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Questions have again been raised over Auckland Council’s sup-posed ‘efficiencies’ and what appears to be rampant over-charging after a Post reader was shocked over likely costs to fence an inflatable pool.

The reader, who asked not to be named, purchased a pool on special for $300 after Christmas, and had enjoyed splashing around in it with the family. However, they were told the pool needed a consent from council, something they initially laughed off, as the pool was temporary, and was within a fully-fenced section.

However, a call to council saw the reader put through to several people before they were told that yes, they did re-quire a separate fence, a build-ing consent, and the pool had to be registered with council. The staff they spoke to were unable to confirm the likely cost, but said a starting point would be that they would have to lodge a deposit of $700 with council to start the process.

The reader contacted the Post, and we spoke with coun-cil staff to clarify - only to dis-cover that the likely cost would be around $1000, and this fig-ure is only for compliance, not for any of the actual fencing materials.

For comparison, the Post Newspaper contacted the Waikato District Council, and asked about the cost for a building consent for a pool fence. Within a few minutes we were told it would cost $550, plus an accreditation levy charge, around half of what Auckland Council is charging.

An Auckland Council spokes-man said its role is to ensure people

are complying with the Fenc-ing Of Swimming Pools Act if the pool is capable of holding more than 400mm in depth.

“We do not do anything to force people to get the con-sent when they already have the portable pool. We just ad-vise them to empty it or fence it and notify council,” said the spokesman.

Assuming it’s a basic 1.2m high portable pool x 4m wide, the council spokesperson said the cost of the consent de-pends upon the project cost which will be specified on the council building consent ap-plication form.

“For example, if the project value is within $2000,the fee will be around $1000, which in-cludes the inspection deposit and Code Compliance Certifi-cate application fee.

“Council inspects pools on its register approximately every three years. It advises people when their inspection is coming up around a month earlier and encourages them to make an appointment for the inspection. Council does not charge for that inspec-tion. However, if it finds the pool fencing does not comply, it charges $125 for re-checks.”

In terms of the time to com-plete the process, council says the statutory time frame is 20 working days “but we aim to process these types of applica-tions within 10 working days.”

An application for a Code Compliance Certificate is re-quired after the completion of the building works.

After five years serving the Waiuku and District Com-bined Churches, Reverend Dale Peach is returning to Christchurch to take up a position with the Christch-urch West Methodist Parish. Reverend Dale says she had expressed an interest in Waiuku and was selected to join the parish in 2010, leaving Christchurch not long before the devastating earthquakes.

Despite still having family in the region, she says she felt committed to stay with Waiuku through this period, although extended family members lost their homes in the tragic events. Her husband and daughters’ home was undamaged, and she continued to work in Waiuku, and was able to catch up with her husband David every few weeks. Dale says that being able to spend more time with David will be one of the adjustments she

will now have to make, laughing that most of the time they have had together has been while on holidays over the past five years, but says she is looking forward to that, as well as being able to spend more time with her daughters.

She says Waiuku has a very strong ministry, and she saw her role as one of encouraging and enabling that strength of community. Reverend Dale’s departure was marked on Sunday at St Andrews Church with song and a commemorative cake, and her role will be taken over by former local teacher Reverend Richard Gray, who is currently in Invercargill and will join the church in Feb-ruary. Above: Reverend Dale Peach, husband David and daughter Emily at St Andrews on Sunday.

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Like most of you who had a break over Christ-mas, it doesn’t feel as though the holiday was long enough, and here we are again with our first issue of the new year.

As we look ahead to 2015, we are already seeing some common themes which look like becoming hot issues for our region, and chief among them appears to be Franklin’s relationship with Auck-land Council. As a newspaper, we have focussed on what we believe is a deliberate plan by coun-cil staff to raise revenues by increasing charges, creating new chargeable areas, and highlighting what it terms ‘user-pays’ to find more and more money from ratepayer pockets.

Sources within council are suggesting to us that council is simply running out of money, that despite the much-touted claims of efficiencies and savings, that there simply is not the fund-ing to pay for things which local ratepayers see as basic. Things like street cleaning, mowing of council verges and parks, maintenance of re-serves, and repairs to footpaths and roads.

The giant organisation that is Auckland Coun-cil is also becoming increasingly difficult to deal with for the average bloke. We’ve been told of people’s calls being passed to half a dozen differ-ent people without an answer to a simple ques-tion. The proposed Unitary Plan will have major impacts on our region’s zonings and residential building projects and will also be a hot button is-sue for 2015.

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Waitangi weekend will see major celebra-tions at the Waiuku Cosmopolitan Club as members of the Hanfling family hold a reun-ion marking 150 years in New Zealand.

The event will be held on Saturday, Feb-ruary 7, and marks the arrival on Novem-ber 18, 1864, when ancestors of the family arrived from Cape Town after four years in South Africa. There were sixteen foreigners on the ship, including five from what is now the Hanfling family. Those five were Frantz Ferdinand Hempling, his wife Mary Theresa, and children Joseph, Johanna and Veronica.

The family name was later changed to Han-fling from Hempling. The family were allo-cated five acre allotments at Waipipi on Feb-ruary 2, 1865. Organisers of the reunion are seeking descendants or possible descend-ants with connections to the family names of McDonnell, McDonald, Hogan, Preece, Otto, Gleeson, Strong, Pulman, Maloney, Stacey, Smith, Neuby, McGynn, Butterworth or Baggstron. Anyone with connections to these families is asked to contact Carol Vlee-shouwer (nee Hanfling) on 238 7069 or 027 478 4069, or email at [email protected].

Descendents of William and Mary Ann Short, who settled in the Waipipi and Awhitu areas after arriving in New Zealand on the clipper ship Matoaka on January 2, 1865, are invited to a reunion later this month. The re-union will mark 150 years since the couple’s arrival, and will be held at the Waiuku Fire

Station on January 24, from 10am onwards. It is 10 years since the descendants last got together and this year there will be a shared finger food lunch, children’s activities and a photo display. For further information, con-tact Mary Hull on 027 287 2681 or Christine Muir on 0274 515 052.

If Auckland was a supermarket, Franklin would be the produce aisle. For years the re-gion has provided fresh fruit and vegetables to Aucklanders and it is now growing into one of the North Island’s top foodie desti-nations. A bunch of passionate locals is be-hind the inaugural Taste Franklin Festival on March 21 to showcase the best of the region’s culinary delights.

Organisers are excited to announce Mas-terchef NZ 2011 winner and award-winning cookbook author Nadia Lim as a guest

speaker at the festival. All proceeds from the event will be invested directly back into the Karaka Sports Park which serves as the com-munity recreational hub with facilities cov-ering a multitude of sports including netball, rugby, tennis, cricket and soccer.

Principal sponsor Bayleys South and East Auckland general manager Raymond Mountfort says helping to cement the future development of the Karaka Sports Park is important to the Bayleys team considering how central it is to the community.

2015 is shaping up to be a bumper year for the students at the Majors ‘n’ Minors Music Studio, Pukekohe East. They are combining forces with the Rushland Studio, Pukekohe, to stage Annie Jr in August.

The show is to be directed by Sarah McDo-wall - an accomplished musician, singer and director with theatre experience locally as well as internationally.

Annie Jr, based on Little Orphan Annie, features well-known songs and lyrics by Charles Strouse and Martin Charnin. This popular Broadway production has been made available to the studios by Hal Leon-

ard in Australia and will be staged in Har-rington Theatre, Pukekohe. The Junior ver-sion still features all the Annie songs, but has been slightly adapted to enable children and teens to take on all the lead roles.

The studio welcomes enquiries from the general public to take part in the production, and is holding auditions on Saturday 31st January for young people (male and female) aged 5 to 17 years, who are interested in a lead character role. Non-auditioned chorus groups are also offered. Contact Lynda on (09) 2385861 or view the website www.ma-jorsnminors.com for further information.

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Shortly before midnight on Wednesday, Coastguard’s Operations Centre received a call from a wife concerned that her husband had not returned from a fishing trip with two friends out from the Kaiaua Camping Ground near the Firth of Thames.

The vessel, a 16ft tinny, had headed out with three on-board for a fish earlier in the day but failed to return home. It was after family checked the boat ramp to see the vehicle still there that the alarm was raised. The Westpac Rescue Helicopter searched the area where shortly after 1am they located an upturned vessel with three people clinging to the hull. Unable to winch, Coastguard vol-unteers were tasked to launch local Coast-guard Rescue Vessel ‘Thames Rescue’ at Kopu and head to the coordinates provided by the Helicopter. Thames rescue arrived on scene shortly after 2am to find all three per-sons clinging together with one in the water trying to keep warm. They retrieved all three persons onto the safety of ‘Thames Rescue’ where they were assessed by Coastguard

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It is estimated the trio had been in the water for up to eight hours, with two of the three wearing lifejackets and all starting to be affected by the onset of hypothermia when retrieved from the water. It is under-stood that on their way home a rope from the vessel got caught around the propeller, while they worked to free the rope from the propeller the vessel turned side onto the waves where it then capsized

Alan Benson, Volunteer Skipper of Thames Rescue said “credit to them for keeping to-gether with the safety line they made out of the rope around the propeller playing a big part in that and quite possibly saving their lives. They were very fortunate we got to them when we did as hypothermia was starting to kick in” said Mr Benson.

Conditions had calmed from earlier in the day and the all three remain incredibly grateful for the search and rescue effort and the Coastguard volunteers.

The first west coast marlin for the Counties Sport Fish-ing Club was caught by Chris Murdoch, (angler), and Brian Deadman, (skipper), aboard ‘The Tinny’ on Janu-ary 11 this year. At 121.8kg it was a good solid fish and a first for the angler as well as the boat.

The Post’s fishing column-ist, ‘Smudge’, says while this fish was caught in 350m of water, there have been many reports of marlin sightings in close around the albacore schools, which can be found from 55 meters.

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coast, as are trevally, snap-per and gurnard. While the snapper fishing has been a little hit and miss I expect that to have changed by the time the One Base kicks off.

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Waiuku ITM held its monthly prize draw for December, with the lucky winner of the final draw for the year being Brian Holmes, (above). Brian received an ITM prize pack of a doz-en items, including an ITM Fishing Show oilskin vest as well as branded chilly bags and other clothing.

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The Franklin Rotary Club last Christmas delivered five large bags of gifts to the Women’s Refuge Group after their Toy Drive in the local region.

“The community of Frank-lin/Pukekohe have been so generous this season and we were overwhelmed by the number of gifts,” a spokes-person said.

The team got together on Friday to wrap them all up and tagged each gift with the age and gender. Kiri from women’s refuge was so grate-ful and has said that they will be well received by families in our South Auckland area.

The Franklin Branch NZ Society of Genealogists is co-or-dinating an Open Day for 13 repositories holding interesting family history resources in the district on February 14. It will feature the 13 ships that arrived 150 years ago as part of the Waikato Immigration Scheme. Museums and other organi-sations, plus the Franklin Historic Collection and Archives housed at the Pukekohe Library will be offering a wide vari-ety of records, books, maps, photographs, memorabilia and early colonial artefacts specific to this area. To register (free), contact Heather Maloney ph (09) 2364321 or 0277235328 or email [email protected]

“On behalf of Rotary of Franklin, we wish everyone a happy and safe new year, and give our appreciation and thanks to all who con-

tributed to this years toy drive. We will be back next year with a new Christmas project which we hope will be supported also.”

Above: Emma Kay and Kerry-Anne Hodgson of Franklin Rotary presenting gifts from the generous Franklin community to Kiri from Women’s Refuge, at the Manurewa Police Station last year.

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iconic film “Rocky Horror Picture Show” as part of the Auckland Council’s Movies in the Park summer promo-tions. This is a free event for the whole family to enjoy,

with live entertainment from 6.30pm until the movie starts at

approximately 8.30pm. Just like the cinema, no movie

would be complete without popcorn and ice-cream. These will be available along with a sausage sizzle, soft drinks and coffee, as well as a chance for those who get into the spirit of the event and dress up to win some prizes. “Bring your picnic blanket and enjoy this unique out-door experience,” a spokesperson said.

Last year’s Movies in the Park was held in steady rain, but still attracted a large crowd, so fine weather could well see a mammoth turnout this Friday.

This event is hosted by Auckland Council, the Local Board and the Waiuku Business & Development Association.

Operatunity and the Post Newspaper are giving you the chance to win tickets to their fantastic new show coming up on Monday 5 February, at the Hawkins Theatre in Papa-kura.

There are two prize packs, each including double tickets, an Operatunity book and CD and all you have to do to go into the draw is email us at [email protected], put ‘Operatunity’ in the subject line, and tell us any one of the featured songs in the ‘Big Band Era’ show (answers in the story below). Two winners will be drawn from all correct entries received by January 20, so remember to include your name and contact details and good luck! The Operatunity Daytime Concerts launch their 2015 concert season with The Big Band Era, featuring icons like Glenn Miller and Henry Mancini and greats such as Ella Fitzgerald, Duke Ellington, Louis Armstrong and Billie Holiday. Cast includes the ‘Glenn Miller’ Band, Bonaventure Allan-Moetaua and Elisabeth Harris (pictured right), who completed a Master of Musical Arts in Clas-sical Voice with Distinction under tutelage of Margaret Medlyn.

She has performed numerous lead roles and was placed second in the prestigious

Dame Malvina Major Foundation Aria in Wellington. Every featured song in the show is a hit including New York, New York, Fly Me to the Moon, Big Spender, Summertime, My Way, It Had to be You, The Lady is a Tramp, One O’clock Jump and All of Me to name but a few.

It will be a great summertime walk down memory lane!

Waiuku’s Denise Park was chosen as the winner of the Post Newspaper’s recent summer competition for a Wor-mald Home Safety Kit, after she correctly identified the fire safety tips. Denise won a kit which included a fire safety blanket, an extinguisher and a smoke alarm, and says she had been considering getting a fire blanket in case of frying pan fires when she spotted the competition. Delighted with the win, she laughed that she should go out and get a Lotto ticket. We wish you all the luck Denise!

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A D e a d F o r m a l i s m - 1 1Even this side of the cross of Christ, which itself should be the everlasting destruction of it, the same dead formalism, an empty profession, has exalted itself, and has been the bane of the profession of Christianity everywhere. Very soon, unconverted men crept into the church and exalted themselves in the place of Christ. Not finding the living presence of Christ in the heart by living faith, they have ever since sought to have the forms of Christianity supply the lack of His presence, which alone can give meaning and life to these forms.

In this system of perverseness, regeneration is through the form of baptism and even this by a mere sprinkling of a few drops of water. The real presence of Christ is in the form of the Lord’s Supper. The hope of salvation is in being connected with a form of the church. And so on throughout the whole list of the forms of Christianity, they have heaped upon this, ten thousand inventions of their own in penances, pilgrimages, traditions and hair- splitting distinctions. And as of old and always, with mere formalists, the life is simply and continually the manifestation of the works of the flesh--strife and contention, hypocrisy and iniquity, persecution, spying, treachery, and every evil work. This is the works of the Flesh and not the Spirit. This evil spirit of a dead formalism, however, has spread itself far beyond the bounds of the organized Church. It is the bane of the profession of Christianity everywhere today, and even the profession of the Christ like life has not entirely escaped it. It is to be the worldwide prevailing evil of the last days up to the very coming of the Lord in glory in the clouds of heaven. For “this know also, that in the last days perilous times shall come. For men shall be lovers of their own selves, covetous, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy, without natural affection, truce-breakers, false accusers, incontinent, fierce, despisers of those that are good, traitors, heady, high-minded, lovers of pleasures more than lovers of God, having a form of godliness, but denying the power thereof: from such turn away.” 2 Tim. 3:1-5.

This all-prevailing form of godliness without the power, and which even denies the power, is the dead formalism against which we are to fight the good fight of living faith. The living faith which is brought to the world in the third angel’s message is to save us from being swallowed up in this worldwide sea of dead formalism. How is it with you individually today? Is yours a dead formalism or a living faith? Have you the form of godliness without the power? Or have you by living faith the living presence and power of the living Saviour in the heart, giving divine meaning, life and joy to all the forms of worship and of service which Christ has appointed and working the works of God and manifesting the fruits of the Spirit in all the life? Except as the means of finding Christ, the living Saviour in the word, and the living faith of Him, even this word itself can be turned to a dead

formalism now as it was of old when He was on the earth. He said to them then (Revised Version), “Ye search the Scriptures, because ye think that in them ye have eternal life; and these are they which bear witness of me. And ye will not come to me that ye may have life.” John 5:39, 40. They thought to find eternal life in the Scriptures without Christ; that is, by doing them themselves. But “this is the record, that God hath given to us eternal life, and this life is in His Son”--as we find Him in the Scriptures and not in the words of the Scriptures without Him. For they are they that testify of Him. This is their object. Therefore, “he that hath the Son hath life, and he that hath not the Son of God hath not life.” 1 John 5:11, 12. “True godliness elevates the thoughts and actions; then the external forms of religion accord with the Christian’s internal purity; then those ceremonies required in the service of God are not meaningless rites, like those of the hypocritical Pharisees. Many religious teachers of today are themselves breaking the commandments of God, and teaching others to do so. In place of those holy commandments, they boldly teach the customs and traditions of men, regardless of the direct testimony of Christ that such ones should be “least in the kingdom of Heaven.” Jesus declared to the multitude assembled to hear him, to the Pharisees, who sought to accuse him of lightly regarding the law, and to the people of all time, that the precepts of Jehovah were immutable and eternal.” {2SP219} By AT Jones

A revival of true godliness among us is the greatest and most urgent of all our needs. To seek this should be our first work. The time has come for a thorough reformation to take place. When this reformation begins, the spirit of prayer will actuate every believer, and will banish from the church the spirit of discord and strife.-- A revival and a reformation must take place under the ministration of the Holy Spirit. Revival and reformation are two different things. Revival signifies a renewal of spiritual life, a quickening of the powers of mind and heart, a resurrection from the spiritual death. Reformation signifies a reorganization, a change in ideas and theories, habits and practices. Reformation will not bring forth the good fruit of righteousness unless it is connected with the revival of the Spirit. Revival and reformation are to do their appointed work, and in doing this work they must blend.--{ChS 42}Dear Reader, let each of us commit to living a true Bible based, Christ centred Dedicated life every moment of every day this New Year, 2015.

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With the school holidays still in full swing, there are some free events for the young and not-so-young com-ing up in the local area.

This Friday, the Porse organi-sation is hosting a children’s outing in Kevan Lawrence Park, beside the Waiuku Library, from 10am to 12pm. Titled ‘Balloons, Bikes and Bubbles’, the event aims for youngsters to bring their bike and have some fun with bal-loons and bubbles, celebrat-ing summer. There are similar events planned on Friday

January 23 from 10am to 12pm at Dr John Lightbody Reserve in Tuakau and at Samuel

Miller Reserve in John Street, Pukekohe, from 10am to 12pm.

Meanwhile, for those who love magic and tricks, the Waiuku Library will next Tuesday January 20 feature the skills of magician Mick Peck between 2pm and 3pm. “Come along for a magic-filled hour. For all children and even those adults who still love a bit of magic,” a spokesperson said.


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PROPERTY MATTERS

December’s residential property sales in Auckland were the strongest they have been in a December for the past decade, with sales numbers up significantly, prices reaching all-time highs, and the number of available listings reaching an all-time low.

“It was our busiest De-cember in the last 10 years with demand never being higher, or choice lower,” said Peter Thompson, Man-aging Director of Barfoot & Thompson.

“Even though December was the shortest selling month of the year we sold 1050 properties, our fourth busiest month of the year.

“Sales in December were 28.5 percent higher than in December 2013. The average sales price in December 2014 was $758,891, $1982 higher than November’s average price.”

The median price increased to $720,000 in December, which was $28,500 or 4.1 per-cent higher than November’s, and it is the first time the median price has moved above $700,000.

“At the same time the number of proper-ties on our books at the end of December

was 2500, our lowest number for any month end in the past 10 years.

“In part, December’s strong activity was a flow over from October and Novem-

ber, which were catch up months following a relatively low pe-

riod of activity during Sep-tember caused by the Gen-eral Election.

“Although the year end-ed with record prices and sales activity, overall prices

in 2014 rose slower than they did in 2013.“The average price increased

by 10.3 percent in 2014, compared to 11.1 percent in 2013 while the median

price increased by 11.1 percent compared to 12.7 percent. The past two years of strong price growth is reflected in the significant change in sales volumes in both the higher and lower price segments of the market.

“In 2014 29.5 percent of all homes sold for under $500,000. A year earlier, 38.6 percent of all sales were in this price category.

“The same trend is found at the top end of the market, with sales of homes in the $1 million and above category in 2014 repre-senting 17.2 percent of all sales. A year ear-lier it was 12.4 percent.”

Across the region people are enjoying a warm, dry start to 2015 but with this comes an increase in fire risk. Aucklanders are be-ing urged to carefully manage all outdoor fires. A restricted fire season for rural areas in the Auckland region is still in place which allows lighting of outdoor fires on rural land but a permit is required for fires in the open air. A total fire ban is now in place for all Hauraki Gulf Islands.

The hot and dry summer means risks of vegetation fires are higher so people needed to be vigilant around their properties, clear-ing easily flammable fuel such as dry leaves and debris. Council will be issuing fire per-mits in Auckland’s rural zones free of charge but people are advised to plan ahead as per-mits take three to five days to issue.

“Conditions are very warm, dry and windy

for this time of year and last week there were a number of fire incidents around the re-gion,” says Auckland Council Principal Rural Fire Officer Bryan Cartelle. “When lighting a fire think of your neighbours and check our fire safety requirements and whether the fire is allowed in an urban area.”

In late December 2014, Auckland Council introduced an Outdoor Fire Safety Bylaw to manage the risk of all outdoor fires in both rural and urban areas. The bylaw contin-ues with seasonal restrictions but also gives guidance on the types of fire and fuel allowed with an aim to protect people, property and the environment from the risk of fire.

For information on fire safety and tips for the safe lighting of open air fires call Auck-land Council on 09 301 0101 or visit auck-landcouncil/ruralfire.govt.nz

A restricted fire season has been intro-duced for rural areas of Waikato district from Saturday 10 January with permits required for all open-air fires.

Principal Rural Fire Officer, Gordon Bailey, explains the move to a restricted fire season is a result of the climatic conditions over the past few weeks.

Mr Bailey says anyone lighting fires must do so in a responsible manner, ensuring they’re safe, will not spread or cause any smoke nuisance to neighbours or nearby road users.

“It’s timely to remind people that any costs

incurred to extinguish fires must be covered by the person responsible for lighting a fire or the landowner.”

Restrictions already exist within urban ar-eas and areas managed by the Department of Conservation. Gas barbecues or similar outdoor gas appliances do not require a Fire Permit. Permitted burning is not allowed af-ter dark.

Fire Restrictions apply all year round for the Mangatawhiri swamp area between SH 2 and the Maramarua River and all Depart-ment of Conservation land. A year round to-tal fire ban is in force for Waiuku Forest.

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“The average sales price in December 2014 was $758,891, $1982

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Pokeno residents connecting their prop-erties to the new wastewater system will re-ceive a 50% subsidy from Council.

Strategy and Support General Manager, Tony Whittaker says initial discussions with residents indicated they were interested in connecting to the new system but not one lump sum payment for the connection.

He says Council has considered those con-cerns and agreed to provide payment op-tions.

“A reticulated wastewater network is re-quired to service the existing Pokeno vil-lage and future development so we’re keen for residential properties to connect sooner rather than later.

“We’ll offer payment options in one lump sum or over ten years, whichever suits the customer. The final payment figures would also include a 50% subsidy towards the property connection.”

“Phase one of the wastewater system, the commercial sector, is complete and we’re now ready to continue discussions regard-ing phase two for residential properties. Further details of the payment options and subsidy will be shared with residents in the New Year.”

More information about the project is available on the council website, www.waikatodistrict.govt.nz or email [email protected].

Waikato District Council is asking for views on proposed changes to the Dog Con-trol Policy and Bylaw.

Council has reviewed the Dog Control Pol-icy and Bylaw which covers subjects such as areas in the district where dogs are prohib-ited or restricted, dog exercise areas, classi-fication of dogs and requirements for some dogs to be neutered, issuing infringement notices, impounding and disposal of dogs and education programmes and fees.

Proposed changes to the Bylaw will see council combining the Franklin District By-law and Waikato District Bylaw, prohibiting dogs from areas leading up to Department of Conservation (DOC) land, and removing the limit of one dog per unit in a multi-unit residential development.

Sue Duignan, General Manager Customer Support says, “we have just under 14,000

dogs in the Waikato District, so it’s important we hear from you about the services Council offer. Whether you’re happy with the dog ex-ercise areas in your town, or you’re not hap-py about the areas where dogs are restricted, tell us by making a submission”.

The council has also reviewed the Keep-ing of Animals Bylaw which outlines rules around keeping animals other than dogs on your property.

All registered dog owners will receive a summary of the policy and bylaw as well as a submission form and freepost envelope in their mailbox.

For further information, copies of the statement of proposals, proposed bylaws and submission forms – visit the council website or any Council office or library. A hearing will be held on 18 March 2015 if you wish to present your submission in person.

The Franklin Fuchsia Group is preparing for its 16th annual show, opening this Friday at the Waiuku Civic Centre, (beside the li-brary), and is expecting a

bumper crowd for what is regarded as one of the big-gest shows of its kind in the country.

The event combines a show and display, with

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guest judges Bert Kennerley of Levin and Gloria Under-wood from Dargaville judg-ing the best of the members’ green-fingered efforts before doors open to the public from 10am. Last year’s show was very well attended with enthusiasts travelling from throughout the region, and this year it is expected there will be groups coming from Whangarei, Tauranga and Otorohanga as well as from the greater Auckland area.

“There’s nothing like this in Auckland,” says Mary Hull, president of the Frank-lin Fuchsia Group and a for-mer secretary of the national association.

Mary adds that the local group is enjoying an influx of new members, bringing younger people through and making it one of the younger groups in the region.

“We must be doing some-thing right,” Mary says with a laugh.

The show is always held early in January, basically because it is this time of the year when the flowers look their best, and there will be literally hundreds of show-quality fuchsias, cuttings, memorabilia items and plants for sale.

People arrive with trailers to get some of the bargains on offer, or just to see some

of the very best examples of the flowers on display.

The show is the biggest in the North Island, with the only one larger being in Wel-lington.

Entry fees are just $2 with children free, and the show is open to 6pm on Friday even-ing, and from 9am to 3pm on the Saturday.

Mary says she hopes peo-ple looking to attend Fri-day evening’s Movies in the Park at the Tamakae Estuary will take the chance to pop across the road to the Civic Centre and have a look at the displays before making their way to the movie later in the evening.

Anyone wanting further information about the show or the club can contact Mary on 235 9094.

Above: Mary Hull and Car-ol West of the Franklin Fuch-sia Group prepare some of the plants ready for judging at this weekend’s show.


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An impressive race win by Raglan’s Jason Dickey at the weekend has thrown the 2015 edition of the popular Bel Ray Cross-Country Se-ries wide open.

Kawasaki rider Dickey snatched the lead on the opening lap of Sunday’s sec-ond round of three in the series at Naike, just outside Huntly, and there was no stopping him after that.

Dickey had finished fourth overall at the series opener in early December and, as he came through the tim-ing zone at the end of the opening lap on Sunday he was comfortably leading round one winner and cur-rent national cross-country champion Adrian Smith, of Mokau.

But the 20-year-old Dickey and his Kawasaki KX250F seemed unstoppable and, when Smith (Yamaha YZ250F) dropped out of the race with a flat tyre soon afterwards, Dickey knew he just had to stay safe and ride sensibly to maintain his advantage over the chasing bunch.

Significantly, the riders battling among themselves for the runner-up spot were Hamilton’s Andrew Charles-

The booming economy was prob-ably to blame for last year’s higher road toll, says the car review website dogan-dlemon.com.

Editor Clive Matthew-Wilson, who is an active road safety campaigner, says:

“Multiple studies have shown that the road toll falls during recessions and rises during economic booms. Scien-tists believe that a booming economy means that the highest risk drivers have more money to buy petrol and make long trips.

“People become less cautious in their behaviour. When the economy falls, people have less money for fuel and become more cautious. So, the road toll goes up and down with the economy. It sounds crazy, but it’s true.”

“Healthy economies overseas have also powered an increase in tourism, which inevitably leads to a number of tourist-related accidents.”

Matthew-Wilson adds that in a healthy economy, the number of trucks using main roads tend to rise, with a corresponding rise in road deaths.

“Trucks make up about 2.5% of the

vehicle fleet but cause 17% of all road deaths. Even though trucking acci-dents have dropped in recent years, trucks are still a major hazard.”

“Obviously, we can’t do without es-sential services such as rural stock trucks and milk tankers, but we can do without most of the long-haul freight trucks using public roads.”

“Long haul freight trucks are not only a serious road hazard, but they’re often not necessary. The government’s own studies show that transporting goods by sea freight and rail is far more efficient than transporting goods by truck.”

“I’m not attacking truck drivers, who are generally highly skilled and courteous to other motorists. I’m attacking the sys-tem that effectively pits cars and trucks against each other. Often the truck driver is not at fault, but when a car and a truck collide, size wins.”

Matthew-Wilson has also called for action to reduce the number of serious accidents involving overseas tourists, beginning with a ban on tourists driv-ing vehicles for 24 hours after they ar-rive.

“Driving tired is as dangerous as driving drunk.

“Rental car firms would not be allowed to rent a car to

a drunk driver, but are allowed to rent a car to a traveller who’s liable to fall asleep and kill someone. This is just wrong.”

M a t t h e w - W i l s o n believes all drivers

– including New Zea-landers – should pass a

simple, computer-based competency test before being

allowed to rent vehicles.“The rental industry needs to weed

out the bad drivers and unsafe vehi-cles. The government needs to fix up our roads, so simple mistakes don’t turn into tragedies”.

The Suzuki Swift has con-tinued its winning ways in New Zealand, notching up a decade at the top of its class.

With solid sales again last year, the Swift was once more the top selling new car in the light car segment - a position it has held since 2005.

“It is a remarkable achieve-ment for any car to be num-ber one for ten successive years,” said Gary Collins, general manager of auto-mobile marketing for Suzuki New Zealand.

To celebrate ten years at the top, Suzuki is releasing a revised Swift line-up offering even better equipment lev-els at improved price levels. Prices for the least expensive 1.4-litre version have been cut by 5 per cent as the brand marks a decade of ‘fun’.

The highly efficient entry-level 1.4-litre GL model now carries a recommended re-tail price of $18,990, plus on-road costs, for the manual version, and $19,990, plus on-road cost, for the auto-matic transmission model.

Economy, trucks and tourists blamed for road toll

Series wide open before Bombay event

“Driving tired is as dangerous as

driving drunk. Rental car firms would not be allowed to rent a car to a drunk driv-er, but are allowed to rent a car to a traveller who’s liable to fall asleep and

kill someone.”

ton (Honda CRF250) and Rotorua’s Scott Birch (Honda CRF450), the two men who had finished second and third, and just ahead of Dick-ey, at the opening round.

The race order remained the same for the entire two-

hour duration on Sunday and, with Smith a non-fin-isher and Dickey, Charleston and Birch simply shuffling their round one finishing order, the series will now go down to the wire.

Any of these three riders could win the series outright and they’ll decide that at the third and final round at Bombay on February 8.

Auckland’s Chris Power (Yamaha WR450F) finished fourth on Sunday, but, be-cause he was a no-show at round one, he is only eighth in the series standings after two rounds and therefore not a contender for outright glory. Te Kauwhata’s Jacob Brown and Te Awamutu’s Mark Penny finished fifth and sixth respectively on Sunday.

The leading senior wom-en’s rider on Sunday was Al-bany’s Julie Greenslade, who finished ahead of Te Awa-mutu’s Jan-Maree Pool and Pukekawa’s Rachel Parker.

Meanwhile, Waimauku’s Jake Wightman won the 90-minute junior race staged earlier in the day, leading home Hamilton’s Luke Taylor and PioPio’s Troy Miller.

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About 30 vehicles either in the New Zealand market, or about to be, have been awarded Australasian New Car Assessment Programme (ANCAP) safety ratings last year, with all but two receiv-ing the highest rank possible including a record-breaking score.

AA Motoring Services Gen-eral Manager Stella Stocks says a significant range of manufacturers have dem-onstrated their commitment to consumer safety produc-ing options for all motoring needs and desires.

“As ANCAP continually lifts the bar in terms of re-quired safety performance, manufacturers are rising to the challenge to not just meet minimum require-ments for a 5 star safety rat-ing, many are far exceeding it,” Ms Stocks says.

From this year, ANCAP is moving to align its test-ing protocols with those of Euro NCAP. While the physi-cal crash tests are close to identical, analysis of the re-sulting data is slightly differ-ent. From now, Euro NCAP results will be released in New Zealand and Australia without being reassessed by ANCAP, however they will still carry the ANCAP brand.

Ms Stocks says the move to align ANCAP with Euro

NCAP will make the safety explanations less complex in the future.

One of the latest vehicles to be tested this year was the Hyundai Genesis large car, which earned a near perfect ANCAP score following its crash test. The area prevent-ing a 100% score was an ac-ceptable score, rather than good, for the chest region of the driver. Pedestrian safety was also declared accept-able.

Seven SUVs including the much-lauded Mitsubishi Outlander PHEV (plug-in hybrid electric vehicle) all earned 5 star ANCAP safety ratings this year.

“SUVs have become an important part of the New Zealand new car market with many people opting for them in a huge range of uses, both in urban and rural en-vironments. The demand for these vehicles is supported by an intensive period of new model launches this year.”

While big cars don’t domi-nate the ANCAP list for the year consumers do have a number of large and luxury vehicles to choose from if they value safety in their new cars. In addition there is also a big range of small to medi-um vehicles which achieved 5 star safety ratings.

“With popular cars such as the Mazda3, the 2014 New Zealand Car of the Year, along with the Toyota Co-rolla, Volkswagen Polo and Honda Accord which have all been awarded 5 star safe-ty ratings this year, the New Zealand fleet is becoming safer. Even those in the sec-ond-hand car market have something to look forward to as these models will flow through to the used market in two or three years provid-ing affordable, safe options for motorists,” Ms Stocks says.

“While the ANCAP bar continues to be raised, which challenges manufac-turers to put an increas-ing focus on structural safety and developing new active safety assist technologies (SATs) like autonomous emergency braking (AEB), there’s no denying that to-day’s 5 star cars will continue to provide good occupant and pedestrian protec-tion.”

Ms Stocks says her advice to mo-torists is to always buy the safest car they can afford.

“Motorists con-sider a number of

CEO of ANZPAA, Jon White has announced the final figures from the Aus-tralia and New Zealand road safety operation, Operation Crossroads, which all nine police jurisdictions held over the Christmas and New Year holiday period.

Following on from the 48 fatalities on Australian and New Zealand roads over the Christmas and New Year holidays, police are con-cerned by the risky behav-iours of some road users.

While the prevalent caus-es of road crashes continue

to be speeding and drink/drug driving, over the 12-day operation, 3,490 road users were issued with traf-fic infringement notices for seatbelt related offences.

Police also detected 2,615 mobile phone use offences. Excessive speed and drink/drug driving are the biggest causes of crashes as dem-onstrated in research and in the day-to-day experience of police.

“Driving at safe speeds, and not combining driv-ing with drinking alcohol or drug-taking remain the most

likely ways to bring fatalities and serious injuries down on Australian and New Zea-land roads,” says Jon White.

Jon White said that wear-ing a seatbelt is crucial to not only surviving a crash but also avoiding serious in-jury.

“For most people putting on a seatbelt is second na-ture but regrettably for some this is still not the case.

“Using a mobile phone while driving is really risky and can be readily avoided.

“Taking your eyes off the road even for a few mo-

ments can spell tragedy,” says Jon White.

Operation Crossroads is an initiative of Police Com-missioners in Australia and New Zealand to reduce road trauma over the holiday pe-riods.

The initiative aims to raise awareness of road safety is-sues, in particular targeting the ‘Fatal Five’ causes shown by extensive road safety re-search to be the main cause of road crashes – speeding, drink/drug driving, fatigue, distraction and not wearing seatbelts.

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“Potential buyers should be asking about the ANCAP safety rating or the Used Car Safety Rating, which is based on years of real world crash data in New Zealand and Australia.”

Petrol should be $1.45 per litre, says Labour

New Zealand’s petrol retailers and importers must start passing on savings to Kiwis motorists following the dramatic drop in the price of crude oil, Labour’s Energy Spokesman Stuart Nash says.

“It is great news for Kiwi drivers that the price of petrol is falling. However, New Zealanders have been paying far too much at the pump and it is time retailers and importers rec-tified this with a permanent margin correction.

“The price both Brent Crude and West Texas Intermediate (WTI) dropped below $US50 a barrel yesterday for the first time in five-and-a-half years.

“The last time the price of crude was this low, the exchange rate was around 0.6 against the US dollar and the price at the pump was still around $1.60 per litre. Now, the exchange rate is around 0.77 and the price is $1.85 per litre.

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The Waiuku Golf Club has resumed its activities for 2015, with recent results being: Tuesday Haggle; 1st Mike Dere-court 44, 2nd Michael Croucher 43, 3rd Cam Fleming 40.

Thursday Haggle; Div One; 1st Frank McGrath 40, 2nd Chris King 37, 3rd Kerry Martin 36.

Saturday Haggle; Div One; 1st Frank McGrath 44, 2nd Ker-ry Martin 43, 3rd John Ferregel 43, 4th John Toogood 41, 5th Dave Yandall 41, 6th Paul Wells 41. Div Two 1st Steve Shaskey 44; 2nd Brougham Windleburn 43, 3rd Phillip Baird 43, 4th Mike Johnson 42, 5th Maggie Spencer 41, 6th Lex Wilcox 40.

Best Gross; Div One John Ferregel 69, Div Two Mike John-son 83. Twos; Phillip Baird , Jim Cotter, Mike Derecourt , John Ferregel, Mike Johnson, Kalvin Lowe, Kerry Martin, Evan McPhee, Joel Stitt, Phil Thompson.

As the Waiuku Bowling Club readies to welcome new players and existing members to the launch of their Twilight Bowls, com-mencing this Friday from 6pm, players have recently completed two Ham Tourna-ments at the Waiuku greens.

The New World Waiuku Open Ham Tournament saw honours spread through three districts, with the top three teams from Pukekohe, Waiuku and Patumahoe. Winners were Benni De Boni, Peter Ballard and Mike Cavanagh, (Pukekohe), run-ners-up were Dave Nganeko, Pam Dennis and Ken Craze, (Waiuku), and third were the Patumahoe team of Sheila Fawcett, Pam Howe and Col-leen Miller.

The Prescott Builders Ham Triples Tournament was won by the trio of Marama Onehi, Moira Tracy and Brian Palm-

On Wednesday December, 17 Buckland Bowls hosted a Christmas Hams Mixed Fours tournament in weath-er which was far from ideal with lightning and thun-der about and intermittent showers prevailing. How-ever, through sheer stub-bornness, the entrants took it all in their stride and it was a Pukekohe team com-prised of skip Bruce Robin-son, three Raewyn Renall, two April Downs and lead Peter Ballard that scooped the half ham first prize. The Buckland team of skip Bob Main, Peter Lawn, Mike Mof-fatt and Raewyn Saunders was second with Pukekohe’s Barry Williams, Chris Walk-er, Glyn Tunley and Sheila Fausett third. Waiuku’s Pe-ter Sinclair, Sam Compston, Joy Sinclair and Len Corney were fourth.

In Championship play, winners of the Women’s’ Tri-ples were Diane Main, Jean Scott and Bernice Maloney

whilst the Mens’ went to Ray Walsh, Jim Ballard and Tam Lowen who pipped Mike Stone, Peter Lawn and Bob Main in the final. The Jun-ior Singles was won by Mike Moffatt over Graham Jones on a blustery sort of day. The Women’s Junior Singles was won by 14 year old Johneille Tukiri over a very new mem-ber in Adie Moffatt.

The first tournament for 2015 was run on January 7 and was a Pairs Medley com-prised of Australian Pairs (2-2-2-2), 4 Bowl Pairs, followed after lunch by Hong Kong Pairs (2-4-2) and finally, 3 Bowl Pairs. After so much rain and especially, wind in the first half of the season, it was very nice to have a fine, warm day, ice creams were very popular! Winners were Peter Ballard and Raewyn Renall from Pukekohe, fol-lowed by Penny Wakelin and Sal Bercita from Clark’s Beach. In third place were Barry Williams and Chris

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Walker from Pukekohe and a team all the way from Hunt-ly rolled in in fourth place, Bob and Thelma Munn. The Pairs Medley concept was very popular and resulted in players asking for another similar tournament sooner rather than later.

The Club Championship Pairs, run on the week-end of December 20/21 saw the Mens’ discipline being won

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It’s a dog’s lifeDo you exercise your dog at a Council park? Do you walk your dog through town?Waikato District Council is seeking feedback on the proposed Dog Control Policy and Bylaw 2015.

This bylaw sets out areas in the district where dogs are prohibited, specifies dog exercise areas and outlines the rules around the impounding and disposal of dogs.

Proposed changes to the Bylaw are:

• combining the Franklin District Bylaw and Waikato District Bylaw

• prohibiting dogs from areas leading up to Department of Conservation (DOC) land

• removing the limit of one dog per unit in a multi-unit residential development.

Thinking about buying a new pet? Worried about your neighbour keeping a pig in their backyard?Waikato District Council is also seeking feedback on the Keeping of Animals Bylaw 2007, which outlines rules around keeping animals other than dogs on your property.

The proposed bylaw combines the Franklin District Bylaw, with the Waikato District Bylaw.

For further information, copies of the statement of proposals, proposed bylaws and submission forms – visit www.waikatodistrict.govt.nz or any Council office or library.

Have your say by 20 February 2015Tell us what you think about what we’re proposing. Make a submission by:

• entering it online at www.waikatodistrict.govt.nz/sayit

• emailing it to [email protected]

• posting it to Waikato District Council, 15 Galileo Street, Ngaruawahia 3720

• faxing it to (07) 824 8091

• delivering it to any Council Office or library.

A hearing will be held on 18 March 2015 if you wish to present your submission in person.

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Farmers warned overwork on waterways

Farmers and their contractors can help protect the health of waterways by ensur-ing that any works they do in and around them don’t impact on bank stability, water quality and aquatic life.

To help ensure things are done the right way, Waikato Regional Council can pro-vide advice when people are planning any works around waterways, and has a range of relevant rules that spell out what is per-mitted and what requires a consent.

In recent years, the council has received a range of complaints about inappropriate in-stream works, resulting in a number of formal investigations and prosecutions.

So the council’s keen to lift awareness about the issues in-volved and the responsibilities of farmers and others when carrying out works in and around water bodies. These can include stream straight-ening and excavating the beds of rivers and lakes for a wide range of purposes ( including to install bridges or culverts), to remove a build up of sedi-ment or to manage an unsta-ble stream.

Sediment build up or insta-bility may be caused by stock trampling the banks, or cultivation of pad-docks too close to waterways without an adequate buffer zone or enough sediment control. It is important to ensure that these causes are dealt with to avoid recurring problems.

The effects of such problems on aquatic life and water quality can be exacerbated through inappropriate in-stream excava-tions, or inappropriate removal of bank vegetation.

Besides hurting water quality and aquat-ic habitats through increased sedimenta-tion, destabilisation of banks and beds can cause changes to the course of rivers and streams, resulting in loss of land and prop-erty and infrastructure damage.

Structures such as bridges, culverts and water intakes are essential features of most farms and they must be well planned and constructed to ensure they are not at risk from the stream, and also to protect in-

stream values. These structures can ob-struct or divert flows, or obstruct fish pas-sage up and down rivers, blocking access to spawning grounds and migration gen-erally, including to areas that have been used as traditional or recreational fisher-ies.

Against that background, the Resource Management Act clearly prohibits any dis-turbances to river, stream and lake beds unless the disturbance is specifically al-lowed by a resource consent issued by a

regional council.That’s why Council poli-

cies cover the use, erection, reconstruction, placement, alteration, extension, removal or demolition of structures in, on, under or over the beds of rivers, streams and lakes and any disturbance of the bed as well, such as stream straight-ening or cleaning. So those planning such works are wise to check out the rules first.

However, Waikato Regional Council also recognises that there are a range of activities in and around waterways that are not harmful. The regional plan has many rules enabling “everyday” activities, pro-vided certain conditions are

followed to avoid the sorts of problems described above. Those rules identify what activities are permitted without consents, and the conditions those activities must meet.

All parties involved can be held respon-sible for unlawful in-stream works, from property owners through to property managers and earthworks contractors. If the circumstances warrant it prosecutions or other enforcement action may be un-dertaken.

So it’s important to check the regional rules and to seek good quality advice when planning any activity in or near a stream. That will ensure that our rivers and streams are properly cared for as complex, delicate ecosystems in a productive agri-cultural landscape.

More information on the details is avail-able on 0800 800 401 or visit http://www.waikatoregion.govt.nz

By Bala Tikkisetty, sustainable agriculture advisor at Waikato Regional Council.

All parties involved can be held respon-sible for unlawful in-stream works, from

property owners through to property managers and earth-works contractors.

If the circumstances warrant it pros-

ecutions or other enforcement action may be undertaken.

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