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A fracture in the Warkworth business community is threatening to spill into legal action and the first head to roll in the controversy is Warkworth Area Business Association (WABA) chair Dean Sampson.Mr Sampson has tendered his resignation citing “personal reasons” as the cause. However, his resignation

was specifically called for in a written request received by the association just before Christmas.Signed by 10 financial members, the request seeks a Special General Meeting to end the Business Improvement District (BID) establishment process, calls for Mr Sampson’s resignation and promotes the resignation of the

whole executive committee.The latest association newsletter says that, “We have since been advised by the signatories that the Special General Meeting issue is being taken up by their legal team and, as this now appears to be a legal matter, we will not be taking any further action about the SGM request at this time.”

Mutiny stalks Warkworth BID campaignThe latest developments come after news that a separate business association has formed, with one of its primary aims being to defeat the current campaign to establish a BID in Warkworth. The BID is being strongly championed by WABA and the Rodney Local Board, which has

Thousands of people headed to Mahurangi last month to soak up a slower pace of life as summer finally turned on the heat. But many people also found their patience boiling over as roads became gridlocked. The Warkworth A&P Lifestyle Show reported a drop in numbers which they attributed to the traffic jams (see story p6). But it is a scenario that is likely to become more frequent, as our real estate feature Property Pressure foreshadows. Warkworth could grow to nearly 28,000 people in the next 25 years (see story p12) and developers are already transforming our towns in anticipation. Hopefully, this won’t come at the expense of the lifestyle, which attracted people in the first place, and there will still be time to smell the roses... (See Valentine’s Day 24-25)

Even the very young were captivated the fragrance of the floral display at the Warkworth A&P Lifestyle Show last month.

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Members rallyIn the wake of Dean Sampson’s resignation, the Warkworth Area Business Association committee has co-opted the services of Eleanor Trueman, who is the administrator at Land Development & Exploration Warkworth, and Susan Vize, owner of Chocolate Brown. A committee spokesperson says that both new members are passionate about realising the future potential of Warkworth and are supporting the BID process.

from page 1funded the establishment campaign to the tune of $23,500.The new association – the Warkworth Commerce & Industrial Association – is centred largely on the Woodcocks Road industrial area, where many businesses have opposed being included in the BID boundary from the outset.They believe the compulsory annual BID levy will have no benefit for them.But WABA needs the industrial estate to raise the $180,000 annually that it believes is necessary to be financially sustainable.Two previous attempts to establish a BID for Warkworth have failed.Meanwhile, less than half of the 513 business and property owners on the WABA BID database have registered to vote in the establishment ballot.At the close of registrations on January 15, 190 registrations had been received.For the ballot to be valid, at least 25 per cent (or 128) of the 513 identified business and property owners in the BID district have to vote.Of that figure, a minimum of 51 per cent (or 66 votes) must be in favour of the BID before Council will recognise

it as a mandate.BID coordinator Rachel Callender says that every property owner and business entity in the BID area will get a ballot, regardless of whether or not they registered. “The database will be corrected as needed right through the balloting period to ensure that every eligible voter receives a ballot,” she says. “That’s a requirement of the BID policy. If someone hasn’t received a ballot up to or even during the voting period, they only have to call Election Services and one will be sent.”The postal ballot will be conducted over three weeks, from late March to mid-April.

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Former Warkworth Area Business Association chair Dean Sampson.

A review of parking in Warkworth has found there is ample supply of carparks and extra parking isn’t needed.Auckland Transport (AT) conducted a survey of parking on Tuesday June 9 and Saturday June 13, and found just over half of the parking spaces were occupied at peak times. Overall, there were about 450 parking spaces in the town centre. The busiest period was between 11am and 12 noon and weekdays were busier than weekends.On the Tuesday, 65 per cent of spaces were full at 12 noon, with an average occupancy of 57 per cent. On the Saturday, peak occupancy was 28 per cent, with an average of 20 per cent occupied throughout the day.The average parking time was one-hour 30-minutes on the Tuesday, and 54 minutes on the Saturday.However, Rodney Local Board member Beth Houlbrooke says the study didn’t look at the lack of long- term parking in the town, which caters for people who need to park all day for work.“Most people have to drive into town for work and there is a lack of parking for people who want to stay more than two hours,” Ms Houlbrooke says. “I’m pushing for a review of the number and occupancy of long-term spaces in the town, because I think it needs to be addressed.”

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Auckland Council has dismantled two pieces of playground equipment in the Point Wells Reserve on the grounds that they are unsafe, despite the fact that they have entertained children for more than 70 years without any recorded incident.The ‘witch’s hat’ merry-go-round and the ‘lullaby swing’ have been deemed “too dangerous”.North parks acting manager Chris Burgess says the ‘witches hat’ collapsed and, due to its age and poor condition, was not able to be repaired to current playground standards. A subsequent inspection of the second piece of equipment, the ‘lullaby swing’, found it also failed to meet the required safety standards. “A risk of serious injury was identified and we were required to remove it,” Mr Burgess says.A petition calling for the reinstatement of the lullaby swing has garnered strong support.Organiser Peter Young says it’s time for communities to test the Health and Safety legislation and boundaries,

If playground equipment could be listed on a heritage register, the former swings in the Point Wells Reserve – now dismantled – would surely have qualified. The photo shows the equipment in better days.

Council dismantles historic Point Wells swings

and Council’s interpretation of the rules.“In this case, they have really over-stepped the mark,” he says. “The swings were bought by the community and belonged to the residents, even though they were in a Council park. Council didn’t have the right to take

them away without consulting with us, at the very least, and the ‘witch’s hat’ was not theirs to destroy.”Mr Young believes that even if the community raised the funds to build a new witch’s hat, it would still fail to meet Health and Safety standards.Peter says the current standards

adopted by Council are based on European playground safety standards and are not entirely appropriate within this community.Point Wells Residents & Ratepayers chair Graeme Beals describes the equipment as part of the history of the community.“It was a place for young people to gather and the equipment was very well-used,” he says.It is understood the witch’s hat was removed after a resident rang Council asking them to repair it.Mr Burgess says staff met recently with the Point Wells residents’ group and Council will hold a consultation session involving local school children soon. “We will get feedback on what type of equipment the local kids want to play on. We will look at a number of options, including play equipment that provides a similar play experience to the old equipment, as these were clearly popular items. We will also look at the location of the new equipment.”Parks will look at installing the new equipment later this year.

An inorganic waste collection service will start in Rodney this year, as well as a green-waste collection.The household inorganic collection is being set up by Auckland Council and will be an on-call service, paid via rates. Pick-ups must be pre-booked and loads will be limited to no more than one cubic metre.Residents can book in advance by entering their address at the website inorganiccollections.aucklandcouncil.govt.nz/Inorganic.Council will do a leaflet drop a week in advance to let people know the collection dates. As well as helping households clear out the garage, the collection could be a boon for community groups.

Items that can be reused will be available to charities and community groups who can sell the items as a fundraiser.The Community Recycling Network of Aotearoa has the contract to recycle the collected materials and project manager Greg Brown says they are co-ordinating with local groups including Warkworth Wellsford Hospice. Any community group interested in having access to collected items can contact Council and register. “Our waste management collectors who have done inorganics have said they are surprised at how good the items are and when the community groups come in they are surprised at how clean it is,” Mr Brown says.

“Sometimes we get a washing machine or dryer still in its packaging.”Community groups and charities have first dibs on the items and then the company looks to work with commercial second-hand dealers.The company aims to recycle 50 per cent of collected materials.Meanwhile, Northland Waste is launching a green-waste collection service this month.The service will cover Warkworth, Snells Beach, Omaha and Matakana.Contract manager Sam Bisset says users who register for the service will get a 240-litre wheelie bin and it will cost $8 per monthly collection.“People will be able to put in grass

clippings and garden waste. The material is then mulched and turned into compost,” Mr Bisset says.Company director Ray Lambert says the service is being introduced due to popular demand.“We are trying to go above and beyond what Council is offering.”Last year, Council announced plans to start an organic waste collection in urban areas in Rodney, but last month Council wouldn’t confirm a start date for the service. “We are still in the planning stage and cannot currently confirm when these collections will start,” Council waste solutions manager Ian Stupple said.Info: inorganiccollections.aucklandcouncil.govt.nz/inorganic

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Town Hall memory lossI read with interest the comments about the cost of the Warkworth Town Hall restoration (MM Jan 13) by past and present Local Board members in your last edition. I took particular note of Steve Garner’s comments that if the community had been presented with the current costs of the restoration then they may have not supported the hall. Mr Garner appears to be suffering from memory loss. I sat on the Rodney Local Board with him at the time the community consultation took place. The community consultation that won an award for its thorough and transparent nature. The community consultation that provided four options to a well-attended public meeting and yes, even those that wanted the hall torn down had their say at that meeting. Was there a picture on the wall of a pile of rubble or a car park? No, there wasn’t – why not? Because that would have required spending ratepayers money on taking the Historic Places Trust to court to remove the Category One status from the building. Mr Garner has apparently forgotten that it was costing ratepayers close to $40,000 per year to have the hall sit there empty just falling to pieces. He appears to have forgotten that this hall was the most used hall in all of Rodney up until the day that it was closed. He appears to have forgotten that the community vote selected option three with the capacity to move to option four at some future stage. If my memory

serves me correctly, option four, as presented, had a predicted price tag of $5.4 million. When completed the Warkworth Town Hall will be restored and extended to almost the option four design. This hall will be the jewel in this town’s crown and I have no doubt that local elected officials such as Mr Garner will line up to cut ribbons and take credit when the project opens. I remember similar outcries about the town clock and the suggestion that Joy Bell’s amazing work would be ‘architectural vandalism’ but what a fabulous centrepiece that has become. This town deserves to retain its heritage, its heart and its history, and it deserves a working town hall.Tracey Martin, Warkworth

Backing the BIDOur family has been property owners in Warkworth since the late 1940s and only in the last two years sold our commercial buildings in Queen Street. Consequently we have no vested interest in, but will always remain supportive of, what’s good for the town.Being landlords, we joined and supported the Warkworth Area Business Association (WABA), and in recent times we have been impressed by the transformation of this group with its commitment to improve communication and business focus for the town.What I call the ‘younger generation of volunteers’ has been instrumental in breathing a new vibrancy, focus and energy that can only benefit Warkworth.

Reading the current issue of Mahurangi Matters (MM, Jan 13), about another group being formed primarily to challenge the BID process, certainly introduces confusion as to where the future business direction, leadership and purpose of Warkworth is heading.Rather than telling us about what’s wrong with the BID, I hope this group can come up with constructive solutions for the handling of Warkworth’s future and growth without being reliant on volunteers and the hours that they obviously contribute for the town’s progress.I remember several years ago being told by a local government official that Warkworth appeared divisive and never seemed to want to agree on anything ... so here we go again.I understand some people’s negative concerns the minute the suggestion of a levy or increasing Council rates come in to play, however agreement, co-ordination and leadership is required if residents and the business community of Warkworth are to respond positively to the future change and growth.The BID model may not suit everyone, but it does not rely solely on volunteers or voluntary funding, and is used by a large number of Auckland business associations, one of which is Onehunga that I have some familiarity with.I favour encouraging the ‘younger generation’ to step up and that includes Josh Hubbard, chairman of

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FruitloopThe Matakana Fruitloop will be held on Saturday March 5, not Sunday March 6 as reported (MM Jan 13). Info: matakanafruitloop.co.nz

No judgement hereIt looks like even judges get stuck in holiday mode. When the Unitary Plan Independent Hearings Panel held its first meeting of the year last month, one panellist said he was having trouble with his computer – when his assistant investigated she found it wasn’t turned on.

Half and halfAt his Rotary address in Orewa, NZ First Leader Winston Peters said the word immigration was widely misused. An immigrant is a person who leaves the country they were born in to settle in another country. He said people who say ‘we’re all immigrants’ were talking rubbish. “I’m half Maori, half Scots and, as Billy T once remarked, ‘That means one half of me wants to have a drink and the other half doesn’t want to pay’.”

WenderholmThe price the Auckland Regional Authority (ARC) paid to purchase Wenderholm in 1965 was £186,800, not £230,000 as reported in the story on the regional park’s 50th anniversary (MM Jan 13). In 1964, the land was valued at £1 million, but the ARC negotiated to buy the land for £230,000. However, Cauldrey House and 6.8ha surrounding it was later excluded from the deal and the price was reduced to £186,800. The Cauldrey family owned the building until 1973, when it sold to the ARC.

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WorkSafe respondsIn response to the article, ‘Health and safety changes threaten school activities’ (MM, Jan 13):New health and safety legislation should not get in the way of schools providing the great experience of outdoor education our children currently enjoy. Indeed, the Health and Safety at Work Act clarifies what everyone’s duties are – Boards of Trustees, principals, teachers and parent volunteers and outdoor recreation providers. The views expressed by your area’s school principals are a mixture of evidence that their schools are doing all they need to do and unfounded fears.David Macleod says his school is already “very, very thorough in our Risk Analysis Management Systems”. The school would appear to be taking the right approach to meet the requirements of the new legislation.The Health and Safety at Work Act (HSWA) requires that schools take reasonably practicable steps to ensure safety on, in this case, school camps. A thorough risk analysis and identification of measures to meet the identified risks is what they are doing now and should continue to do in the future.Risk is a part of life. The law does not and could not seek to eradicate it. Incidents happen in the great outdoors – children, teachers, parent helpers suffer injuries – the HSWA doesn’t instantly make schools liable the minute someone gets hurt on a camp. It’s about taking reasonably practical steps to manage risk. I can do no better than quote Mr Macleod when he says it is about “taking a continued next page

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Email letters to [email protected] SAYmeasured amount of risk which is managed as carefully as possible”. This perfectly sums up the approach of the Act and WorkSafe’s view of the world.The example Mr Macleod raises of a student becoming ill on an overnight hike is exactly in line with the reasonably practical steps test – they had a beacon with them and so were prepared.Professional outdoor education providers will help schools meet their duties, by consulting, cooperating and coordinating to ensure the health and safety of the students, parents, and teachers attending the activity. Together the school and the provider will make sensible arrangements to ensure risks are managed. It’s important to remember schools already have duties under the current Health and Safety in Employment Act. The new Health and Safety at Work Act is not designed to curtail activities – it is designed to ensure those who have responsibility for the creation of risk have considered that risk and taken reasonably practical steps to address the risk. And just because an incident occurs does not mean that a principal or anyone else will be prosecuted. WorkSafe is notified of 3500 serious harms a year and takes about 100 prosecutions. This action is reserved only for the most serious cases.Gordon MacDonald, WorkSafe New Zealand Chief Executive

A true professionalWith the death of Phil Ansley, optometrist, trading as Mahurangi Vision Centre in Neville Street, on November 17, Warkworth has lost a great professional man (MM Jan 13). Phil started in Warkworth just after I did in 1969, in small premises in Elizabeth Street. He quickly built up a reputation and clientele. This takes time and constant effort, always being efficient, conscientious and serving all your clients’ needs promptly, to achieve their satisfaction and confidence. Phil had all of these qualities. He was


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always cheerful and helpful, and when he had time, you could divert him to vintage cars, his other great interest.He did me a real service by finding I was developing glaucoma (which leads to blindness) at an early stage, so it could be treated.When he operated from Kowhai House, he voluntarily accepted for all the tenants of this building to maintain the services and air conditioning and arrange for repairs when needed.Phil was very ably assisted by a loyal team of staff, including his partner Sarndra, his receptionist.Simon Withers, Warkworth

Sentiments appreciatedI would like to express my sincere thanks and congratulations to John Walsby for a wonderful (real!) poem and eulogy to Bill Ballantine (MM Jan 13).It is a fitting tribute to a special person who achieved so much for New Zealand. John has outlined his career and his character very capably and I, for one, appreciate his work very much.I would also like to thank Mahurangi Matters for the beautiful presentation of the poem.Valma Gidman, Warkworth

Slip up on sliplane Towards the end of last year the community of Warkworth were advised that work will commence on improving the flow of traffic at the intersection

from Sandspit Road into Warkworth.We all got quite excited to think that yeah, at last a ‘free lane’ into our township was about to happen thus helping reduce the queue that frequently builds back up the Sandspit Road.The curb has been moved back a mere 70cm and traffic, and people are still driving across the grass to access the township – nothing has improved at all!To me the Council’s effort appears to be a total waste of time and ratepayer monies. My plea to the roading engineers, is for a ‘please explain’.Dave Parker, Warkworth

More mangroves With reference to your article on mangrove removal (MM Dec 16), I look forward to the current Sandspit Residents and Ratepayers chair’s continued enthusiasm for organising and being physically involved in mangrove seedling removal because he now has an important personal incentive for doing so. As a berth purchaser, he has his work cut out for the next 35 years of the Sandspit marina’s consent. On the shore side of the marina wall, thousands of mangrove seedlings have germinated in the deep mud created by the marina construction since mid-2014. This area was formerly firm sandy shellfish bed. It is a condition of the marina consent that this area be kept free of mangroves as part of returning the foreshore to its former state.Frances Hall, Sandspit

Perfect weather may have been a double-edged sword at this year’s Warkworth A&P Lifestyle Show, on Saturday January 23, as thousands headed to Mahurangi, clogging the roads.Show committee president Mark Macky says it was a fantastic event, but numbers were down a little as many people got stuck in traffic.“We had volunteers who were nearly an hour late because it took them 45 minutes to drive from Snells Beach. A lot of people called to say they couldn’t make it because of traffic.”Cars were backed up for kilometres around Warkworth and Matakana,

and a motorbike accident near Perry Road at 12.20pm closed State Highway One.Committee secretary Marjorie Blythen says the show had a boost in livestock and equestrian entries, and the woodchopping event filled up weeks in advance.The committee is now looking ahead to the show’s 150th anniversary next year.“We are planning to do something special for it,” Mrs Blythen says.The committee will reconvene this month to take stock of the show and start planning next year’s event.

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The year is well underway and many of us are now back at work. I know the weather has been a bit patchy but I hope that you were able to make the most of the good weather when it arrived. I have spent most of my break at the surf club or surfing with my kids and have been on the lookout for good waves around the electorate each day. Our beaches have been packed with people and Rodney continues to be a hugely popular holiday destination for both overseas visitors and our fellow out-of-town Kiwis.Fishing is one of our favourite pastimes regardless of the season and as a coastal electorate it is even more significant for our community. Last month we made an announcement on the proposed recreational fishing park for the inner Hauraki Gulf. This proposal covers the entire coastline of the Rodney electorate.The proposal for the recreational fishing park is relevant for us as it proposes to prohibit commercial fishing that directly competes with recreational fishing in the inner Hauraki Gulf. It is important to strike the right balance between protecting our fisheries and environment whilst being able to achieve sustainable economic growth through our oceans for the benefit of all New Zealanders.The new system of marine protection proposes changes to how we manage our marine reserves, species-specific sanctuaries, and seabed reserves. The aim is to provide a better and more flexible process for establishing new marine reserves. Submissions are open and I encourage you to have your say. You can do this by going to the Ministry for the Environment website or contact my office and they can help you. Submissions close on March 11.This year will be busy for me, both within the electorate and from a parliamentary perspective. The Select Committee that I chair, Foreign Affairs, Defence and Trade, will have a busy start to the year receiving the Trans Pacific Partnership Agreement. We will be seeking public submissions and I intend to make sure all those wishing to make an oral submission are given an opportunity to appear in front of the committee.This year we will start building the Puhoi-Wellsford motorway extension, from the Johnston Hill tunnels to just north of Warkworth. This will deliver us a safer, more reliable and quicker connection which will also support both our economic and population growth.I wish you all a happy and exciting 2016, we still have the best of summer to arrive and we can wake up every morning knowing that we live in one of the most beautiful parts of the world. There is going to be plenty of new activity in the electorate this year with work beginning on new residential and commercial developments, a new world class highway being built and local businesses growing, making new investments and creating new jobs. I look forward to seeing you during the year.

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localfolkDennis Marwood, Retired racing driver

I guess I got into racing because I liked cars a lot more than I liked

cows. I grew up on a dairy farm, just south of Morrinsville. I was still a teenager when I joined the Hamilton car club scene, which was based around Ivan Segedin’s Esso gas station, The Motordrome, on the Te Rapa straight. It was the place to be on weekends if you were a petrol-head. My first wheels were a Matchless 350, a motorbike developed by the British Army during World War II. A friend talked me in to fitting the bike with a high-compression piston and knobbly tyres, and we took on dirt rack racing at places like Motomaho, near Raglan. This was the forerunner of the motocross era. After the bike, I moved on to an Austin 7 and then an MG TD.

I tried to concentrate on farming, but opportunities on the track kept

presenting themselves. In 1958 I went up to a Northern Sports Car Club meet at Ardmore. I was only there as a spectator, but a mate threw me a helmet, got me into a handicap race with a favourable start and I won. I was hooked. I started driving to Auckland every day after milking to work with Ray Stone, who was operating an engine tuning and modifying shop in South Auckland. Ray was at the sharp end of performance enhancing and race engine preparation, looking after Johnny Mansel’s Maserati 250F among others. He had an engine dynamometer in his workshop, which wasn’t common in the 1950s. I’d spend the day modifying cylinder heads for him, simply because I loved making engines go faster, and then I’d drive back in time for evening milking.

But I soon had the responsibilities of a wife and two small children,

and decided to give the racing away and be a dairy farmer. It didn’t last long though. One day, in 1965, I got a call from BMW importer Ross Jensen, inviting me to a test day at Pukekohe. I ended up with a contract with the Rothmans Sports Foundation for two seasons, racing in the Tasman Series against motor racing legends like Jackie Stewart, Graham Hill, Jimmy Palmer and Jim Clark. At the

onlinevideoHear Dennis recount a story from his early days of racing at Levin.www.localmatters.co.nz

Watching the premier motor racing events of today, it’s hard to imagine drivers competing in t-shirts and jandals without safety belts, let alone helmets or rollbars. But that is how the pioneers of the sport such as Dennis Marwood remember it. Now a sprightly 82-year-old, Dennis has lived in the Mahurangi area for the past 15 years and opened the Nikau Haven B&B on Goat Island Road six years ago. Although his days of racing for the chequered flag are long gone, a V6 Alfa Romeo parked in the carport suggests the love of speed hasn’t disappeared completely. He spoke to our journalist Jannette Thompson ….

which was my favourite car. There were very few vehicle import licences in NZ then; most cars arrived in crates and had to be assembled. In one three year period, our workshop put together 930 engines all with modified differentials, cam shafts, carburettors and manifolds. They became the SSS engine. It was about this time I started doing the long distance races. By the 1980s I’d started classic racing with a 1967 Alfa GTV which was fun. I eventually retired from the sport, finally, in 2004.

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probably cost me my first marriage. I think the violence I experienced at the hands of my father also had a malignant and long-lasting effect on my life. He was both verbally and physically violent over many years – it was nothing for me to wake up on the floor seeing stars after one of his outbursts – and I had to learn how to shoulder a lot of abuse. I think I am a peacemaker by nature, but I’ve often been called rude. Perhaps some of that stems from the fact that I never learned the limits in

terms of behaviour and what is and isn’t acceptable. Also, subconsciously, although I wasn’t violent, I think maybe I thought that everyone should be able to handle gruff and abrupt behaviour. Women are very special people, whom I admire greatly, and it’s one of my life’s regrets that I didn’t – or perhaps wasn’t able to – give the women in my life the attention they needed. I gave them love and worked tirelessly to support them, but I can see now that that is not enough.

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A plan to develop vehicle access to Te Muri Regional Park has been put forward by Auckland Council, as it prepares to open the park to the public.Council released a draft park management plan for consultation last month and an open day will be held at the park on Saturday February 20, from 10.30am to 2pm. The plans involve building three carparks and toilet blocks, and a major upgrade to the Hungry Creek Road and State Highway One intersection, near Puhoi. Developing walkways and protecting the archeological and ecological features of the park is cited as a priority. The carparks and toilet blocks would be built at the park entrance on Hungry Creek Road, near the beach at Te Muri and on Mahurangi Regional Park, near Te Muri stream (see map).Work on the intersection will require funding from Auckland Transport and NZ Transport Agency (NZTA), and Council hopes it will be completed in the next five years.Council purchased the 382ha park, between Wenderholm and Mahurangi regional parks, in 2010 and it has been leased as farmland. Public access has been restricted to a strip of coastline and a small campground, accessed by a stream crossing from Mahurangi Regional Park.Mahurangi Action has been campaigning to establish a coastal trail from Wenderholm to Mahurangi Regional Park via Te Muri and group secretary Cimino Cole says the draft plan is “disappointing”.Council has made no commitment to developing the walkway, only saying the option could be investigated.But, Mr Cole says he is optimistic the trail will be prominent in the final plan, as it will be one of the quickest and cheapest ways to open the park to the public – developing vehicle access to the park is

Auckland Council’s draft management plan includes a large carpark near Te Muri beach.

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expected to cost millions.“It is highly likely the plan will be amended so that the coastal trail is the first cab of the rank,” Mr Cole says. “The only thing standing in the way is gaining a resource consent.”Although, ideally, the park would be closed to vehicles, he says.“The place would lose its magic, which comes from its splendid sense of isolation.”During the first phase of consultation last year, 88 of the 139 submissions supported the Mahurangi Action proposal. The group is now trying to mobilise people to submit on the draft plan.An independent hearings commissioner will hold hearings in April/May before making recommendations to Council’s Parks, Recreation and Sport Committee, who will make the final decision in May/June.The park is home to significant archeological sites,

including a pa site, burial ground and middens, and has a range of ecosystems including kauri forest and threatened plant species.Council plans to fence off native bush, wetlands and archaeological sites, develop walking/cycling trails and upgrade the campground, while continuing farming on the land. Two cottages could be rented out as holiday baches.Signs with information on the Maori and European history of the park could also be installed. The land has a long association with Ngati Manuhiri, Te Kawerau a Maki and Ngati Whatua, and was the site of “multiple inter-tribal events, battles and marriages dating back to the mid-1600s”, the Council plan says.It has been farmed since the 1820s and was owned by the Schishka family from 1885 to 2010.Consultation closes March 18.Info: shapeauckland.co.nz/consultations/te-muri-regional-park/

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The location of future urban development in Warkworth dominated the Unitary Plan hearings on Mahurangi last month. The Independent Hearings Panel was hearing submissions on the location of the Rural Urban Boundary (RUB), which will define the barrier between rural and future development land.A 141ha block of land to the north east of Warkworth was a major point of contention. The land, between Matakana Road and Sandspit Road, was originally included in Council’s proposed RUB in 2013, but it has been removed from the latest plans, sparking a reaction from landowners in the area who want to develop the space.Council staff have recommended the land remains mixed rural and countryside living zones due to concerns about traffic congestion, environmental degradation, unstable ground and an oversupply of urban land. Auckland Transport (AT) modelling found a second bridge would be required over the Mahurangi River if the land was developed, due to traffic jams at the Hill Street intersection. Council planner David Hookway said Warkworth could grow to 27,900 people if the land was urbanised – well above the 20,000 population set out in the proposed Unitary Plan.But, at the hearings in Orewa, a number of landowners called on the hearings panel to open the land to subdivision, saying it is a logical location for growth in Warkworth and traffic and environmental issues can be managed.Speaking on behalf of a group of Sandspit Road residents, Greg Stevenson said there was huge demand for the land.“We have Chinese investors knocking down our

The 141ha block of land labelled as ‘North East Warkworth’ could accommodate up to 3500 people, but Council says another bridge across the Mahurangi River would be required to service the area.

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door to try and buy these blocks of land at ridiculous prices,” Mr Stevenson said.If the rural zoning remained it would open the door to developers driving private plan changes to develop the land, rather than a community driven process.“The location of the RUB will determine whether we take the money from developers who want to muscle a plan change through the environment court, or whether we stay and work with the community to produce a good result.”The company Better Living Landscapes represented a number of landowners in the area. Barrister Kitt Littlejohn said Council’s concerns could be mitigated if the land was developed at a low density.

“The area could be developed for 900 dwellings without any further infrastructure required,” Mr Littlejohn said. “This is low hanging fruit and Council acknowledges this land could be developed within the next decade.”In December, Council released a plan outlining the timing of infrastructure upgrades to enable development of land in the proposed RUB, which included live-zoning the contested land to the north-east of Warkworth between 2022 and 2026.There had also been no submission opposing developing in the north-east of Warkworth, Mr Littlejohn said.Traffic engineer David Mitchell also presented on behalf of the group. Mr Mitchell had investigated building a bridge across the Mahurangi River in 2008 while working for Rodney District Council, and said a new bridge across the Mahurangi River wasn’t required if the area was restricted to 850 dwellings. This could be determined when the Warkworth structure plan was updated.The area could even grow to accommodate 1100 houses if improvements to Sandspit Road and the Hill Street intersection were completed.Planner and company director Karen Pegrume said the environmental risks of developing north-east Warkworth were no greater than in any other part of town.“Wherever you are in Warkworth, you are connected with the river and tributary streams. That’s the end point for any runoff.”The environmental impact of building a further bridge, if required, could also be managed. The hearings panel will make recommendations to Council on the rural urban boundary by July 22.

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moving up,” Mr Macky says.Mahurangi is nearly out of land for development and prices will continue to climb unless Auckland Council is able to make more land available for development, he says.The sales volume in December 2015 decreased by 23 per cent compared with December 2014, from 48 to 37. This reflects the declining supply in the market, Mr Macky says.About 750ha has been earmarked for development in Warkworth in the proposed Unitary Plan, but it will not become live zoned until at least 2022. Council needs to be looking to make land available now, he says.“The big issue isn’t the next 30 years, but the next five.”

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A group of Wellsford residents made a heartfelt plea to the Unitary Plan Independent Hearings Panel last month to help break 40 years of population stagnation.Vision Wellsford formed last year in opposition to Auckland Council’s proposed Unitary Plan, which it says will restrict growth. The group has developed a proposal to zone an extra 300-hectares for development, which they presented to the panel in Orewa.There is already 300ha of land zoned for urban development in Wellsford, which Council says will accommodate growth in the town, while tweaks made to the rural urban boundary (RUB) could add another 30ha.At hearings in central Auckland, Council planner Ryan Bradley said the town’s population hadn’t grown since 1976 and Council growth models predicted the area would shrink over the next 30 years.But, Vision Wellsford disagrees and claims development has been stymied by the town’s wastewater system which is at capacity.At the Orewa hearings, group member Wendy Crow-Jones said more people were moving to the area due to rising house prices in Auckland, but there was a lack of housing supply in Wellsford.“Couples are putting letters in letterboxes in the hope the owner might sell,” Ms Crow-Jones said. “I’ve had one such letter. There is

Vision Wellsford wants to see more land zoned for development and infrastructure upgrades to allow the town to grow.

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also pressure on our local childcare facilities because of the number of young families in the area.”Group member Sam Walton spoke representing the youth of Wellsford and asked the panellists to plan for the town’s future.“If we don’t plan for growth, we won’t get any,” Mr Walton said. “That’s what we’ve done for the passed 30 years. We cannot accept status quo. We need to make it more attractive for young people to invest, build or buy homes.”Group member Lionel Foster said they had produced a plan after holding public meetings, open days, an online survey and consulting with landowners.“Vision Wellsford has done what

Council hasn’t. We’ve taken the RUB and zoning to landowners and have got their input.”The group also supplied a statement from Mike Pero Real Estate agent Andrew Steens, which said there was very high demand for property in Wellsford and a housing shortage.“Buyers seem to be mostly young families and recently retired couples or singles, with investors making up less than 20 per cent of buyers,” Mr Steens said. “There is considerable demand for new stock to be built to meet this demand.”At the hearing, Watercare representative Andre Stuart said the town was at the limit of its discharge consent and the wastewater plant

needed a significant upgrade.Watercare’s evidence submitted to the panel said, “It is likely to take several years to replace the discharge consents, following which a significant treatment process upgrade will be required”.The Hearings Panel split into two groups to cover hearings on the RUB in the north and south of Auckland. North panel chair Des Morrison seemed impressed by the presentation.“I commend you on the process you’ve gone through. We, as commissioners, are listening.”Panellist Les Simmons asked whether there was growth in employment in Wellsford.“I’ve heard a lot about wanting more people coming to Wellsford, but where are they going to work?”Mr Foster said businesses were keen to come to the area, but first they needed somewhere to live. “It’s a chicken and egg situation.”Panellist Peter Fuller suggested land could still be zoned for development through private plan changes as demand increases.The group might also take heart that there was a local on the panel – panellist Stuart Shepherd said he grew up in Wellsford.The hearings will likely continue until the end of April. The panel will then make recommendations to Council to consider by July 22. Council will notify its decisions by August 19.


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Bayleys in Warkworth has moved to a larger building to service the growing region.The business moved into the art-deco building on the corner of Mill Lane and Queen Street on January 22, after months of renovations.The new site is much larger than the old premises on Elizabeth Street, where it was based for the past nine years.Bayleys in the North director Mark Macky says the more central location will give the business room to expand.“We are future-proofing the business on the basis of the strengthening market and growth we see in the whole area,” Mr Macky says. “We’ve taken a 30-year view with this building. Warkworth is going to grow into quite a different place over that time and we need to start preparing.”The larger site will allow Bayleys to hold auctions in a large reception area and comfortably accommodate its 23 staff. It also provides for 18 carparks.

“Parking is at a premium in Warkworth, so that was a big drawcard.”The heritage-listed building has been stripped and renovated, with a 200m2 extension added, while the exterior has been restored to retain its historic features.Built in the 1920s, it was originally the site of Rodney Motors and was most recently an ANZ branch.“We had to get heritage architects to peer review the design and have painted it to keep with the art-deco style,” Mr Macky says.A number of local contractors worked on the project, including Davco Electrical Services, Signmasters, A&J Lethbridge Painting & Decorating and Insite Security, while the main contractor was A-Line Builders.Bayleys has four offices in the region including Omaha, Mangawhai and new premises in Matakana which opened in December.

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Construction on two new commercial developments in Warkworth started this month. A development, beside Chocolate Brown in Mill Lane, is owned by developers Glenys and Andy Tucker. They say the 400m2 building is expected to open in six to nine months. It will be a single-storey split between two tenancies, with either retail or office space.It is being built by Warkworth company McMahon Builders and was designed by Architectural Services.“It will be similar to the Chocolate Brown building,” Mrs Tucker says. “It will have a double pitched roof and will be in keeping with the village theme of Warkworth.”There will be 14 customer parking spaces at the rear.The Warkworth couple also owns the Chocolate Brown building, which they bought in 1971 and operated as a panel beaters. They purchased the site of the new development in the early 1980s. It was a tractor yard and a Ford dealership before a building on the site was demolished eight years ago and it was turned into parking.

Construction of a 300m2 development in a vacant section beside the Warkworth Town Hall is also due to start later this month.The two-storey building will house four tenants, including a large 163m2 restaurant and three smaller 29m2 sites. Construction is expected to take about six months.Simon Withers, of the neighbouring Withers & Co Chartered Accountants, owns the Neville Street site.“I hope it will be filled with food-related businesses, similar to Ponsonby Central,” Mr Withers says.Meanwhile, the renovation of the old BNZ building on Neville Street is wrapping up this month.Developer Grant Tipling says graphic design studio Dark Room have taken the upstairs of the heritage building, while negotiations are continuing for a tenant for the ground floor.A dentist is confirmed as a tenant in the new building adjacent to the old BNZ, while two more tenancies, including a cafe, are available in the new building.

Construction starts on new commercial developments

Eco-building house tourWarkworth eco-architect Graeme North is holding a tour at his earth-home on 49 Matthew Road, Warkworth, on Sunday February 14, to teach people about sustainable building techniques. Info: yimfy.org.nz/events/nbd-list.asp


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HistoryJudy Waters, Warkworth & District Museum

A stranger caused a sensation in the summer of 1916 when, without warning, he threw himself off the Warkworth bridge and fell 20 feet into the waters below.Before the present bridge was built it was not unusual to see boys jumping off the bridge and coming to no harm but this was a man, fully clothed, intent on ending his life.The loud splash as his body hit the water attracted the attention of people sitting on the Bridgehouse verandah on the warm summer evening.Patrick Keogh, a telegraphist at the Warkworth Post Office, responded quickly and was soon in the water. A struggle ensued as the man repeatedly shouted ‘Let me die’.Undismayed, Keogh fought the man’s resistance and eventually gripped him firmly. He towed the man to the bank where willing hands waited to assist. A rope was placed around the stranger’s shoulders and he was dragged along like a lassoed alligator.Still struggling and yelling, he was placed in the grocer’s cart belonging to guests and conveyed to the nearby police station where Constable Johnson soon had him safely accommodated in the ‘cooler’ (the gaol now standing in the grounds of Warkworth Museum).Next morning, the rescued man appeared in court charged with attempted suicide. Gone was the vigorous aggression of the night before. He stood subdued, a broken man. It was found that he was a steward on the coastal vessel, Hauiti, by the name of Joseph Noon. He was sent to Auckland prison where a spell on remand followed. Perhaps to avoid a prison sentence, he made it known he was willing to enlist as an army recruit. When he next appeared in court the judge ruled that he remain in custody until he could be handed over to military authorities.Recruitment was underway for the Thirteenth Reinforcements of the New Zealand Expeditionary Force. Soon after the incident in the river, Patrick Keogh, the rescuer, had received his call-up papers and had been passed fit for service.His name is listed as one of the 256 men who made up the Auckland city quota. On February 8 1916 they marched through the Auckland streets to the Railway Station and left to travel south to the training camps at Trentham and Featherston.There is no mention of Joseph Noon.Even though the two men had joined the army in the same month at the same place, whether the man who was rescued from drowning and his rescuer ever met again remains a mystery.

Mystery of the drowning man

Warkworth town bridge as it was in 1916

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Rodney’s Independent Property Management company

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0800 171161

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Rupert Mather 021 425 837 Graeme Smith 021 422 983

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Mob 0274 766 115PICTURE PERFECT TV

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P 09 425 0300 M 021 774 653 F 09 423 [email protected] www.metroscaff.co.nz

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CLEANING AGENCYWarkworth: Phone John or Annette Carr

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Mangawhai: Phil Lathrope 431 4608 | 021 642 668email: [email protected]

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CLASSIFIED DEADLINE for February 17 issue

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SCENIC FLIGHTS 30 mins $65; 20 mins $55; Min. 3 passengers. Trial flights $85. Gift vouchers available.

GREAT BARRIER FLIGHTS. Special stopover up to 4 hours. Return $120. Min. 3 passengers. One way flights $120 each. Min 2 passengers.

NORTH CAPE FLIGHTS $450 each. Min 3 passengers.

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LAWN MOWING rubbish removal, hedges, small tree removal. WW & beach areas. Ph Jeff Hatfull 027 425 7357, 425 7357

WATER FILTERS Underbench filters & whole house Ultra violet filters – Kill and remove ecoli/bacteria. FREE site visits. Ph Steve 09 422 3245 [email protected] www.aquafilter.co.nz.

PLUMBER Maintenance work. New tap to new house. Matakana based. Ph Steve 027 494 5499

PLUMBER Semi retired for small jobs. Point Wells 09 423 0193 or 027 490 2054

WATER PUMPS Low water pressure? Get it sorted. Sales, service and installation. Work guaranteed. Ph Steve 09 422 3245 [email protected] www.aquafilter.co.nz.

Hiab Truck and Portable Sawmilling

Grant torkington021 138 7206

31 WOODCOCKS RD WARKWORTH - 425 9100

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Authorised Agent

MOBILE & WORKSHOP SERVICE

WATER | WOOD CHOPPING

MARKETSMUSEUM SUMMER MARKETS 1st Saturday of the month, 8am, Old Masonic Hall, Baxter Street, Warkworth. Enquiries Warkworth 425 8391

HORSE RIDING

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SUPER COMPOSTUntreated wood shavings & duck poo.

Per Bag $10, Bulk $75/m3. Enquire about delivery. Ph 422 5042

RAWLEIGH Products. Ph Pat 423 8851

HouseholdWater Deliveries

0800 747 928mobile: 027 556 6111

GARAGE SALESMAUNGATUROTO 2ND HAND SHOP may be interested in buying your garage sale goods. Buying tools and furniture now. Phone 09 431 8440 or 021 125 1576

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M: 021 425 887 T: 09 425 0075E: [email protected]

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TV SERVICES & SALESTV SERVICES Aerials, Dishes, Freeview sales, installation and service. Extra outlets. Serving the area for 18 years.Phone Gavin 027 476 6115.

PIANO TUITION Including practical and theory, all grades. Warkworth basedJohn Wilkins – phone 09 425 9669.”

DRIVEWAYSMAINTENANCE Grading, rolling & metalling for rural Driveways. No job too BIG or small. Ph Bruce 425 7766

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CuisineNicola Bolton

There are three things I love about summer. First and foremost is the sunshine. It boosts our spirits and our get-up-and-go. Second, are the holidays. I am even willing to overlook the nose to tail snail trail of traffic that meanders through Warkworth for the holiday memories made with family and friends, swimming in the crystal clear waters of Leigh and lounging around the BBQ with a fresh tray of local oysters. Last but not least of my summer adorations...berries.Strawberries and blueberries are my absolute favourite. They are juicy, delicious and packed full of antioxidants. Foraging, picking and devouring them on the spot is only half the fun. Showcasing them in a delectable dessert takes the cake! Here’s a simple but sumptuous recipe for a sweet treat to top off a warm summer’s evening spent out on the deck. With Valentine’s Day lurking around the corner, now is your chance to butter-up a loved one and show them just how sweet you are.

Summer berry bliss

• 1 punnet of strawberries

• 1 punnet of blueberries or raspberries

• 120g Italian sponge fingers

• 100ml Chambord. If you don’t have Chambord in the liquor cabinet then any sweet dessert wine will do, or use a fruit juice

as an alcohol-free option (I find apple and feijoa works well).

• 250ml Greek yoghurt (delicious while still containing beneficial cultures)

• 500ml cream

• 2 tablespoons liquid honey (any kind)

Creamy Yoghurt and Berry Bliss Trifle (serves 6)

1. Lay out the sponge fingers on a plate and drizzle the Chambord over them, making sure all the fingers are covered. Line one large bowl with the drenched fingers or line individual bowls/glasses, and drizzle over any excess liquid.

2. Put a third of your blueberries in a mixing bowl and roughly mash them with a fork. Add all your cream and beat to soft peaks with a whisk.

3. Now add the yoghurt and honey, whisking to firm peaks this time.4. Cut the leafy tops off the strawberries then cut each individual strawberry in to

quarters. Use half the punnet of strawberries to layer over the fingers in the bowl.5. Now spoon over half the creamy yoghurt mixture. Layer again the remaining

strawberries, then layer over the rest of the cream.6. Sprinkle the rest of the punnet of blueberries over the top and chill your

dessert in the fridge for at least one hour, up to 12 hours.7. When you are ready to serve, dust the top with icing sugar. If you fancy an extra

bit of decadence, drizzle over a tablespoon or two of passion fruit pulp or syrup.Enjoy!

Introducing our new cuisine columnist, Warkworth foodie Nicola Bolton. Nicola has worked in hospitality for over a decade and recently finished a communications degree. The cuisine column will alternate monthly with Warkworth gluten-free guru Nicole Wilson, who recently graduated from Massey University with a certificate in Human Nutrition.

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A heart-shaped human chain and guided snorkel tours are two of the highlights planned for a Love Your Harbour community day at Whangateau Reserve on Valentine’s Day, Sunday February 14.As well as free snorkelling with expert guides in the mangroves near Horseshoe Island, there will also be the chance to try stand-up paddleboarding (SUP) or kayaking in the harbour. On land, there will be displays and information on Whangateau’s diverse marine life from groups including Experiencing Marine Reserves (EMR), Whangateau HarbourCare, Ngati Manuhiri and Auckland Council.EMR marine and freshwater education coordinator Kim Jones says they hope to take some drone footage of a heart-shaped human chain around one of the mangroves, not only because of the date, but also to highlight Whangateau’s exceptional qualities.“It’s such a special, special harbour,”

she says. “Because of the filtering capabilities of the cockles there, the water actually comes out of the harbour cleaner than it goes in.“We’ve planned the snorkelling for either side of high tide so we can get right in amongst the mangroves. There’s a huge amount of marine life to be seen there.”Snorkellers could get to see crabs, triplefins, parore or yellow-eyed mullet, but there will also be live tanks and photographs onshore displaying some of the local marine life for anyone who misses out.The Love Your Harbour community day starts at 10.30am with snorkelling until 2.30pm, followed by the human chain and a prize draw. All activities are free and include hire of masks, snorkels, fins and wetsuits. A barbecue and refreshments will also be available.Info: [email protected] or go to the Snorkel Day section at emr.org.nz

Whangateau’s water is heaven for snorkelling.

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EnvironmentChristine Rose

Few fish left in the sea

‘Love Your Harbour’ day

Like many pre-election promises, the pledge to protect fish stocks of the Hauraki Gulf from commercial overfishing looked good on the surface but fails to deliver. Instead, the Government’s draft proposals to review marine protection legislation have drawn fire from all interests in the debate. Commercial and recreational fishing interests, iwi, and conservationists all apparently feel let down by a ‘solution’ that fails to address the problem.It’s common in public policy that responses to challenges are misdirected. Whether it’s the war on drugs that fails to treat addiction as a social and health issue; the war on terror that alienates and radicalises young people around the world; or, closer to home, the TPP that throws out the rights of our country to regulate in the national interest in favour of free trade; there’s often cause to wonder how good (?) intentions get so waylaid.Access to clean waterways and flourishing fish stocks are a sacred expectation for New Zealanders. Most Kiwis would love to catch their bag limit any day of the week, and feed the family with a healthy, sustainable resource. Others would just like to know there are healthy fish populations sustaining the rest of the food chain in balance. Present fisheries management, while lauded as the best in the world, still only supports fish stocks within 20 per cent of its pre-harvest population, leaving no room for rebuilding species or ecosystems generally. In some areas the sea is like a desert. Kina barrens reflect a tradition of over-concentrated, overfishing and other environmental pressures. ‘There are plenty more fish in the sea’ has become an outdated and inaccurate saying. These days, it would be more precise to say ‘there’s hardly any more fish in the sea’, and it’s only going to get worse.It seems hard to believe, and no doubt some readers will reject the notion of limits to the ocean bounty, that the resource might run out. Even those who can see proof of this in their empty catch bags after a day out with the rod and line, point the finger at others rather than their own behaviour. Often the stories go ‘we used to be able to catch so many fish we couldn’t eat them all and had to feed them to the cat, now you’re lucky to go home with enough for a feed’. But most of the time, these stories aren’t accompanied by reflection that the over-harvesting and wasted excess catches that were fed to the cat, may be part of the problem.Like many conservation issues, unless we’re part of the solution, we are part of the problem.

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Island Flavours Members of the Kawau Island BookwormsThe Kawau Island Bookworms book group has been meeting for 25 years and not just to discuss what they’re reading – they are also authors in their own right. And of course it’s not cars parked outside their monthly meeting place, it’s boats. In 2014 they pooled their obvious talents and published the very popular Island Voices and now Island Flavours, which as the title suggests is a mix of stories, poems, recipes, tips and tales with food at the centre. When you live on a small island without a supermarket on your doorstep then provisions take on even more significance. My favourite is Lin Pardy’s Windward Turkey tale from their first Thanksgiving spent in New Zealand back in 1986. Most cooks wouldn’t receive a phone call on the day starting with ‘This is the Coastguard calling. Your turkey is hard on the wind approaching Tiritiri Matangi’. You will need to read on to enjoy the rest of the turkey’s travel to Kawau and find out if it made it to the table or not! This is a beautifully produced book, with colour photographs making both the food and the island look appealing. This book is such an interesting and very entertaining slice of local life and a perfect gift for visitors to the area too.

John Le Carre : the biographyAdam SismanAs I often say, truth is far more entertaining than fiction and two recent biographies released for the Christmas market bear this out. Frederick Forsyth’s The Outsider reveals a life of a real-life spy, equally, if not more exciting than those he wrote about. Here in John Le Carre’s biography, the real man proves an enigma too. John Le Carre’s name is a household one – best known for Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy, The Little Drummer Girl and the Smiley novels to name but a few from a vast list which have become hit movies and television adaptations. Even Aung San Suu Kyi has said that in her 15 years of house arrest in Burma it was Le Carre novels that helped her “on a journey into a wider world... [that] made me feel that I was not really cut off from the rest of humankind”. David Cornwell is the man behind the Le Carre pseudonym and the endurance of a lonely childhood is revealed; an emotionless conman father, charming and seducing those around him and ignoring his son. Themes of love lost and abandonment in his future writing are no surprise. To quote from the book “In the narrative of life, fact and fiction have become intertwined”. Recruited by both MI5 and MI6, his involvement with espionage, betrayal and treachery is fascinating – he sought refuge in the German language and culture and ultimately an almost secret life as a British spy. His life and contacts formed the body of his work. Cornwell/Le Carre was a very touchy subject for the author and the process wasn’t an easy one as many lies were uncovered in the process (earlier attempts to cover his life by other authors failed at the starting gate). Perhaps it’s no wonder that this year, Le Carre is publishing The Pigeon Tunnel: stories from my life to redress the balance (in his mind at least). That aside, this one is a thoroughly researched and well written biography of one of England’s greatest modern authors.

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The Wellsford-based choir Local Vocals is upping the pace this year.For the last four years, the group has been meeting intermittently, but this year it will run singing sessions on Thursday nights, at the Wellsford Community Centre.The sessions will be led by songleader Helen Diaz, who has a wealth of knowledge and experience from leading other choirs in Auckland. The music will be varied, often from other cultures, and Helen teaches the harmonies by ear – listening and copying – so there is no requirement to read music.President Sally Randall is enthusiastic about the health benefits of community singing.“It brings people together, lifts the spirits, makes you breathe well and is great fun,” Sally says.Helen Diaz agrees.“I believe that every person has a unique voice and every person’s voice can be supported, developed, discovered or recovered when we sing together regularly,” she says.There will be performances, formal and informal, throughout the year to present the songs the group has learned. Promoting song leadership from within the choir was a focus for Local Vocals last year and there will continue to be opportunities for emerging song leaders under Helen’s guidance. The choir is keen to recruit new choir

Songleader Helen Diaz is part of the choir’s new direction.

Choir expands repertoire

members, and would also like to hear from musicians or choirs who might want to collaborate on a combined concert.Membership is open to anyone of any age, with no previous experience or auditions required.Sally says the choir is also available to perform at community events on request.As well as offering the opportunity to sing in a group, Local Vocals will host singing and instrumental workshops for the wider community. These will be held at the Wellsford Community Centre, starting on February 11, from 7-9pm. The cost is $60 per 10 week term.Info: Sally 423 9393 or [email protected]

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As Valentine’s Day approaches, flower sellers are gearing up for one of their busiest weeks of the year. Last year in New Zealand, spending at florists increased by more than 150 per cent in the week leading up to February 14, with love struck – or duty-bound – romantics forking out more than $3 million on flowers alone.And there’s little doubt that the bulk of that massive spend will have gone on the eternal flower of romance, the rose, some of which will have come from Joe and Barbara Kurmann’s Whangateau Roses.The couple have been growing around 20 varieties of roses at their hilltop Coxhead Creek property since moving up from Auckland in search of a rural life 25 years ago.“When we came up, there was a house and an existing 700 square metre shade house,” Barbara says. “We were trying to figure out what we could do so that we didn’t have to leave home to work. So we thought, ‘let’s grow flowers’.”After completing a horticultural course and looking at all the options, export roses seemed to offer the best returns. Unfortunately, over the next five years, and after the Kurmanns had invested in 18,000 bushes, high

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tech equipment and 10 to 15 staff, the export market crumbled as other countries muscled in. It was a grim time, and almost spelled the end of the budding business.“We were very new with little experience,” Joe says. “We had to downsize and lost all our staff. We even looked to sell the place.”They soldiered on alone and, for local flower lovers, it’s a good job they did, because when the Matakana Village Farmers Market opened 11 years ago, they took one of the first stalls.

Since then, their beautiful blooms have been a hugely popular highlight of the weekly market, due not only to the quality of the roses, but to the incredibly reasonable prices – just $6 for a posy of 10 short-stemmed blooms or $12 for a long-stemmed bunch, wrapped simply, but stylishly in paper and tied with flax.“If I can sell a lot because they’re perceived to be cheap, I’d rather do that, otherwise I just have to take them to auction,” Joe says, referring to Auckland’s FloraMax fresh flower

market, where he sells wholesale three times a week.There are up to 16,000 hybrid tea rosebushes thriving in the warm Coxhead Creek shade house these days, growing up to nearly two metres tall and in a wide spectrum of colours, from soft white to hot pink, and yellow and orange through to the Valentine’s classic of deep, dark red. They are picked at dawn and then kept cool in buckets in a cold store for a day or two before the market.Together with Mother’s Day, Valentine’s Day is not surprisingly one of the busiest times for the Kurmanns; they’ve been pruning their rows of red roses since Boxing Day in preparation.

A perfect specimen in the Coxhead Creek shade house.

Joe and Barbara Kurmann do everything at Whangateau Roses, from tending the 16,000 bushes to picking, packing and selling the blooms.

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There’s not much you can’t get hold of via your smartphone or computer these days, and that increasingly includes finding a significant other to love (or lust) after.The rise in the number of online dating sites might have been rapid in recent years, but it pales into insignificance compared with the stratospheric growth in popularity of hook-up phone apps such as Tinder.These easy to use systems, where you simply scroll through countless photos of people and swipe right on your screen if you like the look of someone, are changing the way people meet and interact with each other, and apparently reducing detailed personal information to a list of basic must-haves and wants.The trend tends to be polarising – to some, it’s just a more efficient way of meeting a potential partner and looking for a long-term relationship, to others it’s little more than a minefield of chancers with their mind on a relationship more short-term. Sheldon Nesdale is the founder of NZ Dating Websites, an online guide that attempts to list and review all the dating sites and apps in New Zealand on one website.He says Tinder and its ilk definitely have both good and bad elements, but it won’t spell the end of online dating or more traditional ways of meeting.“There is so much innovation now, we haven’t seen the end of it,” he says. “Again and again, people assume

new technology means the end of old methods, but it actually just gives them more options.“That’s why I started the website. People don’t know where to turn. I thought it might be useful to help people avoid waste-of-time sites.”One local woman, who asked not to be named, has dated online periodically and says the new apps might be more efficient in filtering potential suitors, but they can carry risks, too.“Up here, where there are less anonymous opportunities to meet new people, it can be great,” she says. “But it’s all about how you manage it, and being aware of the pitfalls. It’s a safe environment if everyone plays by the rules.”However you find a potential partner online, it’s important to meet them quickly, to ensure any connection is based in reality, she says.“It’s interesting and fun for a while, in fact, it becomes really addictive,” she says. “You have these conversations running over several days, but it’s all very superficial; there’s only so much you can convey in a little blue-framed box. It’s entertainment, like discovering a new TV series … In the end, you just have to nip it in the bud and meet them as soon as possible to see if you click.“Having said that, everyone I know who has been determined to get a relationship has been successful. There are plenty of lovely people out there, but you have to really want that.”

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By now you are like most and back at work after the Christmas New Year break and thinking, ‘wow that went so fast, I wish I could wind the clock back to the 23rd of December and do it all over again’.The reality is that most of us work all year and have the bulk of our holidays off over this period. It’s a great time to reflect on the past year and hopefully set some goals, and make some changes for what you want to achieve in the New Year. So if your New Year resolution is to improve your finances, hopefully I can help with a few tips to set you on your path to achieving your goals. Firstly you need to be clear about what it is you really want to achieve, if your ladder is not leaning against the right wall, every step you take gets you to the wrong place faster!Write down what you want to achieve and then take a step back and ask yourself, ‘if I keep doing what I am doing, am I go to move towards my goal or further away?’.Then write down the steps you need to take, small bites at a time, to get you towards the ultimate goal. Like most, if you have debt, be it the mortgage, credit cards, personal loans etc, it is unrealistic that you can pay these all off in a short period of time. So start by writing down what debts you have, what interest rate you are paying and put them in the order of highest to lowest interest rate.Complete a budget to show what income and expenses you have on a weekly or monthly basis. If you have a surplus of income over expenses, then work out what extra you can pay off the principal of the debt with the highest interest rate first. Then you can work out over what period you can expect to pay it off in full. Review your expenses, do you really need to keep paying for something you don’t really use much? Are there things lying around the house that you can sell and get extra cash? Is there somewhere you can get a particular product or service cheaper than you are currently paying? Write down your goals, break them down into achievable steps, complete a budget vs expense sheet, review it regularly and stick to it. Before long you will notice that you can start ticking off a few of the steps and you are on your way to reaching your goals. As the old cliché says, ‘If nothing changes, nothing changes’. So what changes are you prepared to make? If it helps, email me at [email protected] and I will send you some goal sheets and budget sheets to assist you on your journey.

New Year, new resolution? Chris Julian and Christine Walker are the proud new owners of Artesian and Solway Water, delivering high quality drinking water to homes around Mahurangi.The couple took on the business in December after it had been operated by their family friend, Wyatt Haulage director Dave Wyatt, for the past 10 years. Chris now does the deliveries, ranging from Puhoi to Tomarata, while Christine manages the administration.“We are enjoying getting to know our community better, especially other business owners who have been supportive and given helpful advice,” Christine says.The water is sourced from an aquifer 200 metres underground at Solway Farm, on Sandspit Road, retaining the benefits of artesian water with no added chemicals.“It’s in high demand from people who need top quality water such as brewers and cheese makers,” Chris says.Before reaching the aquifer, the water flows through porous rock, which acts as a natural filter.“As a result it has an optimum pH level, similar to the pH in the bloodstream, which has a range of health benefits.”Chris grew up in Mahurangi and worked as a drain layer for Matakana Contractors for seven years before deciding he needed a change.Christine grew up in Manchester and went travelling for three years after

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working as a nurse in England, and did volunteer work in South Africa and Sri Lanka.The couple met in Australia, where Chris was working in the construction industry and Christine was working as a nurse. They settled in Mahurangi 10 years ago.Christine has worked as a health researcher for the past decade. She recently helped create an app called Marama, funded by the Health and Disability Commissioner, which allows mental health service providers and their families to provide real-time feedback on services.Chris is also an accomplished woodchopper and a member of the Puhoi Axemen. He came first in both the Restricted Underhand and the ‘D’ Grade Standing Championship in Stratford last year.

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the look and value of your property,” he says. “If you don’t get onto small jobs when they need doing, you end up having to call in major trades.“I’m talking to all the real estate property managers to offer my services for preparing houses for sale, as well as maintaining rentals. There are also a lot of people who are either retired or in a position where they neither want nor are able to do particular work. “I’m a visual person; I get concepts quickly. I know where I’m going with things, and I can build to the end result. There’s not much I can’t do and I like to ensure that my finished work is of a high standard.”

The booming holiday home business has led a Matakana couple to offer a new service aimed at lessening laundry stress for accommodation providers.Alan and Jill Jones’ Linen 2 Go is a linen hire service providing a range of premium quality sheets, towels and table cloths for baches, B&Bs, hotels, motels and event centres throughout the region.“We handle everything from individual cottages to lodges, wedding venues, right up to holiday home businesses such as Omaha Holiday Houses,” Alan says. “We want people to know that they don’t have to do their own laundry, and they don’t have to buy sheets and towels.”Linen 2 Go will supply whatever linen is needed, collect it when it needs changing, and deliver it back, commercially cleaned, ironed and folded, with prices starting at around $2 per item. “You save on water and electricity, your time, wear and tear on your linen, drying time, and ironing,” Jill says. “It’s to make people’s lives easier.”Alan says the range of linen provided is of premium industry quality, and he should know, having spent most of his working life wholesaling and importing textiles for linen companies. The couple started their new business just before Christmas as an extension of an existing business on Waiheke Island, and have had a

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positive response.“All of the people who have tried us out – even some who were a bit cautious at the start – they have all come back and are still using us.”Alan and Jill currently run Linen 2 Go from their home at Rainbows End, which they bought two years ago to escape the rat race in Auckland, but they are looking for a base in Matakana.“We’ll do anything just to let people see we’re good and reliable. There’s no minimum charge – we’ve had orders from $23.50 to $500,” Alan says. “Give us a try.”

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The peace of mind of being on higher ground is just one of the many “pluses” that Finishing Touches owner Melisa Davies sees in her new store at 38 Matakana Valley Road.Melisa was the first shop to open in the Matakana Cinema complex nine years ago.She says the 2011 floods nearly wiped her out.“Eighty per cent of our stock, including everything in our storage room, was ruined,” she says. “The insurance didn’t pay out because they said that we were in a known floodplain. It was devastating. Even now, when I hear heavy rain on the roof at night, I think, ‘Oh no, I hope the shop is safe’.”While Melisa is retaining her original shop for the time being, she is excited with her new, spacious roadside showroom that affords her more opportunities to display her European inspired furniture and furnishings.“We also have parking outside our door, which is fantastic.”Melisa has more than 25 years interior design experience, first starting work for her parents, Colleen and Graham Davies, who owned curtaining and interior design businesses in Browns Bay and later Silverdale.About half the stock in her stores has

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been manufactured to her own design and she imports from two of the world’s leading leather manufacturers, Artsome and Halo.“Our stock is heirloom quality and my prices are very attractive because we import in container loads, so there is no middle man. I travel regularly overseas to keep up with the latest trends and visit manufacturers to ensure quality control, but what I design is still uniquely New Zealand.”Melisa opened her first interior design store at Manly, on the Whangaparaoa Peninsula, and still lives at Tindalls Bay.“When I’m not in one of the stores or caring for my children and grandchildren, I love to jet ski.”

A Warkworth street could be partially closed if Auckland Transport and NZTA recommendations are accepted by local residents.The transport agencies want to stop all traffic from exiting the northern end of Wech Drive onto Auckland Road and allow entry traffic only, meaning all vehicles would have to leave Wech Drive at its southern junction, near McKinney Road.In a letter to residents in January, engineers Harrison Grierson said a new southbound slip lane from The Grange retail development onto SH1, that ended near Wech Drive’s northern exit, prompted concerns about potential conflict between traffic using the intersections.As a result, NZTA and Auckland Transport are recommending that traffic no longer exits the northern intersection, saying the visibility at the southern junction is superior. They have been asking Wech Drive householders for their views on the proposed changes.Local resident Steve Berger says he is pleased people are being consulted, but isn’t sure that having traffic turn right at the southern intersection is any safer than at the northern end, because northbound traffic on SH1 is partially hidden from view and often travels at high speed.“We feel the northern exit is no worse than the southern exits,” he said. “It’s actually more of a hassle to turn right

Steve Berger at the southern intersection of Wech Drive, where a ‘No Exit’ sign has already been placed.

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at the southern end. We always turn left and go via McKinney Road.”Grange developer Colin Reynolds of Square and Main Street says the intersection has always been dangerous.“The trouble is, to see anything you have got to stick your nose out so far it could get cut off. It’s between Auckland Transport and NZTA. They’ve decided it’s a safety issue, so they have asked us to carry out consultation.“I think we’ve had eight or nine responses so far, and all of them have been positive.”He added that the recent temporary closure of Wech Drive’s northern intersection was as a result of work to finish a retaining wall next to the highway.NZTA says it would be inappropriate to comment before analysis of the public consultation has taken place. Auckland Transport did not respond to requests for comment.

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A free course to help people grow their own food and be more self-sufficient is starting in Wellsford this month.The 19-week Sustainable Rural Development course is run by NorthTec and will start on February 22.An open day will be held at Hauora Trust, 72 School Road, on Friday February 12, 4pm to 8pm.Course tutor Heidelind Luschberger says students will gain basic knowledge and experience as a beginner gardener.“It is also about sharing, working as a team and having fun along the way,” Heidelind says.The course is full-time and students may be eligible for student loans and student allowance.The programme includes:• Raised bed gardening: How to build

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Learn to grow your ownStudents learn how to build a compost pile during the Sustainable Rural Development course held in Parakai last year.


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Donkey rides and golf putting will be among a wide range of attractions at a new family fun day being held at Snells Beach, Sunday February 7.The Snells Beach Family Gala will take place at Ariki Drive Recreation Reserve between 10am and 3pm, and will feature more than 50 stalls selling an array of crafts, produce, food and drink. There will be plenty of games and activities for children.The Highfield Reserve donkeys will make an appearance and give rides, and there will be a bouncy castle, miniature cars, an obstacle course and face painting.Arts and crafts on display will include jewellery, glassware, embroidery, quilting, seashells, wooden items, candles, crystals and gemstones, plus there will be cakes, vegetables, olive oil, preserves, pickles and plants for sale.Community groups will also be represented, including the Coastguard, Neighbourhood Support, Civil Defence, Mahurangi East Library and local schools.

The event is being organised by the Snells Beach Ratepayers’ and Residents’ Association (SBRRA) primarily as a fun day, but also to raise funds to upgrade the playground at Sunrise Boulevard.SBRRA chairperson Bryan Jackson says businesses have been supportive of the new event, generously donating prizes for quick fire raffles and a silent auction.“The support has been great,” he says. “The association is in the process of raising $88,000 for playground equipment at the Sunrise Boulevard playground. We put $90,000 of equipment in at Ariki Drive last year, and the new pieces will be a basketball hoop and half court, a six-metre climbing frame, a supernova (a large sloping hoop that spins as you stand on it) and a seesaw.“Now all we need is for it not to rain. I’ve looked up the last seven years’ rainfall for that date, and it’s only rained once – but it didn’t stop for 20 days, so I’m keeping my fingers crossed!”Info: snellsbeach.co.nz/gala10.pdf or email Bryan at [email protected]

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The smiles of 75 Cambodian schoolchildren should be shining just that little bit brighter, thanks to the generosity of Warkworth residents.Mahurangi College student Emma Holman launched a Facebook appeal in December calling on people to donate toothbrushes. Emma is one of seven Mahurangi College students who have just spent a month in Cambodia on a World Challenge educational expedition.The 15-year-old says she decided to collect toothbrushes for the children of Mkak Primary School as she knew the school was in a very poor area and she thought they might not be able to

afford them.“I ended up taking 75 toothbrushes,” she says. “There were two classes and I just handed them out and they all said thank you.”The Mahurangi students – Emma, plus Ella Ferguson, Natasha Foster, Hannah Taylor, Toby Swann McKay, Victoria Lawton and Eva Ferguson Rebenscheid – travelled with college maths teacher Dr Qingxiang Zhang, together with a group of students from Wellington. As well as exploring Cambodia, they spent time at Mkak Primary School on a project to help the school by building an external wall.Emma says the month away was quite a

culture shock, and made her realise how lucky she was to live in New Zealand.“It was really different. Nothing like New Zealand. Very hot, and very humid,” she says. “It would be nice to go back again one day and visit.”The trip originally cost $7,500, but, with extra gear and expenses, ended up costing nearer $11,000, which required a significant amount of fundraising, including sausage sizzles, raffles, a 14km hike, selling home-grown sunflowers and a dinner and auction night. She says she could not have succeeded without generous support from a wide range of local businesses, residents and family members, for which she is very grateful.

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Emma Holman with pupils at Mkak Primary School.

BriefsNappy workshopA waste-free parenting workshop will be held in the Old Masonic Hall in Warkworth on February 15, from 7pm. The two-and-a-half hour seminar will look at ways to minimise waste at home, especially for people with a baby, and modern cloth nappy options. Attendees will get a free cloth-nappy pack. The event has been funded by a $5000 grant from Rodney Local Board and is run by Kate Meads, aka The Nappy Lady. Tickets $30 or $35 per couple, from eventfinda.co.nzInfo: thenappylady.co.nz/workshops.html

Hard2Breathe campaign launchedThe Asthma and Respiratory Foundation launched the Hard2Breathe campaign this month, which aims to increase awareness and encourage people to talk about respiratory disease such as asthma. Hard2Breathe encourages people to share a short video of themselves blowing up a balloon and delivering a brief message about respiratory illness. The videos can be filmed using any filming device, including smartphones, and uploaded on the Hard2Breathe campaign site as well as on Facebook using the hashtag #hard2breathe. Balloons have been chosen as the campaign symbol, as people with respiratory disease have restricted airways which makes a seemingly simple task like blowing up a balloon a struggle for them. Info: hard2breathe.shortstack.com/Jk5Spr

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Homebuilders Family Support Services in Warkworth is encouraging people to recycle any unwanted or outgrown school uniforms in a bid to help local families meet costs of the new school year.Homebuilders co-ordinator Quentin Jukes says that with children going back to school this week, many local families will be feeling the pinch as they deal with a raft of significant expenses.One way people can help is to donate any quality unwanted or outgrown uniform items from any of the region’s schools for Homebuilders to distribute to families in need.“School uniforms are expensive. The cost comes at the same time as people are expected to buy stationery and make school donations. There is also increasing pressure for parents to provide tablets and other computer devices for kids, and uniforms are just another stress.”It was also important for children not to stand out at school for the wrong reasons.“If you’re having to wear last year’s uniform and you’re popping out of it, or you’re wearing your older sibling’s uniform and it’s flapping off you, that can be really humiliating,” he says. “Having something to wear that can let you just be another child is important.”Homebuilders has already received donated uniforms thanks to an appeal

Homebuilders’ Quentin Jukes is looking for uniforms from colleges and schools throughout the region.

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Take ActionPositive thinking about the law of attraction is one approach, but to increase your chances of turning your dreams into reality try out some of these tools to capture and track your progress!MindMeister.com is an online tool to create mind maps to brainstorm, capture and connect your ideas. You can also create and share presentations.Trello.com is like digital super-charged sticky notes. You normally start with three lists ‘To Do, Doing, Done’, then you add cards and drag and drop them between lists as you complete them. You can set dates, checklists, attach files, photos, colour codes and invite other people to collaborate. It’s an intuitive visual way to see the big picture and the smaller details at the same time to turn your visions into actions.See examples of these tools and more in this column online localmatters.co.nz/opinion/


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Social summerSummer has hit. I love the summer months as I spend a lot of time on the beach swimming and walking. That’s the beauty of where we live. Coast life. Living and working in the region makes it feel like you are on permanent holiday.2016 will be an interesting year for me. I have been asked to speak at Social Media Marketing World in San Diego in April – the biggest conference in the world for Social Media marketers. My topic will be ‘How to use Facebook groups to build a highly engaged community’.Groups have become an important part of social media, and growing a business and audience and being able to share what I have learnt over the last seven years, is going to be a highlight. I will be sharing the stage with social media and marketing greats like Mari Smith, Jay Baer, Mark Schaefer, Kim Garst, just to name a few.Enough about me. There are some changes within social media this year that could help your business cut through and one of those is obviously video. While video has been steadily climbing, it is the new live stream platforms like Periscope and Blab with the introduction of ‘FB live’ to personal accounts going to bring a new dynamic to your newsfeed. FB live is where you can record live video into your Facebook newsfeed and have your friends actively engage within the comments.Now you can share a moment of your day with your followers and have live discussions right then and there. Facebook has been slowly opening this up for all users. The possibilities with this new feature are endless and exciting.To see if you already have FB live, go to post on Facebook and where the camera/tag icons are, a new icon will appear of a person with sound waves at the end.As for Periscope and Blab, they are coming into the forefront as well. People are starting to teach within these platforms. Jumping onto these platforms when they are new can help you gain a new audience. Live stream events or co-host with others. The possibilities are endless.

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The work of award-winning Rodney artists Lorraine Brown, Suzanne Williams, Jenny Arnerich, Colleen Kangwai, and Helene Blomfield will be exhibited at the Estuary Arts Centre, in Orewa, this month.The exhibition, called Art in the Antipodes, opens on February 6. It features original Chinese brush painting, acrylic, oils, mixed media and photography. Warkworth photographer Lorraine Brown has a photo-journalism background as a freelance travel writer and is the recipient of a number of art merit awards.“Photography has the ability to heighten and excite the senses, and allows us to record history,” she says. “I use my lens to capture our quirky Kiwi culture and I enjoy showcasing our beautiful country.”Painter Suzanne Williams is a self-taught artist who paints for pleasure. “I enjoy experimenting with a range of different media and draw my inspiration from nature, in particular

the Rodney coastline, which I can view from my studio in Kawau Bay.”Colleen Kangwai is a Chinese brush painter and calligraphist, who studied in London and China, before returning to New Zealand. Her artwork encompasses New Zealand landscapes, flowers and birds, and she has a passion for painting cats.Jenny Arnerich, of Algies Bay, takes her inspiration from the scenery and the sea birds in Mahurangi. She is a member of Kowhai Art and Craft and has attended art workshops overseas in places such as Italy and Monhegan Island in Maine.Helene Blomfield describes herself as a creative artist who has a background in floristry. “My work in the tourism industry also influences my artwork – creating the essence of New Zealand,” she says.She divides herself between native farmland in the north and a mountain hideaway in the south. “This gives me a wonderful variety of special landscapes to use in my work.”

Three of the five local artists whose work will be exhibited at Estuary Arts in Orewa this month are, from left, Lorraine Brown, Colleen Kangwai and Jenny Arnerich.

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National choir in townThe New Zealand Youth Choir will be performing at Mahurangi College on Sunday February 7 at 3.30pm. Tickets cost $25, $15 for students or free for under 12s. Info: eventfinda.co.nz/2016/new-zealand-youth-choirs-warkworth-concert/auckland/warkworth

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Rodney Rams LeagueRodney Rams league team is starting training for the coming season and is looking for new players. Info: Mike Lima 021992694 [email protected] Club starting Feb 10. A cross between tennis, badminton and table tennis. Meet at Matakana Hall, 43 Matakana Valley Rd. Club days Monday 6.30-8.30pm and Wednesday 9-11am. Equipment provided, bring appropriate footwear. Info: Lindsay 021980852 or Jason 021 292 6197 BadmintonMidweek badminton, Mahurangi Hall, Snells Beach, Tuesdays, 9.30am and Wednesdays 9am. Racquets available. Info: Rhondda 4223565 or Lynne 4254999GolfWellsford Golf Club, 27 Hole Masters Tournament, Saturday February 20. $5000 prize pool. Open to men and women, 40+. Entry $45. Info: 4238385 or [email protected].. Top of the Rock eventThe annual Kaiwaka Top of the Rock is on Sunday February 14. 5km and 10km run or walk and 10km cross country run or 30km mountain bike and 10km run/15km MTB event. Info: kaiwakasports.co.nz/topoftherockRun/walk/multisportWild Kiwi event, Whangarei Heads, April 16. 8km, 15km, 21km run/walk, 3km kids dash. Multisport (individual or teams) 3km run, 12km sea kayak, 25km mountain bike, 14km run. Info: thewildkiwi.co.nz

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Pitchside Rodney Cricket has tirelessly been working with Northland Cricket to help revive cricket in the area. This has been an 18 months slog, building up a 100-year-old association. The committee now consists of myself (chairman), Ewen Thompson (secretary), Jeff Chellew (treasurer) and our long-standing president, Graeme McCrea.We provide club support and competition management to the five local clubs in Rodney (Kaipara Flats, Otamatea, Pakiri, Warkworth and Wellsford) and are working on a plan to set up clubs in Mangawhai and Kaukapakapa. We also coach the schools in the area. Luke Beaven, our overseas professional, will be out again in term 1 to coach and inspire the next crop of budding cricketers and we are currently running Friday kids cricket at Kaipara Flats. Meanwhile, senior cricket is underway again. Kaipara Premiers are back in the winner’s circle, getting a first innings and outright victory over Onerahi Central in the Northland Oxford Trust two day competition. Kaipara lost the toss and were asked to bat first on a green wicket after late rain in the week. Kaipara made 200 runs before being bowled out – Kyran Dill top scoring with 53, supported by a quick-fire 40 from Matthew Taylor batting at 11. The bowlers got stuck into their work, leaving Onerahi 52/6 at the end of the first day. On the second day it took us only 15 overs to collect the remaining four wickets (Onerahi all out for 70) and forced them to face the follow on. We managed to bowl them out for 80 in their second innings to secure an innings and 30 run victory.

Coming upFeb 6 Pakiri vs Kaipara Flats, Pakiri Cricket Ground, 11.30am Otamatea vs Wellsford, Otamatea High School, 11.30amFeb 13 Warkworth vs Otamatea, Whangateau Domain, 11.30am Wellsford vs Pakiri, Wellsford Centennial Park, 11.30amInfo: sportsground.co.nz/rodneycricket/

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Courtside The Warkworth Tennis & Squash Club is gearing up for the second half of the tennis season. Forty plus members ripped up the astrograss on Courts 1, 2 and 3 in mid-January, in readiness for new courts. This will be just in time for the Barfoot & Thompson/KGA Warkworth sponsored Business House Tennis, beginning early February. Twenty teams have entered in the competition, which has been split into three divisions. Event organiser Joyce Pyle is predicting it will be a tight contest.“Last year in Division One there was only one point separating first, second and third. It is too close to call who the favourite is for Division One this year. Regarding Division Two, unfortunately the winners are not able to enter this time so we are looking for a new team to take it out. I am predicting one of the Snells Beach teams could take the honours, but again it will be a tight finish.”A ladies tennis club night is being organised for Monday evenings at 6pm. Non members welcome. The first night will be February 15.

Coming upTennis Hot Shots – 5-7 year olds. The Wednesday night classes are full, but there are limited spaces for the Saturday morning 8.30am. 9.15am. Classes start on February 13, running for eight weeks at a cost of $40.On the squash front, Inter House names are being gathered. The competition starts on Wednesday February 10. This competition is also open to non-members. It runs each term.Info: Kaye Jackson 021 135 7574

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Professional league player Daniel Palmer is planning to head home to Whangateau to reinvigorate the league team that launched his career.Daniel has played professional league in England and France for the past 12 years, and was back in Whangateau on holiday last month.He started playing league in Te Atatu, but moved to Mahurangi when he was 11 and helped establish the first league team at Mahurangi College.He went on to play for the Rodney Rams during a golden streak when it won the Auckland Rugby League championship three seasons in a row. He was selected to play representative league for Auckland, where he was headhunted for the French team Roanne, kicking off his professional career.He went on to play in the English Super League for London, Warrington and Bradford, but moved back to France five years ago, where he has been playing for a club in Lyon.Now 33, he says his body is starting to give out and he plans to head home later this year to help rebuild league at the Rodney Rams.Rams captain Mike Lima says when he moved to Mahurangi in 2012, the club hadn’t fielded a league team for about a decade and he has helped re-build a team. The Rams have fielded a team for the past three seasons, but retaining players is still a struggle, he says. Last season, the club had one team in the Under 85kg division of

Professional league player Daniel Palmer wants to help rebuild the sport at his former club, the Rodney Rams.

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the Auckland Rugby League.“We have players from as far away as Orewa, so getting people along to training can be difficult and a lot of people can’t commit to playing every Saturday,” Mike says. “Just finishing last season was an achievement in itself.”But, interest in the club is starting to grow and Mike hopes to field a second team, in the open weight division, this season.Since the Rams clubrooms burned down in 2014 there has also been a sense of rejuvenation in the club as people have gathered to fundraise for a new building, he says. The league season kicks off in May/

June and the club has started pre-season training and is looking for more players.Daniel Palmer hopes to return to Whangateau when the French season ends in July and is interested in coaching and starting a team for younger players.He also wants to set up an exchange with Lyon so Mahurangi players can gain experience in the French division, while French players can play for the Rams.“Hopefully, with my experience I can help other young players to make the move to professional league and start careers overseas.”Info: Mike Lima 021 992 694 or

The Kaiwaka Sports Association is now accepting entries in its sixth annual multi-sport event and family fun day, Top of the Rock, which will be held on February 14.The event caters for walkers, runners and mountain bikers ranging from 5-10km for runners and 10-30km for mountain bikers.Routes travel through some of Kaiwaka’s most scenic countryside – bush, lakes and farmland, plus the opportunity to climb iconic Baldrock Mountain.Organiser Cheryl Anderson says the climb is actually easier than the daunting view from the road suggests, as there is a well formed track which spirals around the mountain.“You don’t need to be concerned about your fitness level as there is no time limit on completing the events and we even have marshalls in utes following the tail-enders who will give you a ride back if you get tired!” she says.Participants of all ages enter Top of the Rock, from pre-schoolers upwards – last year the $50 prize for the oldest participant went to Maungaturoto’s Trevor Brljevich at 84 years old.TV3’s Brendon ‘Money Man’ Johnson will host the prizegiving with prizes for place-getters as well as lots of spot prizes, including a mountain bike.Enter at kaiwakasports.co.nz or at Jaques Four Square, Kaiwaka Motorcyles, Skeltons Drapery Paparoa, Mangawhai Vet Centre, Wellsford Sports & Leisure, and Maungaturoto Carters.Info: Cheryl Anderson on 09 431 2051 or [email protected]

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3 Warkworth Liaison Group meeting, Warkworth RSA downstairs meeting room, 7.30pm. All welcome.

4 Matakana Community Group meeting, Matakana Community Hall (back room), 7.30pm. All welcome.

6 Waitangi Day event, Te Hana Te Ao Marama Maori Cultural, 9am-4pm. Powhiri 9am, cultural performances, music, food and children’s activities. Info: Chantal 423 8071

6 Warkworth Rodeo, Warkworth Showgrounds, SH1. Gates open 10am

6-28 Art in the Antipodes, Estuary Arts Centre, Orewa (see story p36)

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stalls and children’s activities, face painting, bouncy castle, donkey rides. (see story p30)

7 NZ Youth Choir concert “Europa”, Mahurangi College, 3.30-5.30pm. Tickets $25, or $15 for students. Under 12s free. Tickets from Lee & Hart Pharmacy, Not Just Hats, or at the door (cash only). Info: eventfinda.co.nz/2016/new-zealand-youth-choirs-warkworth-concert/auckland/warkworth

8 Fiddle Pie’s Old Time Country Music dance & variety show, Whangateau Hall, 7pm, $15. Bookings: eventfinda.co.nz/2016/fiddle-pie-usa-nz-presents-nz-tour/auckland/leigh

11 Local Vocals Choir workshop, Wellsford Community Centre, from 7pm (see story p23)

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Road, Warkworth. Info: yimfy.org.nz/events/nbd-list.asp14 Love Your Harbour community day, Whangateau Reserve,

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Info: kaiwakasports.co.nz (see story p38)14 Summer Regatta, Whangateau Boathouse, Tramcar Bay, 11am

onwards15 Waste-free parenting workshop, Old Masonic Hall, 7pm (see

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Road, 10.30am-2pm. (see story p11)22 Sustainable Rural Development course starts, Wellsford. Info:

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A Snells Beach teenager is heading to the UK for six months to compete in the national speedway competition.Snells Beach resident Bradley Andrews has been riding GP speedway motorbikes since he was five years old. Now 17, he has progressed to the top level 500cc division and has been invited to race in the National League for the Cradley Heath speedway team in the Midlands.Scotts Landing resident and former New Zealand speedway representative Ian Ross is mentoring Bradley and will accompany him next month.In 1972, Ian raced for Cradley Heath with Bradley’s grandfather, Bob Andrews, who was a world champion in the sport.“I was his protege,” Ian says.Ian raced just one season in Britain before having a career-ending accident while back in NZ. But now he is buzzing at the prospect of helping the grandson of his idol break into the British League.“Speedway is massive in Britain,” Ian says. “After football, it’s the second most popular spectator sport.”The 500cc single cylinder bikes run on methanol for extra power and have no brakes and very little suspension. Racing up to 100kph, the riders lean halfway off their bikes, going sideways around corners, all while jostling against three other competitors in a four-lap race around a dirt speedway circuit.

Ian Ross (left) and Bradley Andrews are heading to England on March 16.

Bradley Andrews

Snells Beach rider blazing trail to Britain

“There’s a lot more to it than people think,” Bradley says. “It’s quite an athletic sport.”Bradley was NZ champion in the 250cc class in 2012 and has been racing in the open 500cc class for the past three years, under special dispensation from Speedway NZ.This won’t be his first appearance in Britain. In 2012, nine-time NZ champion Jason Bunyan invited him to compete in the 250cc class in the British Championship, where he came second.“In Britain, it’s a lot more serious. Here, people race just to be able to get out on their bikes. Over there, everyone is doing it to win.”

He will be racing in the third division National League, which is restricted to British riders – both his parents are British.He hopes to get a chance to race in the open second division this year and eventually progress to top-level racing.But his ultimate goal is to follow in his grandfather’s footsteps and get NZ back on the podium at the world championships. It’s been decades since a Kiwi even competed on the world stage.A long career in speedway relies on riders knowing their limits and the teenager has already got a taste of what happens when you push things too far. He broke his leg in 2013 after hitting the track wall at top speed and wasn’t able to ride for six months.

He has also broken his right arm, which was set incorrectly, reducing manoeuvrability in his throttle hand. Last year, he had to have the bone re-set to regain his movement, putting him out of racing for the season.But new safety gear will hopefully prevent any more broken limbs. Bradley now wears a special air-jacket under his kevlar suit, which is inflated with a miniature air compressor if he comes off the bike, protecting his back and neck.The walls of the speedway track are also now lined with airbags.Bradley’s racing is currently mostly funded by his parents and he is looking for further sponsorship to help achieve his goals.

mahurangi matters, 3 february, 2016

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