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August 22, 2014

Interview: veteran Alan Taylor… p16

Devonport actress sends Shakespeare global… p3

Pohutukawa felled – all legal… p4

Secret meeting over housing development “a disgrace”

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Checkmates... Devonport Primary School’s A, B and C teams took out the top three places in this year’s Devonport peninsula schools chess tournament held last Friday. Clockwise from left: Jack Tiplady, Ben Garelli, Vedant Patel, Scott Beaumont and Patch Johnson, with tournament coordinator Penny Clark.

DPS clean sweep at peninsula chess tournament

Local residents concerned about the fast-tracking of development at Bayswater marina protested their exclusion from a behind-closed-doors council meeting.

The status of Bayswater marina as a potential Special Housing Area (SHA) was likely to have been on the agenda of The Devonport-Takapuna Local Board’s extraordinary meeting held to discuss SHAs in the area.

But locals were excluded, calling the process “dictatorial”, “undemocratic” and “a disgrace.”

In an hour-long public forum preceding the meeting, residents repeatedly asked for the meet-ing to be opened to the public. A motion – by board member Grant Gillon and seconded by Jan O’Connor – to let the public in, failed.

The Devonport-Takapuna Local Board had called the meeting to discuss Tranche 4 (SHA)

applications in preparation for an Auckland De-velopment Committee meeting the next morning.

Twenty locals attended the meeting and many voiced their concerns about being kept in the dark on what was happening in their community.

Bayswater Community Committee chair Gay Richards said considering Bayswater marina as an SHA flew in the face of public consultation.

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A complaint in relation to a recent Colmar Brunton poll that claimed 70% of Bayswa-ter residents were in favour of residential development of Bayswater marina land is under review by The Research Association of New Zealand.

Karin Curran, from Curran Research As-sociates, informed Bayswater resident Jodi

Letica last Thursday that Letica’s complaint about the survey commissioned by Bayswa-ter Marina Holdings had met with sufficient level of concern to pass to the next level of review. It will be further looked into by the organisation’s complaints/regulatory group. Curran said she hopes the review will be complete within less than 14 days.

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The unexplained death of a young Navy man, whose body was found at Winscombe Cove last month, is still under investigation according to family members.

The deceased man has been named as Lynton Robert McInnes. His family has released a statement and are appealing for help from the public.

The statement said: “There appears to be a

Questions remain over body found at local beachlot of speculation about the cause of Lynton’s death and the circumstances surrounding it.”

Anyone with information relating to the case, no matter how minor, is requested by the family to come forward and to contact either Rodger Taylor (021 191 4337) or Brett Batty (021 192 0537).

Police undertook an extensive scene ex-amination but have since refused to provide any information on the case, except for releasing the deceased man’s name after requests from the Flagstaff.

The Navy is also not commenting as the death occurred outside Navy property and is therefore a police matter.

But the family statement said: “The Navy have been very supportive and are answer-ing any questions that the police have and providing as much information as they can.”

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Devonport teenager takes online Shakespeare to the globe

A Devonport actress stars in a video blog adaptation of a Shakespearean play that is making waves on the international stage.

Harriet Maire plays Beatrice in the web series Nothing Much to Do, a 60-part mod-ernised version of Shakespeare’s Much Ado About Nothing. The vlog (video blog) was recently featured on hellogiggles.com, a website co-founded by US actress Zooey Deschanel, and is showing signs of going viral.

Each week, about five minutes of vlog are released via YouTube. The first episode had over 16,000 hits. So far 23 episodes are online for viewing.

Maire (19) has undertaken classical Shakespeare training. Last year she spent six weeks in an acting workshop at London’s Globe Theatre.

“But I just love the way Shakespeare has been modernised for this project. It proves the relevance he still has. The play is about 450 years old and you can take the plot line, put it into a modern context and it still makes sense because he understood humans on such a deep level,” she says.

A blog is the great way to explore the play’s characters, says Maire. “Because you follow a life it makes the character

come alive too, as if they are real people,” she says. Beatrice even has her own Twitter account with more than 300 followers.

Social media allows fans to interact with the play, Maire says. “Some send us playlists of music they think our character might like, or beautiful artwork featuring us. Sometimes, they create fan-fiction and take the plot into another direction. Most of them know the play really well and just spend a lot of time loving us,” she says.

Fellow Devonport actor Jake McGregor plays Benedick, Beatrice’s arch nemesis. He has his own vlog, called Benaddicktion, where 16 vlogs offer a different perspective on the plot.

Maire says literary adaptations are ex-tremely popular among young people.

They started with the award-winning vlog, the Lizzy Bennett Diaries that was based on Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice, she says. They were followed by spin-offs and sequels. “It just proves the potency of good literature,” says Maire.

Nothing Much To Do is produced by Elsie and Sally Bollinger, daughters of music critic Nick Bollinger, and their company The Candle Wasters. “They have worked on the characters for over a year,” says Maire.

Much to do about talent… Harriett Maire is going viral with Shakespeare adaptation

Esplanade sale closeThree parties are in active negotiations

to buy Devonport’s Esplanade Hotel says agent Michael Osbourne of Link Business Broking Ltd.

Osbourne said he expects the sale to go through within days. The hotel has been on the market since May.


Only metres from two protected Stanley Bay pohutukawa trees, a mature specimen has been legally felled without requiring council consent.

Upset neighbours contacted the Flagstaff on the day the four-storey high tree in the backyard of 19 Glen Road was being chopped down. The property had recently been sold.

Council spokesperson Therese Suther-land said the mature pohutukawa was not a

scheduled tree and therefore did not require council consent to be cut down. The local blanket tree protection has not been in ef-fect since December 2012 and now only registered trees require consent to be cut or pruned.

The Flagstaff understands the reason for removing the tree was because its roots were causing damage to the villa’s founda-tions. No building consent had been lodged for the address.

The tree was part of a small glade of established trees in Stanley Bay. Devonport Heritage architect Jeremy Salmond and environmentalist Dame Anne Salmond live across the street and a huge protected pohutukawa frames their front garden. The driveway adjacent to 19 Glen Road features another protected, slightly smaller specimen.

Neither the property’s new owners nor the Salmonds could be reached for comment before the Flagstaff went to print.

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Devonport sailor Markus Somerville has won a bronze medal for the second time in the 29er two-man skiff at the ISAF Youth Sailing World Championship in Portugal.

He and sailing partner Isaac McHardie also won bronze a year ago at the youth worlds in Cyprus. In between they also won two national competitions, in England and New Zealand.

Markus (17) is in his last year at Takapuna Grammar School. He has been sailing com-petitively since the age of 11, starting out in

the Opimist class at Wakatere Boating Club based at Narrow Neck Beach.

At the worlds in Portugal,conditions on and off the water had been less than ideal in the seaside town of Tavira.

“I had been at the Takapuna Grammar School ball the night before we left and came down with the flu the next day. I spent the first three days in Portugal in bed and lost five kgs,” Markus says.

“But we started off with a bang, winning

the first race,” he days.“We didn’t know the Mediterranean wind

conditions, which we had not often sailed before, so we dropped a bit after that, but were very consistent. Our worst race, which we could drop, was eighth,” he says.

After his success in the youth classes, Markus is eyeing up the 49er, an Olympic class, two-handed dinghy. He is currently looking for a new sailing partner and has his sights set on the Tokyo Olympics in 2020.

Seaworthy winners… Markus Somerville (centre) alongside sailing partner Isaac McHardie as they received bronze medals at ISAF Youth Sailing World Championship in Tavira, Portugal

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These two iconic Dunedin based labels join the other New Zealand designed labels stocked at Wallis. Moving up the country, the store features Kowtow from Wellington, Arielle Mermin from Okato, Nyne from Mt Maunganui and Hailwood and Ketz-ke from Auckland, to name a few. They sit alongside the locally made Wallis and Mountford labels that are exclusive to the Wallis stores.

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North Shore candidates for the upcoming General Election will be put through their paces at a public meeting to be held at the Depot Artspace on September 2 at 7pm.

Candidates confirmed when the Flagstaff went to press were: Maggie Barry (National), Claire Szabo (Labour), Brett Stansfield (Green) and Nick Kearney (Act).

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Devonport home renovation wins prestigious award

Top house… this home at Stanley Bay was named Renovation of the Year at the Master Builders regional awards

A Stanley Bay house has been recognised with the Registered Master Builders (Auck-land Region) Renovation of the Year award.

The judges said Absolute Building Ser-vices’ extensive renovation in Devonport re-quired a builder of great skill and confidence, working with an extremely difficult site.

“This was a major renovation to a property, which takes in the magnificent views of the harbour and the nearby naval base,” they said.

“Beautifully crafted and styled to bring simplicity to the living spaces and an easy flow from the interior to the cantilevered decks, the builder should be congratulated for his workmanship and project manage-ment.”


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“The community has made a huge effort putting in their (yet to be heard) Unitary Plan submissions and the SHA process completely denigrates this process of con-sultation,” she said. Committee member Paddy Stafford-Bush added that SHAs were “a backhanded way of getting a change without due process.”

Two Takapuna residents said they had a right to be heard, informed and to know how individual board members were vot-ing on the issue.

Board member Grant Gillon’s motions to hold the meeting in public, and a second one to release information on parts of it afterwards, were voted down by board members Joe Bergin, Dianne Hale and Alison Roe. Board chair Mike Cohen was not present.

Hale said that while she was all for

public meetings, the board’s hands were tied and it had no choice in this case. “If we open the meeting to the public, we have to close it straight away as all the material to discuss is confidential,” she said.

“However, for us to have any influ-ence on the SHA decision, we can only do that if we hold a meeting tonight and it would be neglectful of us not to do so,” she said.

The meeting was chaired by Joe Bergin (deputy chair) in Mike Cohen’s absence. Bergin defended the SHA process.

Richards said Bayswater Marina Hold-ings itself had made it public that it was seeking an SHA. In the context of Auck-land’s housing shortage, an SHA is land that is earmarked for fast-track develop-ment of affordable housing without many of the usual hearings.

Development at Bayswater marina can’t come soon enough for Takapuna Grammar Rowing club, which has been offered a new clubhouse as part of the scheme. The club has called the Blue Shed on Bayswater marina home for 30 years, but is losing a battle against time to stay there.

It has been told by Auckland Transport (AT) that demoli-tion of the shed could start as early as July 2015, when AT starts its upgrade of the Bayswater Ferry Terminal, which will include park-and-ride facilities on marina land.

Rowing club president Russell Malone said Bayswater Marina Holdings has made the club an offer to fund the construction of a new clubhouse as part of its proposed resi-dential development on marina land, but with the Blue Shed eviction less than a year away, this is only of help should the marina development plans be accelerated through an SHA.

“We are the piggy in the middle,” Malone said.“We are not necessarily in favour of an SHA but we see

it as an opportunity to allow for the timelines to align,” he told the Devonport-Takapuna Local Board during the public forum preceding its closed-door meeting.

“Otherwise, we fear that we will be the ones without a seat when the music stops, because given the rate that AT wants to move, we will be out of a home next year,” he says.

Malone told the Flagstaff: “BML have been very keen to engage and understand the club’s needs. The club is very grateful for the offer. After all, BML are not obliged in any way to assist the club.”

Moreover, “Our club has a strong view that the Unitary Plan, in respect to council-owned land, does not provide for sufficient active marine rereational activity,” he said.

Seeking transparency… Bayswater Community Committee chair Gay Richards, flanked by Paddy Stafford-Bush (right) and Kim Goldsworthy

From page 1 Closed meeting Rowing club offered clubhouse sweetener


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To the editor of last issue’s Flagstaff article about the teens “dealing e-cigarettes”.

I’m a Devonport father of two, aged 12 and 16, and have been a strong smoker for the past 22 years. A few months ago, my 16-year-old convinced me to convert to e-cigarettes. After many hours of research, I found that these electronic shisha pens contain no harmful

toxins such as nicotine, tar, tobacco or carbon monoxide. They are in fact purely flavoured water vapour that are 70% Glycerol, a harm-less compound found in many foods as a sweetener and contains no sugar.

I believe the article over exaggerated the danger of the products and confused these flavoured water vapour pens for actual elec-

tronic cigarettes that include nicotine.However I feel as though there is a level of

maturity needed to use any product that pro-motes smoking. On the other hand kids these days are well informed about the danger of abusing any substance and should be allowed to make their own decisions on the topic.Craig Melche

Last night (4 Aug) whilst driving home at approx 17:50pm, I turned into Victoria Rd and the sight I saw stunned me. There, at the Devonport Cenotaph was a large group of anti-war protesters picketing the Cenotaph.

Why am I so incensed, freedom of speech and all that...? Well I’ll tell you why.

It was the 100-year anniversary of the start of WWI, where we as a small nation had a 58%

casualty rate where we lost 16,697 fathers, uncles, brothers, sons and nephews. Another 41,317 were wounded and returned forever changed. Because of these brave and coura-geous souls we enjoy the freedom we do today.

Then there’s WWII, the Korean War, Viet-nam, Afghanistan etc.. Then there’s our current serving personnel and family who are killed, whilst serving to protect NZ and guard these freedoms, every day of the week 24/7 a day - yep that’s right even Christmas Day.

Let me be clear here, this wasn’t a group of radical youths - this was mainly a group of middle-aged women - most who would have likely lost someone in conflict. Their signs were highly inflammatory and offensive. When did we lose the notion of being thankful or respectful?

I worked for the RNZN for almost five years. I have friends currently deployed on operational service and many of my friends are current serving personnel, ex-service personnel, some retired personnel with 40+ years of service. I’m grateful to all of them for their service.

In the last 10 years I’ve been to many a fu-

neral of both serving personnel and ex-service personnel and I remember them every Anzac Day at the Devonport Cenotaph. I view this protest as a desecration of a sacred site where we pay our respects to our fallen heroes. It is a place of peace - it is NOT a place for protest, EVER! It’s akin to peeing on someone’s grave and if I did that to one of their relatives I’m sure they’d be just as insulted as I am.

The Cenotaph is a place to be respected, where we remember our fallen heroes and be thankful for their brave service. Where we remember them and honour them. Without their sacrifice and service we would not have the freedoms that we do today.

LEST WE FORGET! Heather Crawford

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Shore residents will be opening their rates statements this week with some alarm as many face increases in the $800-$1,000 range. The Mayor’s 2.5-3.5% average is a joke as business differentials reduce, plac-ing hefty increases on residential ratepayers, who in reality face huge, even 10% increases. To add to the insult, many Shore projects that were funded in North Shore City days are now on the chopping block to save this frivolous council: Devonport Marine Square boardwalk and the Torpedo Bay walkway for example.

The more appropriate projects that should be slashed are the hugely expensive yet unbudgeted, ill-described, so-called ‘trans-formation’ projects. The council’s numerous Special Housing Areas (SHAs) will also attract massive growth that will need to be

funded by local boards, as development con-tributions end up in the regional slush fund rather than being spent on local infrastruc-ture. So we could be in the situation where local developers pay towards a reserve and yet the funding goes into central coffers, not benefitting the locals who have to deal with the extra growth pressures.

Perhaps this dodgy drive for extra Council funding is the real reason SHAs are being rushed through without proper consultation or planning.

I predict that any political party that advocates an ‘independent’ northern local authority in this year’s elections will find rich pickings in Rodney and the North Shore.Dr Grant GillonLocal Board member Kaipatiki & Devonport-Takapuna

Well said Ron Dykman! What a sorry sight our local politicians and MPs make. Yes, decisions are made with minimum reference to the citizens that they claim

I am writing to express my concern at the Flagstaff’s continued publishing of cor-respondence by Ron Dykman and am sur-prised that his latest missive was considered worthy of publication.

It contains false allegations (to the point of being defamatory) and is sprinkled with inaccuracies, which make for unpleasant reading when the rest of the paper contains good news stories, stories of sporting and cultural success and of community interest.

I’ve worked in countries where oppres-sion and censorship have crushed freedom of speech, but there comes a limit that good taste and moderate thought can stand. In my opinion, Mr Dykman has gone well beyond that limit and it is time for the Flagstaff to exercise some censorship.

Please do not continue to publish Mr Dykman’s correspondence - he adds noth-ing to any thoughtful or constructive debate and wastes good column inches that could be filled with much more pleasant offerings.Chris Powell

to represent. The shambles of Lake Road continues on a 7-days-a-week basis, and the Bayswater peninsular is threatened by a gross replication of Coronation Street - yet our representatives stand idly by in spite of the widespread public protest. Instead they demonstrate their community concern by the installation of spy cameras, judder bars, silly speed signs …. the list goes on!

Dykman calls for the reintroduction of captial punishment as an appropriate ret-ribution for the politicians’ secretive, non-consultative behaviour. Bit harsh, really. Far more appropriate would be a series of public floggings followed by a spell in the stocks - to take place near the site of the plaque that commemorates Devonport’s last hanging. John Reynolds

Well said Ron, but floggings more appropriate than capital punishment

Dykman adds nothing to debate

• Editor Rob Drent replies: While Ron Dykman’s forthright style may not be to eve-ryone’s taste, he has a right to his criticisms and opinions, which can be appropriately aired in a letters-to-the-editor column.

Not all his letters are published and many are abridged due to space constraints. All are edited for accuracy and defamation.

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USED READING GLASSES, HEARING AIDS & BATTERIES

COLLECTED FOR CHARITY Devonport Lions are collecting used prescription and reading glasses, sunglasses and hearing aids. These items are refurbished and sent to the Pacific Islands. They can be dropped off at

Devonport Optometrists in the Arcade at 6 Wynyard St. Devonport Lions are also

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Three times lucky in Devonport

Blessed with a mischievous sense of humour and a sharp mind, three-time Devonport resident and Korean War veteran Alan Taylor just celebrated his 87th birthday and the 61st an-niversary of the Korean War Armistice. He spoke to Maire Vi-eth about his childhood in naval towns and returning full circle to Devonport.

Alan Taylor can’t seem to get Devonport out of his system. He has lived in Devonport three times – as a child, a teenager and later with his grown family.

Born on August 4, 1927 in England’s naval city of Portsmouth, he celebrated his first Christmas on Calliope Rd. His English father worked in the Royal Navy and was posted to New Zealand for the next five years.

Taylors’s early Devonport memories are around his Airedale Terrier Roy, who pulled his pram up the hill from Stanley Bay beach and who helped him sneak biscuits from a friendly neighbour. He also remembers driving to Napier shortly after the 1931 earthquake. “Eskale Drive was down and we had to drive across the railway lines. There were sheep with their backsides all burned running around,” he says.

In 1932, on Taylor’s fifth birthday, the family returned to England on the ocean pas-senger liner RMS Rangitata via the Panama Canal and lived at his grandmother’s house in London, opposite Holloway Prison for women.

They moved back to Portsmouth and Taylor started school. “I was always in trouble. The girl sitting in front of me had plaits and once I tied them on the top rail of her chair on either side. Another time, I slipped a grass snake down the back of

her neck,” he says. Taylor adds that he was caned regularly though.

He received a scholarship to attend the local grammar school but was evacuated in August 1939, as the British government closed all schools in the city in the lead-up to the war and children were moved to country areas.Taylor’s father had been posted on a ship in the Far East since 1938 and his mother stayed in Portsmouth.

Taylor remembers the time with a sense of adventure. “Our school took over an old school in Sparsholt that had been shut down. We were put in the empty swimming pool. There was a pile of straw in the corner and some sacks, which we had to fill, and they were our beds. At night we could see the stars through the glass roof above it,” he says.

Taylor and his class were moved several times during the early war years. He hated the regular gas-mask drills and still hates the smell of rubber because of them. He recalls sharing a boarding house with fifth formers. “During air raids we used to go and hide underneath the stairs and the senior boys would teach us chess until the air raids were over, which sometimes wasn’t until after midnight,” he says.

After the Battle of Dunkirk in 1940, the adventures took on another element of real-ity. Taylor and his classmates helped their

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headmaster bury food at the bottom of the school’s garden, expecting the Germans to invade. “Our beaches were barbed-wired, but we still managed to get through and go swimming sometimes,” he says. Walking a dog on the beach one day, Taylor failed to hear an air-raid siren before he saw objects fall out of a plane. “It was only the spent cartridge cases falling down, but it gave me a big fright,” he says.

When Taylor was 13 he and his mother moved back to New Zealand, travelling on the RMS Rangitata. “We were in a convoy at sea – speeding up or slowing down to avoid torpedoes – when one hit another boat. I remember going out on deck and seeing it all lit up. It was taking 500 children to Canada but they all survived in lifeboats,” he says.

In 1942, Taylor’s father followed and the family moved into a flat at 4 Old Lake Road. “I had my own horse. Woodall Park was a paddock and a man from the council had two cows on it and we paid him a little bit of money to let Tony (his horse) graze,” he says.

“On Sundays, two local girls and I would ride up Lake Rd to the North Shore Riding Club, which was where the hospital is now.

“Other horses were kept where Belmont Primary School is today. We had lots of fun,” he says.

Taylor graduated from Takapuna Gram-mar School in 1946 and signed up with Auckland’s Youth Farm Settlement Board and became a farm cadet, receiving a suspensory loan of £200. He liked the first farmer he worked for in Opotiki, who made sure the cadets had one Sunday off a month.

After a bad accident with caustic acid, Taylor returned to his parents’ home (now on Merani St) and was treated by a doctor who had specialised in burns during the war.

When he returned to farming, Taylor shifted south of Te Awamutu, where the farmer didn’t like tractors. “We would do all our farm work with horses. I learned how to drive five abreast” he says.

His next farm was at Te Miro, just outside Cambridge: a year on 32 acres of “back and bush country” behind Lake Rotomahana.

In 1952, Taylor volunteered for the Ko-rean War, lured by a £5,000 government loan. “I thought with that and my other £200, I could set myself up quite nicely as a dairy farmer, so I tottled off to war,” he says.

I was an artillery driver operator. One night a small bear rustled close by and frightened us a bit, and at times we would find placards telling us to go home put up right next to our trench in the morning. But that was about it,” he says.

He returned in 1956, aged 23. A series of fainting spells ended his dream of farming and brought him back to Devonport. Taylor started work in a soil mechanics lab for Auckland’s city council, testing the strength of soil and concrete for road construction.

He met his future wife Joan (an artist) and he enrolled in the army to earn more money. Taylor was posted to Papakura, where the couple moved to and raised three children.

In 1964, Taylor helped train the first unit of soldiers who went to fight in Vietnam. Kidney problems meant he had to stay at home.

In 1966, he was posted to Wellington with the army to work with computers that “were still the size of his living room”, he says.

In 1979, Taylor retired from the army as a Major and went on to work for the Depart-ment of Statistics in Auckland.

“I ran their computer division, or tried to, until I was 60 and they kicked me out,” he jokes. He and Joan were back in Devonport and glad to live close to their elderly parents.

Taylor has now been retired for 27 years. Some of that time, he and Joan spent sailing on a small yacht. “Then I became what I call ballast,” he says.

Today Taylor teaches people aged over 50 at Bayswater’s SeniorNet how to use a computer, “even though I am quite a bit older than them,” he laughs.

He is also an active member at Devon-port’s Anglican Holy Trinity Church.

Taylor also volunteers at the Museum of Transport and Technology in Western Springs on Wednesday mornings.

“We converted a Lancaster four-engine bomber the French used after the war for maritime surveillance into what it would have looked like in 1944,” he says.

He gets around mostly by car, or on his electrical bike, that replaced the series of Brit-ish motorbikes he owned in his younger years.

Taylor is a member of New Zealand’s RSA, K-Force and Royal Artillery Associa-tion. An Englishman who fought for New Zealand in Korea and has lived here for most of his life, does he call himself a Kiwi or an Englishman these days?

“I guess I am a New Zealander by osmo-sis, but I have never done anything about it. So it depends a bit on who I am talking to. You have got to be cunning,” he says.

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It’s not often you get to write to Auckland Council with some good news, but I’ve emailed them today to say how wonderful the new pedestrian crossing is at the junction of Fleet Street and Victoria Road. It has made a tremendous difference to people waiting to cross at that intersection, always very busy with people coming in and out of the supermarket. It’s little improvements like this that will continue to make Devonport so much safer and more pleasant for walkers, cyclists and motorists alike. Alison Arnold

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I was pleased to read your article on the Bayswater marina survey and the complaint laid by Jodi Letica.

I too was phoned as part of the survey and found it to be extremely misleading and very biased. Of course residents would want more playgrounds, improved access to water and new rowing club facilities. The questions were asked with no context or opportunity to offer feedback.

The survey was over before there was any-

thing pertaining to the number of dwellings proposed, architectural design information, carparking and public transport, boating ac-cess or infrastructure and utilities impacts. What exactly does ‘more playgrounds’ and ‘better access to water’ actually mean?

I’m extremely disappointed to know that Colmar Brunton were involved in such a one-sided and biased survey.Catherine ThorpeBayswater Resident

Which part of STOP don’t drivers under-stand?

August 12th around 5.30pm at the inter-section of Aramoana Ave and Regent Street, Devonport, there is a motor vehicle incident that looks like one driver didn’t stop at the sign.

The car with the right of way gets tee boned and the occupant needed an ambulance. With that the police get called and the costs to eve-ryone just go up from there.

This is a quiet street until the occasional idiot comes along.

I don’t care how many people think they are special and can do whatever they please, the fact is if you don’t follow the rules you agreed to, there is no place for you behind a steering wheel or handlebars.

People who do not obey the road code should not drive, period.Ian Ferguson

Praise for ATBayswater survey misleading and biased

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Herbert has admitted that he only has to wait until the Auckland Unitary Plan comes

into force for him to be able to cover the land with five-storey apartments.

The real answer, I suspect, is that as (National’s North Shore MP) Maggie Barry has become so unpopular over this issue, she needs some ‘good news’ to parade at her St Paul’s meeting on the 28th of August.

There are additional historic issues of al-ienation of public coastal land in her present term: The 3.2 hectares of Defence Reserve at Narrow Neck was given to Ngati Whatua o Orakei for commercial development in lieu of compensation. This land would have become Reserve under the Hauraki Gulf Marine Park as soon as Defence had no further use for it, but Chris Finlayson, Minister of Treaty Settlements, found a way to circumvent the usual process. This issue remains an open wound in the community.

Then there was the lack of certainty over who would manage the “Queen’s chain” marginal strip or esplanade reserve over Polly’s Park on the Wakakura Block title when it was disposed of by the Crown to the same Maori tribe for commercial development. I think I can hear the faint sound of Polly turning in her grave. We will remember Polly for all her good work.

Lastly we have the unpopular National Ocean Water Sports proposal, financed by the Government, which involves the closure of the much loved Takapuna Camping Ground.

Maggie’s voter support could easily fail over these issues.

With another three years in power, how much more public coastal land could be lost?Graham Pettersen

Coastal land controversies the legacy of Barry’s first term


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Events like the Weet-Bix Kids TRYathlon

or the Navy’s Open Day should no longer be

held in Devonport unless event organisers can

alleviate traffic congestion, says Auckland

Councillor Chris Darby.In the last month, both the Weet-Bix Kids

TRYathlon (April 6) and the Navy Open Day

(March 29) clogged up Lake Rd, Victoria Rd

and side streets feeding into them for hours.

At times, cars were backed up as far down the

peninsula as the Devonport ferry building. The

Weet-Bix event experienced record numbers for

the second year in a row, with 2,300 children

aged 7 to 15 taking part.Public transport came to a standstill as well,

with buses temporarily out of service as they

could not get out into the traffic, the Flagstaff

has learned.The Duchess of Cambridge, Catherine Middleton, is officially a Flagstaff reader – for one edition at least.

During William and Kate’s visit to New Zealand, the Duchess featured on the Flagstaff front page pictured alongside local sailor Kate Stewart.

After the April 18 edition came out, Sarah Waite sent some copies back to friends and family in England.

“One of my friends sent it to the Duchess…(and) she was thrilled to receive it,” Waite said.

One of the Duchess’ staff said in a letter: “The Duch-ess of Cambridge has asked me to thank you for your letter and enclosures of 27th May.

“Her Royal Highness thoroughly enjoyed her visit to New Zealand and was overwhelmed by the wonderful reception she received.

“The Duchess of Cambridge was touched by your generous words of support and has asked me to send you her warmest thanks and best wishes,” the staff member said.

Cover girls… Kate Middleton on the front page of the Flagstaff with Kate Stewart


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A suburban orienteering race across the Devonport peninsula is the latest innovation in school fundraising.

The August 31 event is being jointly organ-ised by Belmont Intermediate School (BIS) Parent Teacher Association and Auckland Orienteering.

It is the brainchild of BIS PTA chair Mi-chelle Millington, who says it is a family event open to all ages and abilities.

“My husband and kids and I participated in a rogaine at Riverhead recently and we just

had the best time together. As a parent helper at the Orienteering Zone Day in Long Bay Regional Park, the feedback from the school kids was the same. They said it was the best Zone Day ever,” she says.

Millington contacted Auckland Orienteer-ing and asked if the school could run an ori-enteering event locally and managed to enlist the club as the event’s co-organiser, providing maps, electronic chips and orange/white flags at the control points.

“We are basically trying to find a different

way to bring the local community together at the school. The kids here are too old for a school fair, and we thought family orienteer-ing could be a good alternative,” Millington says.

After the race, parents will hand out prizes, and put on a food alley and games to finish the day off.

BIS Principal Nick Hill plans to compete on the day as part of a team of teachers.

“After that, I will help serve food after the race. This is something a bit different and I hope it will bring lots of locals to our school for the day,” Hill says.

Millington adds: “The event is not so much about speed or raising money, but more about having a go and learning about the sport of orienteering.”

This July, a New Zealand orienteering team competed in the Junior World Orienteering Champs in Bulgaria, where Kiwi Tim Rob-ertson won the sprint competition on a 3.7 km course through the parks and streets of Samokov.

The Sunday 31 August race is limited to 200 teams. Enter at www.entryform.co.nz/belmont/

Entries close on August 28 No late entries or entries on the day. Registration is $10 per person.

Setting the pace…The first team to enter the BIS Orienteering Competition is Team Banana Boat, which includes (from left) Kate and Joe Millington, mum Michelle, Abby Harris and Charlie Millington.

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While showing general support of Auck-land Council’s new Draft Local Alcohol Policy, the Devonport-Takapuna Local Board has also asked for it to become more local still.

The board requested that council’s gov-erning body “delegate to local boards the power to make objections on alcohol licence applications under the Sale and Supply of Alcohol Act 2012,” and said it would only make objection “in instances of significant community concern about an application.”

The board wants information about liquor licence applications to be more easily acces-sible than it currently is.

It also asked that its view on any appli-cation be attached to the report sent to the District Licensing Committee.

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Around 50 people attended a peace vigil at the Devonport war memorial to mark the anniversary of the beginning of World War 1.

Devonport Peace Group spokesperson Ruth Coombes said the vigil was to commemorate all the victims of this war, including non-combatants and those who opposed the war.

Organised nationally by Peace Movement Aotearoa, the attendees included Women’s International League For Peace and Freedom (WILPF), Pax Christie, Society of Friends (Quakers), Devonport Peace group and community members including Devonport-

Takapuna Local Board member Grant Gillon and Keith Locke, a former Green Party MP.

Coombes said the vigils across the country had three main themes: “Remember all the casualties of war, ending war as a response to conflict and work to promote peace in every way we can.”

“The message honour the war dead by end-ing war, encapsulates these messages.

“We urge those to remember that peace is not just the space between wars, but an op-portunity to work towards ensuring it never happens again,” said Coombes.

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Joan Taylor’s exhibition at the Flagstaff Gallery is on until September 2, not August 4 as reported in the July 25 Flagstaff.

Anne Kennedy and Iain Sharp will dis-cuss the world of writing over a glass of wine at the Michael King Writers’ Centre on August 24 at 4pm.

Anne Kennedy has written fiction, poetry and film scripts. Her latest volume of poetry won its category in the 2013 NZ Post Book Awards and her most recent novel, The Last Days of the National Costume, is a finalist in the fiction category of this year’s awards. Kennedy holds The University of Auckland Residency at the Michael King Writers’ Centre, and is working on her next novel.

In his day job, Iain Sharp is a manuscripts librarian in the Sir George Grey Special Collections at Auckland Library. He is well known as a reviewer, writer and poet and he has authored two books.

Entry is by koha ($5).

Local complaints over bus overcrowding have been heeded to a degree with Auckland Transport (AT) making numerous changes to services.

But local mums Liz Cannon and Lisa Clementson say complaints from children and parents keep streaming in and that AT’s changes have either not been implemented or have had no effect.

Two months ago, Cannon and Clementson launched a media and political campaign against overcrowded local school buses, asking that council provide one seat per child on public school buses in the name of safety.

In a list of newly implemented safety measures, AT stopped short of this.

Instead, they have implemented stopping restrictions for Takapuna Grammar and Westlake afternoon school buses to Stanley Bay, lines 082 and 087 respectively, says AT spokesperson Mark Hannan.

On the first day of term 3, Takapuna Gram-mar students were given a note saying the 082 bus would no longer stop before Calliope Road due to overcrowding. Students who get off earlier now have to use the 017, 080, 083 or 087 lines, the note says.

AT also said they had added buses and upsized others along some lines, and would

ensure that rear doors will no longer be used on school trips.

“School buses are still allowed to have people standing, but the latest changes will minimise the numbers. Where students need to stand, they are encouraged to move down the bus and not to congregate around doors,” Hannan says.

David Tribe, AT Bus Services Support Manager, said in an email to the mothers: “We now consider that we have addressed these concerns and have now closed the file.”

However Clementson and Cannon say there has been little substantive change and that the file needs to stay open. They claim buses are still not stopping to pick up waiting children, rear doors are still in use, the stop-ping restrictions are not in effect and random adults have been allowed on the school bus. “And some parents’ complaints have not been responded to,” they say.

AT’s proposed changes do not get to the heart of the safety issue that concerns them, the pair maintain.

“New Zealand is out of date with safety protocols for school buses, which is some-thing that needs addressing on a legislative level,” says Clementson.

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Dance and career moves at Devonport Primary

Former Devonport Primary School (DPS) principal Shirley Hardcastle practically danced out of the door at a special assembly during her last week at school.

“I am leaving the Irish way, which is celebrating rather than crying,” she told the Flagstaff on August 8, her final day at the school.

Since then, Deputy Principal Bruce Tilby has handed in his resignation as well. After ten years at DPS, in 2015 he will become principal of Orewa North Primary School. Meanwhile he is stepping in as DPS Acting Principal until a replacement for Hardcastle has been appointed.

Earlier in the year, Deputy Principal Kay Lowe left DPS to take up a position at the Ministry of Education. Her role has since

been filled by Lesley Brewer, who was previously a dean at St Cuthbert’s College Junior School.

The DPS Board of Trustees sent a letter to parents last week, saying three senior staff leaving the school in such a short space of time was “something to be proud of.”

Nick Thomas, the board’s chairman said: “Shirley and Kay have both been headhunted for senior positions within the Ministry and ERO respectively, and Bruce has been ap-pointed to a great position that better suits his own lifestyle choices. These three are excellent examples of the quality of staff Devonport Primary School has been able to develop over the years, and presents an opportunity for us to forge a new chapter in the story of Devonport Primary School,”

Shirley lets her hair down… Devonport Primary School principal Shirley Hardcastle (right) shaked rattled and rolled out of the school after 12 years in charge. Nic Davis (Year 2 teacher) joins in the fun.

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Diane Carter (nee Gillibrand), who passed away peacefully at home July 21, was well known in Devonport.

She was owner of The Barber Shop for many years and, as a member of the Devonport Business Association and the lo-cal residents and ratepayers group was active in the community and lobbied for change.

Diane was born in Grey Lynn, on 15 No-vember 1932, to Tom and Connie Gillibrand, (a railwayman and homemaker) and was the youngest of three children.

When the children were still young the family moved to Whangarei. After attend-ing Whangarei Girls High School, Diane pursued her dream and became an apprentice hairdresser to Norma Ross, who ran one of Whangarei’s most prestigious salons. Norma was Diane’s business mentor and role model. Diane also became involved in indoor bas-ketball as both a player and administrator.

Always glamorous and stylish, in her younger days Diane was greatly admired for her long legs and high stilettos (some of her friends blame her for their lifelong obsession with shoes).

Diane married George Carter and became mother to daughters Jaye and Sheridan.

Diane continued in hairdressing and eventually owned a successful salon in Whangarei called My Fair Lady. She was an early member of Zonta and worked hard to support women and girls in the local com-munity. Diane was committed to the goals of Zonta throughout her life, envisioning a future “in which women’s rights are recog-nised as human rights and every woman is able to achieve her full potential”.

The cut and thrust of politics was another great passion and Diane was a campaigner for the Labour Party over many years.

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In the 1970s she divorced George, sold My Fair Lady and moved to Auckland to be near her daughters. Diane found her way back into hairdressing and by the mid 1980s was the owner of The Barber Shop in Devonport’s Victoria Rd.

She was very much a local character along with her team of Spence Buchanan and Sandra Damiris.

In the early 1990s Diane sold The Barber Shop to Sandra and returned to Whangarei to care for her elderly mother Connie. Con-nie passed away in 1994 and in 1999 Carter moved back to Auckland and bought a cot-tage in Bayswater. Over the last few years she was busy renovating her cottage and growing a beautiful garden, odd-jobbing as a hairdresser, being an active parishioner at St Michael’s Church in Bayswater, and volunteering at the church’s St Peter’s opp shop.

Family remember the strength Diane showed in the face of many odds during her life. Her ever-present smile and easy laugh, her compassion and support for the many people who came within her sphere, espe-cially the young, and her ability and will-ingness to give without asking for anything in return, all add up to the person she was.

Others will remember the calibre of Diane’s friendship; her kindness; her love of gardening and the beautiful gardens she grew wherever she lived; her lifelong enjoyment of books and reading; her eye for nice things especially curios found in antique and secondhand shops; her sense of hospitality and pleasure in entertaining fam-ily and friends; her laughter, good humour and bonhomie.

Diane is survived by daughters Jaye and Sheridan, and grandchildren Josh and Gabrielle.

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In the barbershop…Diane Carter (nee Gillibrand) 1932-2014


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Building up to the Devonport Arts Festival locals have a chance to get involved and show off their creative talents now.

Festival organiser Toni Van Tonder says: “We need people’s help to dress up Victoria Road with hand-made bunting flags.”

Van Tonder has developed a template for the flags (which should be about 35cm long and 25cm wide) and can be made of anything people can think of. “Flags can be knitted, made out of papier-mâché, cut from old lino, crocheted, collaged, painted, embroidered, woven from flax or produced any way you like,” she says.

All local schools have signed on to help with the project and it is hoped flags will string out along the length of Victoria Rd.

A colourful day with hands-on demon-strations in painting, woodturning, pottery and stone carving, sprinkled with market stalls, roadside busking and kids yoga, plus community murals and graffiti art will kick off this year’s Devonport Arts Festival. The opening day will be centred around Wind-sor Reseve.

Van Tonder, a mother-of-two, is organising the event for the second time. “After a more formal opening last time round, with poetry readings and even the Mayor attending, I wanted this year’s opening event to be more

casual, hands-on and fun,” she says. The Devonport Arts Festival runs from

November 8 – 16. For more information, see www.devonportartsfestival.com

Devonport Arts Festival fun starts now

Flying along… organiser Toni van Tonder sets about making flags


Seniors and JuniorsSUNDAY 31ST AUGUST 2014, 1.30-3.00pm

MidweekWEDNESDAY 3RD SEPTEMBER 2014, 9.30-11.30am

Ngataringa Tennis Club, Stanley Bay Park, Devonport

New members most welcome $50 new joining fee waived if joining at above events

Professional coaching available for all levelsMore information at www.ntc.net.nz

Registration dates for the 2014/15 seasons:

Devonport’s Tennis ClubOPENING DAY

Devonport 1975… Paul Hartigan and Liz Stuttard alongside an advertising mural (since painted over) believed to be opposite The Vic theatre. Hartigan currently has a exhibition of six neon works at the Depot, running until August 27.

Hosiery and hipsters in Devonport circa 1975

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Cheltenham - stunning luxu-ry. Fully furnished apartment. Steps to the beach. Short term/long term. Phone 445 1118, 022 105 0712.

Classy 3 bedroom, 2 full bath, fully furnished Devonport house on Achilles Reserve near Narrow Neck. More information go to www.devon-porttuihouse.weebly.com or www.sabbaticalhomes.com. Ph: 445 7895.

Relatives visiting? Spacious garden studio with en-suite and kitchenette; minutes to Narrow Neck beach. Reasonable rates. Ph Pauline 445 6471.

Stunning Cheltenham Beach Cottage, metres from the beach. Available for short or long-term holiday ac-commodation. Beautifully refurbished, one bedroom, self-contained cottage with a private garden. Phone Re-bekah 027 694 3933 or email [email protected]

COMMERCIAL

Central Devonport Unit for lease.Spacious, light, ideal Light Industrial/ Workshop/ Studio/ Office. 021 1758979, 022 0652425.

To Lease - Central Devonport Office/Studio 69m2. Air conditioned, own facilities. Delightful ambience, newly refurbished and ready to go. Terms negotiable. Ph 445 3845 or 021 266 7475.

GARAGE SALE

Moving house, couches, cof-fee tables, sideboards, china etc Sat 23 Aug, 21 Rattray St Devonport from 8 am

REST HOMES

Ascot House Retirement Home, quality care with dignity in a friendly, fam-ily atmosphere. Phone Shona, 445 2518.

SERVICES OFFERED

AAA Window Cleaning, Free Quote ph David 021 368371.

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 cleaning. Call Yvonne for a free quote 415 0028.

Bookkeeping services of-fered. Experienced with Xero and MYOB, all IRD returns. Contact Sue on 445 6802.

Bookkeeping Service for small/medium local compa-nies. Let me help with your GST, PAYE and all monthly accounts. I can set you up with online accounting and work in my office or your home/office. Phone Janet on 486 1222 or 021 661138 to discuss your needs.

Builder available Small job specialist, repairs and main-tenance. Skilled, reliable and local. Please phone Clive Melling. Hm 445 2485, Mob 027 29 222 84.Devonport upholstery. Recover specialist. An-tiques and contemporary styles. Recycling furniture for 36 years. John Hancox, Telephone: 446-0372.

D e v o n p o r t W i n d o w Repairs. Sash and case-ment windows, wooden doors. Rotten sills and window components re-paired or replaced. Gen-eral carpentry. For your local window specialist. Phone Hubert Strang - 446 6174 or 021 274 4191.

Diggadrain . Drain un-blockers and drainage ex-perts. CCTV drain locating. Repairs. New drains. 0800 your drain.

Gardener Available Quali-fied and experienced land-scape designer. Enjoys get-ting his hands dirty. Good plant knowledge. Hardwork-ing, reliable and creative with plantings. Contact Pad-dy 022 502 2122 or 446 6188 [email protected]

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Gardening. Do you need regular help? No time for a tidy up? Let me help. Experienced gardener. Ph Carolyn on 446 6517 or 027 292 8167 for a free on-site consultation.ICEO

Groove Kitchens, new kitchens, stove tops, German hardware, Garth Waring ph 021 397 863 or 476 7666.

Handyman: need something fixed, quickly and well? Or need garden maintenance? Contact: David 445-0668, [email protected].

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.

Locksmith, Devonport’s own Scott Richardson. mob 021 976 607.

Stonemasons, Landscapers. All terrain TATONKA crane truck. Dave Milina & Barb Cooper. W: sustainableland-scapes.co.nz, P: 0275 430 288, E: [email protected]

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Web Design service. De-sign, hosting and maintenance available. Special rates for the Devonport Community. Contact Vanessa: [email protected]

Wood-Tech are special-ists in creating custom-design kitchens - all over Devonport. See our website - or call 09 810 8136 - for a friendly kitchen consultation www.wood-tech.co.nz

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Art classes for adults @ Devonport Community House (pick up brochure there). Since 2006 Mastering Art has been providing a ‘foundation style’ learning facility with study such as life drawing, painting, print-ing, collage and a touch of art history. Guided projects and personal creative time help to improve basic skills alongside conceptual understanding.Some art-related experience is prefer-able but not essential, Dedication and an open mind are crucial. Spaces limited. Thursday and Friday mornings (in the upstairs art room) $340 per term incl some materials, tea/coffee/bis-cuits. Tel 446 0389 or 021 144 2791, www.lucy-bucknall.co.nz, [email protected]

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Art Classes for Children Wed after school 3.20 - 5.20 in artist’s studio, Devonport. This term we are basing our artwork on music and musical instruments. Small classes - Cost $180 incl all materials and snack. Individual classes also available. Erica So-man MFA Dip Tchg, [email protected] 021 127 9671 Chess tuition and club - National Chess Centre, Devonport St Paul’s. See www.nationalchesscentre.co.nzClassical and acoustic guitar, music theory. Fun, comprehensive, tailored to you! Devonport based. Michelle Birch, BMus (Hons) [email protected], www.michellebirch.com Text 021 1275184.Devonport drama since 2002 Drama classes 8 - 18yrs Art-space on Mt Vic. [email protected], 021 262 4907.TTION

Guitar tuition - beginner/inter-mediate guitar lessons. Flexible hours, can come to you. Call or txt Josh 021 128 5556.Learn piano/keyboard. Les-sons from $17.00. Private, Professional, Affordable, Enjoyment for all ages. Com-petitions, Practical, Theory Exams. NZ Modern School of Music 0800-696-874.T

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Mathematics Tuition, Sensi-tive tutoring offered at all levels of the secondary school curricu-lum. NCEA, IB and Cambridge welcomed. 93% pass rate in 2013. NCEA 3 calculus special-ist. ph Peter Ridge BE,Dip Tchg (sec) 445 2283.

Piano and Theory of Music lessons available from experi-enced, registered teacher. Ph. John Mercer (M.Mus. LTCL) 445 6471.

Singing/instrument lessons in Devonport/Belmont. Vacancies available! Ph 376 4009 or visit www.singschool.co.nz

Singing tuition. All ages. I will show you how to be better. Pat Urlich 022 314 3001.

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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GrammarTakapunaAUGUST 22, 2014School NewS


Let’s go on a tough adventureFor the second time in our history, the

adventure racing team has qualified for the toughest event available to students. At its core, adventure racing is a non-stop, mixed gender, timed event that combines two or more disciplines; involving teamwork and advanced navigation, using a map and compass.

The TGS team: Adam Rundle, David Sorrenson, Aidan Nicholas, Robin Charlotte-Green, Tessa McNair, Lily MacDonald, Bridget McArthur and Ellie Cowan, trained together three or four times per week, prior to the event.

Wellington, Christchurch and Auckland held the three national qualifiers this year. Only two out of 30 teams qualified from the Auckland event for the national final.

In the lead up to the event a general location was given a few weeks before, but the exact start point was only revealed to participants on the day of the race, maintaining that element of adventure and the unexpected. Together, through the slippery mud, forest and sand, the team competed in a mountain-bike time trial, a three-hour rogaine and puzzling team challenges. The day consisted of extremely strenuous physical activity as

well as mental toughness.Adventure racing gives participants

the chance to challenge themselves, to find their limits and push through them. Racing often takes participants out of their comfort zone by challenging them with unfamiliar surroundings, physical and mental challenges and extreme weather conditions, often while sleep-deprived and physically exhausted. How team members react to this as an

individual and as part of the team by supporting and helping their teammates will greatly affect the whole experience of the race.

The final, in March 2015, will be held at Tongariro National Park, in the snow. The team has until then to prepare by training at a whole new level. We all agree that we will need to be ten times stronger, ten times faster and ten times smarter.

by LiLy MacDonaLD

Forty students piled into Mrs Johnson’s Business class one Monday in late June to listen to an inspiring talk from Manfred Lange. Manfred is Managing Director of Agile Utilities New Zealand Ltd. Years 11 to 13 students from the Business subjects listened to his talk as part of the Sir Peter Blake Leadership Week. We heard about Manfred’s heroes and how they taught him to be successful and have a ‘can-do’ attitude. It was an inspiring hour, with the overall message being, anything is possible.

by ciara connoLLy

Dream Team talk

Twenty aspiring, young engineers gath-ered on a Saturday in early August to par-ticipate in the annual New Zealand “Next Top Engineer” Competition, alongside 193 other teams from all over New Zealand.

This year the task was to approximate the cost to the aviation industry if Mt Taranaki was to erupt – a real-life problem that many engineers devote their lives to. The students had to write up and send through a 10-page report before the 6pm deadline. The solutions ranged from the

price of an expensive car to millions of dollars.

It was an action-packed nine hours, with non-stop thinking. A student re-called, “It was a stressful but rewarding experience,” especially with the lure of a grand prize of $6000, and a guaranteed paid summer internship opportunity at Orion Health, Fonterra, Fisher & Paykel Healthcare or the Department of Engi-neering Science.

by Gary Qian

Young Singers in Harmony (YSIH) ex-ists to develop the art of barbershop and a cappella singing in New Zealand secondary schools. On top of organis-ing workshops for coaches and stu-dents throughout the country, YSIH runs the annual national secondary school competition.

This year, the Auckland regional com-petition for Young Singers in Harmony was held at Birkenhead College in mid-June. Quartets and barbershop groups from high schools around Auckland came to compete for the chance to perform at this year’s national competi-tion, held in Wellington.

The day was absolutely spectacular for our TGS quartets, and the hard work throughout the year paid off. Our new girls’ quartet, The Feminims, came in third place at their very first barber-shop competition, while the more ex-perienced Foxy Pitches took out first place!

by Sabina GiurGiu

The undefeatable senior boys’ and girls’ badminton teams once again brought home the trophy for the 2014 NZCT Senior Secondary Schools Badminton League! With over 40 teams competing, both TGS teams achieved a tremendous result, winning every game of the season. For the girls, this is the fourth year in a row, and it is a second win for the boys’ team. All the players agreed that “it was one of the best seasons we’ve played.”

“I’m glad we could defend the title again this year. Now I can leave Takapuna

Grammar with pride from this victorious memory,” said Keith, adding, “I hope this win will inspire the team next year to do even better.”

Coach Kiyoung Lee said, “I am very proud and happy for them. They trained hard and definitely deserved it.”

The players dedicated time in the morn-ings for training twice a week. Games were held at the North Harbour Badmin-ton Centre with each contest consisting of singles and doubles matches.

by WenDy Jian

NZ’s next top engineers

The art of barbershop

Badminton success again




Let’s go on a tough adventureFor the second time in our history, the

adventure racing team has qualified for the toughest event available to students. At its core, adventure racing is a non-stop, mixed gender, timed event that combines two or more disciplines; involving teamwork and advanced navigation, using a map and compass.

The TGS team: Adam Rundle, David Sorrenson, Aidan Nicholas, Robin Charlotte-Green, Tessa McNair, Lily MacDonald, Bridget McArthur and Ellie Cowan, trained together three or four times per week, prior to the event.

Wellington, Christchurch and Auckland held the three national qualifiers this year. Only two out of 30 teams qualified from the Auckland event for the national final.

In the lead up to the event a general location was given a few weeks before, but the exact start point was only revealed to participants on the day of the race, maintaining that element of adventure and the unexpected. Together, through the slippery mud, forest and sand, the team competed in a mountain-bike time trial, a three-hour rogaine and puzzling team challenges. The day consisted of extremely strenuous physical activity as

well as mental toughness.Adventure racing gives participants

the chance to challenge themselves, to find their limits and push through them. Racing often takes participants out of their comfort zone by challenging them with unfamiliar surroundings, physical and mental challenges and extreme weather conditions, often while sleep-deprived and physically exhausted. How team members react to this as an

individual and as part of the team by supporting and helping their teammates will greatly affect the whole experience of the race.

The final, in March 2015, will be held at Tongariro National Park, in the snow. The team has until then to prepare by training at a whole new level. We all agree that we will need to be ten times stronger, ten times faster and ten times smarter.

by LiLy MacDonaLD

Forty students piled into Mrs Johnson’s Business class one Monday in late June to listen to an inspiring talk from Manfred Lange. Manfred is Managing Director of Agile Utilities New Zealand Ltd. Years 11 to 13 students from the Business subjects listened to his talk as part of the Sir Peter Blake Leadership Week. We heard about Manfred’s heroes and how they taught him to be successful and have a ‘can-do’ attitude. It was an inspiring hour, with the overall message being, anything is possible.

by ciara connoLLy

Dream Team talk

Twenty aspiring, young engineers gath-ered on a Saturday in early August to par-ticipate in the annual New Zealand “Next Top Engineer” Competition, alongside 193 other teams from all over New Zealand.

This year the task was to approximate the cost to the aviation industry if Mt Taranaki was to erupt – a real-life problem that many engineers devote their lives to. The students had to write up and send through a 10-page report before the 6pm deadline. The solutions ranged from the

price of an expensive car to millions of dollars.

It was an action-packed nine hours, with non-stop thinking. A student re-called, “It was a stressful but rewarding experience,” especially with the lure of a grand prize of $6000, and a guaranteed paid summer internship opportunity at Orion Health, Fonterra, Fisher & Paykel Healthcare or the Department of Engi-neering Science.

by Gary Qian

Young Singers in Harmony (YSIH) ex-ists to develop the art of barbershop and a cappella singing in New Zealand secondary schools. On top of organis-ing workshops for coaches and stu-dents throughout the country, YSIH runs the annual national secondary school competition.

This year, the Auckland regional com-petition for Young Singers in Harmony was held at Birkenhead College in mid-June. Quartets and barbershop groups from high schools around Auckland came to compete for the chance to perform at this year’s national competi-tion, held in Wellington.

The day was absolutely spectacular for our TGS quartets, and the hard work throughout the year paid off. Our new girls’ quartet, The Feminims, came in third place at their very first barber-shop competition, while the more ex-perienced Foxy Pitches took out first place!

by Sabina GiurGiu

The undefeatable senior boys’ and girls’ badminton teams once again brought home the trophy for the 2014 NZCT Senior Secondary Schools Badminton League! With over 40 teams competing, both TGS teams achieved a tremendous result, winning every game of the season. For the girls, this is the fourth year in a row, and it is a second win for the boys’ team. All the players agreed that “it was one of the best seasons we’ve played.”

“I’m glad we could defend the title again this year. Now I can leave Takapuna

Grammar with pride from this victorious memory,” said Keith, adding, “I hope this win will inspire the team next year to do even better.”

Coach Kiyoung Lee said, “I am very proud and happy for them. They trained hard and definitely deserved it.”

The players dedicated time in the morn-ings for training twice a week. Games were held at the North Harbour Badmin-ton Centre with each contest consisting of singles and doubles matches.

by WenDy Jian

NZ’s next top engineers

The art of barbershop

Badminton success again


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TGS Fashion Show gets nostalgic on 10th Anniversary

Zoe Seligman (Year 13) in a long 1950s chiffon lace dress that could easily pass for a wedding gown.

Lily Hannington (Year 10) twirling in a 1980s woven wool suit by Auckland designer Adrienne Winkelmann.

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“Summer bodies are made in winter”

This is not a bootcamp, and numbers are restricted - early bookings essential

Outdoor Group TrainingJanet Klee, REPS-registered personal trainer, brings you innovative and results-driven training in a group environment.Group Training utilises a variety of functional resistance exercises and combines them with aerobic conditioning to give a total-body workout! You will improve muscle tone and strength, core stability, and cardiovascular fitness whilst burning body fat. All achieved in a highly motivating and enjoyable group environment.There will also be lots of advice on diet, all-round health and well-being.

Summer training – sorted 3

Narrow Neck Beach (situated by the children’s playground in front of the changing sheds)

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Back to the Future is where Takapuna Grammar School’s annual fashion show is heading this month.

“We are celebrating our tenth anniver-sary looking back into the past and back over the years at TGS,” says Deborah Woodward, Head of Soft Technology and the teacher in charge of the show.

The annual fundraiser for Starship Hos-pital will feature New Zealand designer Hailwood, vintage couture from local shop Viva La Vintage, steampunk designs by Cogs and Compass, Frank Casey suits and garments designed by former TGS students currently studying fashion.

Student work will also be on the runway, with laser-cut dresses produced by Year 13 and Year 12 creations that reference 1960s pop culture. The ever popular Year 10 one-sies and wearable art will also be on show.

All garments will be modelled by stu-dents and last week a group of girls tried out dresses and jewellery.

• Back to the Future will be held on August 27 at the Bruce Mason Centre, 7.30 pm.

Tickets are $25 and available at www.ticketmaster.co.nz

Maddy Fleming (Year 13) in a classic burgundy velvet Ralph Lauren gown from the 1990s.


Belmont climber Erica Gatland won two New Zealand titles last weekend – in the lead-up to the World Youth Championships in New Caledonia in less than five weeks.

Erica won gold in the under-18 female lead climb and under-18 female bouldering events.

Her goal at the world youth champs is to beat all New Zealanders and Australians in her age group and to make it into the semi-finals.

“It is my first world champs and I want to be realistic. No Kiwi has ever won before and the best came something like 21st,” says the Year-12 Takapuna Grammar student.

At home, Erica is in a league of her own, winning just about every competition she enters. Last year she also won the nationals, and the open and under-18 National Indoor Boulder-ing Series.

Erica qualified for the youth world champs last year. “New Zealand in the end didn’t send a team because there weren’t enough climbers. This year there are 13 of us,” she says.

The competition at the youth worlds is tough, says Erica. “Northern hemisphere countries like the US, Japan or Europe are performing on a higher level usually,” she says.

Erica wants to change that. She hopes to inspire young Kiwis to follow her into the sport. “I make sure that I am going to all the comps, even the regional ones because I am sort of a role model for the younger climbers, plus it is good training for me,” she says.

Erica trains three times a week indoors,

sometimes adds another day outdoors, runs and does core training on her off-days. “I also try to eat well and just be in the best shape possible,” she says.

“The great thing about climbing is that it is always challenging, that there is always room to improve and that there are always new op-portunities. And climbing outdoors just makes you feel great,” she says.

Erica’s long-term climbing plans will even-tually take her away from the southern hemi-sphere.

“Next year I want to compete in the youth worlds in Italy and when I am done with school, I want to travel to the US and Europe and climb there. Outdoor climbing in places like that is where the sport is at when you get older,” she says.

Erica aiming to climb to new heights

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Shore’s golden season continues with Under-85kg winNorth Shore Rugby Club celebrations

continued this month with the Under-85kg team taking the North Harbour title - add-ing to the Premiers and Premier Reserves championships.

The Under-85s beat Takapuna 24-12 in the final to go through the 2014 season unbeaten in 16 games. It is the side’s fourth North Harbour Championship in five seasons.

Playing against the wind, Shore fell behind 12-0, but regrouped for an 8-12 half-time scoreline. The game was evenly placed until the 60th minute when captain Chris Bennett scored for Shore. Substitu-tions helped Shore in the last 15-20 minutes with an instant impact off the bench from 55-year-old Steve Hinchey who secured an important turnover. Ater an onslaught by the North Shore forwards, Travis Keane crossed beside the posts towards the end of the game to make it 24-12.

Coach Keane said the success of the side was based on a core bunch of older players and a new corp of younger members (Callum Chapman, Sam French, Olly Harper, Angus Dines, Scott Brentnall and Jaeden Geeshe.)

The team scored 687 points for, with 86 against. The team was: Sean Grogan, Peter Thorne, Scott Brentnall, Jesse Pye, Chris Bennett (Captain), Ra Brightwell, Callum Chapman, Mitchell Pye. Oliver Harper, Hayden Viles, Brett Rodokal,

Travis Keane, Rory Pole, Angus Dines, and Paul Craig. Bench: James Boys, Scott Landsdowne, Steve Hinchey, Jaeden Geeshe, Sam French, Matt Lees, Carl Marshall and Matt McAlpine.

Shore’s Under-85kg side adds weight to victorious season

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