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Events:The Lifestyle Expo, 30 October, Parakai School 10am-2pm, free parking.For details see pg 11.

RODNEY'S

Morepork: A close encounter with New Zealand’s native owl pg 3

Kaukapakapa Hall: An icon rich in local history pg 10

St John Ambulance: Rodney’s rural paramedics pg 6

Landscaping: Thinking big in paddocks pg 15

Spray Sense: What are the rules around spraying? pg 18

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EDITORIALThinking backÉWell, I didn’t expect to experience that much rain in September! But we can’t really complain - the place didn’t fall down around our ears and we survived the weather bomb. Sadly, as we’ve all seen, Canterbury, Otago and Southland didn’t fare so well, with feed shortages a big concern on top of shocking lamb losses. I wouldn’t imagine there will be a lot of surplus feed around in Rodney and Northland after our very short autumn and wet winter, but if you have any you can spare please contact Federated Farmers’ helpline: 0800 327 646.

Thoughts of the new super city are occupying our minds at the moment. My view, and I hope I’m wrong, is that the process will follow the old, cautionary wisdom of Six Phases of a Project: Enthusiasm; Disillusionment; Panic; Search for the guilty;

Punishment of the innocent; Praise and honours for the non-participants.

Thanks to Carolyn Howden, not only for generously giving up her time researching, photographing and writing the wonderful story on St John Ambulance, but also for supplying the cover image of Kowhai in flower. We participate in a great deal of recreation across rural Rodney and, if it were not for highly trained volunteer staff like Denese and Andrew, many events just couldn’t happen. Right now, St John need more volunteers to share the load, and, as always, more funding. We are running this feature to help meet the shortfall.

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Earlier this year on a warm autumn evening we hosted our son’s 21st party.

We prepared a lamb on a spit, confident that the aroma would pique the appetites of revellers. That it did

By Lynnette Third

MOREPORK!É though in this case it was more lamb that led to our close encounter with New ZealandÕs native owl, ÒNinox novaeseelandiaeÓ.

and when we went to bed at about 3am, happy party-goers were eyeing blankets, pillows, mattresses and couches for a bit of much needed shut-eye.

When we awoke there was much talk of an owl flapping around the lounge and frightening the girls. I was listening sceptically to about the third recount of an owl’s visit as I sat on the foldout settee – temporary home to three sleepy-eyed young things.

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The bloody thing is still there, moaned Bryn pointing to the china cabinet and lo and behold, there sat an owl, still as a statue, perched between two of my ornaments. In my sleep-deprived state I had to think really carefully about whether I had purchased an owl ornament recently, but nothing coherent sprang to mind. On closer inspection it was confirmed – largely by the fact that its piercing dark eyes followed us everywhere – that it was very much a real live owl.

For light relief between the floor washing and the spit-cleaning I set about reading up on these magnificent birds.

Owls are solitary birds when not breeding, so hide themselves away from other birds during the day. This is because while drowsy they can be mobbed by flocks of the very birds, such as starlings or fantails, which will become

their prey if caught alone in the evening and which are understandably keen to move owls out of their territory before the tables are turned.

Owls’ haunting call and large round eyes prompted Maori to call them “Ruru Ruru!” though to European settlers the call cried “Morepork!”

This species is found only in New Zealand, but there is a close relative living in Australia, commonly called Boobook. (Scary to think the Aussies were thinking literature while we were thinking food).

Owls are traditionally forest dwellers but have adapted well to life in quite populated areas. They have excellent hearing and swivel their heads to catch the faintest sounds. While unable to glance sideways as their eyes do not move in their sockets, they more than compensate for this by being able to turn their heads 270 degrees – that is from front to back and then some more. A useful feature for any parent I would have thought, those eyes in the back of the head, and vital for a bird of prey.

Their huge eyes are designed to provide excellent low-light vision while hunting their prey. Insects including huhu beetles, moths and wetas, rodents, lizards and small birds (and lamb ready-roast) are on the menu. Their soft flight feathers have downy filaments along the edges and at the base of the central shafts to absorb the sound of their slow and determined wing-beat, so they can silently stalk their prey – a kind of animal “pink batts” arrangement I think.

Usually their prey is grabbed by sturdy talons and taken in their strong beak back to their tree, where it is ripped apart before being eaten. Undigested ‘bits’ such as bones are then regurgitated as pellets and discarded.

Nothing like lamb on a spit to attract a Morepork!


By this time of year they have found their mates and selected a suitable love nest, often a hole in a tree or among densely growing branches and epiphytes. They scrape out a hollow in the litter present rather than bring in nesting material, and then the female lays and incubates her two or three white eggs for a month. During this time, the male dutifully brings food for her and for the chicks as well, when they hatch. After five weeks or when fully feathered the chicks leave the nest but remain with their parents for a short time while they hone their hunting skills.

They grow to 29cm from head to tail and weigh approximately 175grams.

In Maori tradition the Ruru is seen as a watchful guardian and as a bird of the night is associated with the spirit world. Its normal cry is said to herald good news, however the less common shriek it occasionally makes when sensing danger signals bad news or death.

This owl species is the only remaining native owl, the larger laughing owl becoming extinct last century. The German or little owl is an introduced species brought to the South Island in the 20th century for sparrow control.

We believe our visitor brought good tidings and certainly he (or she) was a thing of beauty, from those eyes with their bright yellow rims and long, dark eyelashes a model would trade her last rations to own, to the appealing speckled feathers.

As evening approached and our Ruru became restless once again we managed to show him the door and off he flew, on silent wing, to the distant treetops. A youngster, it too had had a night to remember.

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Because of the greater road distances and sometimes sparse population, the role of the local volunteer fire brigade also embraces medical call-outs. But when the St John Ambulance officers arrive, they take over that role to enable the fire brigade to continue with other associated duties, like cutting passengers out of a car and ensuring a site is safe.

These emergency services work and train together to help fellow residents. They attend the same first aid training courses but the fire crew carry gear, winches, for example, not available in ambulances. The St John callout assignment could be to crew with a professional ambulance driver, or to attend public events where injury is possible.

Denese is more likely to volunteer her time for local rodeos, motorcycle races in Woodhill, horse endurance races, galas, festivals, concerts and major sports meetings. “Few people realise those attending the events are volunteers,” Denese says.

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A teacher of special needs students by day, Denese has been a St John Ambulance volunteer for the past five years, attending a special event about once a fortnight. She also attends regular training sessions and is currently studying for her National Diploma in Ambulance Care.

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The caring umbrella of St John also protects its volunteers with support when needed, especially when the incident involves fatalities. They deal with some tragic situations, but there are highlights, like the time Andrew became the first to cuddle a newborn babe. With birthing centres now so accessible in the rural communities that doesn’t happen often, but it was certainly memorable!

Illnesses that quickly become critical are more likely to result in a 111 call from patients in rural areas. Heart attacks are top contenders. Inexperienced drivers on rural gravel roads are also high on the incident list, and falling trees and rolling ATVs grab their share of call-outs. Youngsters having great fun ‘paddock-bashing’ in their old cars all too often also end up in trouble.

Because of the rural nature of the callouts animals are also occasionally involved. Andrew has never been to such an incident but a Helensville colleague has sometimes needed to extend her help to canines injured in car accidents. Her successful CPR on a dog was above and beyond the call of

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As settler numbers grew, so did the need for a community space. Built in a paddock near where the memorial stone now stands and funded by the community and a supplementary government grant, a tiny school-cum-hall opened for business with 17 enrolled pupils in 1873.

With the 30’ by 18’ building soon outgrown as the district’s population increased, a second community funded hall was built in 1890. And that’s when the fun started. As the story goes, the settlers saw Kaukapakapa as a place of two halves, one north, one south, and both halves wanted the hall on their patch. In a placatory but totally impractical compromise, the new hall was built in the middle on land, donated by Henley House owners Morris and Eliza Henley, which happened to be flood prone.

There were no complaints about the workmanship – Mr Ashton had made a beautiful job of building Henley House on the opposite side of the road in 1887 – but the location was to prove problematic for years to come. Bruce Jordan, Hall Committee Chairperson and fourth generation descendent of early settlers James Byrt and Mary Jane Jordan, recalls seeing a woman carrying dishes down the hall steps after a social as flood water came up the stairs towards her. In Kaukapakapa Through the Children’s Eyes, published in 1999 to commemorate the 125 year school reunion, Sylvia Hubber says stoically, “We were proud of our hall, even if it got flooded at times.”

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transported herself, along with a spare set of clothes, from her home on Jordan’s Island (aka Kukutango Island) to meetings in the hall. After rowing to the mainland she rode the 6 miles to Kaukapakapa on horseback, entered the hall discreetly through the back window, changed into her best outfit - hat, gloves, the works - then sallied into the meeting to make her contribution to the Women’s Division of Federated Farmers.

After the great floods of the 1950s the floor was replaced for the second time, and as a War Memorial project additions and improvements were made, with the inclusion of a WWII Roll of Honour and a board listing pre-1873 settlers.

Like other rural halls, the Kaukapakapa hall has been used over the years for a myriad of activities: silent movies (with the generator powering the projector driven by a car engine); taekwando; badminton; weddings; funerals; youth groups; after school care programmes; Scouts; Trivial Pursuits; casino evenings; concerts; exhibits; Agriculture Day; dances; public

meetings; Christmas Carols; World War II Home Guard training exercises.

Jan Clayton fondly remembers the Beer Fests, organised by Plunket mothers, where babies were put to sleep in rows on the kitchen floor while their elders caroused, the women dressed as Bavarian serving wenches, the men in neck-to-toe aprons, to the cheerfully strident sounds of an oom-pah-pah band.

While the hall was the hub of the community in the 1960s and 70s, by the 1990s it had become derelict as the influx of newcomers, attracted by the opportunity to buy lifestyle blocks, changed the close-knit nature of the place. But with the Rodney Council threatening closure, the community rallied to organise another much-needed upgrade.

Plans were going smoothly until 1999, when a photo was published in the NZ Herald showing the hall surrounded by floodwater. Leading the charge battling the threatened closure

Kaukapakapa Village, 1999, by Maren Osbaldiston.


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Kaukapakapa Hall by Sally Lush. Screen print, paper, mixed media on board. Painted in 2010 for Fiona Jack’s ’Living Halls’ Exhibition.

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Big trees look their best with room to spread.

Silver dollar gums (Eucalyptus cinerea) make excellent paddock trees. Planted in a corner between two paddocks, they’ll provide shade for both. I also like to plant them among deciduous trees; their silver leaves contrast well with the autumn colours of yellow and red.

Mexican alders are great evergreens for wet areas. Most trees cope with the wet by being deciduous, for example, willows, poplars and swamp cypress. Evergreens that are happy in a bog are few and far between. Mostly planted in rows as shelter, you don’t very often see evergreen alders as specimens. They’re a bit like poplars in that respect.

Autumn colour on a swamp cypress (Taxodium).

Fast and big, this 13-year-old evergreen alder is about 15m tall (Alnus jorullensis).



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For something a bit different, river birch (Betula nigra) handles wet soils, grows at a smart pace and has interesting bark, which starts off brown and gets darker with age before peeling off in small sheets. A deciduous tree, its leaves turn yellow early in autumn, and it’s not what I would call a heavy or solid tree. Like most birch it’s light and airy, giving dappled shade.

The wet-coping trees I’ve mentioned here (alders, river birch, willows, tupelo, swamp cypress and poplars) don’t have to be in wet areas. They are quite happy in normal conditions as well.

Every big garden/farm should have room for a liquidambar or two. They are such reliable performers for autumn colour, steady growth and not too many idiosyncrasies. The autumn colours of the liquidambar range through yellows to reds to purples, usually darkening in colour as the tree ages.

Then, once they have dropped their leaves you see the deeply fissured corky bark. (No, they are not diseased, this is a characteristic of the liquidambar.) These beautiful trees are perfect for so many uses: they’ll line the drive or make shade trees in paddocks or on the lawn; they can be planted in clusters or groups to create a woodland; and they’re a stunning feature in a drive turning circle.

Characteristic corky bark on a liquidambar.



Another couple of classy trees for the turning circle, or anywhere else for that matter, are Cedrus deodara and Cedrus atlantica. Evergreen conifers, they’re both statuesque in form, but in different ways. The deodar cedar is a pyramidal, graceful, weeping form, with blue-green foliage ageing to blue-grey. The atlantic cedar is also pyramidal in shape, but with horizontal, almost rigid branches and green foliage.

For a splash of gold in autumn, how about a Liriodendron chinense? Commonly known as the chinese tulip tree, this is a rare, tall tree with large squarish leaves, purple tinted at first, turning green then butter yellow in autumn. The leaves are almost the size of dinner plates.

Another biggie with interesting leaves is the purple sycamore maple (Acer pseudoplatanus ‘Purpureum’), which has a purple underside to the green summer leaves, and bold orange/yellow autumn colour. It’s a fast, tough tree, tolerating quite a bit of wind and moist soils.

So, how much space are you going to need? The trees I’ve talked about here will all get to 10m high and 8m wide after 10 or 15 years, and many will get quite a bit bigger than that.

If it’s a tall but narrow tree you need, for lining the driveway for instance, something a little different is the upright English oak (Quercus robur ‘Fastigiata’). It’s similar in form to a Lombardy poplar when young, maturing to a very tall pyramidal shape. Tough and wind-hardy, it has yellow autumn leaves which turn brown and hang on through winter. It will be about 8m high and 3m wide at 10 years.

Tupelo's early autumn colour.



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2-4 Morrison Drive, Warkworth. Phone 09 425 7754

Call us to arrange delivery (09) 425 7754email: [email protected] PHONE ORDERS WELCOME!

Prices valid until Saturday 30 October 2010 or while stocks last. All prices include GST unless otherwise stated.

SPRING INTO ACTION!

ONLY $34.95 SAVE UP TO $15PRICE $340 – ONLY 2 LEFT!

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FREE250mm fence Plier valued at $30 with every 40kg bag of tux energy or tux country.

Politape 200 mtr roll

Speedrite Mains Energiser - DELTA 2

PRICE $340 – ONLY 2 LEFT!

FREESpeedrite lite tester valued

at $60

Cydectin Cattle Pour-On

Handy 500ml ready to use pack only $92.502ltr Back Pack $306.00

Layer pellets

Feed wheat

Organic feed

10%OFF!

Chooketeria

FREE 10kg bag of peck 'n' lay when you purchase a chooketeria

NEW METAL DESIGN$139.95

Grass seed from 1kg to tonne lots

Rye Clover 25kg $115.00Bush Burn 25kg $79.95

FREE HANDI SPREADER VALUED AT $20 WHEN YOU BUY A 25KG BAG OF GRASS SEED.

Silvan 12-volt Weedpak sprayers

20 LITRE $245 SAVE UP TO $45



Solo Portable Spreader

PRICE $199.95 SAVE $20

Solo 15 litre domestic sprayer

PRICE $104.95 INCLUDES FREE PRESSURE GAUGE VALUED AT $20

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october issue 37

Documents

rodneys rural lifestyle

rodneys rural paramedics

rural rodney

pm2 rural lifestyle

rural lifestyle mag

paddocks pg

lifestyle expo

local history pg