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Sisters Sofija and Helena Cvitanovich (above) were the youngest at the meeting by about twenty years, but the pair weren’t fazed by the event. Sixteen year-old Sofija said coming to the meeting was an eye-opener. “ There’s a lot of stuff you don’t hear about in the newspapers. I definitely think people should come and take part in these meetings,” she said. Helena, 12, said seeing one of the candidates get quite heated when speaking was interesting. “Some of the candidates take it too far,” she said.

Hustings heat up over local infrastructure planby Louise Goble

It’s a case of the incumbent versus the new kid on the block in Hutt South, with local battle lines being drawn over the Petone-Grenada link.

Last week’s Meet the Candidates’ event, organised by the Eastbourne Lions Club, was attended by more than sixty people. The majority of these were older voters, with candidates Holly Walker from the Green Party and Chris Bishop from the National Party being two of the younger people in the room.

There are nine candidates vying for the Hutt South electorate seat in total; incumbent Trevor Mallard from Labour, Chris Bishop from National, Dave Stonyer from UnitedFuture, Gordon Copeland from Conservat ive, Mataroa Paroro from NZ First, Errol Baird from Democrats for Social Credit, Jan Pajak Independent, and the Greens. The latter is not putting a candidate forward following Holly Walker’s announcement last month that she would step down at the election.

Mr Mallard told the meeting the Petone-Grenada link would increase traffic on The Esplanade by 10,000 cars a day. A cross-valley link however would get traffic off The Esplanade, prevent “environmental vandalism” to the area beside the Korokoro Stream included in the Grenada link plan, and help the local communities.

Mr Bishop said he supported the Petone-Grenada link, which had a cost benefit of four, meaning for every dollar the government invested in the project, there would be a $4 benefit. He said it would also reduce congestion and travel times.

While much of what was said was nothing new, the audience was brought to attention by Errol Baird from the Democrats for Social Credit party, who harangued Chris Bishop telling him, “you should be ashamed of yourself sir”, and then turning to the audience and saying “all you National Party voters should be ashamed of

yourself too”, having told them the government is currently wasting $12m every day in interest repayment on borrowing which could be better spent elsewhere.

The Eastbourne Herald’s election feature is on Pages 10-12 of this issue. We asked all

candidates in the electorate to supply profiles, and have published those who did.

The General election will be held on Saturday, September 20. Advance voting is open Saturday, September 13 - Friday, September 19 at Eastbourne Library.

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Mondays

• Ezee Meals, St Alban’s Church Hall 10am-12pm.• Retired Persons’ Assn 4th Mon. Ph 562-7365.• “Baby Bounce & Rhyme” at the library 10.30am. • Singalong 1st Mon, 2pm at St Ronan’s.• DB Playcentre every day. Gabrielle Edmonds 021 2502688.• Pt Howard Playcentre. Mon, Tues, Wed, Fri.Tiffany: 569-2700 or 022-0795721• East Harbour Women’s Club Mah Jong. Contact Gwen 562 8295.• Historical Society of Eastbourne local studies room open above the library 2-4pm every Monday.• Eastbourne Volunteer Fire Brigade training every Monday 7-9pm. Ph Ross Carroll Chief Fire Officer 562 7001 for more info.Rotary Pencarrow meets 6.30pm Lowry Bay Yacht Club, Seaview - phone Don 562 7409.

Tuesdays• Lions meet 2nd & 4th Tuesdays. Bill 562 8441.• Muritai Tennis Club 9.30–noon. Merryn 562 0236.• Eastbourne Homebirth Group 1st Tuesday of the month. Phone Kate 562-7096.• East Harbour Women’s Club arts, crafts and social group 10am. Contact Glendyr 562 7181.• Eastbourne Embroidery Group, St Ronan’s Church lounge 10am-12noon. Betty Press 562 8950.• Indoor Bowls Club 1.30pm, at the croquet club, Oroua Street. Jeanne 562 8555.• Menzshed 9 till 12 , Williams Park, Mike 562 8688.

• Poetry group, every second Tuesday meet to read and enjoy poems old and new. Phone 562 8164.

Wednesdays• Library preschool story time 2–2.25pm. • Scottish Country Dance. Merryn 562 0236.• Bridge Club 7-10pm. Shona 562 7073. • Mens’ Breakfast Club. Last Wed of each month at the Pavillion, 7am. Email: [email protected] or [email protected].

Thursdays• Toy Library 8–9pm. Charlotte 589 9362. www.eastbournetoylibrary.co.nz• Mainly Music 9.30–10.30am. Wendy 027 5628287.• SPACE at Days Bay Playcentre. Michelle 971 8598.• East Harbour Women’s Club Bolivia card group 12.45 pm, contact Glendyr 562 7181; Bridge 1pm, contact Jean 562 8555.

Fridays• Pop-in & Play St Alban’s Church Hall 9am-11.30. Kate 562 0177. • AA Plunket Rooms 7.30pm. Mark 566 6444/ Pauline 562 7833• Toy Library 9.30-10.30am. Charlotte 589 9362. www.eastbournetoylibrary.co.nz• 2 May, 11am Art Attack! School holiday programme at Eastbourne Library. Come dressed for mess.

Saturdays• Justice of the Peace at the Eastbourne Community Library, first Saturday of each month 12pm-1pm.• Lions’ rubbish bin last Saturday of each month.• Croquet from 10.00am Muritai Croquet Club. Lyn 562 8722 or Val 562 8181.

Sundays• Church services - see page 28.• AA Plunket Rooms 10am. Pauline 562 7833.

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Police are still investigating a crash involving three cars near Point Howard on Saturday August 9. A northbound car crossed the centre line and clipped a southbound car. Having then lost control, the car then crashed into a second car. Photo: Dave Mills.

Coroner’s report sparks road safety surveyby Emily Tilley

A “safety audit” of the road around the bays will be undertaken following a coroner’s report recommendation.

Last year an elderly lady died after driving her car off the road and into the sea in Lowry Bay.

Although it was found that an unascertained medical event is likely to have caused the lady to have lost control of the car, the coroner noted that a roadside barrier would have prevented her car from leaving the road.

The coroner recommended that Hutt City Council review the safety of the whole of the Marine Drive route to determine if and what improvements should be made to improve the overall safety of the route.

Council road and traffic manager Ron Muir says an independent safety audit of Marine Parade will be undertaken shortly which will look at all safety features of the road such as street lighting, signage, chevrons and barriers.

Over the past few years there have been a series of cars which have left the road and headed into the sea at the sharp corner heading north into York Bay - the latest was just last month.

Mr Muir says the safety of the corner will be assessed alongside the rest of the road as part of the safety audit.

He says the corner is already sealed with “top shelf” high friction surfacing seal to increase skid resistance at the corner.

Police reminder: don’t leave valuables in carby Emily Tilley

An ongoing spate of car break-ins in Petone has prompted a reminder from police not to leave anything in cars parked by the roadside or in car parks.

Last month there were 68 cars reported broken into in Petone, significantly more than reported in previous months.

Sergeant Bradley Allen says so far there doesn’t seem to have been a flow-on effect into Eastbourne, but says it provides a timely reminder not to leave valuables in cars.

The thefts have been predominantly from

cars parked on roads running off Jackson St and from car parks.

Sergeant Allen estimates 99 percent of the break-ins have been when people have left things in cars “on show”.

“Our offenders are looking into cars and where they are seeing bags, things on seats, under seats or in full view, they are breaking in and taking them,” he says.

In one case a window was smashed and a bag taken even though it was empty. Nothing of value was taken but the victim still had to deal with the broken window, Sergeant Allen says.

Last month police made an arrest in

association with the break-ins as the result of a 111 call from an observant local.

Although the number of break-ins subsequently slowed, they have since risen again.

“If anyone sees or hears anything suspicious - call us,” Sergeant Allen says.

Enquiries are ongoing and Sergeant Allen says district roading police staff and other staff from both the Wellington and Lower Hutt districts are helping.

- If anyone has any information they can call Bradley Allen on 560 2600, email [email protected] or call Crimestoppers anonymously on 0800 555 111


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Top award for Muritai’s science-mad teacherby Emily Tilley

A “hands-on” expanded science curriculum is spreading throughout Muritai School - the driving force behind the changes, teacher Barbara Ryan, has now been recognised with a top national award.

In 2010 Mrs Ryan was granted a Royal Society Primary Science Teacher Fellowship and spent two terms at Victoria and Otago universities.

Granted to around 40 teachers each year, the aim of the fellowship is to support science teaching development in schools by creating science curriculum leaders who will share their skills and promote science learning.

Mrs Ryan’s commitment and success in improving science teaching and learning at Muritai since undertaking the fellowship has led to her winning a top award for Fellowship alumni.

Mrs Ryan received $5,000 for personal professional development and $5,000 for science resources for the school.

“I’m pretty passionate about doing science and doing science with kids,” Mrs Ryan says.

She says children are naturally inquisitive and love learning about science. Questions from young children such as, “do butterflies do poos?” are easy to dismiss she says. “But actually that’s a really good question.”

And, as Mrs Ryan’s class found out, the answer isn’t as obvious as it seems. Actually butterflies don’t poo. As a butterfly’s diet is made up of mainly liquids such as nectar, they only

excrete liquid.A new entrant teacher,

Mrs Ryan has established a butterfly garden for the junior school, but her influence in science teaching is being felt right across the school and even in the wider community.

S h e e n c o u r a g e s professional development in science for her colleagues, organises the school’s “science week”, has worked with the Science Learning Hub in Hamilton and even written course material for The Correspondence School.

One of her initiatives has been the compilation of a list of parents and people in the community willing to share their science knowledge and experience with the school’s students.

This has led to exciting visitors to the school such as Mike Ross who travels around the world to film volcanos in action and trips for students to Hutt Valley High School’s science labs and Weltec.

Richard Meylan from the Royal Society of New Zealand visited Muritai School to present Barbara Ryan with the Primary Science Teacher Fellow Alumni Award.


by Emily Tilley

Locals have described the route for cyclists and pedestrians around the Eastern Bays as “scary”, “awful” and “a death-trap for anyone with young children, prams or dogs”.

The comments were made in the recent Eastbourne Community Board community survey which revealed that completion of the Eastern Bays walk/cycle way was one of the top three local concerns for just over half of respondents.

The ECB has now sent a report to Hutt City Council and the NZ Transport Agency summarising the survey results and stating it believes “it is irresponsible of HCC and NZTA to leave the Eastern Walkway in its present hazardous condition”.

Sixty percent of respondents rated the walk/cycle way in its current form as “unsafe” or “very unsafe” and 54 percent said they were deterred from using it because it is dangerous.

One commented: “There isn’t even a footpath - it is just the edge of the road falling onto the beach in many places.”

Those cyclists who do ride around the bays described the route as unsafe, particularly around corners.

One cyclist said cars often don’t keep to the safe 1.5m distance from bikes, however noted it is “almost impossible” to do as doing so would force drivers across the centre line.

Another said they were clipped by a bus last year.

The board says the survey also shows the need for a safe walk/cycle way is connected to worries about storms and climate change, with several respondents linking the construction of a cycleway to the building of a seawall.

Just over half of survey respondents identified ‘climate change and extreme weather events’ as one of their top three local concerns,

and 16 percent said it was the most important issue for Eastbourne. One commented: “Climate change is the most important issue facing Eastbourne with more frequent storms and the possibility of rising sea levels. Why can’t Hutt City Council at least start planning for this.”

Another said they were worried about seawater splashing over the road. “It is getting more and more common to have to avoid ‘high sea’ impact when driving around the bays. We should start sea wall protection around the bays.”

ECB members say sustainability must be taken into account by HCC and NZTA when they make decisions about the walk/cycleway.

Work on completion of the walk/cycleway is currently on hold as the project missed out on a 58 percent NZTA subsidy in their latest funding round and HCC will not fund it without the subsidy.

However, the council say it is submitting a new application to NZTA pitching the walk/cycleway and the associated construction of a seawall as key to local resilience.

Harbour Ward councillor Michael Lulich says the community board’s report on the survey results will provide important supporting evidence for the council’s new application.

He says council is committed to funding their share of the project, however NZTA won’t. “That is not an acceptable stance from central government because we are talking about people’s safety and protecting the network resilience from climate change.”

Mr Lulich says he has spoken to Mayor Ray Wallace, Wellington Mayor Celia Wade-Brown, council officers, NZTA, and MPs about the walk/cycle way. He says he will continue to lobby for funding for the project and “is keeping a close eye on it”.

If the walk/cycle way misses out on NZTA funding again, Mr Lulich says he will “come out punching”.

Anyone interested in finding out more about the walk/cycleway is invited to an information evening organised by the Eastbourne Community Board.

Council road and traffic manager Ron Muir has been involved with the project since its inception over 15 years ago. He will make a “short and sweet” presentation explaining some of the project’s history, funding and future plans.

“More to the point, it’s about answering questions,” he says.

- Cycleway/Walkway information evening, Wednesday August 27, 7.30pm, ESSC clubrooms, Tuatoru Street.

Survey results back spending

Ex-Eastbourne lad Geof Bruno had the distinction of being selected to lead the Hippocratic Oath on behalf of the medical graduates at his Queensland University graduation ceremony in July. Geof, the son of local doctor Kate Orange and Ned Bruno, completed a B.Sc at Otago and then went to Queensland University to undertake his medical studies. He is currently working as a doctor based at the Toowoomba Hospital. Photo: Penny Grigg.

Geof’s oath


Valve members Harry Crawford, Louis Sutherland, Rupert McCrae and Gus Reece with Shihad’s Jon Toogood.

Eastbourne band, Valve got the chance to hang out with Shihad front man Jon Toogood at HVHS as part of the mentoring programme offered by the NZ Music Commission, a government funded initiative.

A former Wellingtonian, Jon was in town from Melbourne for a couple of days visiting family, before performing in Auckland with Shihad.

HVHS deputy head of music at the college Grace Davey says the main benefit of such a short workshop as this one was an inspiration for students to keep honing their still young

songwriting and performance crafts.Valve member Rupert McCrae says “He said

that he could tell that we had been together for four years, because we were really tight.

“He asked us how many original songs we had and when we told him - seven - he said, you’ll need to double that.

“Keep writing songs, keep practicing and enjoy what you love”, was his advice to us.

He was a real inspiration for us and I left feeling that I had a lot more yet to offer in musical terms.”

A chance to learn from the bestDefibrillators are there to save lives

by Emily Tilley

Did you know that there is a defibrillator for anyone to use under the veranda beside the Pavilion? Do you know what it’s for? Do you know how to use it?

A defibrillator is a life-saving piece of equipment that can be used on heart attack victims to restart the heart’s natural rhythm and increase their chance of survival by 40 percent.

You don’t actually need to know how to use it.

Anyone in need can call 111 and receive a code to use the machine.

The defibrillator itself literally talks the user through the process of how to use it and “there are huge diagrams showing exactly where to put it,” Eastbourne Community Board Chair Virginia Horrocks says.

Realising that many of it’s closest neighbours were unaware of the defibrillator’s existence, Ms Horrocks recently organised information and training for locals through the Days Bay Residents’ Association.

Although training isn’t necessary, it helps to demystify the machine so any potential users will be “not so panicked”, she says.

The Days Bay defibrillator is one of four donated by the East Harbour First Response Trust three years ago.

The other three are located in Point Howard, Lowry Bay and York Bay. Ms Horrocks is asking residents associations in those bays to organise similar training for their residents.


Nancy Barclay, Ellen Giggenbach and Murray Gibbons with the kereru mosaic and Charlie the seagull.

A project to add “vibrancy to the village” with large mosaics for the footpaths and a new Eastbourne Village sign was well received at it’s launch earlier this month.

Spearheaded by Eastbourne Community Board member Murray Gibbons, the proposal is for 10 native bird mosaics to be dotted around the shopping area.

Local artists Nancy Barclay and Ellen Giggenbach, whose work has already made a mark locally with the mosaics at Muritai School, have been working on designs for the project.

Each mosaic will be made in a 70cm by 90cm tray that can then be inserted into the footpath. They will feature five land and five sea birds, all of which can be found locally such as the fantail, morepork and little blue penguin.

With the mosaics estimated to cost around $1,200 each to produce, Mr Gibbons hopes to finance the project through sponsorship from local businesses, individuals and families.

Construction Contracting Ltd have already agreed to donate their services and secure the mosaics into the footpaths for free.

Around 60 retailers, artists and local community group members were treated to an unveiling of the first completed mosaic at a

meeting at the Muritai Yacht Club.There was strong support for the project at

the meeting, including from Rimu St landlord John Meo who instantly put his hand up to sponsor two mosaics.

Plans for a large Eastbourne Village sign made out of recycled Point Howard wharf timbers and designed by Hutt City Council urban design manager Paki Maaka, were also unveiled. The sign would sit outside the old Post Office building and sitting on top of the sign would be “Charlie”, a metal seagull designed by Mr Gibbons.

“Charlie is my gift to the project if you think it is a good idea,” Mr Gibbons said.

Mr Gibbons is now seeking suggestions and public feedback on the project.

The Kereru mosaic, “Charl ie” and information will be on display at Eastbourne Library for two weeks from August 23 until September 6. Feedback forms will be available.

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The irony of winning an award for a vegetarian dish in the same year as being named a Beef and Lamb NZ Ambassador Chef is not lost on Cobar head chef Ryan Tattersall.

“I think it’s funny it’s happened in the same year ...but I like to think it shows we can cover all bases,” he laughs.

Ryan’s Provence-inspired cannelloni with artichoke egg dish won the Dinner/Fine Dining category of the Vegetarian Dish Challenge last month.

For Ryan creating beautiful food is about taking the best quality ingredients, creating fabulous recipes and presenting them beautifully - no matter what the ingredients.

Winning dish shows off chef's wide repertoire

Ryan Tattersall's winning vegetarian dish.

B y d e f i n i t i o n a vegetar ian meal can’t include any meat but for the Vegetarian Dish Challenge the choice of ingredients was even more limited.

“You’re not allowed to use any fungi…maybe mushrooms are quite common in vegetarian dishes and you’d just have 300 mushroom dishes. You also have to use seasonal vegetables, which is tough because at this time of year there’s not a whole lot around,” Ryan says.

Winter is a time of root vegetables, brassicas and “nothing really vibrant” so the challenge is to come up with something really interesting, Ryan says. He says vegetarian friends complain that every time they eat out their only choice is risotto so, with around 10 percent of the dishes served at the Cobar being vegetarian, creating interesting meat-free dishes is always part of Ryan’s job.

The main vegetables used in the winning dish, pumpkin, Jerusalem artichoke and kale, are staples for the Cobar at this time of year.

Inspired by his recent honeymoon in the French region of Provence, Ryan combined the flavours of goats cheese, lavender and honey for

the cannelloni. As a twist, the canelloni itself is made of gnocchi, which is “a little lighter” than the usual pasta.

To add an element of fun in the dish, Ryan created what looks like a scotch egg but is not actually an egg at all. By pressing a Jerusalem artichoke mousse into an egg shell, Ryan created the “egg” white. He then scooped out the centre and added ramara cheese for the “yolk”. The ensemble was then coated with panko breadcrumbs and deep fried.

The result is a surprising illusion that is as almost as much about how the food looks as how it tastes. “People say you eat with your eyes. Presentation is important,” Ryan says.


ELECTION 2014The Eastbourne Herald asked all candidates standing in the Hutt South electorate in this year’s general election to supply a profile. Below are those who chose to participate in this feature, published in alphabetical order of their party names.

Conservative Party:Gordon CopelandGordon Copeland is a former MP who served two terms between 2002 and 2008, initially with the UnitedFuture Party until May 2005 and thereafter as an Independent. H e l i v e d i n Normandale, for more than 22 years where, together with his wife Anne, they raised their five children, all of whom were educated in Lower Hutt.

Gordon Copeland writes: “My time in Parliament was richly rewarding.

I had a hand in shaping the Working for Families tax relief package, KiwiSaver and increased tax credits for donations to charities. However, I voted against the normalisation of street prostitution and the criminalisation of good parents who correct their children, using a light smack.

During the last 30 years or so, successive governments have lead society on a so-called “progressive” course, which has been a spectacular failure. Family breakdown, fatherless families, child abuse, crime and alcohol and drug abuse have all increased alarmingly. We need to move back to the timeless values which made New Zealand the best country in the world in which to live, work and raise our families.

The Conservative Party’s four main polices, “first $20,000 tax free” (a tax reduction of $2,520 p.a. for those earning $20,000 or more); an overhaul of the justice system to ensure safety on our streets and in our homes, equal rights for all and enhancing our democracy through binding CIR referendums will make a real difference.

It’s time to change our nation’s direction.”

Green PartyI love New Zealand, and I especially love our little corner: the harbour, the bush, the river, and the community.

B e c a u s e I love these things, I want to protect and s t rengthen them for the future. The Green Party stands for a cleaner, fairer, smarter New Zealand.

We have a plan to deliver a cleaner environment, with beaches and rivers we can swim in; a fairer society in which every child can grow up thriving; and a smarter economy that takes advantage of the clean, green innovation opportunities in front of us. We are also the only party with a comprehensive policy to tackle climate change, the greatest challenge of our time, and an important issue for Hutt South voters.

The Greens have proven leaders, a united caucus, and we’re ready to be part of government to deliver on this vision for New Zealand.

Unfortunately, I won’t be in Parliament after September. I have recently stepped down from the Green Party list to support my family through some challenging circumstances. I’ve loved my time as an MP, and I’m grateful to the voters of Hutt South for the support and trust you have placed in me and the Green Party.

While I’m sad to leave Parliament so soon,

I have huge confidence in the Green team. I’ve stayed on as the candidate for Hutt South to campaign for the Party Vote, and my message to Hutt South voters is simple: Party Vote Green for a cleaner, smarter, fairer Aotearoa New Zealand!

Labour Party: Trevor MallardI try very hard to stand up for the i s sues that are important in the Hutt. Recent highlights for me h a v e i n c l u d e d helping to close legal high shops and working with local government to a l low fa s te r and easier graffiti r e m o v a l f r o m private property.

As Labour MP in a Labour-led government, I would look to fast track work on the Eastbourne cycle and walkway, to finally link Wellington and Burden's Gate. I will work with council to ensure commuter cyclists are better consulted with on further cycleway improvements.

The recent speed limit change on Seaview Rd was opposed by Eastbourne residents.

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I will keep in touch with local businesses and residents to see if this change does lead to better road safety in this area. If not, I will work to reverse it.

The proposed Petone-Grenada Link Rd also has implications for Eastbourne and Bays residents commuting to Wellington. If this road goes ahead, an already jam-packed Esplanade would become even more clogged, with an estimated 10,000 extra cars per day. There are far more sensible roading priorities for the Hutt Valley which actually reduce congestion. As Hutt South MP, I will prioritise the Cross-Valley Link to ensure Bays residents have a faster route into Wellington and onto SH2 heading north.

Labour has the policies to lift wages, create secure jobs, make housing more affordable, and give every child the best start in life.

I’m asking for two ticks Labour.

Maori Party: Ngaire Button

Túhoe, Ngãti Porou

Ngaire Button was Christchurch Deputy Mayor 2010-13; during which time she was also a Director of the Canterbury D e v e l o p m e n t C o r p o r a t i o n ; VBase; and Civic Building Ltd. Prior to that she was a Director of Partnership Health PHO, a public health organisation focused on healthcare for all.

Ngaire is a mother of six children and has been married for 23 years. She has demonstrated a strong commitment to the community, from school board of trustees; to the Neighbourhood

Trust, and church ministry.Ngaire has been a small business owner for

eighteen years; helping grow small business into multi million-dollar per annum turnover.

Ngaire reflects on her life as having been a phenomenal journey of discovery - from having raised her first two children as a very young single mum on the domestic purposes benefit; through to now navigating between government and non-government organisations to bridge the gap of communication that so often acts as a barrier. Her commitment to familiarise herself within her own whakapapa has given her a unique insight into the issues around cultural competency - a mainstay of Maori Party policy.

Ngaire had particular responsibilities in her role as a Councillor for social housing, long term planning, disaster recovery research and strategy development. She was also Chair of the Safer Christchurch Network.

“Ngaire is a person with firmly established principles which combine practicality with a caring social conscience. She will not sacrifice these principles for political advantage and is thus a highly reliable, honest and trustworthy person to work with” - Rex Gibson, Manager, Te Whare Tãwãhi, Christchurch Migrants Centre

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ELECTION 2014National Party: Chris Bishop

C h r i s w a s born and raised in Lower Hutt, attending Eastern Hutt School and Hutt Intermediate. He lives in Petone with his partner Jenna . He ha s worked in both the private and public sector, as well as contributing to the community as President of the New Zealand Schools Debating Council. He was the 2006 Young Wellingtonian of the Year.

Chris holds a first class Honours degree in Law and a Bachelor of Arts from Victoria University, and has been admitted to the bar as a Barrister and Solicitor. He is a skilled debater and public speaker, having won ten inter varsity debating tournaments, including at the Cambridge Union and Sydney Union.

“I love the Hutt and its distinct communities - from the Western Hills to Wainuiomata,” Chris says. “I want to be a strong voice for the Hutt and focus on the issues that really matter to Valley residents. The Hutt deserves an MP who’s going to work their guts out every day for the community, and that’s what I’m committed to.”

Chris’s priorities for the Hutt include:Developing the Hutt as an innovation hub

for high-value manufacturing and high-tech industries

Bedding in practical environmental measures such as the protections for the kiwi in Rimutaka Forest Park and finishing the Eastern walkway around the Bays

Upskilling young people and driving up educational achievement in our great local schools and excellent tertiary institutions, like Weltec

Investment in transport infrastructure, including the Petone to Grenada Link, better public transport and more cycleways.

UnitedFuture Party: Dave Stonyer

Dave Stonyer i s c u r r e n t l y a P r o f e s s i o n a l S p e a k e r a n d Trainer, working for ActiveSpeaking Co. He has started a number of small businesses over the past 30 years and has ser ved as co-ordinator and on the board of a mainstreet programme. He has also been involved with a local community house and has been actively involved with Toastmasters International, rising to be the Division Governor (Wellington region) and attaining the highest award in the organization (Distinguished Toastmaster – DTM). He has also served twice as the chapter president for the Wellington branch of the National Speakers Association.

Hi s b a ckg round i s i n t e chn i c a l , manufacturing, hospital supplies and retail and customer service .

His interest in politics has been long-standing, both at the local body and at national level. He has worked on campaign committees (as organizer) at local level and for two elections

supporting the candidate for parliament.He is standing as the UnitedFuture candidate

for Hutt South so that people in the electorate have the opportunity to find out more about UnitedFuture’s successes, achievements and policies. That this party has accomplished so much through working constructively within Parliament is seldom acknowledged by any media in New Zealand. Dave aims to make more people aware of UnitedFuture’s strong involvement in outdoor recreation pursuits, including recreational fishing, and active pursuance of the freedom of the individual to make sound choices for themselves without government encumbrance.


Eastbourne Library will take on more technology next week, with two shiny new self-issue machines in operation from Monday. Head librarian Felicity McGuinness says the technology will allow more options for people to manage their library account and issue their own books. This will free up staff to help library users “find that fantastic read, explore our digital resources or even learn something new,” she says. There will still be five staff employed at the library, she says.

September is Family History month, and Eastbourne Library is urging local people to check out the range of materials they have on offer to help you figure out your family tree. A good place to start is ancestry.com or Find My Past, and library staff can also put you in touch with Tricia Meehan at Petone Library, Hutt City Libraries’ Family History expert.

Eastbourne Fire Brigade volunteers responded to calls during a recent storm when Rona Apartment residents saw pieces of the library building’s roof flying off in the wind. Local dentist Dave Excell (pictured right - Photo John Stevenson) returned to work to find a pile of Butynol in front of the building. Hutt City Council has been drying out the old council chambers, which was waterlogged during the

incident, and fixing the roof.

Point Howard Playcentre kids - past and present - were on hand at a recent rugby club day to offer refreshment, and raise money for the centre.

BRIEFS


A cold, wet Friday was certainly made a lot brighter for a whole bunch of three and four year olds when Wellington Trades Academy students presented the children of East Harbour Kindergarten with a brand new model fire engine. The students under the guidance of tutor Brian Hill are studying on the Level 2 carpentry programme with the Wellington Trades Academy. Tutor John Clench provided the students with a vehicle design. The students copied the design, scaled it up and built the vehicle.

Weltec engine delights kindy kids


Ray steps down from his postRay Smith (pictured right) has been the

organising force behind the Matiu/Somes Island volunteers since 1997. Now he’s handing over that role - but he’ll still be a regular helper on the island he now knows so well.

After 17 years of organising rosters and looking after the administration of the volunteer group, Ray has handed over the role to another long-standing Eastbourne Forest Ranger, Jerry Wellington.

“It’s been a joy,” he says. “But I’m not getting any younger.”

Ray says he has seen enormous changes in the role of volunteers on the island over the years.

The Eastbourne Forest Rangers first became involved with the island after a chance remark from one of the island’s rangers that he could do with some help.

He chose the right carpenter to talk to - Stan Hunt suggested the Eastbourne Forest Ranger group he belonged to could volunteer.

“When we first started probably our principal role was as fire watchers,” Ray says.

At that time there was less planting, more dry grass and a large number of visitors to the island that smoked. “Now hardly anyone smokes… it’s been a real social change,” Ray says.

The volunteer role gradually changed and expanded. From rangers only helping out one at a time over summer, there are now two on duty all year round.

“Our work now has a role of it’s own,” Ray says.

Volunteers meet and greet visitors, perform biosecurity checks and give guided tours.

“It’s not hands on conservation,” Ray says. “But it allows the rangers to do work that’s much more important… otherwise they’d be up and down to the wharf every hour, particularly at the beginning and end of the year when there are large groups.”

The island has a wealth of human and animal history but a lot is hidden until it is explained, Ray says, so giving guided tours visitors is an important role.

“It’s also a day out for us,” he says. “You meet all sorts of people. Most people have come for a reason and are interested… people from all over the world and all age groups.”

Volunteers now come from all over the Wellington region, at one time they ranged in age from 18 to 81, and numbers have been steady at around 20 for the last several years.

“As one of the older ones... I’m starting to feel like I’m part of the historical fabric of the island,” Ray jokes.

Ray will continue to go over to the island to help and share his knowledge. “There are tuataras that pre-date the dinosaurs and giant wetas that pre-date the tuataras - they have ears on their knees…”


by Kate Manson

At the moment there’s not a lot to see at 46 Wainui Road but a large empty section and a lot of old wooden pallets - by October Laurie Sanders and his daughter Johanna plan to have transformed the space into a vibrant humming market.

Having recently retired, Laurie has come down from Auckland to join his daughter Johanna and start up their project, “The Village Market”.

They plan to create a covered weekend market with an acre of indoor and outdoor stalls selling local produce, food and locally made goods, arts and crafts.

A Friday night market running from 3pm to 9pm, “Feast Fridays”, will be centred around food so people can go to the markets for dinner and try something different for a reasonable price.

“Dad’s from Auckland and there the night markets really pop,” Johanna says.

On Saturday and Sunday, the market will be open from 9am to 3pm and will combine produce, pop-up shops, second hand stalls, clothing, arts and crafts…. and food.

“A good market needs good food,” Laurie says. Some stand out examples he’s tried are the “posh porridge” at a Christchurch market (apparently it’s the toppings that make it posh) and buffalo burgers and cheese sold at a market north of Auckland.

In fact once Laurie is on the subject of markets, he starts flicking around the country with comments on what has worked here and hasn’t worked there.

While there are a lot of great produce markets in the Wellington region, a “market with lots of everything” is what is missing, Laurie says.

“We want to create something different,” Johanna says.

Several years ago Johanna used to run the Thistle Hall Flea market in Cuba St. Now she is a video-editor and artist and says she understands how artists need a space to sell their works and also meet and collaborate with other artists.

She hopes The Village Market will become an “artisan hub” for the local creative community.

“Markets always create a sense of community,” she says.

“We want it to be a relaxing place with

something for children to do, seating so people can stay awhile and live entertainment… not big, we’re looking to have a run of busking type performers.”

Some spaces will be set aside for community groups to use for free for fundraising stalls. “Having community groups involved really adds to a feeling of community,” Johanna says.

To make the market a fun trip out for all the family, there will be a ride-on bikes, a bouncy castle and some children’s activities.

Laurie has brought with him a “kiddie’s jigger”, a hand-operated railway car, his uncle made 50 years ago for children in the Coromandel. Once he’s refurbished it, Laurie plans to lay some track and set it up for children to ride.

Laurie and Johanna are now working on clearing the site and planning out the market. Although there are a couple of small buildings that can be used for craft stalls, one of the big priorities for the pair is to create a large covered space and “protection from the wind”.

Laurie is looking into using scaffolding for the structure, which fits with the “industrial chic” look that Johanna envisions.

Johanna wants to create furniture out of some of the old pallets on the site and Laurie says he may use some to make a little station for his jigger.

“We’re hoping to transform all sorts of different objects… make it into an inviting space that keeps evolving,” she says.

That aesthetic is already present. Laurie has set up a couple of braziers he made from old washing machine drums to keep him warm, toast his sandwiches and boil his kettle while he is on site.

“I used to sell these at a market in Auckland - they were really popular,” he says.

Although there is no on-site parking for market goers in an area with not much street parking, Johanna says she doesn’t think it will be an issue.

Locals can walk or bike, there is a bus stop right outside the market gate and she is talking to local businesses about using their free weekend-space, she says.

The market has started looking for expressions of interest from stallholders and Johanna says they have already received quite a lot of interest and positive feedback from locals.

Seaview market set to open


PARKSIDE

EHRP Ranger Mark McAlpine.

In 2013, local iwi placed a rahui on the Pencarrow Head beach to protect banded dotterels from off-road use of the beach during the nesting season. This intervention, which imposes a ban on using some areas of the beach, and support from visitors, saw a dramatic improvement in nesting success for the dotterels.

Wanting to keep up this great progress, local iwi Taranaki Whanui placed a new rahui on the site during August which will remain in place until February 2015.

Over the last few years, the role of Kaitiakitanga within Taranaki Whanui has grown enormously in relation to the Parangarahu Lakes, not only in management planning but also in working with Greater Wellington Regional Council on an intensive programme of monitoring and predator control. This work has been further strengthened by the volunteer support of community groups MIRO and the Friends of Baring Head.

From the recent success it is easy to see the value of the rahui in protecting the habitat of the area. It is a great way of informing people that we are making a difference by prohibiting vehicles and dogs on a particular section of the beach. The dotterel nests are very difficult to see so during this time pedestrians are also asked to stay off the beach or only walk below the high tide line. Public access is still available to the

historic Pencarrow Lighthouse, to the lakes via the roadway and to the beaches north of the nesting sites.

Around the corner at Baring Head, Greater Wellington Regional Council and the Friends of Baring Head have erected signage and installed a fence around approximately 20,000m2 of beech where the banded dotterel breed. This area is not subject to a rahui but the signage and fencing should protect the dotterels’ nests.

Last year’s turnaround in breeding success for banded dotterels along the Pencarrow coast was, as ever, based on sound science and combined effort. Given the difficulty of dealing with predators (mainly hedgehogs), the survival of Wellington’s Banded dotterels is always going to be a struggle. But with a joint effort from iwi, volunteers, visitors, Friends of Baring Head, Hutt City Council and Greater Wellington Regional Council, we’re helping to shift the balance in their favour.

Also I would like to say thank you to Matt Anderson who has been clearing the culverts on the MacKenzie, Muritai, Kowhai and Bus Barn track over the last month. He is doing this as part of his Duke of Edinburgh Award programme and, in the process, is helping to protect the tracks from storm damage, which is a great help to Greater Wellington Regional Council. Next month I am going to cover the track work and maintenance we have planned for the next twelve months.

- EHRP Ranger Mark McAlpine

Greater Wellington Regional Council has prepared the following brief summary of track maintenance activity over the next 12 months:Re-metalling of the Ferry Road Track in August 2014. Re-metalling of the Point Howard Road Track. Further metalling of the Bus Barn Track (continuation of work completed in July) to the intersection with Kowhai. Maintenance work is planned from the top of Kowhai Track down to the Mackenzie junction. This is to address areas where there are water issues, exposed tree roots and muddy sections. The work will mean replacing some old steps with box steps, easing gradients in other places (also with box steps) and metalling the track to protect the surface as it has very high use.


OBITUARYJoe Healy grew up in York Bay - the youngest

son of Jean and Jim Healy, brother of Patricia, Catherine and Peter.

Christened Stephen Walter Healy, he always went by the name Joe, the name his mother Jean wanted for him. The middle name Walter was for their neighbour Wallie Shearer who always drove Joe’s Mum into hospital even on the middle of night when she was giving birth. In the days before taxis and as Jim at that stage could not drive and they had no car, such wonderful neighbours played a vital part.

Joe was a fun-loving kid, with a sense of mischief and lots of friends from the local neighbourhood. Eastbourne was their playground and they spent all their time outdoors, in the bush, the sea and up trees.

After graduating from Victoria, and spending a few years playing rugby, surfing, skiing and partying hard, Joe worked for a while in the public service as an industrial relations mediator. He met to hear the case for both sides in public service industrial disputes and said it was strange

having to take the part of the Public Service against his parents’ old mates. His heart wasn’t in it at all and after a few months he left.

Joe was always a true entrepreneur. He was soon off to London pursuing more adventure and fun with his surfing and rugby mates. He headed off round the world with his beloved surfboard in tow. Not surprisingly, they had a lot of problems on the New York underground; four Kiwi boys from Eastbourne with their surfboards was not what you saw in those days.

Once in London Joe and a few friends set up a cleaning company that allowed them to spend as much time as possible surfing the beaches of Bali and Majorca, or skiing in the alps. I remember visiting him when I was a 9 year-old in London - he had a dark tan, set off by Raybans and a white linen shirt. So 80s! My brother and I thought he was the coolest dude we’d ever met. When he bought me a Jason Donovan record his position as favourite uncle was settled.

After several more years living the good life all over the globe, the New Zealand shores

called him home and Joe settled back here. He used to join us on family ski trips, much to the excitement of my brother and me. He’d whizz down the ski slopes in his 80s ski gear at breakneck speed. Joe being Joe, the sun always seemed to shine when he came with us.

Not long after, he met the love of his life, Kirsty Cresswell. Charming, creative, smart, and artistic as well as beautiful she was an instant hit with all his friends and family. They set a date and jetted off to Fiji for a fairytale wedding complete with horses galloping down the beach.

Joe and Kirsty were a great match and soon had two boys - Jack and Flynn. Working together running two businesses as well as raising a family, they were a team with an amazing bond.

Joe was a completely devoted father, and he loved bringing up his boys in that same neighbourhood where he grew up. He never stopped looking for fun and enjoying the adventures of life. His last day on earth was spent with the people he loved, having another adventure on a beautiful island in Thailand. Goodbye to the coolest uncle a kid could hope for.

You packed so much into 56 years - and your empathy and compassion for others never waned. May your spirit shine on in your two boys. You’ll be so missed by all of us. Surf on in heaven Uncle Joe.

- by Jessica Healy.


Locals get behind fundraising for extra tuitionby Emily Tilley

Money raised through stalls at the Eastbourne Market is helping to send Maori Hutt Valley High School students to after-school tutoring.

The Ruahine Branch of the Maori Women’s Welfare League have had a stall selling homemade condiments, preserves and handcrafts at the last two Eastbourne Markets.

The group raised more than $1,000 at their first market stall, enough to send a student to NumberWorks’nWords tutoring for two terms.

“Charlotte Tait [NumberWorks manager] has been great. We raised enough for one student but she said she would take another for free,” local Hana Small says.

Hana is the driving force behind the fundraising stalls.

An ex-Hutt Valley High student, Hana joined the Maori Women’s Welfare League last year when her godmother and mother set up the new Ruahine branch.

Not wanting to be the only younger person involved, Hana goaded friends Alice Meads, “she did Maori at university” and Grace Brennan, “she’s up for anything” to join too.

“We really wanted to do something about the marae, and to help whaea Hine, and the Maori students coming through after us,” she says.

Hine Amoamo is Hana and Alice’s former te reo teacher and was the only te reo teacher at the school from the 1980s until this year when she reduced her hours and has been joined by another teacher.

Maori is taught in the marae which, under Hine’s leadership, has become a place not only of learning but one that provides cultural context to the school and huge support for Maori students, Hana says.

However, school marae buildings receive no specific Ministry of Education funding and so support is needed, she says.

Initially plans were to fundraise for a much needed fridge. Although one of the marae’s functions is to host gatherings such as powhiri, there was only had a small bar fridge which is “impossible for catering,” Hana says.

However, around that time Hutt City

Council were moving out of their administration building and one of the Ruahine branch members who works for the council told her there were some fridges being offered free to good homes.

“So we took the mayor’s fridge,” Hana says.The fridge sorted, the group then decided

to start fundraising for scholarships to allow students tutoring at NumberWorks’nWords.

Two students were chosen by Hine for the first scholarships. “The feedback from Charlotte is that both kids are doing really well, they love it and turn up every week,” Hana says.

This month the Ruahine branch held a second stall and raffle and this time raised $1,500.

As NumberWorks have agreed to again match the sponsorship with two for one funding, another two two-term scholarships will now be made available.

Hana and the Ruahine branch plan to continue holding fundraising stalls to support the Hutt Valley High School marae and students.

Hana Small (top left) and members of the Ruahine Branch of the Maori Women’s Welfare League at this month’s Eastbourne Market.

“It’s fun doing the market stalls and it’s lucky we have lots of talented members who can knit and make things,” Hana says.

However, anyone hoping to restock on the group’s gourmet preserves may have to wait until the market after next as Hana is getting married around the time of the next Eastbourne Market. “I’ll probably be a bit busy.”


“Doing her bit”: the war service of an EB ferryA popular Eastbourne ferry might seem an

unlikely candidate for war service in the Pacific, but in 1940 that’s exactly what happened to the Muritai when she was recruited by the Navy for duty as a coastal minesweeper.

The urgent need for such vessels had just been graphically illustrated. In the early hours of 19 June 1940, New Zealanders received a shocking introduction to the reality of war when the Trans-Pacific passenger liner Niagara hit a German mine off the Northland coast and sank. All 349 passengers and crew were rescued, the only casualties being the ship’s cat, and a valuable cargo of gold ingots and ammunition bound for Britain. This was the first anyone knew that the German coastal raider Orion had slipped undetected into New Zealand waters on the night of 13 June and laid 228 contact mines across the entrance to the Hauraki Gulf, between the Hen and Chicken Islands and Cuvier Island.

It was a dramatic change of role for the Muritai, after more than 17 years of sheltered harbour work. Commissioned by the Eastbourne Borough Council in 1922 to replace the ageing Duchess, she was built in Montrose, Scotland and came to New Zealand literally under her own steam, a journey of 63 days. Her vital statistics were impressive: 173 feet long and weighing 462 tons, she had two triple-expansion engines, producing 900 HP, a speed of 13.5 knots, and capacity for 1,500 passengers.

But with a price tag of £45,000, she was a huge and risky investment for a small borough at a time of growing competition from buses and private motor cars; she was also very expensive to run. Some considered her a white elephant, but the public were fond of her, specially the thousands of day-trippers who crossed to Eastbourne and Days Bay at weekends and on public holidays, and those who enjoyed

moonlight harbour cruises during the summer. In 1940, after conversion at the Patent Slip in

Evans Bay, the Muritai joined a number of coastal vessels recruited for the same purpose, including the Rata, Breeze, Gale, Matai and Puriri. Under the command of Captain A.D. Holden RNZNR, the minesweeping flotilla operated for six years with only one casualty: early in the war, the Puriri struck a mine off the Hen and Chickens and sank with the loss of five crew, all former merchant seamen.

When her military service in New Zealand ended the Muritai sailed for Fiji, where she ‘swept’ Nadi Bay before the Americans laid a protective minefield. Under American command, the ships of the flotilla became ‘maids of all work’ in the Pacific: minesweeping, anti-submarine patrols, troop-carrying, cable-lifting, and escorting convoys of small ships from New Zealand to Pacific ports.

After the war, most of the flotilla went back to their peacetime duties. But for the Muritai there was no returning to Wellington Harbour. The Eastbourne Borough Council saw no future for its ferry service, and was putting its energies into the municipal bus service instead. After languishing for a while in Auckland, the Muritai was sold in July 1946 to the Devonport Steam Ferry Service for its Auckland to Waiheke run, and in 1954 was acquired by the Waiheke Passage Service.

By now the old girl was nearing the end of her working life. She was finally laid up in 1962, and by April the following year was being broken up for scrap. It was a sad end for a popular harbour ferry which had done such sterling service during the war.

Many long-time Eastbourne residents will have fond memories of the Muritai and maybe some good stories to tell. If so, we’d be delighted to hear from you. Contact Ali on Ph 562-8880, or email [email protected].

- by Ali CarewHistorical Society of Eastbourne/‘Eastbourne

in Wartime’ Project


SPORTFootballers escape relegation

by Steve McMorran

Eastbourne's senior footballers are almost certain to hold their place in Capital Division 5 as any threat of relegation recedes with one match remaining in their regular season.

A clash with Victoria University on Saturday will bring down the curtain on the season for the Eastbourne team which currently lies in eighth place among 10 teams in their division. The bottom two teams face relegation when the season ends but Eastbourne enjoyed a comfortable nine-point buffer from the relegation zone entering the last week of the season.

They entered that week after a disappointing 9-2 home loss to league leaders Brooklyn Northern United. That result marked a spectacular form reversal and staunched an outstanding run of form after Eastbourne›s 5-0 win over Upper Hutt and 4-0 win over Petone in their previous matches.

But Brooklyn have been the form team of this season’s competition, winning 13 and drawing two of their 16 matches and they managed to run away with the match after a relatively close first half.

Eastbourne was due to play third-placed Waterside Karori last Monday before ending their season this weekend with the match against fourth-placed University. A strong finish would carry them further from the relegation zone and complete a season of mixed form and unfulfilled promise.

Eastbourne won five matches and scored 31 goals but it had the third-worst defensive

record in the league and that contributed to its final placing.

The Eastbourne Masters were likely to finish last in Capital Masters 2. Their season also concludes this Saturday with a re-match against Marist Skins, whom Eastbourne beat 3-2 last weekend.

Eastbourne were nine points adrift of ninth place as they approached their last match.


SPORTRay’s going offshore for big swim

by Steve McMorran

The pounding surf and heavy swells of the seas around Hawaii hold no fears for Ray Gough.

At 72, Ray Gough will face his next adventure in swimming - the Waikiki Roughwater Swim - with the same passion and undaunted spirit with which he has approached the sport for most of his life.

Gough will be among a group of 10 older New Zealanders - all longtime comrades in surf lifesaving - who will take on the 3.84 kilometre swim offshore from the beaches of Waikiki, early next month.

Generations of Eastbourne youngsters have learnt to swim under Gough’s expert tuition and he hopes his participation in the Hawaiian event will act as an inspiration to the kids he is now teaching. If he can do it, so can they.

Gough will leave New Zealand for Hawaii on August 23 with his teammates - they form an unofficial New Zealand team - to compete in the higher age groups of the roughwater classic. He will compete in the 70 to 75 year group and says

his teammates are all aged between 60 and 75.Conditions around Hawaii would be likely

to test much young swimmers but Gough and his teammates are the hardened veterans of more than 50 years in surf lifesaving and have no apprehension about the challenge.

“With our background, the choppier the better,” Gough said. “That cuts all the poolies out. They can’t cope with the rough stuff.

“I’m expecting the conditions to be nice and warm. I’ve swum in Waikiki several times and I’ve done a lot of swimming in Maui so I know what it’s like and I’m quite used to it.”

The race, which attracts around 1000 competitors, will take place on September 1 or Labour Day in the United States. That allows Gough and his teammates around seven days after their arrival to acclimatise and to train in local conditions.

Gough said he has been in light training in recent weeks - “only about 3 to 4 kilometres a day”.

“I swim mostly at Huia and at weekends at Naenae,” he said. “I swim every day, of course, so the training isn’t any hardship.

“Most of the guys I’m going with are former New Zealand surf lifesaving representatives so they’re all pretty fit and they know what we’re in for.

“I’ve generally avoided races in the United States because they tend to have 600 to 700 competitors and I can't be bothered swimming among them. But this one, which has about 1000, is a bit different. I don't have any reservations about doing this one.

“I think they tend to let the faster swimmers away first and then start the different age groups after each other so no-one is swimming over top of anyone else or being held back.

“I remember in the old surf races we used to swim with clenched fists and it was every man for himself. The object was to get out in front and go for it. But this should be okay and everyone should be able to go at their own pace."

Gough has a lifetime of experience in open water races and is still hugely competitive. He won his age groups in the 50th anniversary Wharf to Wharf and Kapiti Island swims and he has won the Clark Island to Wharf race in Whangamata on several occasions.

Gough’s great passion is still teaching youngsters to swim. He has more than 150 kids under his tuition at present and delights in seeing their confidence grow.

“I still love it and it keeps me out of mischief,” he said.

Ray Gough with the koru trophy he received at this year’s Kapiti Island race.


SPORT

The Eastbourne Girls ‘Football Development Squad fund-raising at the Eastbourne Market with a fudge stall. They are raising funds for the McCartney Tournament in Taupo in October.The Girls’ Development Squad came about after the success of the Summer League - where Eastbourne entered 3 teams into the Girls Summer league. The number of girls in the 10-12 age range keen on football in Eastbourne has meant having a squad is a great way for them to get together regularly and develop their football skills. The squad has 20 girls planning to go to Taupo - this includes a few extras from other Lower Hutt clubs as this is the only Girls Development Squad in this area. Upper Hutt Football Club has had one for a number of years now and it has been very successful at nurturing those girls who are keen to develop their football skills and maybe even pursue football to a higher level. The social connection of playing with other girls seems to be what they enjoy most though. The Squad has local talented footballers Lucy Stotter and Sian Feeney coaching them.

Rugby players opt for a slower Summer pace

by Steve McMorran

Eastbourne’s senior rugby players are contemplating a major change of pace after their season ended last weekend in a mixture of pride and disappointment.

After the cut and thrust of a season in one of the tightest and toughest competitions in Wellington club rugby, Eastbourne’s coaches and players are likely to spend their spare time over summer in the much more sedate world of lawn bowls.

The Eastbourne Bowling Club has extended an offer of free membership to the rugby team and coach Greg Halford, who is already a keen bowler, says he expects a number of squad members to take up the opportunity.

Keeping the team together in some way over summer would increase the chances the players would return next season, when they would be able to build on another very strong showing in division one of the 85 kilogram restricted grade.

Eastbourne concluded the 2014 season on Saturday with a 19-5 win over the Old Boys-University Onslow Spartans. In a strong finish to the season, Eastbourne also beat Upper Hutt 17-12, Avalon 6-0, the Old Boys-University Onslow Bunnies 29-22 and lost to Waikanae 23-8.

Those results left Eastbourne in fifth place and only a win away from a top-four finish, which would have matched their achievement of last season when they ended the season in third place.

Eastbourne finished the second round competition for the Paul Potiki Shield with four wins and four losses - with 135 points for and 155 against, as evidence of the closeness of most of their matches.

Halford praises the spirit and commitment

of his players, who coped through most of the latter part of the season with a high number of injuries and shortage of players.

“We really struggled for numbers towards the end of the season but I’m proud of the way the guys stepped up.”


SPORT

The victorious Mariners.

Combined team wins JPL gradeby Steve McMorran

The Eastbourne Mariners ventured into uncharted waters when they embarked this season on a campaign in the 14th grade of Wellington football’s Junior Premier Leagues.

Formed from three clubs, they made up a scratch crew, raw and unproven, and they were up against opponents who were more used to the hurly-burly of Wellington’s most prestigious junior competitions: more experienced, better equipped and battle-hardened.

The season became a true voyage of discovery for coach Graham Tennent and his players, drawn from the Eastbourne, Petone and Tennent's Stop Out clubs. There were storms - literal and figurative - shoals and course corrections but at the end, they came away with a prize beyond most of their dreams.

On August 9, the Mariners beat the Island Bay United Sharks - a team they had lost to twice during the course of the season - 5-2 in the final of the 14th Grade JPL plate competition, to win that trophy. In a remarkable final, the teams were locked at 2-2 at fulltime but the Mariners scored three goals in extra time to emphatically claim the championships.

Coach Tennent is astonished at what his

players achieved after coming together only a few months earlier from different clubs, different backgrounds, different levels of experience and taking on teams which had often been together for several years.

“If someone had told me at the start of the

season that we would have that level of success, I wouldn’t have had that level of confidence, to be quite honest,” Tennent said.

Tennent said the Mariners players steadily developed their own style and grew in confidence while a community spirit grew around the team, fuelled by the parents and families of the players. “We had a number of players with high individual skill levels. The key was to get them to develop a system in which they could express themselves as individuals while also developing teamwork and I think that’s what happened.”

The Mariners were formed when Eastbourne chair Sola Freeman - aware that Eastbourne would not have enough players to form a team on its own - approached Petone and Stop Out with a proposal that they combine forces. Each club had a handful of players capable of playing at JPL level but could not do so individually.


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Guthrie Cottage - beautiful self-contained beach-front accommodation. Perfect for excess visitors or enjoy all of the comforts of home while you renovate. www.guthriecottage.co.nz Lynne 562 8889.

Local Tree Works: Tree trimming, tree removal. Phone Steven 027 666 6279 or 562 6031.

Wartime photographs, letters and memorabilia of and by people with close links to the Eastern Bays are wanted for Eastbourne in War project. All care taken and prompt return. Contact Julia Stuart 04 5626067, [email protected]

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TRADITIONAL HATHA YOGA St Ronan’s Church Hall, Eastbourne every Wednesday 6.30-8pm Suitable for all levels. For more info Facebook/Sonnysyoga or call 021 800 512.

MURALS FOR K IDS BEDROOMS (BATHROOMS,RESTAURANTS ETC). By Dutch artist Escha van den Bogerd. Portraits and commissions also welcome. www.eschasgallery.com. Contact: Escha van den Bogerd [email protected]. Phone 5866845.

DEEPEN YOUR YOGA Muritai Yacht Club, Eastbourne every Thursday 6.30-7.45pm Intermediate level. For more info Facebook/Sonnysyoga or call 021 800 512

NEW YOGA CLASSES starting at Muritai Yacht Club. Begin and end each week with Energising Sun Salutations by the ocean. First class FREE. Classes start: Monday 25th August @ 10am and Friday 29th August @ 9.30am. For more info FB/Sonnysyoga or call Sonny 021 800 512

FOUND:Earring found at Eastbourne Sports & Services Club 11th August. Contact Tony Wilson - tel 562 7104

Year 8-10 students of Wa Ora Montessori School will be running a car wash at the Sunshine Bay Caltex Station to raise funds for their class study tour of the West Coast in 2015. Sunday 12 Oct 11am-1pm and Sunday 30 Nov 11am-1pm.


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SPORTIt’s business as usual for juniors

Muritai Tennis Club’s junior players haven’t been sitting around indoors over winter - and now they’re getting ready for the summer season ahead. Eleven junior players have used the winter months to sharpen their tennis skills and experience by entering tennis tournaments in places including Marlborough, Manawatu, Hutt Valley and Tawa. For many it was their first tennis tournament experience.

Muritai juniors Callan Hughes and Andrew Sutcliffe have also been selected among the top Hutt Valley players in their age group to represent Hutt Valley Tennis in a clash with players from the Nelson-Marlborough region.

“Playing in tournaments really helps build skills and confidence which helps when interclub games get underway. It’s also a great chance to meet other keen young tennis players,” Muritai Tennis Club Coach Marc Paulik said.

Marc has just returned from taking some of New Zealand’s top young tennis players to play against Australian youngsters in Brisbane.

“The tour was of huge benefit to me as I learnt from other high level coaches and from

watching the best junior Australians compete,” he said.

Junior interclub starts in October and the club needs interested players to register on Sunday, August 31 between 10am and noon and Sunday, September 7 between 11am and noon.

The club’s season officially starts with Opening Day (for senior members) on Sunday, September 14 at 2pm. Go to www.muritaitennisclub.org.nz for more information about the club and the coming season.

The Muritai Yacht Club will clear the decks for the new season with its annual boatshed day on September 6.

The day, which precedes by a week the club’s official opening day on September 13, allows members to spring clean and sort out boat storage requirements for the pending season.

Opening day includes social activities at the clubrooms and racing if Spring winds permit.

Twelve runners from Muritai School qualified to compete at the Wellington regional cross-country championships at Waikanae last month and came home flushed with success.

Macey Caughley won the race for Year 7 girls and Charlotte Humphries was third among girls in Year 6. Other results were: Greta Woolloff - Year 4 - 10th; Harry Rookes - Year 4 - 55th; Chelsea Summers - Year 5 - 25th; Emily Jones - Year 5 - 48th; Jack Evans - Year 5 - 23rd; Henry Evans - Year 5 - 34th; Samantha Woolley - Year 6 - 11th; Zali Young - Year 6 - 22nd; Theo Jones - Year 6 - 33rd; Mia Treadwell-Burke - Year 8 - 27th. Callum Hancock, who was among eight Year 6, 7 and 8 boys from Wellesley College who competed at the championships, has been selected for the Wellington interprovincial team.

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Callan Hughes in action.

eastbourne herald august 2014

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