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January 29, 2016

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Making a stand… Lynn Dawson (centre) organised a peaceful sit-in on Devonport Wharf. With Gay Richards (left), Dave Veart (far left) and Ruth Greenaway (right) as well as a group of local knitters

Peaceful protest against wharf shut-out

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A sit-in protest to reclaim Devonport Wharf for the community attracted around a dozen knitters, plus supportive local residents and numerous tourists last Sunday.

The gathering was organised by local resident Lynn Dawson in protest to Auckland Transport (AT) wanting to charge community groups for using the renovated wharf space while it stands empty.

“There is no reason why the community can’t make use of what is still an uninviting dead spot,” she says. Dawson set up at around 9.30 am and said the AT security guards left her alone.

Since its completion in mid-2015, AT has not found a tenant for the new wharf space downstairs and Dawson suspects it’s because the rent is too high.

“They wanted to charge a community group $1,500 to rent four square metres for four hours, so you can extrapolate from that how much it would be to rent it full time,” she says.

“This place needs an innovative use with a reasonable cost attached to it.”

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Cockle numbers at Cheltenham Beach have almost doubled over the past year.

The 2015 cockle survey last December found 1,352 cockles – up from 685 the year before.

Despite a long-term ban from gathering shellfish at the beach, numbers dwindled over the years and a 2010 survey found only

12 cockles. Co-organiser of the survey, student Charlie

Glass said: “We’re not sure why the cockles are coming back. It may be as a result of the shellfish ban, or a change in the water quality. Whatever the reason, it’s great news.”

The survey fell into abeyance in 2010 due to the poor shellfish numbers.

Ngataringa head coach Gilles de Gouy has been appointed captain of the Pacif-ic-Oceania Davis Cup tennis team for its tie in Iran this year.

A Frenchman and former Tahitian res-ident, de Gouy has been a national coach and trainer in Tahiti; coached on the WTA

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Dawson was also there to make a stand against council’s relocated visitor informa-tion office on the wharf, handing out infor-mation pamphlets to tourists.

“It’s time we had a properly manned and informed i-SITE. This is Devonport’s second summer with a dysfunctional and uninformed i-SITE, which is either unmanned or too hard for tourists to find,” she says.

“I am constantly stopped on the street and asked about things to do in Devonport, and when I take flyers for the Michael King Writers’ Centre to the i-SITE, they don’t even know what or where it is,” she says.

Devonport resident Ruth Greenaway, who lives nearby on Queens Parade, shared similar feelings. “I would love to see the community use the place and bring life to it. The only thing that has popped up here so far is the ice-cream van and that is only a

trial,” she said.When outside gardening, Greenaway

meets many tourists passing by. “People from all over the world ask me for directions, for the chocolate shop, a good café or bar, a good B&B, Victoria Road or the historic village,” she says.

Dave Veart, Chair of the Devonport Peninsula Trust, applauded the knitters for their activism. “It’s a good cause. I have a certain concern there is a disempowerment of communities going on. This is a nice and gentle way of reminding people that we are still here,” he said.

Veart said he was also concerned about the lack of consultation around Special Housing Areas across Auckland.

“NIMBYism is a natural response if you love your community and want to look after it. Why not defend what you’ve got?” he said.

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Sailor Robbie McCutcheon has achieved the rare feat of winning both the Tanner and Tauranga Cups – a proven path to yachting greatness.

In his first P-Class nationals, Robbie (14) says he focused on reading the wind more than using his weight, which was light for the class. He won the Tanner Cup regatta in a nail-biter final race after winning three out of seven races.

Despite only winning only one of the Tauranga Cup races, he was the clear winner without having to sail the last race. “I had consistently come second, third and fourth and was allowed to drop my seventh and 11th, so I ended up winning quite easily by nine points,” he says.

Robbie also won the Tanner Cup Invita-tional (first race) and received a trophy for being the highest placed first-time P-Class racer.

Wakatere’s Alice Haslett (14) was the leading girl of the Tauranga Cup, placing 14th overall, and winning the Naomi James Trophy. Seven girls participated in a fleet of 37. Alice did not race in the Tanner Cup.

This was her third year sailing in the P-Class national competition. Alice found the Bay of Islands wind conditions shifty and her competition fierce, including fellow Wakatere sailor Lily Brewer, who

was the second-placed girl in the regatta, winning the Harken Trophy, as well as the Craig Monk Trophy for first sailor under 55 kg.

Two years ago, local sailor Kate Stewart was the second girl to ever win the cup in its 90-year-history.

Wakatere Boating Club also took home the P-Class club trophy, and the Franklin Plumbing Trophy.

Robbie McCutcheon a double heavyweight in P-Class sailing

While a Wakatere Boating Club member, Robbie sailed the cup races under Whanga-nui’s sailing club banner after fellow Waka-tere sailor Francesco Kayrouz qualified for the single North Harbour spot. Francesco came fourth in the Tanner Cup and won the Tauranga Cup Invitational.

Robbie follows in the footsteps of local sailors Paul Snow-Hansen, who won both cups 11 years ago and represented New Zealand in the London Olympics in 2012, and Terry Nicholas who won both in 1982.

Renowned America’s Cup sailors Chris Dickson, Ray Davies and Dean Barker did the same in 1977, 1987 and 1988 respective-ly. International yachting superstar Russell Coutts won one of the cups and emailed Robbie his congratulations last week. Both cups have been around since the 1940s.

Robbie has been sailing Optimists since he was nine and came second in the North

Island champs in October. He will compete in the nationals this Easter. He only started sailing in the P-Class in November, in a boat called Persuasion, which he borrowed from local sailor Andrew Brown, whose father built it.

His plan for next year is to move on to sail a Starling. Robbie’s older brother Rory has one stored in the garage, just waiting to be used, he says.

Alice highest-placed girl in Tauranga Cup

Promising young Wakatere sailors… P-class champs Robbie McCutcheon and Alice Haslett


The duck pond on the corner of Memorial Drive and Seabreeze Road has proved toxic for a number of fish.

Martin Broad lives near the pond and walks past it regularly. He often finds it close to emp-ty, with a base of bad-smelling black sludge. Recently he spotted a number of dead fish in the pond.

“We had a school of mullet living in the deep end for the last 12 months and unbelievably they seemed to survive. Well that was until now. The eel population also seems to have decreased,” Broad said.

Auckland Council spokesperson Gemma Buxton told the Flagstaff she was not aware of a spill that would have contributed to the fish deaths at the pond.

But she confirmed that council has sent out a tender for the de-silting of the pond. Works are to start in late February, Buxton said.

Duck pond deaths but clean-up in the pipeline

Unexplained deaths… dead fish floating in the duck pond

Trash to treasure: new recycling services for DevonportInnovation and more services are what the

new operator of Devonport’s refuse and recy-cling station is promising when it starts running the 27 Lake Road site this summer.

“The only thing we are going to cut is the amount of waste that goes to landfill,” says Global Action Plan Oceania (GAPO) trustee and director Andrew Walters.

A non-profit organisation with a focus on en-vironmental sustainability and waste education, GAPO won the council tender to run Auckland’s third community recycling centre.

“We intend to run the site as an exemplar for waste minimisation across the region. De-vonport was the first place in New Zealand to recycle and we want to put it back on the map as an innovator in the waste space,” Walters says.

He confirmed that all current services will

continue. This includes dropping off garden and other waste and recyclable goods as well as the sale of garden supplies. “Central Landscapes will definitely be staying on the site with us.”

And there will be more, he says. “We want to create opportunity out of waste. We will start to take in construction and demolition waste and divert it from landfill by taking out all the stuff that can be recycled or remade into other things.” Wood waste could go to the nearby Claystore Community Workshop, for example, or be turned into furniture or art by staff, he says.

“We will run a community resource shop where we will also sell functioning things collected in the new inorganic collections that pick up items directly from homes,” he says.

In the short term, the shop and workshop will be run from temporary shipping containers. “Beyond that we are looking with council at a complete redevelopment of the site, but that’s probably a year away.”

Waste audits for local businesses and

programmes with local schools are also on the list of new offerings. “We basically want to en-gage with the community as much as possible,” Walters says.

GAPO has been operating in New Zealand for three years, mostly working with industry. This is its first foray into community recycling.

Auckland Council’s Waiuku and Helensville sites, Extreme Waste in Raglan and Porirua’s Trash Palace are some of the operators GAPO intends to follow. “But we also draw inspiration from overseas sites and experience of our staff, who include an environmental scientist, engi-neer, teacher and sustainability professionals.”

GAPO will also hire more staff. “Retaining and creating local jobs was part of our tender. We’ll be looking for an administrator and a cadet position for a school leaver,” says Walters, who lives on Waiheke Island.

GAPO will take over on 1 March without any disruption to opening hours, says Walters. “And we will hold a big opening event around Easter.”

Benjamin the library cat found

Benjamin the Devonport Library cat miss-ing since last Friday was found on Monday.

He had an injured chest and was taken to the vets.

Retirement village application on hold

The Ryman Healthcare retirement village application to build 200 apartments of up to six storeys on Ngati Whatua’s Wakakura land is temporarily on hold.

Last Saturday, residents received a letter saying council had asked Ryman to provide further information. “The application is therefore on hold until the further informa-tion is received,” the letter says.

Meanwhile, the Unitary Plan hearings on a proposed rezoning of the Wakakura precinct are scheduled from March 3 until April 29.


The gloves are off in a fight between neigh-bours over the publicly notified resource con-sent application for Butterbee Childcare Centre at 159 Victoria Road.

It started when local residents formed a Safe-ty and Heritage Action Group and put out signs and flyers encouraging passers-by to oppose the centre on the basis it would compromise traffic safety and the building’s heritage. The signs and flyers have since come down.

Next, property co-owner Jo Blair asked members of Neighbourly.co.nz to support the centre proposal, but the online discussion quickly turned sour.

Jo and Paul Blair have now advertised on Seek.co.nz for sales reps to help them produce submissions supporting the proposal. Written support from community members is a re-quirement for the consent to be approved, the job ad says.

The job ad called for “approximately three outgoing people who are very comfortable to actively approach and speak with people in

the street, park, outside the library and super-market.”

The ad offered a “very good” hourly rate and “attractive additional commissions and bonuses based on completion rates.”

“Although we are open minded, due to the nature of the project, we believe the most suitable people will be women, aged 25 to 50, probably with kids of their own and living on the North Shore (close to Devonport would be perfect),” the ad says.

The ad claims that “upwards of 75% support the new facility, 5% don’t and the rest of the don’t really care either way.”

Whereas the Blairs’ orchestrated marketing campaign focuses on Butterbee addressing Devonport’s need for childcare, the Safety Heritage Action Group argues that 159 Victoria Road is not an appropriate venue for such a centre, due to high volumes of car, bike, bus and foot traffic near the site and the building’s heritage value.

• Submissions close on February 9.

PR offensive for proposed childcare centre

Devonport Heritage has criticised the Butter-bee Childcare Centre proposal on its website this month, arguing that the 1885 home of Samuel Tanfield has many original details still intact today, which should be retained. It was also the home of George Niccol, Devonport’s first may-or, and his daughter Kathleen, who became the renowned singing tutor Dame Sister Mary Leo.

Converting the house into a commercial

childcare centre with “intrusive changes and additions” would mean “the permanent loss of the building as an historic home.” An added-on “unsympathetic” large addition at the back was in addition to the ‘blight’ of a large access ramp and aluminium windows,” it says.

“Overall the application demonstrates a lack of awareness of the heritage nature of the house,” it says.

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By Rob Drent

The beauty of Devonport comes into full focus after a trip away: in my case a month in South India.

On the first day back I went for a stroll along the waterfront and children were swimming off Windsor Reserve, just a glance across the harbour from the container port.

Two days before I was walking alongside the harbour in Mumbai - a beautiful promenade where a gas mask would have been handy to ward off the stench coming from the sea. More than 20 million litres of partially treated sewage are pumped into the bay every day.

There is a rather weak joke in India that if you fall into the sea or a waterway in a city, your next stop is the hospital.

I was expecting to be shocked by the poverty. But travelling in the comparative affluence of South India it was the amount of rubbish and air pollution that proved the biggest cultural shock.

A few observations following the trip: there is little litter in New Zealand; no real poverty either; Lake Rd is busy and could be much easier to navigate, but in global terms it is not congested (Indian driving practices would make it a four-lane highway now); there is also no bus overcrowding - schools or otherwise; Kiwi drivers are rude and aggressive and could do a with a remedial spell on Indian roads, where alongside the maniac manoeuvres there is some common sense and courtesy; water is precious and finite and should not be wasted; solar power and transport alternatives to fuel-based transport should be pursued with local and national gov-ernment incentives.

India is a booming country with one of the highest growth rates in the world. But with a growing middle class comes the trappings of wealth, including car ownership. New Delhi is now the most polluted city in the world. But somewhat bizarrely car ownership per 100,000 people is one of the indicators of economic growth. New Delhi has nine million cars in a city of 20 million people. Pollution has got so bad life expectancy is falling in the city. It has now trialled odd-even carless days to get vehicles off the road.

We can look askance at a city like Delhi, but we are no better. Auckland (and Devonport) car numbers per thousand people are actually higher. New Delhi simply has more people.

New Delhi has invested heavily in a metro rail system. This is being replicated in many smaller cities around India – such as Cochin, a coastal city roughly the same size as Auckland, with some comparable geographical challenges. Cochin officials have realised that more roads

are not the solution. Travelling on public trans-port in Cochin was also instructive. A ferry ride the equivalent of Devonport to Auckland cost 10 cents. The ferries (along with the trains) were old but functional and mostly clean. They were always full due to the low cost. (As an aside, the ferries all had seats bolted down, unlike the Fullers ferry Kea when it crashed last year).

Due largely to sewage upgrades by legacy councils – Auckland and North Shore City – it is still safe to swim at our beaches. But double the population and I wouldn’t be so sure. And with the current upward rate of car usage, air quality will increasingly be an issue.

Auckland Council is taking positive steps to resolve some of the city’s traffic congestion problems, but each small victory seems to get inappropriately high applause, while a long-term 100-year view is not considered. What hap-pens if Auckland population growth booms far ahead of projections? Today’s public transport improvements will be quickly swamped by the growing population and the rampant use of cars.

Over the next few decades the big story for Auckland will be the environment.

My friends are joking I have returned a environmental Nazi: I am installing a water tank (for toilets, garden and laundry) and in-vestigating solar panels and the possibility of an electric bike or car. (I am not completely sold on scooters. In high numbers they can pollute just like cars).

Cutting back plastic bag usage is also an objective at home and work for 2016.

Environmental improvements at home are nothing new and many others in Devonport have made them. However, with prices of property on the peninsula so high they are a comparatively cheap addition to the cost of a home. I will report back on how I go and I would be interested to hear of any readers’ successes or failures.

The charming suburb of Devonport and the wider environment of Auckland is worth fight-ing for, citywide and on your own plot.

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I hope you all had a good Christmas break with family and friends and the New Year has been good to you so far. It’s a great time of year to be out and about. We have been loving biking and bushwalking down in the Karangahake Gorge. The Hauraki Rail Trail is really worth exploring.

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Lauren Towns has landed a role in a Queensland production of The Sound of Music and is the only New Zealander in the predominantly Australian cast.

The show runs at Brisbane’s Lyric Theatre from early March until May.

Twelve-year-old Lauren finished Year 8 at Belmont Intermediate School in December and is already in rehearsals for the role of Louisa von Trapp, the third-oldest of the seven von Trapp children. Lauren, her mother Catherine and brother Adam (9) are living in South Bank, Brisbane, where Lauren is home-schooled and Adam will go to a local school.

Winning the role was all down to Lauren, says Catherine.

“Lauren is very motivated. She found the notice for the audition herself and begged me to register her for it. In October we flew over for three full days of auditioning. There was a lot of dancing, acting and singing. There were 850 children at first and each day, through 10 rounds, they were cut back and back,” she says.

On day three, the producers filmed Lauren. Three weeks later they told her she was in. “I wasn’t expecting it at all. I had tried out for the New Zealand production earlier last year and made it through to the last eight girls for the role of Brigitta, a younger girl, but I didn’t pass the filming for that. Luckily this

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Louisa. The other two are from the Queens-land area and they are so nice and talented and we learn a lot off each other. They are really inspiring,” she says.

Lauren says she is enjoying learning the songs for the show. “There is Do Re Mi and So Long Farewell. The Hills are Alive with the Sound of Music has a nice harmonising part in it, and then there is My Favourite Things too,” she says. Rehearsing the part of Louisa is definitely on Lauren’s list of favourite things at the moment.

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facility that the narrow Lake Rd, excluding the existing cycleways, will be able to cope with.

The reality is that nothing will be done to widen Lake Rd in the next 40 years.

Perhaps Auckland Council should give existing residents free defensive driving lessons. Over the past five years I have had plenty of practice playing dodgems on Lake Rd, Bardia St, Eversleigh Rd, Northboro Rd and Jutland Rd.

Somehow I don’t think I will be holding my breath for some action to be taken.Bruce Tubb, Belmont

I was surprised to see Margot McRae pushing for the council to widen Lake Rd (Letters to Editor, 11 Dec 2015). Why would a heritage advocate be arguing for more cars?

Counter-intuitive as it sounds, building bigger roads actually makes traffic worse. If you make it easier to drive, more people will drive. New roads just create new drivers, resulting in the intensity of traffic staying the same.

The only solution to Lake Rd is fast, frequent and reliable public transport. A tram or bus that leaves every 10 minutes and makes the journey from Devonport to Takapuna in 15 minutes – all day every day. This is only possible if the peninsula has the population to justify it – hopefully the Nga-ti Wha-tua developments will go some way to achieving this.

Chris Werry

The development plans for the retirement vil-lage on the Nga-ti Wha-tua Wakakura land have been been submitted to the Devonport-Taka-puna Local Board for consideration to allow five and six-storey buildings on this 4.2 hectare site. Then this application will either become a notified or non-notified consent. The Ryman application is only weeks ahead of the Unitary Plan Commissioners’ consideration of the North Shore Precincts topic, in which the zoning of the Wakakura Crescent will be decided. The commissioners are being asked to consider that the Wakakura area to be subject to maximum heights of two, three and four-storey buildings in this established residential area. The decision affecting the zoning and development of this site by either the commissioners or the local board could potentially be conflicting, and at the same time any decision will have an impact on the development of the seven precinct sites across

Devonport and Belmont. These other precinct site range in size from 1.9 to 8.5 hectares, and are located in Marsden St, Birchfield Rd, Plymouth Cres, Hillary Cresc and Vauxhall Rd.

Devonport Heritage is concerned about the timing of these matters and whether residents are effectively being outmanoeuvred by the scheduling of the sequence of these decisions.

Devonport Heritage will speak at the Unitary Plan hearings sometime during the 3rd March to 29th April slot for this topic.

We are seeking to have Fort Takapuna in-cluded in the Devonport Single House zone and recognised for its historic and social importance. We are also seeking to have Wakakura Cresent height area be restricted to two-storey dwellings, as in both cases these are the rules that apply to its neighbours. It should be noted that there has been an interim decision recently in which many Ngataringa Road houses have been included

in the pre-1944 overlay. In our submission we stress the need to apply the same set of rules for all neighbours.

It may not be in the brief of the Unitary Plan Commissioners to address the transport congestion and infrastructure problems, but we have asked that these issues be considered and that these concerns should not be oversimplified or underestimated. It is our view that no signifi-cant development should take place until these problems are effectively managed. Devonport Heritage has not commented on the rezoning of the other precinct areas located across the Bel-mont area, as these matters are being represented by the local 20/40 residents group.

There are many concerns that are raised in this Wakakura development and public debate and public participation needs to be allowed to occur. Trish Deans, Devonport Heritage

Heritage and cars don’t mixRetirement village – small facility the only option

Letters

Major issues raised by proposed Wakakura development and timing of application

January 29, 2016 The DevonporT FlagsTaFF page 15 Letters

Commuter ferry nightmare not helped by security

Thanks to the mobility wheelchair helpers

Does anyone know the purpose of the se-curity staff at the wharf?

Now that summer is here, getting off the peak commuter ferries is a nightmare.

Tourists to the left, right and centre ahead – blocking both exit ramps, access to the HOP tag off, access through the terminal building and the boardwalk. And no one seems to be guiding them to queue safely and consider-ately.

It’s worse when there is a cruise ship in. For some reason, tourists don’t ‘get’ that people need to get OFF the ferry before they pile on. Trying to shoehorn a ferryload of passengers and cyclists through causes problems, espe-cially if we’re using Auckland Transport’s preferred HOP cards.

Where are the security staff at this time?

Usually halfway up the building inside. Is their sole purpose to guard the television screen and the expensive white elephant of a building? Or is it for public safety, which would seem sensible. Maybe they haven’t been told.

Don’t get me wrong. We need and welcome these tourists to the village. But we also need to accommodate them and the commuters safely. Having to ‘run the gauntlet’ after a day at work is not a favourite commuter pastime.

But it’s not the tourists’ fault – there’s little or no direction on where to stand. Before the grand AT redevelopment, there used to be signage. No room left in the budget? Maybe that shindig fund could have paid for them.

Just saying........V StewartCommuter

Today I had trouble with my power wheel-chair and would like to say thanks to the two lovely ladies who helped me.

One lady was Rachel but I did not get the other lady’s name and would like to thank her personally also.

I am also grateful for the prompt rescue mission mounted by the R and R mobility taxis.

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arrival. For more info, contact Carolyn or Maria at 445 9533 or [email protected]

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Thanks Ron, but how about a few positives? I do enjoy Mr Dykman’s regular learned

contributions to the Flagstaff. In his latest, published on 11 December, I counted at least six separate issues that have been exercising his great mind in recent weeks and resulted in this latest epistle.

I have two questions for him. One: is there anything that he actually LIKES about living in this suburb, in this city, in this country, on this planet? Two: does he really believe “everything in this country is in a shambles”? Really?

There are some countries where “shambles” does apply. But here? To my mind “shambles” means you can’t drink the tap water, your rubbish is not collected, there is no wastewa-ter system, there are no footpaths, kerbing or sealed roads, and there may well be insurgen-cy, bombs and other hazards to be dodged.

There is always room for improvement in New Zealand but I think I will take my chances and go on living here rather than emigrating to, say, Libya. Elizabeth Urry

Please don’t speed around Devonport – it only encourages the Police to put speed cameras in safe-road positions.

They think we are dumb enough to believe they are doing the right thing for the road toll, but the truth is we get pinged because we are more likely to pay than other areas of Auckland.

If you don’t believe this then why on a quiet Wednesday morning, parked on Memo-rial Drive, was an unassuming white MPV at

the bottom of the slope clicking away at the occasional exceeder of 4kph over the speed limit? (Photo above).

This is not road safety Mr Plod, this is tax collection of the first order.

We probably wouldn’t mind, but we don’t think Lake Road is the scene of many road deaths due to excess speed. In fact you are more likely to die from boredom of crawling Lake Road as it’s a car park most of the time.

Proactive road safety is marked camera

On Dec 29 2015, my husband and I visited Devonport. We were on a cruise ship that was visiting Auckland. When we got off the ferry, we were taken back with how beautiful the place was and just how clean etc etc. We are both nearing 80, and as we set off to walk the streets a dear lady offered to take us around this beautiful place for one hour for FREE in her Toyota Corolla. She took us up to the top of Mt Victoria, showed us everything of interest and was so funny.

She said she likes to ‘capture’ two or three couples (visitors) when the ships are in and provide this service. She would not give us her name and she definitely would not take any money towards her petrol.

So if you have a spare column where one can give a thank you, we would like to you to do so. She is a treasure to your tourist people.

Sheila and Brian Wood,Sydney, NSW Australia

A credit to Devonport

Tax collection masquerading as speed control

cars and a constant police presence.Fact is, a few more motorcycle cops mar-

shalling traffic would make a huge difference to traffic flows in busier times, but that’s not an earner for the consolidated fund.

There is a key performance indicator if ever there was one.

Perhaps if the Police promoted the two key road rules keep left and give way to the right – less people would die on our roads, although these rules are hard to monetise by automation.

In the meantime, expect a fine or extra road tax of 30 measly dollars to come through your mailbox soon.Ian Ferguson

January 29, 2016 The DevonporT FlagsTaFF page 19 Letters

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I remain astounded by the silent accept-ance our community exhibits in regard to matters of local and national importance. In particular, seeing a digger on the Maori land in Ngataringa, given in silence to Ryman for 150 years or until the next land wars start; a pending six-storey giant subdivision of commercial scale never seen in a residential area ever before, way outside of the district plan, but supported by cronies in the system already proclaiming it’s a good design. Surely if that does not alarm you yet, you just don’t see what’s coming.

This edifice to corruption and greed stands tall at our village gateway casting a deathly shadow over the residents and the peninsula. There are no rules that protect the environ-ment that are not flouted, and we’ve seen the same leader promote the $30m Maori settlement for $100 mill of property, and the sale of a recreation marine reserve for $3.7m

worth $37m in real terms. I guess our political leader’s sign near our

village on Lake Rd, at eye level (inviting like-minded friends to call her to make her feel good or to back her antics), says it all. Half of it is in foreign language I can’t read and the intent of this disturbs me. The culture of becoming a Kiwi and learning Kiwi is also gone – we need to learn to read the symbolic alphabet of foreign places in our own land. I wonder if Maggie can read it.

Worse still, at the base of our mountain is another equally large sign, equally offensive to the laws we all understood; a sign that facilitates the oversight of untried crimes.

I recommend in the face of Ryman’s and the Maori antics that 10 or 20 of us as groups combine our properties into a large block, lease it and build six-storey atrocities looming over the village. We then sell at double the retail price to old people who fear loneliness and believe that these kinds of things are the best way to exit a long life of hard work.

But it’s all got to be good because even the ABs are investors in this business.

Let’s form a group to stop these antics and rid the promoters of the destruction of our environment. Ron Dykman

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Affordable Websites - do you need a website or does your existing website need updating? Prices for a new website start from $500 plus GST. Contact Vanessa on [email protected] for a free quotation. At Your Request Home Cleaning. Our local team is ready to deliver 5-Star ser-vices in your home for weekly cleaning, spring, moving or open-home c leaning. Call Yvonne for a free quote 415 0028.Bookkeeping/Payroll Are you a small business located in the Devonport area? Do you need someone for a few hours each week to help you keep your ac-counts in order? I can do your bookkeeping/accounts/payroll and IRD returns so that everything is ready for your accountant at the end of the financial year! Contact Vicki on 021 845543.Builder available Small job specialist, repairs and maintenance. Skilled, re-liable and local. Please phone Clive Melling. Hm 445 2485, Mob 027 29 222 84.Cars wanted dead or alive. Top dollar paid $360 to $1700 for any small car, $800 to $15,000 for vans, utes, 4WD and trucks. Free retrieval 0800 3333 98.Cleaning Maid Easy Use own cleaning products and gear. Rel iable/ t rustworthy/ma -ture lady. References avail-able Please contact Sharon - 021 405 596.Counselling Low cost counselling offered by experienced narrative therapist (BA Psychology) com-pleting practicum hours. $30/hr. Please contact Sarah for confiden-tial, no-obligation discussion: 022 678 1880.Curtains & Roman Blinds Free measure, quote and design ad-vice. 20 years’ experience. Phone Sara 027 625 5844.

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Devonport upholstery. Recover specialist. Antiques and contem-porary styles. Recycling furniture for 36 years. John Hancox, phone: 446-0372.Devonport Window Repairs. Sash and casement windows, wooden doors. Rotten sills and window components repaired or replaced. General carpentry. For your local window spe-cialist. Phone Hubert Strang - 446 6174 or 021 274 4191.Diggadrain. Drain unblockers and drainage experts. CCTV drain locating. Repairs. New drains. 0800 your drain.Dog grooming available. Full groom, bath and blow dry, puppy introduction to grooming. De-vonport-based. Call Barbara 021 141 0331.Gardener Available Quali-fied and experienced landscape designer. Enjoys getting his hands dirty. Good plant knowledge. Hardworking, reliable and crea-tive with plantings. Contact Pad-dy 022 502 2122 or 446 6188 [email protected]. Do you need regular help? No time for a tidy up? Let me help. Experienced garden-er. Ph Carolyn on 446 6517 or 027 292 8167 for a free on-site consultation.CHandyman. Mature profes-sional in Devonport, Bayswater area. Repairs, painting, those jobs you just don’t have time to do. Free quote. References. Ph. Brian 021 150 8898.Housekeeper. Home cleaning, including windows, wash-ing, ironing, furniture polish-ing. Experienced. References. $25 per hour. Ph 442 2273, 027 4926220.Housewashing, prof. service, 10 years-plus experience, reli-able and prompt. Free quotes, also decks, driveways, paths, fences, roof moss treatments etc. Phone Rod 021 390 800.

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Housewashing. Get your house clean for the holidays by contacting Bubble Boys house washing. We clean windows, doors, weather-boards, garages and outbuildings. Support local, hard-working and reliable high-school Devonport boys by contacting us at [email protected] or call 021 0621 750 to get a free quote. We are very reasonably priced. We protect paint by using soft brushes only. We can also provide water blasting for concrete driveways, paths and patios if needed.Ironing: Professional, reliable, fast turnaround. Call Denise or Peter 486-1614/0223-552-350.Landscaping – Format Land-scapes, 18 years’ experience, Dip. Landscape Design. Design and build. We undertake all aspects of hard and soft landscaping including decks, paving, fenc-es, retaining walls, planting etc. Small to large projects. Free quote www.formatlandscapes.co.nz. Call Matt 021 599107. Locksmith, Devonport’s own Scott Richardson. mob 021 976 607.Tagbuster, graffiti looked after Devonport to Hauraki Corner. Call the Tagbuster 0800antitag, 0800 2684 824.Window Cleaning for houses and businesses. For a free quote call Ivan 473 6631.

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Gardener wanted - who is able to look after a good sized garden involving sweeping and water-blasting paths, removing or spray-ing weeds, trimming hedges & trees, watering & caring for plants, general maintenance etc etc. All tools needed and garden bin are onsite. Must be fit, have some garden knowledge, be reliable & honest and able to work 3-5 hours each week in central Devonport over summer. Prefer someone living locally. Phone or txt James on 0274 340 300.

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Acoustic and classical guitar, music theory. Fun, comprehensive, tailored to you! Devonport-based. Michelle Birch, BMus (Hons) [email protected], www.michellebirch.comART CLASSES @ D’Port Com-munity house: Wednesday night, life drawing; Friday morning, mastering art; Wednesday after school, art for teens. ph Lucy Bucknall - 446 0389.Art Classes for Children. Wednesdays 3.20 - 5.20 in artists home studio by the sea, Devon-port. Term One “Pet Apartment” Painting, Drawing Project. Contact Erica Soman MFA Dip Tchg 021 127 9671 [email protected] Learn piano/keyboard. Les-sons from $17.00. Private, Professional, Affordable, Enjoyment for all ages. Compe-titions, Practical, Theory Exams. NZ Modern School of Music 0800-696-874.Mathematics and Statistics. Individual lessons with a friendly, experienced tutor. NCEA 1 & 2, school years 3 -12. Holiday and Saturday places available. Phone Gillian Steele BCom 488 7059 [email protected] Tuition, Sensitive tutoring offered at all levels of the secondary school curriculum. NCEA, IB and Cambridge wel-comed. 97% pass rate in 2014. NCEA 3 calculus specialist. Ph Peter Ridge BE,Dip Tchg (sec) 445 2283.Singing lessons in Devonport. Contract Dr Sue Braatvedt 473 9113 or 027 3402884. All ages.SLSS Swim School , 11 Evan Street, Belmont (off Eversleigh Road). Special-ists in pre-schoolers. Phone 486 6728 for more info.

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Dan Dufty and his Town and Country Clydesdale horses have been no-ticeably absent from Devonport this summer, due to Dufty’s failing health.

Dufty lives in Paerata and brings his horses into Devonport on a trailer. He parks his cart outside the Claystore Community Workshop at 27 Lake Road.

Roger Giles, who has been helping rig the horses after Dufty hurt his shoulder more than a year ago, has been visiting the horseman at Middlemore Hospital. Giles spoke to him about his work and his Devonport connections:

“Dan started Town and Country Clydesdales 30 years ago, when he lost the family farm that his grandfather bought in the late 1890s. He has bred the herd, selecting the stallion and mares so their markings are those described in the Clydesdale Stud Book.

“Dan has always stuck to the traditional way. The four-wheeled wagon is well over 100 years old, as is the harness. With two teams of three working horses and the brood mares, fillies and colts, he has a big feed bill. He has never stinted their feed, and is proud of the condition and presentation of his charges.

“He has been coming to Devonport for 20 years, and has made lots of friends in the community when he drives down Victoria Road to the wharf. After a spell of bad weather has kept him away, people call out and wave to welcome him back, which makes him feel good. Americans who know horses tell him his horses are equal to anything they have in the famous Budweiser Brewery Stud.

“Dan’s present state of health has prevented him from trucking the horses up to Devonport from Paerata this summer, but he wishes to thank the guys at the Claystore Community Workshop for their help and allowing him to leave the wagon on their forecourt.

“And he says a big thank you to the people of Devonport whose support has helped him to keep going, along with roughly 250,000 visitors and tourists that he estimates he has given rides to over the time he has been coming to Devonport.

“Devonport won’t be the same without him and his beautiful horses,” says Giles.

Dan Dufty and his famous Clydesdales are missed on Devonport streets

Part of the Devonport streetscape for two decades… Dan Dufty and his Clydesdales


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The Victoria Theatre is getting a facelift this summer.

The front facade is being repainted the same colour and the front window joinery has been painted black to give the building more of an art deco look.

Next month, the front of the building will be scaffolded and JBL painters will paint the entire facade.

Signwriter Tom Smith will then put up new signage on the theatre.

New outdoor furniture is being bought to bring in red accents in line with the build-ing’s cream, black and red colour scheme.

Victoria Theatre Trust Co-chair Margot McRae says local architect and board mem-ber Hamish Grotrian has been instrumental

in the changes.“The Vic really needed a more streamlined

look and we also wanted to build on its art deco feel.”

She said there will be more news soon about interior improvements for the theatre this year.

Summer facelift for grand old lady

Painting work starting… the Victoria Theatre

The Masonic Tavern apartments devel-opment is likely to no longer feature a café if Redback Development Limited has its way.

Auckland Council received an application from the developer of the once historic De-vonport pub proposing “to change use of a café to a commercial activity office.”

In April 2009, at the end of a bitter battle between tavern owner Peter Thwaites and the Save the Masonic Society (a group of locals who protested the conversion of the pub into apartments), the Environment Court gave Thwaites permission to turn the property into 10 apartments.

The court also granted permission for a café on the ground floor of the main building, which was one of the oldest erected on the North Shore. This seemingly left the oppor-tunity to preserve the tavern’s long hospitality history once construction was complete.

Planned Masonic café could become office space

Torpedo Bay land sold in secret deal

Defence land at Torpedo Bay has been sold to Maori for $2.3 million.

After years of behind-closed-doors nego-tiations, the 0.58 ha block was sold as part of the Ngai Tai ki Tamaki Settlement with Ngati Whanaunga, Ngati Tamaoho, Ngati Koheriki and Marutuahu Collective.

The land will be leased back to the New Zealand Defence Force as part of the agreement.

Eliza breaks world recordSince we caught up with Eliza McCart-

ney in our December 11 edition, the local pole-vaulting star has had an extraordinary month.

At age 19, she has set a new world junior record by clearing 4.64 metres in an Auckland event, qualified for the Rio Olympics and was named as a finalist in the Halberg Emerging Talent Award for a second consecutive year.

The IAAF named her as one of the top 10 athletes to watch. “It certainly was an amaz-ing way to finish the year, but hopefully this year will be even better,” McCartney says.

McCartney, who studies science at Auckland University, holds all the age group and senior New Zealand records for the women’s pole vault.

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It’s been a whole new ball game for 12-year-old Peter Kenedi who this month played in the first New Zealand baseball team to ever win an overseas tournament.

The versatile player turned out as a pitcher, shortstop, and in the outfield.

The Under 13 Auckland All Stars won five out of their six games against three Gold Coast teams at the regional Gold Coast Summer Classic held in Mudgeeraba, two hours south of Brisbane.

Peter, a year 8 student at Kristin School, is still on a high about being part of an Australasian champion team. “My coach said it is the first time a New Zealand baseball team has won an overseas tournament,” he says.

Peter has good reason to be proud. Last September, he was selected out of about 200 boys, first for a 24-strong development squad, then a team of 16 who trained for Mudgeeraba for five months.

Peter’s mother Kate says it amounted to playing ball two to three hours, four days a week.

“Plus lots of pitching in the backyard,” adds Peter. Other activities, such as karate and sea scouts had to be put on temporary hold.

Devonport boy steps up to the plate at Australian baseball tournamentPeter has been playing for

North Shore City Baseball since he was six. But his pas-sion for the game was nurtured earlier and further away. Born to American parents in Dur-ham, North Carolina, Peter watched the Durham Bulls play before he had turned one.

Kate says Peter has had great baseball opportunities in New Zealand. US Major League players, coaches and managers have visited New Zealand to give workshops and train with young local teams, she says. “From that perspective, play-ing baseball in New Zealand has been cool because in the US you would never have the same face-to-face interactions with people that big,” she says.

Peter is a pitcher but also plays other positions. “If you pitch too much while you are still growing, your shoulder wears out,” he says. What does he love most about baseball? “I love just playing catch, but I also love hitting, fielding – everything I guess.”

He also loves his leather glove, which over the last three years has moulded to the shape of his left hand. “It’s my prize,” says Peter, who is

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On the Beat

Pitching up… Peter Kendi

Happy New Year everyone. I hope you all managed to find some time to relax and unwind over the holiday period.

Unfortunately crime did not stop at the same time, with Stanley Point being a hotspot overnight on the 16th and 17th of January. Multiple vehicles were broken into and property stolen - one on Glen Rd and three on Stanley Point Rd, with one attempt to also steal the vehicle.

In the same time frame a vehicle and

motorbike were stolen from two separate properties on Egremont St. The motorbike was recovered nearby and the vehicle was recovered in West Auckland. Enquiries are continuing.

Between the 3rd and 5th of January, a vehicle was stolen from the Devonport Car Company on Lake Rd. This vehicle was recov-ered in South Auckland on the 7th of January.

Between the 4th and 5th of January, a ve-hicle was broken into on Cowper St and three Stihl chainsaws and a hand-held electrical climbing saw were taken, along with other important documents belonging to the victim. If anyone hears of Stihl chainsaws being sold, please let us know.

A vehicle was broken into on St Leonards Rd and a handbag taken from the footwell.

Please remember to never leave anything visible in your vehicle, remove all items of value and always lock your vehicle. Alarms and steering locks are also a great deterrent.

The Belmont Liquor Centre was targeted by a male offender who brazenly walked into the

shop, picked up a box of alcohol and walked out. We have good surveillance footage of this male, so we hope to identify him and hold him accountable for his actions.

There have been reports of damage to two vehicles parked on Cautley St, which was described as being scratched or ‘keyed’. I have heard of a few vehicles being keyed around the Devonport area and this is becoming a concern. So please watch out for people who appear to be ‘hanging around’ too close to vehicles and report to Police if you suspect they are causing damage.

Bicycles have been targeted again – one was stolen from the Stanley Bay wharf and another from a trailer on Old Lake Rd. There was also an attempted theft of a bicycle at the Devonport wharf, in which the owner appre-hended the offender and received his bicycle back – good work!

Burglaries occurred at Marbles Studio on Calliope Rd (cash was taken from the till), Bardia St (glass door smashed), Wesley St (two males were seen at the address) and Victoria Rd (two males were seen taking a child’s bike).

In the early hours of Friday 22nd January, a young female was assaulted and robbed while walking on Vauxhall Rd near Narrow Neck beach. If you live in this area and heard or saw anything suspicious, please call me on 021 1921 159.

The shoe thieves have been active again in Bayswater and Alamein Aves. Please remember to keep your footwear inside and out of sight.

On a positive note, the Devonport com-munity is proving to be an honest bunch with multiple found property items being handed in to us. We have been able to return these to some very happy owners.

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Q: My backup drive is a 40GB drive and is nearly full. Can you help please?

A: If your backup drive is that small, it must be a very old hard drive – possibly 10 years old? You have not been able to buy drives of that size for a long time! Manufacturers only warranty their hard drives for three years, so you are best advised to replace them in that sort of time frame. So, yes, I will get you a new 1TB (1,000GB!) hard drive and setup a data backup routine for you. Well done for being onto it.

Q: I have a very old hard drive on which there is some data I would like to extract – can you help?

A: Yes, happy to give this a go – but can’t guarantee that it will be successful given the age of the drive. However, if the data on there is really important I can recommend some specialist data recovery agents who I have used in the past to good effect. Note however, that forensic data recovery is very expensive ($250 per hour!) and should only be undertaken if that data is of essential importance.

Q: I can’t get my emails – it keeps asking me for my password and I can’t remember it! Can you help?

A: You are going to have to contact your internet service provider for that information, so sorry I can’t help you in this case. If you phone their helpdesk, they will be able to reset the password for you and then you just retype it into the password field when the dialogue box comes up. Try and choose a password that you will be able to remember!!

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Fraser Toulmin:Cuba Intact

Photographic works endeavouring to capture the ‘heart and soul of Cuba’.

16 January to 3 February

A space that celebrates the vernacular of Aotearoa through publications,

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Michael Ferriss:Ninety-Nine Names Of God

An exhibition about our world under surveillance.

The Vernacular Lounge

Devonport Community Garden won the Best Community Garden prize in the Yates Spring Vegie Growing Challenge, receiving $500 plus a hamper of Yates products.

Devonport Community Garden committee member Leigh Quadling-Miernik said they entered the competition in the hope of winning the prize money, as they are raising funds to reroof the potting shed bays to more effectively catch rainwater.

“We want to develop our rainwater harvest-ing capabilities so we can have a self-sufficient irrigation system. Even though none of us are expert gardeners, we thought entering the competition was worth a shot. Devonport Com-munity Garden, based at Mt Cambria Reserve, has been going since 2008, with a core group of around 30 members – the youngest is five years old, the oldest are in their 80s.

The 1000 square metre plot contains 10 communal gardens and two children’s beds, as well as a vegetable bed specifically to feed the five chickens and 12 quails that deliver eggs to the group. Two beehives provide honey and the butterfly house will soon see around 50 monarch butterflies hatch. The butterfly house is mainly for beautification, but also serves as an educational resource for visiting kindergar-tens and schools.

Devonport Community Garden also partners with IHC, and a team of its members regularly work in the garden, building, planting and experimenting with new ideas.

Yates marketing manager Fiona Arthur said the Spring Vegie Growing Challenge was de-signed to foster grass-roots gardening and bring gardeners together to share their successes, problems and aspirations.

Community gardeners’ efforts reap rewards

As right as rain… gardening prize will help fund an irrigation system

Rubbing shoulders with Canada’s new Prime Minister Justin Trudeau was an un-expected holiday treat for Mattise and Elliot Irving.

The two Devonport Primary School stu-dents (pictured at right) were born in Toronto, and were visiting Canadian relatives over Christmas. Their father Allister says he was taking them on a trip down memory lane through their old neighbourhood when they stumbled across a small crowd of about 20 people gathering around a café as Trudeau emerged and shook everyone’s hands. “He immediately gave us a big smile for a pic-ture without us even asking,” says Allister. Elliot (8) found Trudeau to be a “very nice man”, while Mattise (10) said “he has very soft hands.”

Prime encounter for Devonport kids on Canadian holiday


Nearly 300 young cricketers donned inter-national colours in Devonport last week for the Junior World Series.

Now in its 23rd year, the annual tournament is open to children from age seven to 13, who play for New Zealand, Australia, England, India, Pakistan, South Africa, Sri Lanka and the West Indies. This year has been the three-day event’s biggest yet, with 280 players taking part – 40 more than a year ago.

North Shore Cricket Club Manager Bruce Warner says the series began with 60 kids in 1994: “The performance of the Black Caps over the last years has definitely led to a mi-ni-revolution in club cricket. Everyone loves cricket more.”

The series attracts kids from all over Auck-land. “We time it to fill the gap for kids who stop playing in mid-December and don’t get to go back until mid-February, and basically target those who don’t make the rep teams,” says Warner.

Record turnout for Junior World Series

William Goodger (9), with mother Catherine, loved his stint playing for Sri Lanka. “It’s my first time here and I can’t wait until next year,” he says.

Pace bowler… Lewis Campbell (9) bowls (above) for the Sri Lanka Little League on day two of the series

Elder statesmen… Former New Zealand cricket captain and patron of North Shore Cricket Club Barry Sinclair (left), with Roger Brittenden

Family support… Cricket twins Dom and Dan Perkins (13) celebrate the victory of their New Zealand team with parents Lisa Baker and Brendan Perkins, with uncle Lee Baker, an international cricket commentator on iHeart Radio

North Shore Cricket Club Chairman Campbell Newman (left) catching up with former New Zealand cricketer Richard Jones, whose seven-year-old son played for the West Indies Little League.


Top knock… Audrey Melhuish (8) batting for New Zealand’s Little League

North Shore Cricket Club’s Year 8 premier team finished their unbeaten season and time as junior players for the club as Auckland champions.

The team – Oliver Arthur-Hunt, Olly Chambers, Sam Charleton-Maunder, Sam Davies, Bowen de Gouw, Noah Eakin, Libby Easterbrook, Cam Howell (captain), Fergus Lee, Tom Pleciak and Oliver Wilson – won the Auckland Championship in a gripping final against Cornwall.

Year 8 Convenor Anna Chambers said the team had had been competing against “all the big clubs such as Parnell, Cornwall and University as well as other North Shore Clubs like Takapuna, Birk-enhead and East Coast Bays.

The team was coached by Chris Davies and Steven Pleciak. Starting this February, the team members will all be playing for their respective high schools.

Cricketers leave club

for high school as champs

Takapuna Grammar School (TGS) 1st XI’s Jasper Edgar was awarded best wicketkeep-er for the ASSCA Premier 1A competition at the Auckland Secondary Schools Cricket

2015 prize-giving.The TGS 1st XI also received the Spirit

of Cricket Award, across all the secondary school grades.

TGS win Auckland Cricket awards

The Royal New Zealand Navy will be on show this year as it celebrates its 75th Anniversary.

Thanks to principal sponsor Westpac and other sponsors, the Navy will showcase its past, present and future, and commemorate the contribution of all the men and women who have served, as well as the families and communities, such as Devonport, who have supported those in uniform.

During the year Navy ships will visit ports throughout the country, allowing people to visit and be part of the celebrations, says Chief of Navy, Rear Admiral John Martin.

“Our people are drawn from all parts of New Zealand and this is an opportunity for the Navy to say a heartfelt ‘thank you’. We’re inviting all Kiwis to take part in the commemorations, and celebrate this wonderful occasion with us.”

Public celebrations will begin in February, with a formation entry into Auckland’s Waitemata Harbour, and continue throughout the year.

Activities include a live-theatre tour, sponsored by Siemens, showing a children’s pantomime and evening performances for

older audiences; specially commissioned exhibitions at the Devonport Naval Museum; a television documentary following HMNZS TE KAHA and HMNZS WELLINGTON during their 2015 deployments; ships’ home port visits; and special events to mark the 30th anniversary of women being posted to seagoing ships.

The events will showcase the Navy of today, while paying homage to its history.

The culmination of the celebrations will be the International Naval Review in mid-November, when vessels from international Navies visit Auckland for five days.

“We want to share this important milestone with all New Zealanders and acknowledge our brave men and women and the work they do to make a difference, protecting the prosperity and security of New Zealand’s interests at home and abroad,” Rear Admiral Martin said.

“Whether it’s disaster relief, peace support operations, ensuring that the sea trade on which we depend for our survival can get through, or protecting New Zealand’s Exclusive Economic Zone and marine resources, the Royal New Zealand Navy as part of the New Zealand Defence Force

protects and serves the causes important to us and our way of life.

“We’re looking forward to having New Zealanders engage with us and find out more about what we and our international partners do.”

THE NAVY COMMUNITY NEWSLETTER

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2016 major events and activities: (for more detail visit nznavy75.co.nz)

• 8 February – Ceremonial Formation Entry to Auckland Harbour. Great view from North Head.

• 25 April – Documentary following TE KAHA and WELLINGTON’s deployments in 2015, broadcast on TV ONE.

• 16 May – Commemoration for HMS PURIRI, sunk in a minefield off Whangarei Heads, one of the very few occasions of loss of life due to enemy action in New Zealand territory.

• 23-24 June – Westpac presents “30 Years: Women at Sea” (conference and events), Auckland.

• September/October – Navy Players live nationwide theatre tour produced by Lieutenant Commander Mark Hadlow, and sponsored by Siemens.

• 17-21 November – International Naval Review, including exhibition at The Cloud, sports tournament, cultural performances, street march, ships’ open day, Auckland.

• 18 December – Memorial service for those lost on HMS Neptune, National War Memorial, Wellington.


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