounts.

You follow the recipe to add water, sugar and honey to the contents to make up just under a litre of liquid bait which can be used in bait stations as above.

If your ants prefer protein then add either of the above to sloppy cat food and place safely in a bait station. These products are available in many garden centres and some Mitre 10 stores or by mail order.

Outdoor areas of concrete, walls etc can be sprayed with X-it Ant and will effect ants and other pest insects that come in contact with it for a good period of time.

On soil areas or container plants where ants are use Biforce granules which is the same pyrethrin as X-it Ant. These two are mainly available in stock and station agents or by mail order.

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SPORTS TALK With Jacob Page

More than meets the eye in America’s Cup The America’s Cup may be one of the most ideal sports contests for television.

I must admit, my interest was minimal when racing started and quite frankly, I still find all the different competitions, races, regattas or Cups confusing and potentially pointless but the actual racing looks exhilarating.

Watching these yachts get up on their foils and travel faster than 75kph

is like nothing I’ve ever seen.

The technology and skill it must take to sail at that level cannot be understood by those who have never done it.

Poor Dean Barker still can’t catch a break in the America’s Cup. If he didn’t have bad luck, he would have no luck at all.

The capsize of his America Magic yacht was stunning on so many levels.

It’s left Team UK as potential

favourites to challenge Team New Zealand in the coming months.

That is a form reversal of note also considering how off the pace the British entry seemed to be last month.

I’d urge anyone who is in Auckland during a race to pop down to the Auckland Viaduct to watch it live.

However, as a television event, aided by graphics and some moderately intelligent commentary, racing is a must watch and it’s made for the 21st

century human with short attention span.

Gone is the slow chess game of racing like the 1995 regatta where races would take hours.

Instead, races are now 30 to 35 minutes and are done at a scarcely believable speed.

As to whether, Team New Zealand can maintain their grip on one of the oldest sports trophies in the world, well that’s hard to predict at this stage.

The prevailing theory is that Team New Zealand will keep it in a comfortable fashion but with technology changing at a rapid pace and the emergence of Team UK proves nothing is set in stone.

If you’re on the fence about watching it, if you’re part of the too cool brigade which believes it’s just rich men racing their toys in the Auckland Harbour, I encourage you to think again and thank me later.

Rain brings a draw for Wainuiomata Cricket

By Justin Morgan Wainui 1st eleven had a draw on Saturday versing Victoria University in a rain affected game at Bryan Heath park.

Bowling first Wainui were able to bowl Victoria University out for 269 and Chris Offord was the pick of the bowlers with 4-51.

Wainui started patiently and after 15 overs the showers started and although both teams played in the rain for 10 overs, the game eventually had to be abandoned with Wainui on 86 for 2, with Tim Wilson backing up from his 88 last week, reaching 57 not out.

Wainui 2nds played Upper Hutt at home in a 2 day game and were in control before the rain stopped play. Wainui bowled Upper Hutt out for 107 with TJ having the best figures of 3 wickets for 8 runs. In reply, Wainui were 86 for 2, with DJ scoring a quick 50 to put the team in a strong position to push forward towards a win next week.

Wainui’s 40 over team had a close loss to Easts. Bowling first Wainui were able to get 8 wickets during Easts innings of 199, with Glen getting 3 wickets for 39 runs. In reply, Wainui made it close but finished short with 191 and Vhanna 63 for Wainui not being enough.

Wainui 1st Eleven play Taita at Fraser Park this Saturday.

It was a close call for Wainuiomata batsman Craig Foster during the match against Victoria University over the weekend. Photo Gerald Rillstone.

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