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Porn images on-line at Devonport LibraryPorn can be viewed on Devonport Librarys

free internet service using a simple Google image search.

The Flagstaff was alerted by a reader that porn was accessible on the public librarys internet.

We tested the theory using the Devonport

Librarys AKL ON free WIFI network on an iPhone both inside the library and just outside.

We Googled the word porn and clicked on a handful of sites. They were all blocked by content-filtering.

However, a simple Google image search for porn brought up dozens of explicit and

non-pixellated images. The search results seemed entirely unfiltered.

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The Lake Rd Origin-Destination Survey comprised 14 questions developed by Auckland Transport and the Belmont-Hauraki Residents Association.

Questions included the persons gender, age, home suburb, location of journey start and loca-tion of journey destination.

Questions about Lake Rd specifically asked whether people had travelled on Lake Rd that day and what their reason for the Lake Rd trip was. Answer options included work, tertiary ed-ucation, school pick-up and drop-off, shopping, personal/medical, entertainment and sporting.

Further questions asked how often people made that trip and what their main mode of transport was and why.

The survey also established whether mo-

torised travellers were on their own or with passengers and whether their vehicle was a private or work one.

It asked if a different mode of transport was available for that trip, which of the following would be their first choice? Answer options were: walk; private car as passenger or driver; company car; cycle; bus; train; ferry; scooter; other.

Finally, if people travelled mostly by car, what would encourage them to switch to public transport, walking or cycling instead?

The options here were: if it was more conven-ient/easier than driving; if the trip was the same or shorter than driving; if it was less stressful than driving; cheaper public transport; dedicated bus lanes; separated cycle lanes; other.

A $49,000 Lake Rd survey by an internation-al consulting firm has been conducted instead of a free one offered by a local residents group.

The survey to determine how people use Lake Rd was commissioned by Auckland Transport and executed by Opus Consulting.

The Belmont-Hauraki Residents Associa-tion had offered its services free to Auckland Transport in May. Association chairman Tony Keenan said at the time: We told them (AT) we want to be involved from start to finish and they said they want us. We will do interviews and are even helping to develop the interview format.

However, soon after AT hired the interna-tional consulting firm to carry out the survey.

AT spokesperson Mark Hannan says the reason for the spend is that the survey was a significant piece of work. Surveys and data collection were undertaken over several days and at various times.

It was much better for Auckland Transport to commission the work because of the tools we have available, including traffic modelling and HOP data, he says.

Bias was a consideration too. We have to be careful about the validity of any survey. We have to make sure it is statistically robust and independent. Surveys using self-reporting can lead to claims of bias so it is best practice to use independent specialists to do the work, he says.

Hannan says that the cost of the survey was never an issue for Auckland Transport but we did reduce the groups expectation as to what was feasible. They initially wanted to stop traffic and interview drivers (something only police can legally do).

We suggested a range of other ways of measuring and monitoring travel patterns, he says.

More than 1700 interviews or survey forms were completed.

The Lake Road survey results are now complete and AT will present them to the Belmont-Hauraki Residents Association in late July.

The survey is part of Auckland Transports generic Corridor Management Plan (CMP), which has a budget of $200,000.

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of the instances your reader suggests occurring at Devonport Library, but conceded that it may have been possible to view the site he/she mentions.

Soljan said Devonport Library operates under the same policies and guidelines as the rest of the Auckland public library network to comply with the Films, Videos and Publications Clas-sification Act 1993. The Act included material viewable on the internet, she said.

In line with industry best practice, our block-ing and filtering software is regularly updated to protect the public from the likes of pornography. As with all such software globally, nothing is 100% foolproof, she said.

Library staff will intervene if they notice objectionable content being viewed, or if customers alert them to such use, she said.

Prior to using the librarys free Wi-Fi service customers first need to accept its terms and conditions, including that they will not use the free Wi-Fi to view objectionable material. We rely therefore on users notifying us of any objectionable site they are able to access so that we can take action, Soljan said.

In the United States, as a condition for fed-eral funding. the Childrens Internet Protection Act requires libraries to use internet filters and other methods to protect children from harmful online content.

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The sometimes secret world of card col-lecting, trading and playing is set to go public with a free event for enthusiasts to be held in Devonport.

Ollie and Harry Strong are passionate about trading and playing cards. Harry (8) likes Magic: the Gathering cards and older brother Ollie (11) is into Pokmon cards.

Both card sets are used to play complex strategy battle games. So complex that dad Mike Strong is organising a tutorial event for other kids and parents on the rules of the games.

A number of school parents have come up to me recently because they knew my kids are into the cards and their kids were interested in them too, but both kids and parents were unsure whether they knew the right rules on how to play with them, says Strong, who has booked the Devonport Yacht Club on Sunday, July 19 from 1.15pm until 3.30pm for the free event.

Takapunas Hobbymaster store sells the cards and runs regular tutorial sessions, but Strong wants Devonports younger kids to be able to stay closer to home. Most of the kids into Magic and Pokmon are still quite young and I thought something local and more con-trolled would be better for them, he says.

Ollie has been collecting and playing

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Pokmon cards for two years. It started when I watched the Pokmon series on TV and then went to the mall and got my first pack of cards, he says.

Ollie now owns 2,080 cards. Each has a different named creature and Ollie re-members all the names. Says Mike: It has definitely been good for Ollies memory. I havent found a card yet that he doesnt know the name of.

Harry became interested in Magic: the Gathering cards last October, when visiting Aucklands annual gaming and entertainment expo Armageddon. I went with my dad and we learned how to play Magic. Now I have around 400 cards, he says.

Magic: the Gathering cards are aimed at children aged 13 and older and have recently been banned from Devonport Primary School for that reason, says Mike. Pokmon cards are suitable for younger children.

I think the rating is there mostly because the concept of the game is battling and fighting, but at the same time it teaches the kids a lot about strategy, maths and reading too, he says.

Battles and fights are nothing new to the Strong brothers, who love to argue with each other about their cards. Harry insists that Magic cards are superior, because they

have lands and planewalkers that destroy everything. Ollie counters that Pokmon cards have artwork that is more unique, and are generally better and people just dont understand.

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Library costs unquantified months after openingMore than four months after the Devonport Library was opened

Auckland Council still cant say how much it cost. The library opened in February to much fanfare, with a construction

budget of $8.3 million.However the Flagstaff has been told there were significant cost

overruns towards the end of the project. Under the Official Informa-tion Act we asked council to supply final reports on the project which detailed a full breakdown of the final costs and expenditure including any contingencies. The Flagstaff also asked for a breakdown of yearly operating costs for the library.

A council officer responded saying: Ive been advised that the costs for Devonport Library are not yet finalised and could still be a few months away. Unfortunately Im not able to give a clearer timeline at this stage.

The team are going to follow up your second query regarding operating costs for the library for 2015/16.

Editorial Library budget still needs scrutiny

While the jury may still be out on the exterior of Devonport Library, its interior and upsurge of patronage is testament to its unqualified success with locals since it opened.

However Council costs, in an era of ever-increasing rates bills, need to be closely scrutinised. I was surprised therefore when council came back months after the library opened saying final figures for its build were not yet available.

Is this really acceptable? Or the right way to account for ratepay-ers money? If Devonport residents were building or renovating a home would they have final cost four months after the work was finished? Ill be interested to see what the final figures reveal.

Rob Drent, Editor

Ironing out the problemstwo workers last week clean the controversial $100,000 curtain artwork feature at Devonport Library

Library nominated for international award

Devonport Library has made it into the top five in a worlds best public library competition.

Five libraries are competing to win the Systematic Public Library of the Year Award 2015. The award was established by the Danish Agency for Culture and was sponsored this year by the IT company Systematic.

In addidtion to Devonport libraries from Sweden, Australia, Kenya and Spain are also in the running for the honour and US $5,000 prize money. The winner will be announced on

August 16 at the annual meeting of the Interna-tional Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA) in Cape Town, South Africa.

In the Devonport Library nomination it said it was based on its strong historical and cul-tural roots relating to the lifestyle of the Maori people. The building is shaped with respect for the surroundings.

Wood is the main material. It reflects the locality of the library and contributes to the creation of a very sustainable construction. The library has had an extended and rigorous consul-tation process, involving a broad cross-section of the community.

The award is a part of the Danish Agency for Culture and Realdani Model Programme for Public Libraries.

The programme aims to develop the library of the future with a focus on digital development, user demands, local culture, and the desire to accommodate diverse population groups with an open and functional architecture.

The library must be newly built or refurbished in buildings that have not previously been used as a library. The opening of the new library must have taken place between 1 January 2013 and 15 June 2015.

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Cuts at Devonport i-SITE continueCuts continue at the Devonport i-SITE

this time it is reduced opening hours.In an unpublicised change, the i-SITEs

small office at the end of Devonport Wharf has since May only opened from 10 am until 2 pm on weekdays and from 8 am until noon at the weekends.

Previously, it was manned from 9 am until 5.30pm on weekdays and 8 am until 4.30 pm on weekends.

Auckland Tourism, Events and Economic Development (ATEED) manager Vivian Bridgewater says the new hours align with the tourist season. Over the last two years,

More iSITE cuts a matter of time

South Auckland criminals target Devonport Criminals from South Auckland appear to be

using public transport to come to Devonport, committing crimes and then stealing cars to get home, according to police.

Flagstaff editor Rob Drent had his car stolen from outside his house on Abbotsford Terrace overnight on June 20.

It was later recovered at Manukau Institute of Technology the following Wednesday.

A police officer called Drent to alert him to the recovery and said it was most likely the offenders had bussed or trained in from South Auckland and caught the ferry over to Devo-port, and would commit crimes such as graffiti,

ATEED has adjusted the opening hours of all our i-SITEs, excluding the International Airport, to align with seasonal visitor flow.

In Devonport the i-SITE opening hours during winter reflect the peak times for that season, she says.

Bridgewater says opening hours will revert to the previous opening times later in the year to meet summer demand.

When at its previous location at 3 Victoria Rd, the i-SITE was manned by four staff with the help of local volunteers. The office was open from 8:30 am until 5 pm, seven days a week.

vandalism or burglary and then later steal a car to get home. The Mazda had its small back window broken, a door tampered with and the ignition smashed.

There have also been reports of other cars being broken into and contents stolen over the last two weeks.

Infrared Flower photos on show at the Depot

way for me to judge the level of infrared light with my own eyes, he says.

Flowers show In a Different Light runs at

Pink and purple North Island bush and paddocks are showcased in Tim Flowers photography display at the Depot Artspace this month.

The 30-year-old Hauraki Corner pho-tographer used rolls of discontinued Kodak Aerochrome 35 mm infrared film to document landscapes around the Ureweras, Taranaki, Port Waikato, Waitomo, Lake Waikaremoana and other central North Island locations.

The film turns New Zealands lush green land pink and purple. Infrared is a different wavelength of light that we cant see. It reflects off chlorophyll so anything green like grass, ferns, leaves or moss turns pink, he says. The rest, like the sky, the sea or the lake, stay blue or the way we know them.

I love how that means there is still some-thing natural and organic about the photos, which are also zero-photoshopped, he says.

Flower, a professional cinematographer, has been taking photographs as a hobby since the age of 18 and this is his first show.

He bought a dozen of rolls of film, discon-tinued in 2007, online.

Its kind of hard to come by. I got it on eBay from someone in California, who has been keeping a stack of it, he says. Flower also sends the films back to the US for developing.

Its lot more sensitive than regular film, so you have to load it really carefully and develop it in a specialist lab, he says.

Exposure is tricky too. I have to take each image with three different exposures to make sure I get the correct one because there is no

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Proposals to increase the height of commercial buildings in Victoria Rd have been slammed by Devonport Heritage as myopic and self-defeating.

The Devonport Business Asso-ciation (DBA) wants the maximum height increased to 12.5 metres up from the current eight-metre allow-able limit.

Central to the debate on heights is how any developments may affect the sight lines to volcanic cones - in De-vonports case the view to Mt Victoria.

Devonport Heritage says the DBA proposals are ludicrous and self-de-feating and will lead to the erosion of views of Takarunga/Mt Victoria and interfere with Devonports relationship with the maunga a relationship that has existed for nearly one hundred and fifty years.

The DBA has argued that the only way growth and vitality can continue is for new buildings to be 12.5 metres high and allow two more storeys to be added to all the heritage buildings.

Devonport Heritage says this is a destroy the village to save it mentality,

The DBA is keen to draw more tourists to the Devonport village yet it is ignoring the very features that attract visitors there, Devonport Heritage says in its submission to Auckland Councils draft Unitary Plan on volcanic cone viewshafts.

One of Devonports main attractions is the way the main centre nestles on the slopes and around the base of Takarunga/Mt Victoria. Its the heritage ambience of the village and the way the main street winds its way up the maunga. The mountain and the road are intertwined, one reinforces the other and together they make up the identity of the Devonport centre.

Devonport Heritage says during the cruise-ship season thousands of visitors come over daily to Devonport to enjoy the low-key heritage seaside suburb.

The DBA was shooting itself in the foot with the idea that getting rid of the current height restrictions will improve the Devonport centre.

It will in fact ruin its main attraction.Devonport village is all about the low-

key, low-rise heritage streetscape. Allowing 12.5-metre high buildings throughout the village would destroy the heritage value.

Height restrictions have protected Devon-ports main centre since the 1970s, says De-vonport Heritage.

It has prevented four-storey buildings from being built on the non-heritage sites and it has allowed the heritage buildings to remain at two storeys and free of pop-tops and unsym-pathetic extra storeys, which have ruined the heritage ambience of Wellingtons Cuba Mall for instance.

It is one of the key reasons why the centre has remained so intact, Devonport Heritage says it its submission.

The historic value of Devonports main

centre is not in doubt. Heritage New Zealand has submitted that

Victoria Road be included on the historic sched-ule as an Historic Place.

The current height and heritage go hand in hand.

Devonports relationship to Mt Victoria is very signficant, says Devonport Heritage.

The maunga is at the very centre of the sub-urb. We watch the sun and light move across it every day. We can see people climbing over it.

It is a physical presence that is a fixture in our movements, especially as we walk around the village centre.

The DBAs is a myopic view that should not be seriously considered by this Panel.

Devonport Heritage agreed with council plan-ners, who said any new developments should have no adverse effects on volcanic cones.

Heritage group slams taller-buildings plan

Takarunga/Mt Victoria is of extraordinary value and is much loved by the Devonport community, says Devonport Heritage in its submission to the draft unitary plan.

It has enormous value in its relationship to Aucklands other cones and especially to North Head and Rangitoto these cones are the great trio that sit like sentinels at the mouth of the Waitemata Harbour.

Historically the views of and between these maunga have been recognised for their beauty and significance. These views have already been greatly whittled away over the years and so what remains has become more precious.

We ask you (council) to treat Takarunga/Mt Victoria the same as all the other volcanic cones.We ask that you support the recommendations of councils consultants on this topic and

give Devonports maunga the respect and protection of the Volcanic Viewshafts and Height Sensitive Areas.

Either have protection for all our cones or we have none at all. If the significance of Takarunga/Mt Victoria is to be felled by the ambitions of a small

number of people on a local business group, what hope is there for any of our maunga?There must be no exception for Devonport, says the heritage group.

The importance of Mt Victoria to Devonport and Auckland

Mt Victoria and the commercial centre of Devonport are intrinsically linked, says Devonport Heritage

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July 10 2015 The DevonporT FlagsTaFF page 9 The Flagstaff Notes

By Rob Drent

Why did the chicken cross the road? To get to the other side of course. This somewhat lame joke of my childhood sprang to mind when it emerged Auckland Transport had spent $49,000 on a survey to find out why people are using Lake Rd.

I know its simplistic to say to get to the other side, and some information on why people use the arterial road (travel to sports, family gatherings, shopping or work etc) would add to the fabric when considering improvements to traffic flows.

But $49,000? Thats a lot of ratepayer mon-ey to answer questions that could have been contracted out to a group of university research students or locals for much the same result. Also galling when there is limited money in the council coffers to improve Lake Rd structurally.

The Lake Rd survey is all the more hard to bear as residents will be just receiving the latest council rates bills in the mail. Some of the in-creases in the new bills will be huge.

Council spends millions per year on scoping reports, studies, surveys, investigations and the like. A local example is the proposed Bayswater ferry terminal. Hundreds of thousands of dollars was spent on plans and consultations and it has never been built. These types of spend need to be more carefully looked at if council is really serious about saving money.

The only real way to ease Lake Rd congestion to a major degree is to have less cars on it and have public transport leaving every ten minutes. Do Devonport families really need (rather than find convenient) four cars a household? More common than peninsula residents care to admit. (According to the last census 14.5 % of residents have three or more vehicles.)

One local observed to me that Aucklanders attitude to car usage is deeply entrenched like a civil right. He compared it to the right to bear arms in the United States, which has made the introduction of gun-control laws so problematic. It will take an incredible shift in mind-set to change car usage habits.

My father didnt have a drivers licence and or own a car. Neither currently does my 22 year old son (who lives in the city). My father used public transport extensively. My son does as well and carpools with others at times. Are they oddities or is my generation the one out of step?

It was a strange feeling to open the curtains

on a Sunday morning to see my car gone from its parking spot. There was a dry spot left on the road where the car had been hours before. Had I driven it home? Had I looked it? Reporting it to police the first incident taker was quite matter of fact. When I rang up later in the day though, asking if it had been found, the police staffer was sympathetic. In general car thefts from Devonport werent too regular, she said,

Nine hundred cars had been stolen in the last three months in the Counties Manukau area, she added almost cheerily.

The Devonport Car Column

Dont look back in anger, so sang 90s brit-rock legends Oasis. Whats that got to do with cars?, I hear you ask. Well, its my personal belief that if you dont sneak an admiring backwards glance at your ride on a regular basis, you may just have the wrong one. Sorry, but its a fact.

In a world where form, fashion and function are joined at the hips, your car is often the conjoined triplet of a canny sense of whats current (white with black wheels, anyone?), what works for you (drop the2-door coupe when the kids arrive, it just makes your bum stick out when trying to strap in a car seat), and what just looks, you know, right.

Japan is awash with models that never make the journey to NZ, because we would laugh at them. Occasionally one slips though, and those unfortunate enough to buy one spend their time explaining Its sort of like one of these, and a bit like one of those. I pity them.

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Ngataringa Bay bridge an unrealistic pipe dreamA series of reports on Ngataringa Bay show

that a proposed pedestrian bridge across the bay would cost a fortune and may be no go due to geological factors.

At the Ngataringa Park side of the planned bridge, refuse from the former Devonport dump is underlain by estuary sediments, which extend to an approximate depth of 29m below ground level, says a 2009 report to North Shore City Council on leachate management and water issues.

A 1974 environmental impact report on the planned Devon Isles a Ngataringa Bay development for a marina and residential hous-ing raised issues of soft soils in the bay and says in many places the rock was reported to be covered by 50 feet or more of soft marine deposits.

On this poor foundation it would be extreme-ly difficult to construct stable bunds or other structures to retain fill, it says.

The proposed location of the bridge could also run into conflict with heritage sites.

A 1994 Cultural Heritage Inventory lists the 27 heritage and historic sites in the bay, includ-ing five of the Duders Brickworks sites near where the bridge would end on the Wakakura land.

Long-time Ngataringa Bay resident Lyndsay Brock, who has collected reports on the bay over the years, and has been involved for decades in campaigns to preserve the bay, could not believe the Greenways proposal to a build bridge from Ngataringa Park to Wesley St when she read about it in the Flagstaff.

I thought it was a true comedy of errors because that bridge will either cost a fortune, not be possible or sink into the bay soon after it was built.

She says council should stop spending ratepayers money on staff coming up with unrealistic pipe dreams.

They cost a fortune and once on paper they are hard to get rid of. It seems the ratepayers are paying for a lot of dreaming at the moment, she says.

A footnote in the Devonport-Takapuna Greenways Plan says the bridge across Ngata-ringa Bay was high level and aspirational and that further investigation will be required for the project as the route may be influenced by topography, vegetation, land ownership, timing of renewals funding and the like.

But Brock says the idea for a bridge across Ngataringa Bay would not have seen the light of day had any of the reports been consulted.

Why dont they ask us with local knowledge first? There are key groups in the community that know about many things. There is De-vonport Heritage, for example. I am the go-to person for Ngataringa Bay and can tell you all about it, she says.

Instead they come and ask us after they designed something that doesnt work or is anything but perfect, but they (council staff) still get perfect pay for it, she says.

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The DevonporT FlagsTaFF page 14 July 10 2015Letters

Keeping Lake Rd two lanes allows for better transport in future

Dogs off the lead on rocky parts of Narrow Neck could offer solution

I am not a dog owner! My wife and I walk on Cheltenham beach most days and have yet to see dogs misbehaving playing, yes dogs are pack animals, but enjoying themselves.

The hours proposed are a nonsense and clearly those personnel who are sponsor-ing this nonsense have yet to walk on the hours between 11.00 and 14.30 or they would be aware there are very few walkers on the beach at these times.

There are enough restraints on our free-dom without one that would have no impact whatsoever. I assume that the council will appoint a dog ranger to police the by-law at more cost to ratepayers. An unnecessary expense just like the security guards on our wharf that were appointed for the Rugby World Cup and are still there.Ian Brown

I am a dog owner and cyclist and from my experience both these groups tend to have a sense of self-entitlement when it comes to walking their dog or cycling on our roads and pathways.

On the issue of walking dogs on our beaches in the winter, I first want to say that it is not just non-dog owners that find other peoples out-of-control dogs a nuisance. I too dislike other peoples unruly dogs. The solution to this is training and feedback to the owners. As far as having dog-free times on the beach in the winter, while I sympathise with the problem I dont think that banning dogs from 11am to 2.30pm during the winter is the answer.

If the tides permit I often walk on the

beach at this time during the week, and there are very few people or dogs on the beach at this time of day.

Most people tend to walk their dogs earlier or later in the day to fit in with work hours (about 65% of people in the Devon-port-Takapuna Local Board area are of working age). The ban from 11am to 2.30pm during winter seems to be redundant.

Requiring dogs to be on a lead when on the main sandy part of the beach, and allowing dogs off the lead on the rocky parts of the beach (such as the northern end of Narrow Neck beach or the southern area between Narrow Neck and Cheltenham) might be a more effective solution.Jennifer Jones

The most annoying thing about living in paradise is Lake Road.

Ive heard every argument and put some up myself, but am now resigned to planning my trips up and down this road to avoid the crush.

There is no point in widening the two lanes between Hauraki Corner and Belmont, as the carpark will just get bigger and proba-bly make the rush hours stretch even further, as every man and his dog will join in.

Its time to plan for the future and that is where cars are not the priority but follow in the rear behind pedestrians, cyclists and buses.

The reasoning is simple in that feet and pedals are not using anything but people power, buses efficiently carry many pas-sengers and cars are a waste of space and fuel, especially when the driver is the only occupant.

To prepare for the future we need to retain one way in each direction for cars, the same for buses and widen the footpaths to include cyclists as white lines arent safety rails.

With raised cycle paths and footpaths beside each other they can share the space and perhaps keep left as road traffic to offer common benefits.

Lets wake up and smell the roses.Ian Ferguson

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Letters to the EditorLetters to the Editor are welcome. They should relate to Devonport issues. Unsigned

or nom-de-plume letters will not be published. Email letters to devonportflagstaff@

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Dog plans leave Rons best girl barking

Reading the Flagstaff not long back, I saw that our area has been RISK-assessed. God knows who wrote this report, but clearly at best the writer was a bloody idiot, an author-itarian, who hates free speech; we have a few of those around these parts who have stuck their heads up, or rather, down in the sand, you know who you are ...

Imagine saying we have risks of trouble-makers, protester types in our community amongst other ridiculous asserted ideas. This idiot was likely paid by a government organisation, using your tax to make up such stories, and they are deadly serious I might tell you. These people are a hazard in their own right. Whilst the report set out to identify risks of all kinds, the fact is we live in world where your opinions are recorded and if the high and mighty dont abide your ideals, they register them as a threat. Anyone who has too much to say can now be identified as a terrorist, or similar, and can be subjected to detainment without a warrant. If youre like Campbell Live, the PM organises through a mate put in the job prior, who writes the report that says youre not commercially viable and makes you redundant. The DEVONPORT report-maker is one of those people helping in creating a police state. The report is in effect propagan-da and a threat to democracy.

The risks the report failed to identify were Auckland Transports likely mindless degradation of our peninsula, by way of building a superhighway down Lake Rd, which is not required. I have real and viable solutions they ignore. There is the serious risk of degradation of the amenity values of the town, with a looming ugly monumental structure proposed to grace the gateway of

Devonport, a facility designed to suck the cash out of the elderly, a retirement village placed by stealth and backroom deals in-volving corporate speculators, who have no regard for the community, and the deals have been backed by our MP. There could be no worse a threat to the area than that, other than a supermarket eyesore on Lake Rd, a massive iron shed for corporate control of food supply.

And now we have the DOGGONE fiasco of where you can and cant take the bloody dog. Ive not bothered to read the detail but I heard that there are some other authoritarians at work again, likely the author of the Risk Report, who reckons we cant take our dogs anywhere any more, unless he says so. My dog is actually not a dog any more, its had, like a gender change some people elect, but instead its chosen to be person, not a dog. I know she still looks like a dog, but Im telling you shes now a person, and you must respect her right to be a girl. She uses my shampoo, eats people-food and is learning to drive the car; she goes cafe-lounging and has taken a voluntary job of clearing food scraps off the floors, to keep vermin from proliferating. She sleeps around in any bed she can work her way into, using her charms, typical of good-looking girls. If any authori-tarian insults her integrity and calls her a dog on the beach this summer, Ill likely smack them one for insulting my best girl. You can see it now like parking wardens, a plague already: we will have men in black combat gear with cuffs and cameras and ticket books on the beaches this winter trying to gather revenue and encouraging the *555 brigade to guide them in on the target. Ron Dykman

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With the school holidays about to com-mence, undoubtedly the normal influx of teenage skate boarders will migrate to the seat out the front of New World. Over the past school holidays, weekends and after school, these teenagers ride and flip their boards with no consideration to shoppers entering and leaving New World. I have wit-nessed people (often elderly) almost hit by skateboards. The elderly often appear fright-ened and hesitant to go near these teenagers. One day someone will be seriously injured.

I spoke to the New World owner who ad-mitted this was an issue. I suggested he place one of his staff members out there or hire a security guard to prevent the skateboarders from gathering. His response was negative due to cost. Surely with the amount of profit he must make from New World he can ensure the safety of his shoppers. Another option would be to remove the seat but this disad-vantages the shoppers and public. David Murray

Hurray for our local board!What better use of its time than trying to

restrict beach access time for Devonports prized pooches?

Its right up there with trying to stop kids wharf jumping and giving the thumbs-up to unsuitable tree plantings that were later ripped out.

Lake Roads still a mess, the ferry timeta-

Someone used garden sprays on the peninsula that have neonicotinoids contained in them.

How do I know this? Well, I have a beehive in my back garden, here in Stanley Point. Im not the only person. It is professionally managed by a government-registered beekeeper. It has been here for 18 months, carefully managed by my personal self as well as by my beekeeper, and causing no issue for the neighbourhood.

This highly successful activity has collapsed my beehive died this past week.

How do we know this horrific event, that is incredibly upsetting, was caused by pesticides? Because there was no Varroa mite present. The only survivors in the beehive were a tiny little

huddle of freezing cold bees and their queen, whom I rescued and have in a tiny little box in my bathroom to try and keep warm to restart the hive in August. And there were literally no bodies of dead bees anywhere to be seen which means the neonicotinoid-based spray was used somewhere within 5kms, which directly inter-feres with a bees navigation. My babies got lost, and died in the cold. Lastly, my queen and her dozen workers are still alive a week later, so there is no disease or virus involved. That leaves one culprit: spraying with neonicotinoids read-ily available in local stores, even though most of Europe has banned their use and Australian research has undeniably connected the sprays to bee-population decimation.

As a result of the colony collapse disorder, the very large wasp population on the peninsula takes full advantage of the weakened hive and

raids it. Ive tried to find the wasp nests nearby that lurk in most peoples backyards, but to no avail.

This past week has reminded me of the most disturbing and frightening reality. There are literally no bees (other than a few bumble bees) in any of the surrounding gardens where I live. My hive was the only supply of bees in this part of Stanley Point. Western honey bees no longer exist outside of farmed hives. They die.

This is an alarming situation. I ask that people refuse to use pesticides that

contain neonicotinoids. I use pesticides for hedg-es and the like myself, being an avid gardener, however, I choose carefully what I use.

You should see the research as to what will happen to our civilisation if we lose the western honey bee. David Hare

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with at New World car park Has the Devonport Business Association (DBA) completely lost the plot? Why are

they proposing to ruin the character of our village with tall buildings that will block the views and spoil the character that local and overseas tourists come to Devonport for? The main street is already a hotchpotch of differ-ent styles of building and varying quality of hoardings and signage.

Wouldnt the DBA be better off focusing on attracting some more diverse and interesting

retail and hospitality options for Devonport, where visitors and locals alike will enjoy lin-gering and spending their cash? Or how about doing something to support those many local businesses struggling with exorbitant rents?

DBA, why not leave building heights to the architects and heritage people and get on with making Devonport a more interesting place to shop and a more profitable place to trade.Mary Taylor

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A Plunket nurse, who has broken her left arm three times after tripping on Devonport streets, is calling on council to urgently up-grade footpaths.

Elly van der Zwaag, who works at De-vonport Plunket, first broke her arm falling outside Brumbies in Clarence St around four years ago.

Then last year she tripped on bad paving on Albert Rd, smashing her arm in two places.

And three weeks ago she fell in Anne St after stumbling over asphalt that was left raised after a pavement repair. The last two accidents happened around dusk.

Im not a clumsy person and keep myself fitI do a lot of tramping and Im not a frail old woman who has fragile bones.

And I do not want to stop walking because the streets are in bad repair.

Van der Zwaag believes council needs to address the poor state of Devonports pave-ments as a priority and also ensure contractors and utility service providers repair footpaths properly after they have done maintenance work.

Our rates are increasing so people should be able to have good pavements, she says.

The government has just announced mil-lions of dollars of funding for cycleways in Auckland, which van der Zwaag supports. But she says good pavements are equally important to keep people active.

Dangerous footpaths are worse at nights and residents shouldnt be restricted to walk-ing in daylight hours; it was dark at 5.30 pm in winter, she said.

Uneven paths also make it difficult for people in wheelchairs, frames and mobility scooters to get around, van der Zwaag said.

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Alisha McLennan is a hands-on dancer and choreographer.

One of her creations is a hand solo she performs regularly as a professional dancer for Touch Compass, a contemporary company open to disabled and non-disabled performers.

McLennans hand solo is based on a story she wrote about moving into her own home at the age of 23. I wrote about all sorts of things packing boxes, figuring out where to put everything and not being able to get to sleep. From those words I created the movement. It is nice making work that has different layers to it, she says.

Last month, McLennans hand solo became the basis for Brought is to Bring, a performance by Takapuna Grammar Schools Integrated Dance Company at the schools annual dance evening at the Bruce Mason Centre. The group comprises 20 disabled and non-disabled students.

McLennan (27) has been involved with the TGS event for four years as a Touch Compass community and school project tutor. This year I actually went in there with an idea. I wanted to take my hand solo and teach it to the students, so they had some material to work with and make their own.

Everyone got to work with a partner and chose four of their favourite moves from the solo and change them how they wanted. I had done the solo on the floor, but they could stand up and put new bits and pieces into it, she says.

Becoming a choreographer is McLennans long-term plan and working with the TGS students is part of it. Each year I feel like Ive had more input. I have gone from being a support tutor to being more of an equal tutor with the other person from Touch Compass. Its been really nice, she says. This year, that second tutor was Georgie Goater, who also worked with McLennan on the original hand solo choreography.

McLennans cerebral palsy affects her bal-

Alisha McLennan is an award-winning contemporary and aerial dancer with Touch Compass, a professional company based at the Wilson Centre. She is also a champion skier. McLennan has cerebral palsy and uses a wheelchair. She spoke to Maire Vieth.

ance and control of her muscles as well as her speech. She uses her wheelchair when out and about because its a lot quicker to get from A to B, but in the companys latest work she has cre-ated a solo where her chair does not contain her.

McLennan works with Touch Compass year-round on a series of dancing and teaching contracts. In August, she will go on tour with the company. We are taking two pieces Un-dertide and Watching Window to Hamilton and Wellington, she says. In October, Touch Compass will show new work at the Q The-atre during Aucklands annual Tempo Dance Festival.

McLennan grew up on the North Shore and developed her passion for dance when she was 10, while at Belmont Primary School. In 1998, she attended a Touch Compass community workshop held at Unitec Institute of Technol-ogy. The dance company had been founded only a year earlier and Karen Fraser Payne, its general manager and a family friend of the McLennans, encouraged McLennan to try it out. Until then McLennan had done a little bit of swimming and a lot of physio, which wasnt fun, she says.

McLennan instantly enjoyed the new level of physicality in her life. A year later, now at Belmont Intermediate School, she took an aerial dance workshop and was hooked. I think the appeal was that it was fun to start with, real fun. Then it became a lot about the physical side and how it helped me to maintain strength. Actively dancing changed my ability to do everyday

things; simple things like put my wheelchair into the boot of my car and then walk to the front seat. When I go somewhere and I need to get up some stairs, I can do that. And as long as I have someone with me, I can go to the beach for a swim or go pretty much anywhere, she says.

McLennans first performance with Touch Compass was in 1999 at the Auckland Art Gal-lery for the companys official launch. She was 11. In 2002, aged 14, she became a company member while still a student at TGS. She went on tour performing Lusis Eden in Taupo and Christchurch and featured in Lighthouse at the Aotea Centre. A year later, she performed in Acquisitions 03, and in Nightswimmers with Splash Flying Dance and Company.

At 15, McLennans dancing career took a knock when her family moved from Devonport to Christchurch. McLennans mother Kathe, an interior designer, and her father Murray, a builder, had renovated eight houses around Devonport and Takapuna and now wanted to buy farmland in North Canterbury. I didnt particularly like this idea. When we were mov-ing down, I thought Ill come and I will finish school and then Ill come back. It did not quite happen that way, she says.

In Christchurch, McLennan became in-terested in adaptive skiing through Disabled Snowsports Canterbury. They had a really great programme where they would go from Christchurch up to Mt Hutt on day trips three times a week. They had a helper programme, so one day me and my twin brother Harry decided


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To get up really quickly and jump is a freedom like noth-ing else, says Alisha McLennan about aerial dance

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McLennan went on a skiing week at Cardrona with a Canterbury skiing team. From there, I kept meeting and skiing with different instruc-tors down there. Skis are specially adapted for her. I started off with a sit-on bi-ski and then tried a mono-ski for which you need more balance. You sit and get strapped in. Your ski is under you and you have two outriggers like mini poles with little skis at the bottom, she says.

She competed in the Cardrona disabled national champs and won gold medals in the junior division in 2007 and 2008. A year later, she won the events open female division. She also won the Viv Martin Trophy for Most Outstanding Female Skier in 2008 and 2009.

After school, McLennan enrolled in Can-terbury University. I started out doing a law degree and then I changed to do a BA in politics but I didnt finish. It just wasnt for me, she says.

While still at university, McLennan lived on the family farm in the Hurunui town of Amber-ley with her older sister Sada. Their parents had taken off to the UK for a three-year working OE and the older siblings had left home.

My sister went away for a couple of weeks and by that point she had gotten a dog and some chickens and I had to look after them. Id drive to the chicken coop to collect the eggs and clean out the straw. Id get the dog to chase the car so he got some exercise or Id throw sticks off the patio down the hill, she says.

In 2010, McLennan decided that if law and politics werent for her, dance was. She moved

back to Devonport and started working and touring with Touch Compass again, with a renewed focus on aerial dance.

She started out using a bungee cord. She straps herself into a modified rock-climbing harness, attached to a bungee hanging from the ceiling. I can still touch the ground and if I push off a bit more I can also jump. To be able

to get up really quickly and jump is a freedom like nothing else, she says.

In 2011, McLennan, received a North Har-bour AIMES special judges award of $8,000. She used the grant to travel the world. She worked with performance and inclusive dance companies in England in 2012. In Liverpool she joined workshops with Wired Aerial Theatre, who trained with bungees and vertical walls. You are in a harness quite close to a special

wall that is kind of like a trampoline and you can bounce off it and do flips and stuff like that. Its really cool, she says.

She returned to London the following year. I was with a dance company called CanDoCo for one workshop and did another aerial dance workshop there. We were working with silks, cocoon and trapeze, says McLennan, who particularly enjoyed the cocoon work.

Cocoon is quite similar to silks. Silks are two pieces of material that hang straight from t

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