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A number of Mahurangi cigarette retailers have been targeted in tobacco burglaries and store owners are concerned the problem will be exacerbated as the cost of tobacco rises.Already this year the Matakana Gull Station, Mahurangi East Four Square

and Orewa Hilltop Dairy have been broken into for cigarettes.The Gull Station was ram-raided by two people on June 2, who took nothing but tobacco.Station owner Gay Smith says she will consider stopping cigarette sales if it will reduce the risk of a future burglary.

Mahurangi East Four Square has been targeted for tobacco twice and store owner Evgemi Bachara is considering upgrading security.Cigarettes are a major target for thieves, he says.“They are the new gold at the moment,” Mr Bachara says. “If you think about it, how much wine can

Mahurangi retailers hit by tobacco crimeyou carry at once compared to how many packets of cigarettes?”But he says, financially, he would be crazy to stop selling them, even though the mark up is just eight per cent on each packet.The Orewa Hilltop Dairy was ram-raided with a stolen vehicle on May

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More than 100 events will be held around the region to celebrate Matariki over the next month. The festival celebrates the rise of the Matariki constellation, which signifies the Maori New Year. Read about the events happening around the region, including in Te Hana, on p35.

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Thousands of people could be heading to Tomarata for music festivals and other events if a resource consent application is approved.Tomarata resident Arnim Pierau is proposing to hold up to 34 events a year at his 32-hectare property, which borders Slipper Lake and Lake Spectacle on Ocean View Road.Combined, the consent would allow for up to 86 days of events a year, with up to 22,300 people, including crew. This would include three four-day festivals a year for up to 3000 ticket holders and 300 crew, and six four-day events for 500 ticket holders and 300 crew.The proposal would also permit 20 corporate events and 15 weddings with a maximum of 400 guests.The consent application was assessed as notified and Auckland Council received 37 submissions by the May 27 cutoff date.In total, 30 submissions opposed granting the consent, three were in favour, three wanted greater restrictions on the number and nature of events, and one wanted the consent to be for a fixed term.Noise was the biggest concern, with 26 of the submissions stating the noise would have a significant impact on them, while 23 submissions raised concerns about the level of traffic on the unsealed road, and 19 said the events would be out of scale with the rural environment.

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In a review of the consent by Council specialists, senior environmental health officer Brett Taylor recommended the music festivals be limited to two full days of music and a sound check to monitor noise levels. Auckland Transport’s review said traffic effects would be “less than minor”.Mr Pierau has held about four events at his property over the past couple of years with about 1000 people attending each. But, he says the cost of getting a consent for each festival is prohibitive and a larger consent is the only way to make it viable long term.“Regardless of whether you do one event or 10 it’s going to cost $50,000 a year to get the event licences, traffic reports and other consents,” Mr Pierau says.Previous festivals held on the property have caused tensions in the small community, with nearby residents complaining of endless thumping of bass-heavy dance music.Mr Pierau says the festivals will only be a for a few days of year and music will only run for a maximum of two days at each festival.“Some people will be affected, but it’s only a very few and for a short amount of time. If you are not into

that, it is going to be an annoyance, but so is a neighbour having a party, or a barking dog. There has to be some compromise and tolerance.”The consent application, prepared by O’Connor Planning Consultants, says the two concert stages will be directed away from neighbouring houses and towards a pine plantation – the nearest house would be 800m away from the stage. The site would also be screened by trees.There is currently a sandmine on the land and it is also used for grazing. There are also six chalets which are rented as holiday accommodation and an approved consent for a further seven chalets.The application says the events will have a smaller environmental impact than the sandmine, which runs six days a week, creating noise, dust and heavy vehicle traffic. The sandmine would not operate during the events.A consent hearing will be held on June 28 and 30 in the Council Chambers at the Orewa Service Centre.The application, including Council’s review and public submission, can be viewed with this article at localmatters.co.nz.

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17, but the criminals were unable to steal the cigarettes, so took the cash register instead.Dairy owner Faruk Ismail says he is looking to improve store security in the aftermath.“We would like to put in bollards, but it’s not financially viable at the moment,” he says.Retail NZ has also expressed concerns, saying the tax hike may make tobacco more attractive to thieves and put retail workers at risk.In a press release last month, Retail NZ public affairs general manager

Greg Harford said tobacco was already a key target for thieves. “While any retail store selling tobacco is a potential target, the risk is particularly great in small stores such as corner dairies, which play an important part in keeping our communities vibrant,” Mr Harford said. “We expect retailers will need to look at their security arrangements as a result of the tax hike.”Some stations have already moved to increase security following earlier price hikes. GAS Mangawhai owner Paul Thurgood had his stock placed in a

safe case in 2012.“I think hearing about cigarette theft is a lot more common now,” Paul says. “Our station is fairly secure, there is not a lot more we could do to prevent it.”Warkworth Police officer in charge Bede Haughey says there has been a marked increase in tobacco related crime in the area.“We’ve found retailers in quieter areas are being targeted.”But, he says the issue is nationwide.“I am very confident that what we are experiencing is just the tip of the iceberg.”

Sgt Haughey says generally most retailers are doing all they can do to secure their premises, but additions like bollards and can help prevent smash-and-grab crimes.“Ensuring stores are well lit and have security cameras and monitors is also beneficial.”The cost of an average packet of cigarettes is set to increase from $20 to $30 by 2020, after the Government announced a 10 per cent annual tax increase over the next four years.The policy is part of the Government’s plan to make NZ smoke-free by 2025.

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Local groups say they are being turfed out of community halls as fees are set to triple.The policy will affect Auckland Council-run halls, including Shoesmith Hall, Warkworth Old Masonic Hall, Warkworth Town Hall, and the Point Wells and Te Hana halls, but doesn’t affect community-run halls, like in Whangateau and Leigh, where local committees set fees.The Rodney Local Board voted through the new fees last month, in an attempt to meet the mounting costs of running the halls. A report submitted to the Board showed the halls made significant losses in 2014/15, ranging from $10,656 at Point Wells, to $18,295 at the Old Masonic Hall. The bulk of the costs were from cleaning and maintenance – the Old Masonic Hall had a total of $24,376 in expenses, including $6307 on cleaning and $9866 on repairs and maintenance, while it made just $6082 revenue (the full report with the costs and revenue for all Council-run halls in Rodney can be found with this story at localmatters.co.nz).The changes will come into effect next month, but for regular hall users the increase has been capped at 20 per cent until July next year, when the new fees will come into force across the board.Many groups say they will be unable to meet the higher costs. The Warkworth and Wellsford Pipe Band will have to pay an extra $940 a year at Shoesmith Hall, with fees increasing from $450 to $1390. Band secretary June Turner says it would be unable to meet the price hike and would have to fold.

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June is a former Local Board member and says she was instrumental in having the hall transferred from the Warkworth Women’s Bowling Club to Council.“It was meant to be for the community, but this would turf the band out of existence,” June says. “We are extremely outraged.”The band has eight members and has been meeting at the hall every week for a decade.“We play for free for the RSA at Anzac Day, at the Wellsford Christmas Parade and at the Matakana Fruit Loop. It’s a community service.”Warkworth Quilters president Jean Gardner says the group will look for a new venue, as its annual fees for Shoesmith Hall will jump from $495 to $1530.“They will find they are pricing themselves out of the market,” Ms Gardner says. “They are shooting themselves in the foot.”She also questions the costs associated with running the hall, which was $21,201 in 2014/15, including an $8950 cleaning bill.“We often find the floors haven’t been swept, there

is rubbish in the bins and the users are expected to clean the hall before they leave. I can’t see how it costs $9000.”Council would not provide a breakdown of the cleaning and maintenance costs when asked.At the Local Board’s May business meeting, members said if it didn’t increase the fees it would have to fund the costs from its own budget, which would affect other projects.Deputy chair Steven Garner said some groups would find the fees difficult to pay, but the Board couldn’t afford to subsidise the halls.“It’s not an easy thing, but it has to be done,” Mr Garner said.In a report to the Board, Council venue hire team leader Robyn McMichael said rates in Rodney were considerably lower than in the rest of Auckland, where fees had increased in 2014. The Board decided to delay implementing the new fees in 2014 as it was reviewing its hall management policy, which would determine which halls are managed by Council and which are managed by community committees. The review was expected to finish next year.Board member Phelan Pirrie said once the new policy was in place more communities may choose to manage the halls and set their own fees based on costs and revenues. Board chair Brenda Steele and member James Colville voted against the policy and wanted to delay implementing the fees for another year.

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An opaque councilThe same spin is wheeled out once again. First of all Council spending doesn’t include water and wastewater, as this is all self-funded through the CCO Watercare by their direct charges for their services. We have figures of savings told to us. If so much has been saved, why has the debt per ratepayer of the Rodney area rocketed up? In 2008, non-current liabilities per ratepayer unit were $4600. Prior to the forced amalgamation, as at October 2010, it had risen to $5200 – a rise of $600 or 13 per cent. This, at the time, caused some concern among the community. Five years on, this debt, as at AC 2015 report, has shot up to $15,600 – a rise of $10,400, or 905 per cent. This is growth management so we are told. This level of stewardship by our Councillor, chair of finance and expenditure, is city wide and does not give cause for alarm as that has been surpassed, but general public panic. In times past, the proponents of such incompetence would either have been publicly ridiculed or whipped with barbed wire in the town square. We deserve better than this. Throughout the country there are local bodies, mostly quite small, without highly paid professionals, who out perform the rabble administrating the so-called Supercity. Replacements are required who, as in these better performing smaller councils, have let the communities have direct input to decision and policy making through full council transparency. Openness installs a culture of honesty, hand in hand with responsibility.Lance Taylor, Dome Valley

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Last month the Local Matters team (Mahurangi Matters and sister paper Hibiscus Matters) attended the NZ Community Newspaper conference in Rotorua.The organisation represents more than 80 publications, all independently NZ owned, from throughout the country. Most are community newspapers like this one, with a proven track record of keeping their community informed and entertained.In a time of rapid change in the media, it was good to see that these publications have strength in numbers and can work together in new ways when faced with larger and ever-larger Australian owned media corporations.Mahurangi Matters picked up an award for Best Advertising Feature or Supplement for the Destination visitors guide, while graphic designer Martin Tomars was named runner up for Best Individual Advertising Portfolio. Editor George Driver also got a special mention for Best Junior News Journalist and Best Newspaper Photographer.One of the most surprising

presentations came from Jeremy Rees who has taken on the national community titles editor role at Fairfax. For many of the people he addressed at the conference, Fairfax is a key competitor and it’s fair to say that his presence raised a few eyebrows.It appears from what he said that Fairfax would like independent publications to share their content on Fairfax websites, such as Stuff and Neighbourly. While it was clear how this would assist Fairfax, several asked ‘what’s in it for us’?The model that works for local papers is that they are based within their communities, and are generally small to medium businesses. While Mr Rees’ speech seemed to be acknowledging the effectiveness of this type of operation, at the same time there was the suggestion that we could be left behind in the rush to provide multi-media platforms. Nothing could be further from the truth.The introduction of digital news-gathering and presentation leaves media organisations everywhere with two alternatives – they can either put their head in the sand

and hope it all goes away or they can ‘embrace the shake’.We’ve decided the challenge of adapting to the digital age looks far more interesting and fun than the head in the sand approach, so that’s why we’ve launched LMLive.If you visit our website or follow us on Facebook or YouTube you will have noticed the growing number of news, entertainment and sports stories we are already covering directly online and in video. It’s like having a television station in our own backyard.In Mahurangi, we have a dedicated sports round-up twice a week and a new local shopping segment called Marketplace is launching soon. Setting up a sustainable business model for this new venture will be a challenge and we owe a heartfelt vote of thanks to businesses like The Camera House and Mason Contractors who are among the first sponsors/advertisers to come on board.We are excited about what we will be delivering to our local audiences in the days ahead and, as usual, your feedback is always welcome. Just send it in to [email protected]

Grant rounds open next monthApplications for two rounds of Rodney Local Board’s community grants open next month. Applications for the Quick Response grants open on July 1 and close on July 18. The grant is for projects ranging from $500 to $2000. Applications for the Local Grants round open July 1 and close on July 31. This grant is for projects ranging from $2000 to $10,000. Terms and conditions can be found on the grants and funding section of Auckland Council’s website.

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This month’s Viewpoint is about presenting a new point of view about what Auckland Council should be doing to revitalise civic pride within the people of Rodney.Living at Snells Beach puts me into regular contact with folk from all over the Mahurangi. Most people are deeply disappointed about what has failed to be done for Rodney over the last six years. They want this to change. People are frustrated with the status quo. They see Auckland Council’s performance as woeful. Rates have gone up, debt has gone up, the wage bill has gone up, yet service levels have gone down. You may have your own viewpoint about maintenance, local projects and housing affordability.So what needs to change? Firstly, to achieve the promises of the Supercity, Council must get the rates and debt back under control. As well as fighting rates increases, there needs to be greater financial transparency of Council’s expenditure and a real push to stop the wastage and overspending. This should start by immediately getting the annual $720 million wage bill under control, which has blown out by over $50 million every year. Last year it blew out by $63 million. This is overspending we simply cannot afford.Next, we need to get Council back to core business and the ‘need to haves’, like dealing with Warkworth’s traffic congestion, rather than the ‘nice to haves’, like pink cycle-ways or white-water rafting parks.If Auckland is really about equality across the region, then let’s have our roads, footpaths, walkways and public transport comparable with the rest of Auckland.Thirdly, local rates need to be spent on maintaining our local area, not funding a massive bureaucracy that thinks it knows best how to spend our money. We need our rates spent on our infrastructure, not on Auckland CBD projects that provide little or no benefit for Rodney ratepayers. Council needs to start giving Rodney its fair share of Council’s spending.Fourthly, unnecessary Council regulations and rules need to be removed. The time delays and cost to do business with Council is out of control. License costs, user charges, compliance costs and consent costs have all skyrocketed and many are being passed onto housing prices. These costs need to be reduced to sensible levels in order for new jobs and housing to be created. Any shortfall in revenue should be found from internal Council savings. Finally, over the last six years congestion has got worse. Just look at Hill Street. The inherent design flaws with Hill Street have failed to be appropriately addressed and the town still doesn’t have a designation for the pivotal link road, although it is likely to be built at about the same time as the new motorway. The big cost to Rodney has been Auckland Council’s approach to the City Rail Link and other huge transport projects in Auckland. This has displaced local transport projects that are far more important to Rodney residents. People are seeking change.

opportunity to thank the Mahurangi Matter for exposing what we all now know was the ‘Araparera Rort’. How is it possible for the working class (under the pretense of investment) to faithfully pay a targeted rate for the best part of 30 years only to be told upon its conclusion that they have made no money? Wouldn’t it be nice to know how many sticky fingers were in that honey pot? Does the Council think rural people are dumb? Perhaps they think we cannot perform basic arithmetic? And all of this under the watchful eye of our current Councillor Penny Webster.

Our affected rural communities are now forced to pay what will be our third targeted rate for roading in two generations, all of this on top of our hefty rate bills and a toll to get to our city, whilst 99 per cent of us rural folk have experienced bugger all change to our communities or roading in decades. May I also note the unwelcome changes through the Unitary Plan forced on the rural sector, on ratepayers’ property rights, is another contentious issue that has also happened under our Councillor’s watchful eye! All I can say is ‘local government elections, bring it on!’Peter Verhoeven, Tapora

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Residents who will have to wait decades to have their roads sealed have been given an alternative – pay for it yourself.Auckland Transport is updating its guidelines to allow for private funding of road sealing projects.Applicants would have to fund all costs of the sealing, including land acquisition, design, consenting, construction and contingencies.They would also have to fund investigations into the feasibility and design of the road using an AT-approved consultant and all contractors must be approved by AT.AT would, “absorb its own costs in processing the application, reviewing the design and undertaking any site inspections”. It would also fund ongoing maintenance, renewal and operational costs.The Local Board would also have to endorse any application.AT media relations manager Mark Hannan says AT has had four requests from residents to fund road sealing projects in the past year and is actively working with a resident on one proposal.“AT is receiving an increasing number of offers to fund seal extensions, in full or in part, from third parties,” Mr Hannan says.But, with an average cost of about $400,000 a kilometre to seal a road, or over $1 million a kilometre where significant earthworks and drainage are required, it is unlikely AT will be inundated with proposals.Rodney Councillor Penny Webster says she hopes a trial project will be worked through to show residents how the process will work and what the costs are likely to be. Private funding may be an option for short, flat sections of road where there are many residents to split the costs, she says.“I have been working with AT for many years to

enable this to happen, so I am delighted there is a whole section in the latest guidelines,” Cr Webster says. “It was only a matter of weeks ago I was told it wouldn’t happen. I persisted and finally someone has seen sense.”Puhoi resident Ian Bateman has been trying to get a 100-metre stretch of road sealed outside of his house on Noakes Hill Road.“We’ve built a brand new house and dust is a big problem,” Mr Bateman says. “We think it’s worth spending $10-$20,000 as an investment for the house.”He is currently in negotiations with AT, but says it is turning into a lengthy process.“What’s really slowing things down is we’ve got to pay for a report on the condition of the existing road to show its in a good condition before we pay to have it repaired and sealed. We are having difficulty find any company that can do that sort of report.”

Two years ago, Pukapuka Road resident and civil engineer Tony Mair made a pitch to Rodney Local Board, offering to contribute $600,000 to seal the 3.8km road if AT allowed him to manage the project and engineer it to his standard. The Local Board allocated $20,000 towards investigating the proposal, but AT said the costs would be far higher than Mr Mair’s estimates and had no guidelines to manage a public-private partnership for road sealing.Other regions of New Zealand have more generous systems for private road sealing . Whangarei District Council seals roads where residents agree to contribute $2500 per household. The Far North District Council also has a scheme where they will seal a road if residents contribute two-thirds of the costs and 70 per cent of residents are in favour. The cost can be paid off via a targeted rate over 20 years.

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“It will be viewed as an outstanding example of how to retrofit and earthquake strengthen a heritage building,” Ms Steele said.The hall is also set to feature in the Auckland Heritage Festival in October. Auckland Council staff hope to open the hall to the public for the event, with information panels detailing the hall’s history and the restoration process.Planning for the grand opening is also starting, with the future mayor tipped to cut the ribbon and a variety of performances promised.People will be able to book the hall with dates starting in November, via Council’s online hall booking system which launches next month.

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Two Bull Terrier type dogs attacked a Wellsford woman while she was walking in Centennial Park on May 24.The woman, who doesn’t want to be identified, says she was walking on the athletic area of the park at the time, which is a no dog zone. Two dogs ran up to her and then surrounded her, one attacked her leg and the other jumped up and bit her on the back.“It was a nasty unprovoked attack,” she says. “They started growling and went into pack-attack mode. They bit me and then I started screaming.”The woman and her husband confronted the owners but they were given false information. She later received treatment for puncture wounds to her leg and shoulder at the Wellsford Medical Centre. Sergeant Geoff Medland from the Wellsford Police says they have been liaising with animal management officers to discover the identity of the dog owners.“We believe they are local to the Wellsford/Warkworth area. It is in their best interest to come forward and offer an explanation,” Sgt Medland says. Animal management officers visited two properties shortly after the attacks and seized two dogs for being unregistered, but they say they have not been able to find the dogs involved in the attack.Auckland Council animal management manager Geoff Keber says they are still investigating the incident and are confident they will find the dogs involved.Police say that fortunately these types of attacks are rare. Anyone with information can contact the Wellsford Police on 423 8228 or Animal Management on 0800 462 685.

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Experiencing Marine Reserves (EMR) has treated three Mahurangi students to a snorkeling experience at the Poor Knights. The organisation runs an annual competition to encourage students to undertake conservation projects, using a snorkel day as a prize. Mahurangi College had over 200 student action projects and two of the students went on the snorkeling trip, Jordon Thomas and fellow Year 8 student Halle Gravatt. Jordon’s project involved installing and monitoring a successful rubbish sieve mechanism in the Sandspit Marina. Halle was rewarded for her education pamphlet on mangroves

in the Whangateau Harbour.Warkworth Primary School winner Jacob Gray, aged seven, particularly enjoyed seeing dolphins on the trip.“The standards of action projects that go beyond the school environment were superb,” programme director Samara Nicholas says. “Students were involved in a variety of projects that address local marine issues such as presentations on marae, campaigning council and writing letters to the editor.”The annual trip started in 2002 with three students from three Northland schools. This year 25 schools from eight different regions took part, taking the total number of snorkeling experience winners to 347.

Poor Knights a rich experience for studentsMahurangi College student Jordon Thomas (left) with Tom Hatfull. Photo: Darryl Torckler


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Hearings on the future of Te Muri Regional Park have been delayed to let a local group gather more information about a proposed walkway to link the park to Wenderholm via a bridge across the Puhoi Estuary.The 382ha park lies between Wenderholm and Mahurangi Regional Park and Auckland Council is creating a plan to develop the land for public use.Council has proposed a multi-million dollar plan to create vehicle access from State Highway One, but many people want to see the park’s sense of isolation retained.More than 380 submissions were made on the plan in January and February and hearings were scheduled for April/May.But, Council has delayed the process and is working with the Mahurangi Coastal Trail Trust on its submissions to develop pedestrian access to the park.The trust’s proposal includes a 400m, S-shaped footbridge across the estuary, with a swing bridge in the centre that could open to allow boats and yachts through.It has commissioned a landscape architect and a coastal consultant to provide a high-level engineering assessment of the proposal.Trust member Cimino Cole says they are now planning to launch a national crowd-funding campaign to fundraise for the project. The trust recently met with Adam Gardner

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and Duane Major. The pair recently raised $2 million in a Give-a-little campaign to buy an Abel Tasman beach for the public. “After seeing their campaign we decided we need to look seriously at crowd funding and we need to get the public behind the project,” Cimino says. “Adam and Duane are looking to support coastal access around the country, so making Te Muri accessible was much to their liking and they would like to support the campaign.”

Hearings are expected to be held next month and more than 100 people have indicated they wish to speak at the hearings.An independent commissioner will hear submissions and make recommendations to Council’s Parks, Recreation and Sport Committee, who make the final decision.“We are optimistic the commissioners will recommend the coastal trail as the first cab off the rank,” Cimino says.

Hearings on the Te Muri Management Plan are expected to be held next month.

Preventing road dust Auckland Transport (AT) is investigating five methods to help reduce dust on unsealed roads.The trials will take place in five 300m sections on Old Woodcocks Road in September in a deal between AT and Downer NZ.The trial includes three alternative road sealing techniques, including two kinds of chip seal and Otta Seal, and a chemical dust suppressant.Otta Seal has been widely used and is a cheaper alternative to road sealing for low-volume roads.It creates a surface which stops dust and reduces potholes and corrugations, but uses much cheaper materials and involves very little preparation, engineering or safety improvements. The roads are still classed as being unsealed as they haven’t been engineered for the kind of speeds of a sealed road, but is about 90 per cent cheaper than traditional sealing. However, the lifespan of the road is significantly lower than traditional roads.AT had previously been skeptical about Otta Seal. When Mahurangi Matters looked at the method as part of investigations into unsealed roads last year, AT said it had no plans for a trial.AT would not go into any detail about the other dust mitigation methods until the Rodney Local Board had been briefed on the project in about a month.

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There has been a growing chorus of calls for a review of Auckland Council’s structure to give greater power to communities and local boards.But experts have also raised doubts over whether an independent North Rodney council would be big enough to survive.David Shand was one of three commissioners involved in the Royal Commission on Auckland Governance, which preceded the amalgamation of Auckland Council. He says the Northern Action Group has raised issues which need to be addressed by Council, but creating a new North Rodney council isn’t the answer.“After any new arrangement you need to have a review,” Mr Shand says. “After six years it’s about time.”Situated on the doorstep of NZ’s largest and fastest growing city, Rodney wouldn’t have the clout to deal with the growth pressures coming to the region.“It’s unrealistic that a small area can manage all the issues related to growth, infrastructure, planning and engineering. It needs to be done by a wider, larger organisation.”The Kaipara District Council wastewater debacle, which has seen the Council replaced by commissioners and ratepayers saddled with millions in debt, is one example of what can happen when a small council lacks the expertise to make effective decisions on large infrastructure projects, he says.“They were taken for a ride by engineers and couldn’t keep them under control. Smaller organisations just lack the capacity to manage contracts.”Massey University local government expert Dr Andy Asquith agrees that the risks of a Kaipara-like blunder makes splitting from Auckland a huge gamble.He says small councils struggle to attract people

sufficient expertise. “Kaipara happened and it will happen again,” Dr Asquith says. “The bigger councils have a higher level of confidence and strength. The problem with smaller local government is they can only afford to pay peanuts and can’t attract staff with the necessary expertise.”But that doesn’t mean changes can’t be made to solve the issues within Council.Echoing the recommendations of the Committee for Auckland review of Auckland Council, Dr Asquith says representation is the central issue. He recommends doubling the number of councillors in Auckland and increasing the decision-making powers of local boards “Representation on Auckland Council is a joke, but it’s the same issue everywhere in Auckland.”Mr Shand also says representation structure needs a rethink. “Representation and power within the Council has become too centralised.”Mr Shand says giving greater power to local boards, and increasing the number of boards in Rodney would allow for greater local decision making across the vast area.Issues with transparency also need to be addressed. A central gripe of Rodney ratepayers is that Council is unable, or unwilling, to show a breakdown of the rates spent in the area. Mr Shand says this needs to change.“They have a vast amount of information, but it’s not adequately broken down. It’s Council’s own fault. They could easily provide it if they wanted.”It comes after a number of Councillors called for a review during a Governing Body meeting last year, which looked at how the NAG proposal would affect the Council.

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On May 28, approximately 850 fire fighters took part in the Auckland Sky Tower Stair Challenge as a fundraiser for Leukaemia & Blood Cancer NZ. Over one million dollars was raised by all the fire fighters. A fantastic effort by all involved.The objective was to climb from the bottom of the Sky Tower up 1103 steps to the top. To put it another way, that’s 51 flights of stairs. If you have ever stood on the ground below the Sky Tower and looked up, that is a long way up! Are you feeling tired yet??Add to this the fact that they wore their full fire fighting uniform, plus gear weighing up to 25kg. Included in this is the breathing apparatus (BA) which, dependent on the composition of the cylinder, could weigh up to 20kgs. The steel cylinders, being the heaviest, were a separate competition category named ‘Steel Man.’ The cylinders are worn on the back and, as well as the extra weight, the cylinders completely change your centre of gravity and balance point. Having worn the breathing apparatus, I know how restrictive and cumbersome this can be, not to mention the extra exertion required to function even on flat ground. Climbing over a 1000 steps, well no thanks!Over 200 brigades from around the country competed, including some from the South Island. Local participants included the Leigh Brigade which has competed in the event since 2011. They had trained really hard for this event and sent a strong team down to Auckland. They put in some top efforts, which saw them achieve their best result, placing 2nd overall. Other notable results were Errol Murray winning the ‘Donned (wearing BA) Masters’ category (Over 40 years) in a time of 11 minutes, 47 seconds. This was the fastest time overall in any section for the donned category, including an open section with much younger entrants – not a bad result for a dinosaur! Carmel Simmonds won the ‘Donned Female Grand Masters’ category in 18 minutes 32 seconds and she was second fastest overall for all Donned Females. Martin Lefley was 2nd in the ‘Donned Grand Masters’ category (14.18 minutes). Other members to compete were Malcolm Allen (17.33), Mark Borich (24.04), Kevin Lawton (15.02) and Mark Simmonds (21.40). Well done to you all, you have represented your brigade with distinction. I understand they are already planning for next year, with a few new members planning to torture themselves. As for me, well I just might have a beer instead.

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and knowing that they are supported and loved makes them grow into better people.”The breakfast club has the full support of principal Dave Bradley, who says several initiatives, including the breakfast club, have benefitted the school. “We’ve had a dramatic improvement in attendance,” Mr Bradley says.“We were aware that kids were staying home because they didn’t have breakfast or an appropriate school lunch. Teachers have also noticed that kids are more settled and attentive in class. It’s hard to focus on learning when you’re hungry.”The initiative, which is backed by Sanitarium and Fonterra, has rapidly expanded after receiving Government funding in 2013. Wellsford School also receives bread and fruit from Joe Dodd, the local Four Square owner.

Three worthy initiatives close to the hearts of Kawau islanders have benefited from a share of $18,000 raised from the sell-out Music in the Gardens concert held in February.This year, the Volunteer Coastguard, Camp Bentzon and Kawau Emergency Rescue Trust all received an equal share.Councillor Penny Webster presented the cheques at the Kawau Boating Club last month.“I love handing out cash,” Cr Webster said. “Especially when its not ratepayers’ cash! This is another great example of our local community raising money for good causes.”The event is organised by Organisations Passionate About Kawau ( OPAK) and will help Camp Bentzon provide two new sailing dinghies for the 2000 children that attend the camp every year. The funds received by the island’s Emergency Rescue Trust will go towards training locals in first aid and ensure enough equipment is available to help in an emergency.Event organiser Lin Pardey is already planning next year’s event, which will be held on February 18.

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Hauturu the protector Hauturu’s preservation as a nature reserve, its relative isolation, lush forest and high biodiversity meant that for many years it was one of the few safe havens for our threatened native species, despite the presence of two introduced mammalian pests (kiore or Polynesian rat and cats). The island was declared pest free in 2004. As far back as 1903 kiwi and kakapo were taken to the island for safety. In 1913 rare white kiwi were taken to Hauturu from the Taupo region and great spotted kiwi from the Nelson area in 1915. It would appear that the latter did not survive the rats or cats. In the 1980s, after cats had been eradicated from the island by the Wildlife Service, there were over eleven records of other species being taken to Hauturu for protection: kokako, kakapo, saddleback and black petrel. Not only has Hauturu been a haven for threatened species but it has also been the source population for the translocation of many species to new homes not just within the Hauraki Gulf but also throughout NZ.To translocate means to move something from one place to another. Translocations of different species of plant or animal have been/are carried out for a number of reasons. These include:• Assisting in the survival of a species by the establishment of a detached

population, or by complete removal to a safer site.• Aiding the restoration of biodiversity in an area.• For advocacy purposes to aid in a species recovery by presenting a higher

public profile.• Improving the genetic diversity of a population.• Balancing sex ratios within a population.Hauturu the providerSince the 1980s, some 65 translocations of 14 different species have taken place from Hauturu. This translates to some 2450 individuals. Many of these have occurred in the Hauraki Gulf region; whitehead and stitchbirds (hihi) to Tiritiri Matangi, kakariki to Motuihe and Tawharanui, Pacific gecko and wetapunga to Motuora, saddleback (tieke) and whitehead (popokotea) to Rangitoto and Motutapu to name but a few. Further afield there have been translocations of North Island brown kiwi to the Rimutakas and Pukaha/Mt Bruce, Cooks petrel to Hawkes Bay, stitchbirds to Kapiti and saddleback and whiteheads to Taranaki. This year there have been three different translocations from Hauturu with 106 Cook’s petrel fledglings being transferred to Boundary Stream in the Hawkes Bay. Sixty whitehead have been moved to the Bay of Islands with Project Island Song and most recently 12 wetapunga have been taken to Auckland Zoo to improve the genetic diversity within their breeding programme, which has seen the release of wetapunga, one of the world’s largest insects, on a number of islands around the Hauraki Gulf.The Little Barrier Island (Hauturu) Supporters’ Trust has a small role to play in the decision-making regarding requests for species alongside the Department of Conservation and iwi. The Trust has a panel of scientific advisors whose knowledge and expertise is available to assess such requests. On a number of occasions some Trust supporters have been able to assist on the island with translocations.

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Warkworth Lions Club celebrates 50 years of supporting the community this year by embarking on a new series of local projects.Warkworth president Peter Henderson says the club has spent about $1 million dollars and contributed thousands of volunteer hours to projects in Mahurangi. The latest will be a ‘food rescue centre’, based out of the Warkworth Court House on Elizabeth Street, which has been empty since 2013.The project is a collaboration between the Warkworth, Wellsford and Kowhai Lions and the Warkworth Rotary and provisional Rotary club, Mahurangi Sunrise.“It’s one of the first collaborations of its kind in the country,” Peter says.An agreement has been signed with the Ministry of Justice, which manages the building, and Ngati Manuhiri, which owns the building.“It’s about taking expired food and produce from markets and supermarkets and making sure it goes to those in need.”The groups will work with local social agencies, churches and schools to distribute the goods.“We’ve got fridges and freezers going in now and we hope to be up and running in a month.”The club is also embarking on playground upgrade projects in Warkworth, which will be announced later this year.Since 1966, the club has supported a long list of projects, including forming Lucy Moore Memorial Park and building the Kowhai Park walkway, building the Warkworth wharf and waterfront playground and working on Camp Bentzon on Kawau Island.David Little has been a member of

Warkworth Lions for 40 years and says the club is a great way to contribute to the community.“If you live and work here, you put something back in, and it’s a fun way to give back.”But Peter says one of the best parts of the club is the support network it provides.“I moved here five years ago and it’s been a great way to meet like-minded, community-orientated people.”The club is focusing on broadening its membership to include more young people.“It’s an aging club in an aging area, but it’s not an old men’s club,” Peter says.The first woman joined the club six years ago and it now has six female members.“It’s been really good for the club and has given it a better sense of humour, I think,” David says.While other clubs are declining in size, membership in Warkworth has remained steady at about 30.“At clubs in the city they’ve had to merge with neighbouring clubs, whereas it’s strong up here,” Peter says.The biggest threat to the club’s work is red tape, as everything from a sausage sizzle to a market stall requires paper work and certifications. “It’s got difficult,” Peter says. “Now we are looking to help other groups to deliver projects.”The club meets twice a month, with a business meeting on the first Tuesday of the month and a dinner at the RSA on the third Tuesday of the month, with a guest speaker.The club is celebrating with a lunch at Mahurangi College on July 9, which the district governor will attend, along with about 200 people.

The Warkworth Lions Club, which meets at Warkworth RSA twice a month, is celebrating its 50th anniversary this year.

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In a family history held in the archives of the Warkworth & Districts Museum can be found this description of a farming scene, circa 1920:“On one side of the barn was the engine room which housed a fearsome looking machine. Long belts from the motor could be attached to the chaff cutter or the saw as the need arose.“When the chaff cutter was operating there was a great sense of urgency, as one man fed the sheaves of oats into the mouth of the machine while others replaced each bag as it filled with an empty one and heaved the full sack away to be sewn up with a sack needle. The noise was considerable and dust rose, faces grew red and mouths dry.“A break was taken for morning tea. The children brought a basket of freshly baked scones from the house, also a billy of tea, milk, sugar and enamel mugs. Wiping the straw and sweat from their hair and mustaches, the men would sit on a full bag of chaff and drink the hot tea, seeming to revive with every swallow.”At this time in our history, when the process of applying machinery to previously laborious farming tasks became more widespread, many items of interest emerged and were found worthy of preserving.At the Warkworth & Districts Museum, such relics, if too large to be stored in the museum building, are housed in the workshop or ‘Big Shed’, as it is usually called.The objects range in size from a Case bulldozer with a three cylinder Perkins engine, down to a range of hand tools, such as chainsaws, two-man crosscut saws, and just about everything in between. Whilst many of the items have no provenance against them, they are kept because they are good examples of items used by the early settlers of the district.Workers in the ‘Big Shed’ have a love of all things historical. They come from a variety of backgrounds and use their considerable skills not only to repair and restore the exhibits, but also they are the maintenance men frequently called upon to assist in the many display areas throughout the museum. Their skills include engineers, mechanics, fitters, turners, sheet metal and welding, carpentry and cabinet making, auto and electrical and more. Although not equipped with up to date machinery, most tasks can be accomplished, sometimes resorting to use of the artifacts themselves.On any Wednesday, a visitor to the museum will find up to a dozen volunteers, most clad in overalls, gainfully employed among the exhibits. The great satisfaction that comes from restoring heritage items is apparent, as is the enjoyment of showing the restored artifacts to visitors.

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In preparation for New York, Katie is training six days a week doing cycling, deep-water running, weight training and running.“I’m lucky to be still here,” she says. “To run in New York is an opportunity I could never have dreamed of lying in my hospital bed five years ago.“My journey has taught me that we don’t know how strong we are until being strong is the only choice. It’s an important message that I want to spread to others who find themselves in this same awful situation.”Katie is being supported by the AUT Millennium Institute for the Achilles Foundation, but is also seeking sponsorship through a Give A Little page at givealittle.co.nz/cause/katieburton7

Sky high donations Fifteen fire fighters from Warkworth, Leigh, Wellsford and Mangawhai contributed to the $1.1m raised for the Sky Tower Stair Challenge held on Saturday May 28th.The figure is the largest amount ever raised at the event, which has been running since 2005. The money will go towards Leukaemia & Blood Cancer New Zealand.The challenge brought 850 fire fighters to Auckland’s Sky Tower where they had to tackle 1103 steps wearing 25kgs of gear.After not competing in last year’s event, Maxine Rutherford and Stacey Lemmon from the the Warkworth Volunteer Fire Brigade entered.Maxine was one of two women who entered in the female supreme masters category. It was her second climb after she competed in 2014.It was Stacey’s first climb and she managed a time of 31.21 minutes.“It was actually easier than what I prepared for,” she says. “It was awesome. We are already planning a team for next year.”The pair raised over $2000 from a sausage sizzle, raffle and donations from family and friends.Wellsford Volunteer Fire Brigade had eight entries this year. Sam Picknell was the fastest, completing the challenge in 17.18 minutes.First-timer Matt Railey says it was hard to know how much to pace yourself climbing the floors, which vary in length.The brigade raised $4000 from a movie night, fishing competition, firewood sale and donations.“We are a really tight brigade,” Matt says.“We are in a really good place in terms of numbers, which goes a little bit against the trend.”Maxine says the Warkworth station needs more support and would like to see a lot more volunteers join.

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Often as parents and caregivers we are confused about our rights and the rights of our children. We know that children have more rights now than back in the day when ‘children were seen and not heard’. As a parent or caregiver, we only want the best for our children, guiding and supporting them to become well adjusted adults. Children and teenagers have a wealth of knowledge at their fingertips, with social media and Google, so most know their rights, but what is correct when we look at what the legal ages are for our children/teenager? For example, when can they begin school and when can they leave? The following information is from the website of Youth Law NZ.A child can be enrolled into school at the age of 5 but legally has to start attending school at the age of 6.When a child is under the age of 7, the driver of the car that the child is travelling in, must be properly restrained in an approved child restraint that’s appropriate for your age and size – this has to be some kind of car seat or booster. Once a child turns 10, they can be held criminally responsible if they kill someone. At the age of 12, parents have to get the child’s agreement before they can make an extended care agreement for them to go into foster care for more than 28 days.When a child turns 14, they officially become a ‘young person’. This means they can be held criminally liable for breaking the law and will generally be dealt with under the youth justice system. At this age, parents can legally leave the ‘young person’ at home without supervision. At 16, they can leave home and qualify as either an adult worker or a starting-out worker, so they are entitled to the minimum wage. At 16, they can legally consent to sex, get married or enter a civil union, if parents agree. Sixteen-year-olds can legally leave home. At this age, you can also apply for a Learners Drivers Licence. At 17, you are no longer treated as a ‘young person’ and will not be under Youth Justice anymore.After you turn 18, parents and caregivers no longer have any rights or responsibilities that come from being your guardian. Once they are 18, they can get married or enter a civil union without permission, can buy alcohol and cigarettes, might be eligible for a variety of Government benefits and can vote.If you need any support or have any further queries, please contact Homebuilders Family Services on 425 7048.

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The lights in Kaiwaka may have dimmed in recent years, but the community spirit is still very much alive and well. Located on one of the narrowest pieces of land between the east and west coast, Kaiwaka has been trying to get your attention for years.It all started in the 1990s when a local man, Mark Ottoway, decided to get the town lit up. The call to action went out and the locals responded. The church, the bookshop, the bakery, and the cafés plugged in and switched on. The little town of lights had officially been sparked to life. Two decades later, the bulbs have blown and replacements are no longer manufactured. The bright street lighting has also overshadowed the community’s efforts to provide their own unique glow. Reliability and cost effectiveness have been a problem but with new LED technology, the town plans to bring back the illuminations by Christmas.State Highway One runs right through the heart of the town, delivering revenue and visitors, but it’s a curse

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as much as a blessing. The bohemian artistic feel of the town is constantly punctuated by the incessant thunder of huge trucks and cars speeding past.The locals have recently started an action group called Kaiwaka Can. They have been liaising with NZTA to drop the 70 kilometres-per-hour zone down to 50kph and to police the 50kph zone. NZTA, along with Council, has

recognised 29 issues raised by the group and it is developing a comprehensive plan to meet those needs. Traffic calming measures that have proven successful in other areas are increased trees, more parking, pedestrian crossings, and narrower stretches of road. The town has always had a can-do attitude, having helped build its own sports complex and continues to finance

Slow down through our townit through fundraising initiatives. Locals also have a drop-in advice centre that is open three days a week with free internet and a Justice of the Peace. The town itself is an eclectic mix of shops and cafes, including antiques, arts and crafts, a bakery, and a specialist gourmet cheese shop that stocks over 50 different varieties. The general store has been in the same family since 1924 and continues to provide employment and serve the local community. Bianca’s Cafe is an interior designer’s delightful stop, the decor offers a glamorous cat-walk down memory lane – picture a Victorian boudoir with Ponsonby chic and you’re halfway to imagining the splendour. Bianca is also an unforgettably gregarious host.Many visitors to Kaiwaka will have noticed the ship-shaped Eutopia Cafe with its stunning array of glittering mosaics and nautical theme. The cafe is currently undergoing renovations, but will re-open true to form with its trademark styling, and a secluded courtyard area away from the main highway.

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• The resident population of Kaiwaka at the time of the 2013 census was 579, an increase of 42 people, or 7.8 per cent, since the 2006 census.

• There are exactly the same

number of females and males in Kaiwaka, and most are aged between 15 and 64 years. The median age is 36.8 years in Kaiwaka.

• The most common ethnic

groups are European (72.9 per cent), followed by Maori (34.6 per cent).

• There are 213 occupied dwellings and 33 unoccupied dwellings, and one-family households

make up 67.6 per cent of all households.

• Nearly 69 per cent of Kaiwaka households are owner-occupied.

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Derek Christensen“It’s small, it’s relaxed, it’s got beautiful surroundings with beaches nearby and native bush. We have good people in Kaiwaka, people that have been here a long time and put a huge amount of work into the community. It is changing. We are getting more people from Auckland who are working from home or commute part time. We also have people buying investment properties to rent out.”

Lee-Ann Hamilton“It’s a perfect location. I run a business from home, I’m five minutes to the courier, 10 minutes to the medical centre, 20 minutes to the best surf beach, and 45 minutes to Whangarei. It’s got everything you need, but you feel like you’re 100 miles away in a beautiful rural area. We have a lifestyle block and our neighbour is a dairy farmer – we move cows around and he helps out when we don’t know what we are doing. People here help each other out.”

Mike Hay“I live just out of Kaiwaka in a rural area. I love the kauri forests and the nearness to the beaches. There is a very strong sense of community here. Everybody realises that if you don’t get involved, you become isolated. I moved here from Palmerston North four years ago to be closer to my grand-children who are in Auckland.”

Bianca Hartley“Kaiwaka is amazing for its cultural and lifestyle diversity. There is a very boutique feel about the whole township. I moved here from Auckland for those reasons. I liken our community to one large family – we may be spread out, but we are a close community. Kaiwaka is on one of the narrowest land strips in the country so we get to go to the east or west coast.”

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Just up the road from Kaiwaka lies the Brynderwyn Hills walk, which offers outstanding panoramic and coastal views.The Brynderwyn Hills stretch from Mangawhai Heads on the east coast towards the eastern arms of the Kaipara Harbour.The western entrance of the Brynderwyn Hills walkway is at the small car park at the summit of the Brynderwyn’s, opposite the old café on State Highway One.The track is 12 kilometres long and takes approximately six hours. From the western end it soon offers stunning views out to Whangarei Heads and Bream Bay. It follows an old logging

road, which can be slightly muddy under foot at this time of year, and runs around the top of a large quarry. You continue on past a basin of native bush before descending down the valley to a stream.The logging road widens and climbs through pines and onto the ridge, winding out to Cullen Road.At this point you can take a detour to the highest point, Marunui at 397 meters, and take in the panoramic 360-degree views.There is vehicle access where the walk intersects with Cullen Road for a lift home. Alternatively you can continue on down to Waipu Cove Road, a further 7km.

Origins• Kaiwaka, literally translated means, food, or to eat, and canoe. One

of the more popular theories on how the town got its name is that a large fire consumed a fleet of waka. Kaiwaka are also threatening cloud formations that predict misfortune and this is another plausible explanation as to the origins of the town’s name.

• Kaiwaka was the site of the final and most fierce battle of the Musket Wars in 1825, the battle of Te Ika-A-Ranganui. This provides another theory on the origins of the town’s name. Hongi Hika exacted his revenge on the Ngati Whatua, who had slain almost 1000 Ngapuhi including Hongi Hika’s two brothers. Hika ambushed the Ngati Whatua by the Kaiwaka River with his newly acquired arsenal of muskets. The bodies of the slain were placed in the waka, roasted and then eaten.

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Artist Tatjana Panyoczki moved to Kaiwaka from Titirangi in West Auckland 18 years ago. She first trained as a wig maker in Switzerland and then worked in special effects make-up artistry for film, theatre and television in London. But Tatjana decided to hang up the make-up brushes and go to art school in Auckland. “I was going to be a furniture designer but I was drawn to jewellery. It is to do with my relationship to the body as a make-up artist, and it was a natural progression for me,” Tatjana says.Her jewellery is hard to categorise. She wears a t-shirt that says, ‘I’m not that sort of jeweller!’ Tatjana works with any material that inspires her, often hoarding away things ready to be re-invented into her unique style.Whilst Tatjana works on a small scale, she is married to painter and sculptor Peter Panyoczki, who works mostly on very large-scale pieces.“We work well together and have just had a big collaborative show in

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Bronwyn Davies has broken into the old BNZ bank building in Warkworth and refilled the empty vault with an eclectic mix of vintage treasures.Bronwyn is back in Mahurangi after a spell in Devonport, but the rapid rent hikes there forced her out.“Commercial rents are sky high,” Bronwyn says. “Real estate prices have killed off the adventurous people that otherwise might live there. There is so much talent moving up to this area. It’s got a lot of energy, we need to encourage more boutique business so that people stop here.”Bronwyn is no stranger to the area having opened the Arts Desire gallery in Warkworth in 1997, which she managed for 10 years. Some of those Arts Desire customers have been welcoming Bronwyn back to the community since she opened the Vintage Vault for business in April.“It’s lovely that people still remember,” she says.Bronwyn always wanted to be an artist even from her childhood days growing up on dairy farms across Northland.“When I was at school, people just didn’t go off to be an artist. I started work with galleries and picture framers. Most art then were prints imported from England and the States. People had Red Boy, Constable, or the Mona Lisa.”Bronwyn went on to run galleries and represented New Zealand artists.

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She describes the 1990s as the heyday of New Zealand art because people started to recognise home grown talent and buy the artwork.The Vintage Vault is a family affair. Bronwyn’s 26-year-old daughter Amber attended Matakana Primary School and Mahurangi College. She is a model for the fifties fashion when working in the store, and manages the online marketing side of the business.They share the beautiful old bank building with a barista, and stock locally-made perfume and artwork. The vintage collection includes antique and reproduction furniture, clothing, accessories and design.Much like the vault’s blend of eras the mother and daughter team complement each other well. “She’s young, she’s got new ideas and I’ve got the experience. It’s the old and the new again – it’s much better to have that mix.”

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last month and started Zen Shiatsu Taka at his Algies Bay home.“It’s a good area to raise a family. The community is very open-minded here.”Shiatsu is based on the acupuncture points of traditional Chinese medicine, but uses pressure-point massage, rather than needles. Taka also performs acupuncture and teaches methods to help people improve their health, including stretches, diet, breathing techniques, meditation and how to make fermented drinks like kombucha.He says the techniques are often effective at treating migraines, but are also used for treating a wide range of ailments without painkillers or medication.

With hundreds of houses going up around Mahurangi, Susan Brutscher has relocated her business, Greenhome Designs, to help reduce the waste and pollution from the construction boom.The interior design and consulting business focuses on environmentally conscious practices for new and existing buildings. The Ministry for the Environment estimates that about 50 per cent of all New Zealand’s waste comes from demolition and construction, making up 20 per cent of all landfill waste.This has a significant impact on the environment, Susanne says.“Everything we consume has an impact. We have a moral obligation to work with respect for the environment.“Many common building materials contain toxins, which some people don’t realise. When these go to landfill, the toxic products leach into the soil and waterways.“Whenever possible, it is advisable to use natural materials and low-footprint options.”Susanne first became interested in healthier building practices while growing up in Germany.“My family has a construction company and my father was an architect.”After gaining a degree in commerce and qualifying as a nurse, she assisted in her husband’s GP clinic until moving to NZ in 1996.“We immigrated because of New

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Zealand’s clean-green image at the time, which is now struggling with the kind of environmental challenges that the rest of the world faces.”The family built and ran one of NZ’s first eco health resorts near Nelson. Susanne soon became passionate about a career in green and healthy home designs, and studied interior design and building biology.After experiencing growing interest in her consulting business at the Auckland Green Living shows, she moved to the region three months ago.“It’s time for common sense alternatives,” Susanne says. “I’ve been meeting with some architects and contractors in the region and there is definitely an understanding of the need to make a difference.”Greenhome Designs will have a stall at the Green Living Show, ASB Showgrounds in Auckland on July 2 and 3.

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Algies Bay couple Mark and Marlane Elley have become part-owners in Snells Beach café, Little & Local. The couple moved from Dairy Flat in December and became regular patrons of the café, which has been run by local couple Melody and Scott Nightingale for two and a half years.Marlane has run Mainly Music classes for mums and pre-schoolers for many years, while bringing up her own children and husband Mark works in the IT industry. Moving up to Algies Bay, they are now looking forward to escaping the rat race.The Elleys’ have four children ranging from 14-year-old Ruth to 20-year-old Hannah, and had a bach at Algies when the children were young.“They are coming back to their childhood memories,” Marlane says. “We used to come here for holidays and the kids would swim in Kawau Bay. It’s like coming home.”Two of the children are now at university

and she misses cooking large meals for the family and the kids friends, but she is not planning to cook for the whole community in the café kitchen.“I have no hospitality experience, but I love talking to people and that’s a big part of the job,” Marlane says.“We wanted to get out of the craziness of Albany, simplify our lives and invest in the local community,” Mark says.The couple’s investment will mean original owners Melody and Scott will have time to implement their vision and grand ideas for the café. These include cookery classes for local blokes, night markets and coffee making lessons.Mark says that he doesn’t really feel like a new owner of the business.“My name might be on a piece of paper but the community owns this café, the locals have decorated it, come here to play music, and help run our events. This is a community asset and that’s what excites me.”

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Ken Campbell loves an engineering challenge, but his latest venture would probably be daunting, even for the late, great Burt Munro.After restoring classic and vintage motorcycles for over 34 years, the Matakana resident decided to build the world’s first V8 Indian motorcycle. What is particularly challenging and unique about Ken’s project is that he designed and built the V8 motor from scratch.“It was an engineering challenge,” says Ken. “When I was at school I wanted to build my own engine. There are not many people that stuffed in the head that they want to build a V8 engine that fits in a bike!” Ken built the 2.6 litre engine in the exact style as the traditional four-cylinder version and squeezed it into a 1936 bike.“I was riding it as a four cylinder in the morning and a V8 in the afternoon.”If Indian had built a V8 motor in the 1920s and 30s, Ken is confident it would look very similar to his creation.“I don’t like the word custom. The most important word is authentic. I don’t butcher genuine parts or alter them.”And that is why after three years, untold hours, and a dollar figure that Ken won’t reveal, he is now

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dismantling the 1936 V8 bike and putting it back to its original four-cylinder state, and building a new bike to house the V8. He has already started work on a new Indian frame and will ultimately create a completely new bike.“I guess I’ve got a cheek calling it an Indian, but it will look like an Indian-four from the side. I will make it in the style I like most, which is around 1928, then I can fit the carburettors in and it will be perfectly styled to that era.”He plans to build two of his bespoke Indian V8s – one of which might have to be sold to help recover some of the costs.

Ken says that most people think of him as an Indian ‘nutter,’ but his love of old bikes is not restricted to the American brand. He has professionally restored more classic and vintage British makes than any other, including AJS, Triumph and Velocette, and has been rebuilding and personalising bikes for customers all over the world. Despite limiting his work to pre-WWII models, he has had a three-year backlog of customer work for the last 20 years.“I feel very lucky to spend my days playing with something that I’m passionate about.”Those days started when he was a young

child in his father’s garage in Matakana, now the Rusty Pelican Pizzeria. Ken is a fourth generation Matakana Campbell and was a competent gas welder by the age of seven. “It’s in the blood,” he says. “I was basically brought up in the garage. Dad taught me how to weld and now I’m working with my grandson, Storm. He has his own work bench in here and helped me put the V8 motor together.”In 1924, Ken’s dad brought a Henderson motorcycle from the local bank manager when the bike was just one year old. The bike ended up going to Ken’s older brother and he still has it today. That was the beginning of Ken’s fascination with motorcycles.He doesn’t just build the bikes – a few years ago he made a wicker basket sidecar for his wife on a 1910 Indian. The pair then travelled 4200 kilometres from Perth to Sydney. They rode through a cyclone, torrential rain and stifling heat, but far from breaking their marriage, Ken says it was a fantastic adventure and the best thing they’ve ever done.“When we were in the middle of the cyclone, my wife was telling me to slow down. I thought, ‘here we go’, and she said, ‘I’m enjoying it so much I want it to last!’”

Ken Campbell with his unique V8 Indian motorcycle.

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High speed was a factor in the high number of crashes between Warkworth and Puhoi last year, according to the NZ Transport Agency (NZTA).NZTA figures show there were three fatal accidents on the 15km stretch of SH1 between Billings Road, just north of the tunnel, and McKinney Road in Warkworth – the highest number in the past five years.Overall, there were 37 crashes on the road, up from 26 in 2014, following a steady decline in crash figures over the previous five years (see graph).NZTA Auckland highway manager Brett Gliddon says there was a high rate of crashes caused by people losing control on corners due to driving

too fast for the conditions.Two of the three fatalities were motorcycle accidents and both drivers were over the legal alcohol limit. The third occurred when a car swung wide on a corner due to fatigue.NZTA has just completed an annual crash reduction study on the road and is considering a range of potential safety projects.“It will also be undertaking a longer term study of the section of highway with a focus on crashes due to vehicles running off the road and crossing the centreline, as well as high risk intersections,” Mr Gliddon says.

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State Highway 1 crash figuresFrom July 1 Mahurangi senior citizens who hold an Auckland Transport (AT) SuperGold concession card will need to pay for a new AT HOP card.The cards cost $10 and must have $5 worth of credit. Seniors will continue to receive free public transport on eligible services after 9am on weekdays and all day on weekends.The problem for many seniors will be obtaining the new cards. They will need to take their existing SuperGold concession card with photo identification to one of AT’s customer service or retail centres. For the Mahurangi region the closest are located at Orewa, Silverdale, and Albany. Local Grey Power president Anne Martin says that is too far away for elderly residents.“Grey Power finds it unbelievable that the closest facility for obtaining the HOP card update for Gold Card holders is in Orewa. If that is not sufficiently inconvenient, once the $15 is paid, the next step is to travel to the bus terminal at Smales Farm, Takapuna to get the card put into the computer system to make it operative.”AT metro manager Mark Lambert says they are doing their best for senior cardholders.“We’re working with the Ministry of Transport and directly with seniors’ advocacy groups to make the process as easy as possible for seniors,” he says.Auckland has 180,000 SuperGold cardholders, a figure that is increasing by around 7000 a year. Approximately 42,000 SuperGold customers have made the switch to the AT HOP card, with a SuperGold concession loaded for their public transport travel.

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Mahurangi couple Steve and Dee West have received an EECA award for their fast charging stations for electric vehicles. EECA is a Government agency that works to improve energy efficiency. The award recognises the company’s efforts to increase the number of charging stations available. They have built one at Kaiwaka and others at Warkworth and Orewa are due to be completed this year “We are over the moon with the award,” Dee says. “We’ve only been going for 16 months and to be recognised for what we are doing at this early stage is fantastic.” The recognition comes as international research has shown the biggest

drawback for owning an electric vehicle is limited range. The couple hopes that installing fast chargers nationwide will increase electric vehicle ownership.“Electric cars are coming down in price and we have more choice, but the range is around 120 kilometres. That’s more than sufficient for 99 per cent of New Zealand drivers, but people are still reluctant because of the occasional road trip. That’s where charging stations come in.”The stations take between 10 to 25 minutes to charge an electric vehicle, as opposed to around six hours home charging. With New Zealand’s power coming from 80 per cent renewable energy, the couple hopes to encourage more people to switch to electric.

Electric vehicles given a boostMahurangi couple Steve West (far left) and Dee West (far right) celebrate their EECA award for fast charging electric vehicle stations.

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After 36 years of driving children on the Omaha-Point Wells bus route to Matakana School, Charleyne Garner is now driving the second generation of passengers.Now aged 66, Mrs Garner first started in 1980 when it was a male-dominated occupation.“I would have to be one of the longest serving woman bus drivers,” Mrs Garner says.Back then, the buses were J1 Bedford’s. Compared to today’s vehicles, they were difficult to drive and lacked any refinements, but Mrs Garner still remembers them fondly.“The J1 was the only thing around back then. It didn’t have synchromesh, and had a crash gearbox, but I thought

it was wonderful. Power steering would have been nice, though.”It’s not just the buses that have changed over the last three-and-a-half decades. Mrs Garner was once the sole driver on the route, with rough roads and very little traffic. Now Matakana School puts on up to four buses, with three drivers doing double runs. Despite being behind the wheel for over three and half decades, it was never Mrs Garner’s driving ambition.“The bus driver at the time was retiring,” she says. “He phoned and asked if I would like to take over. I had never even thought about it until then. He said come on a run with me this afternoon and see what you think...”

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NZTA will consult on options for a second crossing of the Waitemata Harbour later this year.A crossing would be crucial for reducing the backlog of traffic crossing the Harbour Bridge at peak times and could have a major impact on Mahurangi commuters.The Auckland Plan currently identifies an additional Waitemata Harbour crossing will be needed by about 2030. The crossing will take about five to seven years to build and extensive pre-planning, consultation and design is required before construction can start.AT and NZTA will release indicative designs later this year for public consultation.A tunnel could also enable a North Shore rail line to link with the CBD, but NZTA hasn’t confirmed whether the plans will include rail.NZTA Auckland regional director

Ernst Zöllner says it is currently working towards protecting the required land (Notice of Requirement), so that when a future crossing is needed the land is available.“Protecting a route provides planning certainty for individuals, businesses and communities, particularly while there is development pressure in the city centre and waterfront areas. A road component of a future crossing would need to connect with the existing highway network at ground-level, however any future rapid transit network is likely to be underground and is less exposed to development pressure.”Future phases of the project will include detailed business cases and design for both rapid transit and roading options which will be developed in parallel. Planning documents are expected to be lodged with Auckland Council next year, with a public hearing and decision to follow that.

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It would seem winter has finally arrived; you’ve revived the winter wardrobe, had your flu jab and stocked up on vitamins. But what about your car; is it ready for our winter conditions? With the slippery, wet roads, colder days and reduced daylight, your vehicle is expected to work a lot harder to do its job. A car’s battery is under a lot more strain on a cold morning. The cold temperatures affect the battery and the engine’s oil is thicker, requiring a lot more battery power to crank the engine over. If you think your car has been slow to start over the last few months, it is definitely worth getting it checked now before it fails and leaves you stranded. With the shorter days you will find you need your lights more in winter, much more than you have over the summer months. Are all your car’s lights in good working condition? Some cars have a warning system that tells you if a bulb has blown or a brake light is out, but some cars will need a visual check. Do you notice while driving at night that oncoming drivers often flash their lights at you? Your lights may be misaligned or have bulbs fitted incorrectly causing you to dazzle oncoming drivers. If your car’s headlights are yellowed you can restore them quickly and easily by polishing them with a metal polish or even toothpaste. This simple trick will increase your visibility at night. Speaking of visibility, you’ll be using your wipers a lot more than you have been, too. Make sure your wiper blades are in good condition and your washer bottle is full and has a good additive in it. As well as rain, there is more road grime from other vehicles at this time of the year.Tyre tread depth also becomes more important during the winter months. One of the functions of the tyre tread is to disperse water. If the tread is low the water has nowhere to go and the tyre will aquaplane causing loss of grip and control. A recipe for disaster!Did you know the most effective way of clearing your windscreen of moisture is to the use the air conditioning? Air conditioning removes moisture from the air quickly and is just as effective with the heater on in winter as it is at cooling you down in summer. So there is no reason to sit there freezing while your window clears this winter.Many automotive workshops offer a free winter health check at this time of year, great value, peace of mind and worth 15 minutes of your time. Safe motoring!

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New Zealand has had a bumper summer season, with international visitor arrivals for the year to March up 10.4 per cent and holiday arrivals up 15.3 per cent. This saw the international visitor spend surpass $10 billion dollars. The increase in international tourists choosing to travel to New Zealand has certainly seen a lift in visitor numbers to our region, especially with Auckland and other popular tourist areas reaching capacity over the summer months. However, it is the off-peak season where we all would like to see visitor numbers grow. Tourism New Zealand is now focusing its marketing efforts on the off-peak months, which over time should start to see the summer season stretch out past April and see growth in visitor numbers across the year to lessen seasonal peaks.Visitor growth will also bring with it some challenges, especially around transport access and parking across – especially through Warkworth and Matakana. We will be doing all possible to support local initiatives to improve our roading and transport management to improve access, and minimise the impact of traffic delays for both visitors and local residents alike. In May I attended TRENZ – which is New Zealand’s largest annual international travel trade show. Up to 350 international travel buyers (international travel agents, wholesalers and online agencies) are invited to attend from around the world. I showcased Mahurangi, alongside Auckland Tourism Events and Economic Development Ltd (ATEED) and 14 independent Auckland businesses in the ‘Auckland Street’. The buyers were intrigued with the level of activities, attractions and accommodation options their clients could access so close to Auckland, or as they travel north. The buyers saw Mahurangi as the ‘perfect destination’ to continue the relaxed travel experience, instead of stopping off in the hustle and bustle of the CBD. Some buyers are already looking to include the region as a stopover for their clients. Our region is also perfect for the Free Independent Traveller (FIT), who hire cars or campers and don’t generally book much in advance and have the time to explore. Not only does Mahurangi offer a great experience for the FITs, but it’s an attractive day-tour option for the pre-and-post cruise ship passengers who exchange at Auckland, and the guided tours, who travel north to stop off and do some sightseeing to enrich their itineraries before the Bay of Islands.As well as talking about our pristine beaches, 26+ boutique and award winning wineries, New Zealand’s oldest marine reserve, and a wide variety of accommodation options, to mention a few, I represented 12 of the region’s tourism businesses who are ready to work with the international buyers. These businesses have gained some valuable contacts from the buyers I met with (52+) and can now start building relationships which will hopefully see their products available for purchase off shore and promoted via upcoming itineraries (2017/18), online, or at least mentioned in the FITs itineraries, so travellers can book direct when they are in NZ.

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Auckland folk duo Mark Laurent and Brenda Liddiard are the feature act at the Whangateau Folk Club night at the Whangateau Hall on Monday June 27.The pair have been playing together for about 26 years, with Brenda on mandolin and guitar and Mark on guitar, ukulele, rowan lute and harmonica.“The guitar and mandolin is a

combination people seem to really like,” Mark says. “Combined with male-female vocal harmonies and it all works really well together.”Stalwarts of the NZ folk scene, they had heard buzz about the newly established Whangateau club and are playing the show as part of a series of Northland gigs.“We are really looking forward to it – we’ve heard good things,” Mark says.

Works by Beethoven, Mozart, Romberg and Breval will be performed on period instruments in the latest installment of the Warkworth Music series.Hammers and Horsehair will perform Matakana’s Ascension Wine Estate on July 2 from 4pm.The Wellington duo, Douglas Mews and Robert Ibell, are travelling the country with a Broadwood square piano, made in England in the first half of the Nineteenth Century.Robert’s cello was made in the 18th century – probably before Beethoven was even born. It came to New Zealand in 1940 with Greta Ostova, a Czech escaping the Nazi occupation. Greta became a founding member of the National Orchestra (NZSO).The duo will be adding candles to the mix to finish off the aura of authenticity.“We’re looking to create a special atmosphere,” Douglas says. “The candles are part of that, but we’ll also be

Matakantata Choir perform mid-year concertsThe Matakantata Choir will present its mid-year concerts, Viva Amore, at Warkworth Presbyterian Church on Sunday June 19 at 2.30pm, and at Matakana Village Hall on Saturday June 25 at 7.30pm. The 35-strong choir has been performing locally since 2009 and for its latest concerts will be singing songs of love, from Mozart to Queen, as well as Eric Hardacre’s challenging Five Hebrew Love Songs. Tickets are available from Matakana Gull, Lee & Hart Pharmacy in Warkworth or on the door. $15 for adults, gold coin for children.Info and tickets: Jenni 423 0094

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chatting with the audience as if we were playing in their sitting room at home. “The old instruments and playing style are key aspects of it too. People will be able to hear the music much as it would have been heard by audiences when it was written 2 hundred years ago.”

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More than 100 events are scheduled to take place across the Auckland region for this year’s Matariki Festival, including two shows in Te Hana.For the first time, Auckland Council is co-hosting the month long festival in a partnership with the 19 mana whenua iwi of Tamaki Makaurau.Visitors to the Te Ao Marama marae in Te Hana on Wednesday June 29 will get to experience a recital of works from the late Maori composer, Dr Hirini Melbourne, performed by seven-piece band He Huinga Whetu.The marae will also play host to Regan Taylor’s one-man adaptation of Shakespeare’s Othello on Tuesday July 12. Dubbed SolOthello, it’s a mix of original prose, modern English and te reo Maori.Other events across Auckland include a carnival on the night of Friday July 15 at Auckland’s Federal Street. It is designed to be a celebration of Maori art, culture, fashion and food, wrapped up in a carnival street party atmosphere. Smales Farm on Auckland’s North Shore is putting on a light display with seven separate installations along Taharoto Road in Takapuna for three nights from July 8. Officially the festival starts with a dawn Karakia on Waiheke Island, and closes with waterfront markets, music, art and food at Silo Park in Auckland’s Wynyard Quarter on July 17.The Matariki festival celebrates the

The late Dr Hirini Melbourne composed the works which will be performed by seven-piece band He Huinga Whetu in Te Hana this month.

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Look in the cupboard, under the bed and under Grandma, if necessary, because the Warkworth A&P Society is on the hunt for lost memorabilia.Mahurangi will celebrate the show’s 150th year next January and a bumper programme of events and activities is planned.There will also be an exhibition charting the show’s history.Society secretary Marjorie Blythen says she would love people who have certificates, trophies, cups, ribbons and other memorabilia to get in touch.“We only want to borrow the mementos for the weekend of the show,” she says. “But the more we have, the better the exhibition will be.“A few years ago, a cup was retrieved and returned from a rubbish dump in Napier. We were very grateful to the person who took the time to send it back. We’re not expecting everyone to go rummaging through the tip, but it would be great if they could look in their photograph albums and cupboards for anything A&P related.”The society is also interested to hear stories from people who have memorable show experiences.If you have memorabilia, contact Marjorie on 425 8258.If you have stories about past shows that you would like to share, they can be emailed to [email protected] or posted to: Mahurangi Matters PO Box 701 Warkworth 0941.

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A Kaipara Flats family has come up with a solution for residents facing a long, rough ride to get their new wheelie bins to the curb.The contraption allows people to tow the wheelie bin behind a car, but doesn’t require a tow-bar and won’t break the bank.The invention consists of a small piece of aluminum attached to a length of rope. The ingenuity is in the angle of the metal, which uses the weight of the bin to keep the lid closed, while a simple knot in the rope means it can be jammed shut in the boot of a car and towed along by most vehicles.The gadget was invented by the Wolfenden family and took about two months to develop.

“We have a one kilometre driveway, so when we got our new wheelie bin we put our thinking caps on and started brainstorming,” mother, Cathy Wolfenden says.“It took a while to get the angles right, to ensure the weight of the bin is heading down and won’t slide into the back of the car or tip over. The final solution is so simple. The heavier the bin, the more force there is holding the lid shut.”The invention is being sold via Cathy’s company, Eagles Rest, which makes products using up-cycled materials. The family sells the at the ‘Bin Towa’ at the Matakana Market and via their website eaglesrest.co.nz.

Invention solves wheelie bin dilemmaThe Wolfenden family, from left, David, CJ, Cathy and Tom.

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I find the distance I live from suburbia a constant source of both my ultimate pleasure and constant pain. At times I am guilty of living in my own little bubble – to me, our farm seems like the centre of the universe, and I often wonder why it is that everybody else lives so far away. When I visit Auckland and find myself having to deal with all that traffic and busy people, my whole body seems to tense up and it is not until I pull into our farm and see the beautiful landscapes, wide open spaces and the harbour that all of that stress leaves my body.I seem to be torn between how far and how close I live to town, because it changes depending on the reason I have to drive in. For example, if I am having friends over for drinks and we run out of beer or wine then I am adamant that the half hour drive into town is the same as just popping next door to the corner dairy. But ask me to pick up my daughter from hockey at 10.30pm on a freezing winters night when my fire is roaring and I have my pyjamas on, then the trip feels like you’re driving to hell and back!Then there’s the issue of fuel usage. My husband is a bit of a fuel Grinch. I honestly wonder if he has watched one too many of those Mad Max-style movies! You know the ones? Where the world has ended and fuel is as rare as diamonds! So to help combat any frivolous fuel wastage I have become a chronic list writer. Yep, that’s right, if you go missing in my house for too long, you will be added to my list! (Of course it’s not that helpful when you leave your list at home!). Then there are my secret little Morse codes that I have developed for the drive. It’s amazing what a life or death commodity baking powder has become in my house. “Honey, I just have to pop into town again and grab some baking powder or I won’t be able to bake your cake”, which is actually my Morse code for, ‘I just need to pick up something unimportant from The Warehouse, or meet a friend for lunch’. I also use a sneaky Morse code for times when my husband just wants company for the drive and needs to pick up something rather boring, like chemical or drench. This sneaky little one I have conceived (purely due to my own laziness) is, ‘but I desperately need to do the farm accounts!’ Now I know I shouldn’t make up fibs to justify my driving distance into town (but I bet you most farmers wives do!) and if there was anyone out there willing to bang-up a little supermarket, a couple of dress shops and a cafe at the bottom of my drive, then I would never again need any of these excuses, because I would never need to leave the farm.So you can no doubt see why I grapple with my distance to town, but for the most part I love it, as it allows me to hide from the world. The funniest thing is though, my husband has just upgraded my family car and the one I am about to receive has a thumping big, fuel-guzzling V8 under the bonnet! Which is great for passing turtles on the road, but I am now fretting that my well-worn baking powder excuse will need to be replaced!

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Over the last few weeks winter has arrived with a vengeance. For gardeners, this is traditionally a quieter time as the lush growth of summer and autumn finally slows. However, it is also a time to get the veggie garden set up for the next growing season. Garlic and shallots should be in by now – I try to get mine planted early to mid-May, when the soil is still warm. This gets the bulbs away to a good start before the cold comes, but if you haven’t managed to plant these yet, no problem as our relatively warm climate in the North means you’ve still got all of June and July to plant. Both crops like a lot of fertiliser and compost, so I get this in before planting, then let a flush of weeds come through, remove these and then plant. After planting, another flush of weeds is weeded off before covering the soil with 5cm or so of woody mulch (straw works well too). This regime sounds like a lot of work, but actually massively reduces the amount of weeding needed when the weather warms up in spring. It’s also time to replant the strawberry beds as the roots need to be well established before the weather warms up. They get the same treatment as the garlic and shallots, again setting the crop up well for a nearly maintenance-free growing season. I used to grow from my own runners, but lately I’ve been preferring to replant from fresh stock so I can try different varieties to find what best suits our soil and climate.Now is the time to harvest my last lot of rhubarb for the season. I pull off nearly every leaf at this time of year, then weed, spread manure, add a good layer of compost over the top and then mulch. This ensures a big crop of giant stems in spring as rhubarb is a gross feeder. I do the same with the asparagus bed, as this is another crop that likes a good feed and thrives in raised beds with lots of organic matter in the soil. Out of the eight garden beds, these crops take up four beds; the other beds get a slow rotation of lettuce, silverbeet, spinach, broccoli, cabbage and cauliflower. A punnet of each planted every four to six weeks is more than enough to keep our family in veggies throughout winter, supplemented by treats like snow peas and baby carrots. Although many garden writers recommend resting beds over winter with a green crop of mustard or similar, I don’t usually have beds out of action for long enough to do this. Applications of compost between crops more than make up for this though.

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Before I begin my little blurb about a veterinary topic, I would like to say thank you to all the clients I have seen in the last 3.5 years. It was a pleasure treating your beloved pets and getting to know you. Time has come for me to set sail to my home country, the Netherlands. I can hopefully keep the island feeling on the island called Texel. Texel was recently named by Lonely Planet as one of the top 10 destinations in Europe. Yes, that is where the Texel sheep comes from. This breed is known for its excellent meat, albeit this coming with some lambing difficulty at times. You will no doubt find me lambing sheep in April and May in the middle of the night or performing a caesarean section. The largest dairy herd on Texel has 200 cows (twice the Dutch herd size average). Back to the aim of this column, to provide you with some useful animal related information. I am taking my cat with me and she had to be microchipped. No problem, because it was done at six months old. My cat is a well looked after, but slightly odd-walking little girl, and without a collar and a microchip people would think she is a stray. It gives me peace of mind that clinics all around the country (and world) and the SPCA can read her chip and contact me. It’s not mandatory to microchip a cat, but I would strongly recommend it. It can be extremely difficult to tell two fully black, female cats with a similar build, apart. A microchip can make all the difference as it is unique to that animal. When registered in the New Zealand Companion Animal Register, your cat or dog can be traced back to you for as long as it lives for only a small one-off fee. The Government says: “Since 1 July 2006, all dogs registered in New Zealand for the first time (except farm dogs used for stock control) must be microchipped. This applies mainly to puppies when they are first registered at three months. Dogs classified as dangerous or menacing, dogs impounded but not registered and dogs registered but impounded twice are also required to be microchipped. It is up to the owner to take the microchipping certificate to the council to have the information recorded as part of the registration process and checked to confirm that it meets the regulations. Unless the information is recorded on the council data base, the owner is not complying with the law and a dog picked up straying may be rehomed or euthanized rather than returned to its owner. The only safe way to ensure that your pet can be returned to you if it is lost or stolen is to have it microchipped and recorded on the council’s data base. It’s up to you to notify the council if information has changed, for example if the dog has died or has been transferred to a new owner.” So why wait! Get your vet to insert a rice grain-size microchip that causes minimal grief to the animal and a lifetime of traceability.


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a guarantee of olive oil quality, but it does give us little regional growers an opportunity to target a bigger share of the olive oil market in New Zealand, and hopefully get ahead in the international arena.As local producers, we still need to work very hard to promote our product. The domestic consumer has a tendency to prefer cheaper (and rather uncertain) overseas versions of extra virgin olive oil (EVOO) to our much fresher and tastier (and gentler on the carbon foot print) local olive oil. It is at times hard to explain all the work that goes into producing a single bottle of olive oil and the high standards that we, as an industry, set ourselves in order to compete in the market.Public awareness and education on the merits and benefits of EVOO has grown by leaps and bounds and nowadays you would be hard pressed to find a household that doesn’t have a bottle of olive oil in the pantry. Whether they use it regularly, for cooking (not just for salad dressing or dipping) and enjoy the health benefits associated with a regular consumption of EVOO, it is the focus of our industry. New Zealanders consume an average of one litre of olive oil per person per year, but still relegate the consumption of extra virgin olive oil to ‘special occasions’, often unaware that, independently from being an excellent source of Omega 3, Omega 6 (the same amount as found in breast milk) and vitamin D, fresh genuine EVOO tastes delicious. So why not use it every day?Consumers struggle to understand the significance and importance of the extra virgin and first press designation of high quality olive oil. It generally refers to the method of press and the temperature at which the olives get processed, but fundamentally it signals to the consumer that the product is intact in its nutritional values. In New Zealand, this is certified by our national body, Olives NZ. Our samples get sent to an independent laboratory in Australia (sigh, yes Australia) for certification. Upon certification we are entitled to use the red quality mark which appears on our bottles and the bottles of any other producer in New Zealand who adhere to this process. This is a critical quality mark that should be sought after by the consumer as a guarantee of what they are buying. Unfortunately, overseas EVOOs do not have a uniform standard of certification and some oils that state they are extra virgin may not be at all.Bottom line is that buying local not only is better for the environment, but it also guarantees the standards of the producer; after all it is important to check the quality of what you eat! Our philosophy is that if you eat well, you will be well.

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The Warkworth Squash Club held its One Day Junior Tournament on Sunday June 5. Matches were best-of-five games, and 27 juniors participated, coming from Waikato, Herne Bay, Red Beach, Silverdale and Shepherds Park. There was plenty of opposition for the Warkworth Juniors, some of whom had never played a tournament before. Winner of Division One was Daniel O’Brien (Shepherds Park); runner-up was Tyler Scholefield (grandson of club member Guy Scholefield.) Winner of Division Two was Finn Goodson (Herne Bay); runner-up was George Danielson (Herne Bay). Winner of Division Three was Rico Cullen (Red Beach); runner-up was Malia Tomas (Warkworth). Winner of Division Four was Finn Dockerty (Secondary Schools); runner-up was Kane Hume (Warkworth).

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Heavy rain and strong winds tested amateurs at the Mangawhai Invitational and Tom Bonnington Cup at the Mangawhai Golf Club on May 28 and 29.The competition is part of the order of merit calendar, where amateurs can collect national ranking points.Kylie Jacoby, from Waipu club, won the Mangawhai Invitational for women, while Ben Jujnovich from Redwood Park club won the Tom Bonnington Cup.Due to heavy rainfall the event was shortened from 54 to 36 holes across two days.The Tom Bonnington Cup drew 50 entries, while the newly instated Mangawhai Invitational attracted 20 women, with players coming from 24 North Island clubs.For day one, surface water cleared up but wind prevailed from the north west.This made scores higher than usual, with less than a third of the men’s field scoring below 80, according to Mangawhai Golf Club shop manager Nick Launder.Ben Jujnovich finished the day first equal with a score of 74, while only Kylie Jacoby managed under 80 in women’s with a day one score of 75.“The atmosphere was pretty positive despite the weather and it all ran smoothly,” Nick says.Day two was also windy and the men’s competition was decided with the last few putts.

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“Despite the relatively high scoring, player comments were unanimously positive.”Omaha Golf Club member Mike Leeper managed eighth place with scores of 77 and 75.“Overall, the course was in outstanding condition and living up to its status as one of New Zealand’s very best championship venues,” Nick says.The club’s sand-based course is continuing to attract golfers from around the region.“We are one of the few clubs exhibiting positive growth,” Nick says. “Most clubs in New Zealand have had rounds played down by about six or seven per cent, while ours have been up almost 10 percent since January.“Our biggest problem is distance – people think we are almost as far north as Whangarei.”

Fundraiser a fun raceThe Rodney College fun run held at Mangawhai on June 5 raised $2800 which will be put towards an all weather shelter for the school. The 5km race was organised by the PTA and attracted 120 entries. The winner, who managed a time of 21 minutes, was Riley Vandenhande from Long Bay College. PTA member Jo Yuretich says she was very happy with the level of support.

Trivial pursuit fundraiserMahurangi College hockey fundraiser. Mahurangi College auditorium, Saturday July 2, 7 to 10pm. Tickets $15, contact Wayne Frost 021 025 35261Wilkinson Cup Trophy raceThe annual race will be held July 16. The race is 10km for adults and 4km for children. Meet at the Kaipara Flats Hall at 12.30pm for entry. Info: Caroline Marshall 423 7191Hockey umpires neededWarkworth hockey are offering a free introductory umpiring course at Mahurangi College on June 19, 10am. The course will last 90 minutes. Info: Wayne Frost 021 025 35261 [email protected] football managementWarkworth AFC is looking for someone to help manage the first kicks and fun football which caters for children aged 4 to 8. The role will involve overseeing trainings on Thursdays, 3.30pm and games on Saturdays, 9am at Shoesmith Domain.Info: Cam 021 168 8773Fixtures cancelledAll Rodney Rams fixtures for the remainder of the season have been cancelled due to lack of numbers. See article p46 for details.Table TennisTable Tennis, Matakana Hall, Tuesday, 7.30pm. Info: George 423 0424


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KAIPARA FLATS CRICKET CLUB ON THE “NORMA JEAN” We had a great trip to little barrier recently, the weather was perfect and we all

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LOCAL GOVERNMENT COMMISSIONMANA KAWANATANGA A ROHE

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MATAKANA COAST WINE COUNTRY AGM

Tuesday 5th July at 10amSalty Dog Inn, Snells Beach

LEARN TAOIST TAI CHIIN ONE WEEKEND

When Saturday 25 & Sunday 26 June 2016 - 9am to 4pm - Lunch providedWhere Mahurangi College Gymnasium - Woodcocks Rd, WarkworthCost Waged $149 Unwaged $97 School Student $69 This cost includes the weekend course PLUS 4 months membership of Taoist Tai Chi Society.Existing members Suggested Donation $50 - PLUS please bring a plate for a shared lunch.

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WARKWORTH AGRICULTURAL & PASTORAL SOCIETY

ANNUAL GENERAL MEETINGTuesday 28th June 2016 at 7.30pm

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TAPORARatepayers & Residents Assoc

SPECIAL MEETINGat Tapora Hall

Wed 22nd June at 1pmGuest speaker: Victoria Crone

Standing for Mayor of Auckland City

All invited to come and ask questions about Auckland City &

our Northern Region

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of month, Old Masonic Lodge, Baxter Street, Warkworth, 7pm. Proceeds to

Warkworth Museum.

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REID EQUESTRIAN ENGINEERING, Wellsford. Float rebuilds, horse truck conversions, etc. Dog kennels made to measure. Quality work. Ph Ron 423 9666

WORK WANTED

PIANO TUITION including practical and theory, all grades; Warkworth based; John Wilkins – phone 09 425 9669 or [email protected].

KAIPARA FLATS CRICKET CLUB ON THE “NORMA JEAN” We had a great trip to little barrier recently, the weather was perfect and we all

caught some fish. A highlight was seeing Bryde’s Whales close to the boat. A wonderful way to end the cricket season, out with Captain Barney on

the “Norma Jean.”

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

HORSERIDING

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Family Fun Scenic farm & forest rides

Quiet horses & ponies • Birthday rides Lessons • Suit beginners & experienced

riders & people with DisabilitiesSocial, Language & School Groups

Book Now 1hr $50 • 2hrs $90

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LOCAL GOVERNMENT COMMISSIONMANA KAWANATANGA A ROHE

Reminder of public notice calling for alternative applications

for local government reorganisation in the Auckland Council area initiated by the Northern Action Group reorganisation application

The Commission has decided to treat the reorganisation application from Our Waiheke as an alternative application for local

government reorganisation in Auckland.

The deadline for alternative applications by any person, body or group is 24 June 2016.

Applications may be emailed to [email protected] or mailed to The Chief Executive Officer

Local Government CommissionPO Box 5362

Wellington 6145

Information is available on www.lgc.govt.nz

SUPPORTING HOSPICE RAFFLE RESULTS - BIRD HOUSE #91 Hudson Dawn Ingham, #315 John Chapman # 144 Angela Sharpe, #290 Wayne Adkins. Thank you for your support.

MATAKANA COAST WINE COUNTRY AGM

Tuesday 5th July at 10amSalty Dog Inn, Snells Beach

LEARN TAOIST TAI CHIIN ONE WEEKEND

When Saturday 25 & Sunday 26 June 2016 - 9am to 4pm - Lunch providedWhere Mahurangi College Gymnasium - Woodcocks Rd, WarkworthCost Waged $149 Unwaged $97 School Student $69 This cost includes the weekend course PLUS 4 months membership of Taoist Tai Chi Society.Existing members Suggested Donation $50 - PLUS please bring a plate for a shared lunch.

Phone for details Kirsty 021 0231 [email protected]

Tai Chi is an ancient art that promotes holistic well being for people of all ages

WARKWORTH AGRICULTURAL & PASTORAL SOCIETY

ANNUAL GENERAL MEETINGTuesday 28th June 2016 at 7.30pm

at the Show Society Committee Rooms(the green building beside S.H.1)

Warkworth Showgrounds ReserveM. R. Blythen - Secretary.

TAPORARatepayers & Residents Assoc

SPECIAL MEETINGat Tapora Hall

Wed 22nd June at 1pmGuest speaker: Victoria Crone

Standing for Mayor of Auckland City

All invited to come and ask questions about Auckland City &

our Northern Region

Macular degeneration seminarMacular Degeneration New Zealand (MDNZ) is holding a free public seminar at Summerset Falls Retirement Village, 31 Mansel Drive, Warkworth on Saturday June 25 from 10.30am to 12noon. Local ophthalmologist Dr David Squirrell will provide up to date information on treatments and research and provide guidance on living with MD. There will also be displays of low vision aids and information packs will be available on the day. Macular Degeneration is a chronic eye disease that is currently the leading cause of blindness in New Zealand. One in seven people over 50 have some evidence of it and the incidence increases with age, with one in four people aged 80+ suffering from vision loss. Info: Phone 0800 MACULA (622 852) or email [email protected]

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After their clubrooms burnt to the ground in 2014 and suffering heavy defeats every game this season, a $10,000 prize may revive the Rodney Rams club.The Rams are currently bottom of the open-age restricted league after losing seven matches and defaulting two, and the team has now decided to pull out of the competition.But their fortunes may be turning. After entering a Facebook competition where users nominated clubs in need of financial support, the Rams won $10,000.The money will go towards installing a bathroom in the clubhouse, which will allow Auckland Council to sign off the building for public use.With most players having to travel at least half an hour to games at the Whangateau Domain, the club rooms are an important facility for the team.Team manager Mike Lima says that the money will give the club a big boost in a season which hasn’t been very good. He says the numbers are the real issue.“With injuries, work and family commitments, it makes it hard to field a team each week,” Mike says. “The team’s main goal this season was to be able to field a team each week and stay in the

competition for the whole year. We knew it was always going to be a struggle.”The Rams team originally had a coach to take trainings, but after his family situation changed, Mike had to step in.“We’ve basically coached ourselves each week,” he says.Despite the lack of numbers, there has been a core group of six players who have consistently showed up for games and trainings each week.“I think getting the word out earlier and having some sort of incentive for players will help improve the turnout,” he says.After the early season woes, multiple players have switched codes to play rugby union for Mahurangi or Tomarata.With numbers already being too low to consistently field a team, the Rams club have made a decision to end their rocky season here, Mike says.“We will look to get a coach onboard and build the numbers ready for the start of the 2017 season,” he says.Mike says the club’s goal is to increase the numbers and then become a collective for multiple sports, including cricket, netball and league.

The Rodney Rams have been on the back foot since the season started, with the loss of their coach and multiple players.

Rough ride for Rodney Rams club

Warkworth senior hockey has seen registrations triple since the inception of the new turf at the Warkworth Showgrounds last year.The facility hosts competitive senior games on Friday and Monday evenings, with six women’s teams and five men’s teams.“We have seen a great improvement in the standard of men’s hockey this season and an increase in women’s teams,” Warkworth Hockey committee member Monique Vujcich says.Hockey numbers are improving across New Zealand and the juniors have also had improved numbers since the new turf was completed, she says.“With both the men’s and women’s national sides playing in this year’s Olympics, the figures are likely to get better,” Monique says. “But one problem we face is a lack of quality umpires.”She also says more people are needed to run competitions in the future.The Mahurangi Junior Hockey Club play at the turf on a Saturday morning from May through to September.“Junior Hockey has become more appealing to families since the opening of the turf,” junior club committee member Tania Steen says. “Being an all weather turf, it means less cancelled games, no more running around in the mud, and the kids can experience a faster game.”The junior club is made up of five clubs formed through the primary schools in Matakana, Warkworth, Leigh, Kaipara Flats and Snells Beach.Last year, 13 of its 98 registered juniors made the North Harbour rep development team.“We have a great level of skill in our area when it comes to young hockey players,” Tania says.Both the senior and junior hockey committees have said they would like to see a clubroom put by the turf with bathroom facilities, especially for poor weather days.

Turf grows hockey


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Matakana, 8pm-10.30pm 16 Forest & Bird winter talks, Mangroves: Love them or Loathe

Them, There’s Life in the Mud, presented by Dr Roger Grace, Totara Park Hall, Warkworth, 7.30pm

18 Choir performance, Christ Church Warkworth, 2pm19 Matakantata Choir mid-year Viva Amore concert, Warkworth

Presbyterian Church, 2.30pm (see story p34) 19 Planting at Kowhai Park with Forest and Bird 10am-12noon.

Access from Heritage Lane/Ashmore Cres19 War Time Variety Concert, Wellsford Community Centre,

3.30pm19 Meet Author & Aviator Ron Pemberton, Kaukapakapa

Library, 10am-1pm19 Kaukapakapa Village Market, Kaukapakapa Hall, 9am-1pm20 Community Arts presents Floral Painting Techniques with

Janette Cervin; 4 Alnwick St Warkworth, next to Town Hall; 9am-12noon. Gold coin donation.

24 Local Government submissions close, alternative applications for a reorganisation of Auckland Council must be in (see story p12)

24 Warkworth Aglow meeting, Barakah Community Hall, 160 Hepburn Creek Road, 7pm. Speaker is Bryan France. Info: Jean Moss 422 2036

24 Wellsford Combined Probus Club, Wellsford RSA, 10am. Speaker, Anne Martin from Clevedon on walking Spain’s Camino Trail. Info: Bev Davidson 423 9552

25 Matakantata Choir mid-year Viva Amore concert, Matakana Village Hall, 7.30pm. Tickets $15. Info: Jenni 423 0094 (see story p34)

25 Macular Degeneration New Zealand free public seminar, Summerset Falls Retirement Village, 31 Mansel Drive, Warkworth, 10.30am-12noon. Info:0800 MACULA (622 852) or email [email protected]

26 Leigh mid winter swim, Matheson Bay, 10.30am27 Whangateau Folk Club, featuring Brenda Liddiard and Mark

Laurent, 7pm. $5 (see story p34)27 Art workshop, jewellery making demonstration by Chris

Harvey, wire and semi precious stones, Warkworth Clubrooms, 4 Alnwick Street, 9am-12noon. Gold coin donation

28 Kourawhero Rural Women meeting, Kourawhero Hall, 641 Woodcocks Rd, 1-3.30pm. Info: Bev Pearce 422 2155

29 Matariki concert, Te Ao Marama Marae, Te Hana, 7pm-8pm. Free (see story p35)

2 Hammers and Horsehair Concert, Ascension Wine Estate, 4.00pm. Tickets $30, students free. Info: 425 7313 (see story p34)

3 Wellsford Country Music Club open mic and resident band, Wellsford Community Centre, 1.30pm. Entry $5/$4. Info: John 425 4041

10 Warkworth War on Weeds weed-busting day, Algies Bay, Highfield Reserve, 10am-1pm

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Even as winter sets in, Mahurangi College head girl Sarah Wilson can’t stop swimming, as she travels off to Tasmania for a trans-Tasman underwater hockey event in July.The 17-year-old was selected for the New Zealand Under-18 squad this year and the team will compete in Hobart from July 1 to 9 against two Australian sides and a combined team.This comes after she made the northern regional team last year and competed in three trials to make the national squad.Sarah has played underwater hockey for five years after starting out in the college junior open side, which won silver at nationals in 2012 and gold in 2013.“Both my sisters played and I thought let’s try it out,” she says. “From there I just got hooked.”In 2014 she played for the junior girls side, which took out bronze at nationals, and then the senior mixed team, which won gold.She trains three times a week with the senior open side at college, but does four pool sessions and three weights sessions a week for the U18 national side.She also attends a training camp once a month in Rotorua involving fitness work and games, which she says is ‘intense’.

Sarah Wilson will have to put aside her head girl duties next month as she heads to Hobart to represent New Zealand in underwater hockey.

Everything going swimmingly for head girl

“My family is really supportive,” Sarah says. “They’re always looking out for me ,making sure I have a balanced lifestyle.“School is really good too, letting me use missed assessment forms to help me cope with the extra commitment.”The Mahurangi College senior open team, which Sarah captains, will head to the regional championship on June 10 after losing many of its top players

at the end of last year, as well as their long standing coach, Terry Axford.But the developing side is still looking promising.“There is definitely potential there,” she says. “I would say we have a chance of getting to nationals.”With such a strong string of teams, Sarah says a lot of new people are

joining the sport at the college.“We must have had about 40 people join the junior section this year. Underwater hockey is definitely getting bigger in New Zealand. It’s the first year regionals have split junior and senior teams over two weekends.” Her goal is to make the new Zealand U23 national side in 2018 and then the New Zealand elite team.

mahurangi matters, 15 june, 2016

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