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Tuesday • JaNuaRy 14 • 2014 PHONe: 09 235 78 35 FaX: 09 235 78 34 Post VOL 26 • NO.01 FRI SAT SUN PAGE 5 9 “Why we didn’t hang the Mayor out to dry” Major refit underway PAGE URGENT NOTICE Christmas stock clearance - items priced at cost + 5% - see back page! GARY PYES 43 QUEEN ST, WAIUKU • PH 09 235 9711 OPEN SATURDAYS 9-4 37 Queen Street, Waiuku Phone 235 5180 Weekdays 9am - 5:30pm Saturday 9am - 1pm 20 Hall Street, Pukekohe tel: 09 238 3796 free phone : 0800-SEEING Formerly John Kelsey Optometrists The Waiuku Opportunity Shop provided a very special opportunity over the holiday break as Kiwi singing sensation Lorde dropped into town during a holiday at a family bach on the Awhitu Peninsula. Lorde, whose real name is Ella Yelich-O’Connor, has recently had a Brit Award nomination to go along with her Grammy nominations, and has been happy to pose for photographs at a number of local businesses and establishments during the holidays, with facebook awash with fan photos of the unassuming star. In this image taken by Kirstin Featonby, pictured with Lorde are Walter O’Halloran(right back), with Adrianna and Shakaiya O’Halloran. The future of one of the oldest churches in the Franklin area is up in the air at present as the Anglican Diocese of Auckland has suspended the church’s Ministry Unit licence, and that of its three priests. Bishop Jim White, Assistant Bishop of Auckland, told the Post last week that the three priests licenses to Waiuku have been suspended because the whole Unit’s license has been sus- pended - “Until the commission sets out how Ministry is to be reshaped and that new Ministry is launched (as it were) then they can’t have a license. One is consequent upon the other,” he explained. “The Ministry Unit at Waiuku has been struggling for a little while. Like many voluntary groups in society, finding willing and able folk to run committees, be treasurer, secretary and so on, is difficult as such people are in short supply. “In order to comply with Diocesan Statutes a Ministry Unit needs to be able to sustain its own life to a satisfactory level. The congregation at Waiuku is unable to do that presently. This ‘trig- gered’ our Diocesan to do three simultaneous things - which it must do under our Statutes: “1. Suspend the Ministry Unit license. This has the conse- quence of suspending the licenses of the priests. This is not a judgement on the priests’ work or worth but a consequence of the Unit license being suspended. “2. Set up a Commission to determine how we can continue ministry in the local area. “3. Appointed a Diocesan priest as Missioner to continue leading worship and mission.” Bishop White says the Diocese had the option of licencing the priests to the interim piece of ministry, “but we decided that it was better to have another priest from the diocese do that task while the Unit is up for review and reshaping.” He says the Ministry Unit at Waiuku has been doing some very good things – “the Selwyn Centre care for the elderly, for instance, is a fabulous piece of work in the wider community. We want to find a way to strengthen and continue that work and advance the good Anglican history we have in the area. The Commission will advise Diocesan Council how we can best do that with the resources we have.” The Commission is expected to report to the Diocesan Coun- cil in March. The Holy Trinity Church has been a figure on the Waiuku landscape since 1873 and features in many local his- tories. Photo-Opportunity Shop! Priests licences suspended at historic church Although, as of yesterday, no def- inite date has been provided as to when Auckland Mayor Len Brown will resume his duties officially this year, it appears there will be little let-up of the pressure on him. Former mayoral candidate, Af- fordable Auckland’s Stephen Berry, is working with Waiheke resident Will Ryan to organise a ‘Stand Down Len Brown March’, to be held on Saturday 22 February at 12 noon. The march will start from QE2 Square at Britomart and progress up Queen Street to Aotea Square. Stephen Berry says, “If I, you, or anyone else engaged in sexual rela- tions with one of their staff during work time on work premises, they would quite deservedly lose their job. That same standard should be held to the most senior staff in an organisation as well as the most junior. “Mayor Brown isn’t going to be allowed to get away with a duck and cover until the controversy subsides; I am determined to see public opinion prevail and Len Brown resign.” Continued on page 3. March to demand Mayor stand down Franklin Councillor Bill Cashmore explains why the steps council- lors took were strong enough in the wake of the Ernst and Young Report. Close to $150,000 is being spent to refurbish the Waiuku War Memorial Town Hall, with scaffolding already in place. He’s aiming for a pro career in motorcross while studying for NCEA at Onewhero Area School - meet Jayden Turnwald... Teen star on wheels PAGE 17 Rural Specialists Your guide to rural & agricultural services INSIDE THIS WEEK: PG 20
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Formerly John Kelsey Optometrists
The Waiuku Opportunity Shop provided a very special opportunity over the holiday break as Kiwi singing sensation Lorde dropped into town during a holiday at a family bach on the Awhitu Peninsula.
Lorde, whose real name is Ella Yelich-O’Connor, has recently had a Brit Award nomination to go along with her Grammy nominations, and has been happy to pose for photographs at a number of local businesses and establishments during the holidays, with facebook awash with fan photos of the unassuming star.
In this image taken by Kirstin Featonby, pictured with Lorde are Walter O’Halloran(right back), with Adrianna and Shakaiya O’Halloran.
The future of one of the oldest churches in the Franklin area is up in the air at present as the Anglican Diocese of Auckland has suspended the church’s Ministry Unit licence, and that of its three priests.
Bishop Jim White, Assistant Bishop of Auckland, told the Post last week that the three priests licenses to Waiuku have been suspended because the whole Unit’s license has been sus-pended - “Until the commission sets out how Ministry is to be reshaped and that new Ministry is launched (as it were) then they can’t have a license. One is consequent upon the other,” he explained.
“The Ministry Unit at Waiuku has been struggling for a little while. Like many voluntary groups in society, finding willing and able folk to run committees, be treasurer, secretary and so on, is difficult as such people are in short supply.
“In order to comply with Diocesan Statutes a Ministry Unit needs to be able to sustain its own life to a satisfactory level. The congregation at Waiuku is unable to do that presently. This ‘trig-gered’ our Diocesan to do three simultaneous things - which it must do under our Statutes:
“1. Suspend the Ministry Unit license. This has the conse-quence of suspending the licenses of the priests. This is not a judgement on the priests’ work or worth but a consequence of the Unit license being suspended.
“2. Set up a Commission to determine how we can continue ministry in the local area.
“3. Appointed a Diocesan priest as Missioner to continue leading worship and mission.”
Bishop White says the Diocese had the option of licencing the priests to the interim piece of ministry, “but we decided that it was better to have another priest from the diocese do that task while the Unit is up for review and reshaping.”
He says the Ministry Unit at Waiuku has been doing some very good things – “the Selwyn Centre care for the elderly, for instance, is a fabulous piece of work in the wider community. We want to find a way to strengthen and continue that work and advance the good Anglican history we have in the area. The Commission will advise Diocesan Council how we can best do that with the resources we have.”
The Commission is expected to report to the Diocesan Coun-cil in March. The Holy Trinity Church has been a figure on the Waiuku landscape since 1873 and features in many local his-tories.
Photo-Opportunity Shop!
Priests licencessuspended at
historic church
Although, as of yesterday, no def-inite date has been provided as to when Auckland Mayor Len Brown will resume his duties officially this year, it appears there will be little let-up of the pressure on him.
Former mayoral candidate, Af-fordable Auckland’s Stephen Berry, is working with Waiheke resident Will Ryan to organise a ‘Stand Down Len Brown March’, to be held on Saturday 22 February at 12 noon.
The march will start from QE2 Square at Britomart and progress up Queen Street to Aotea Square.
Stephen Berry says, “If I, you, or anyone else engaged in sexual rela-tions with one of their staff during work time on work premises, they would quite deservedly lose their job. That same standard should be held to the most senior staff in an organisation as well as the most junior.
“Mayor Brown isn’t going to be allowed to get away with a duck and cover until the controversy subsides; I am determined to see public opinion prevail and Len Brown resign.”
Continued on page 3.
March to demand Mayor stand down
Franklin Councillor Bill Cashmore explains why the steps council-lors took were strong enough in the wake of the Ernst and Young Report.
Close to $150,000 is being spent torefurbish the Waiuku War Memorial Town Hall, with scaffolding already in place.
He’s aiming for a pro career in motorcross while studying for NCEA at OnewheroArea School - meet Jayden Turnwald...
Teen star on wheels
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2 THE POST NEWSPAPER, JANUARY 14, 2014
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Welcome back to another year of the Post Newspaper, and no doubt it’s going to be an in-teresting one on the political front.
Mayor Len Brown’s issues don’t appear to be going away in a hurry, with his opponents, and even the region’s largest newspaper calling for him to fall on his sword in recent weeks.
One suspects his councillors (who have al-ready indicated they are at the end of their teth-er - se page five this week), will not tolerate any further revelations. However, suggestions have been made on the website that broke the story that there is still more to come.
Our local councillor, Bill Cashmore, says in this week’s issue that a vote of no confidence would have essentially been a waste of time, which is correct from the point of view that councillors have no way to eject a mayor from his position. Disappointingly though, while they voted that the mayor make an ‘appropri-ate’ contribution to the costs of the enquiry into his behaviour, they also voted that the amount be kept confidential.
Given that the issue has cost ratepayers well over $100,000 for the report, plus legal fees for the CEO and associated council staff, and the cost of council media staff being embroiled in this issue instead of their ‘real’ work, it’s not hard to envisage the mayor’s transgressions costing our region several hundreds of thou-sands of dollars. We deserve to know what con-tribution he feels he should make to our coffers in the wake of his behaviour.
It looks like time marches on ——and New Zealand remains behind the times.
Cannabis has been recognised and used as an approved medicinal drug in over 22 states in the US for over 13 years.
As you saw in the paper (New Zealand Herald), it has now been totally legalised in two states in the US, Colorado and Washing-ton.
The expected taxes on cannabis in Colo-rado will be more than 67 million dollars a year. Unfortunately, most of it will be used to build schools, rather than treat possible abuse problems.
When will New Zealand, reputed to have a 43% user group of cannabis, see the light and begin to decriminalise the use of can-
nabis?As a practising psychiatrist for over 50
years, I know that substance abuse is a pub-lic health problem.
Discriminating between nicotine, alco-hol, and cannabis, as well as hard drugs represents a hypocrisy that is unreal, as well as destructive to the diagnosis and care of those addicted to these substances.
So far we tax cigarettes, encourage alcohol use with all the fancy variations of spirits, and arrest and convict cannabis users.
When will we recognise a health problem for what it is, and quit making criminals out of cannabis users?
Jim Reardon Waiuku
To the wonderful species of human who felt it was ok to scare the living crap out of a four-year-old girl on Sunday night out at Clarks Beach:
You truly are a hero. What an amazing piece of road rage you showed all because a lady in a faster car made it to 100 km before you did, and then actually slowed down so you could over take them safely, only to have you swerve all over the road and then stop so you could make her stop so you could have a go at her. But when she didn’t (know-ing that she was a small lady in the car alone with her four-year-old daughter at night on an unlit road), you felt it was necessary to tailgate her all the way to Clarks Beach, and then attempt to run her off the road by the
dairy, just so you could get out of your car and thump the s*** out of the back window (where the frightened child was), as I drove off at speed trying to keep my daughter safe.
I hope you feel like a real man doing that, and I hope your ego just inflated that little bit more. All you succeeded in doing was scaring the daylights out of an innocent child. So, to the big man in the dark blue sedan who lives in Clarks Beach, I hope you slept easy on Sunday, as I know a scared lit-tle child did not, all because someone some-how bruised your pathetic ego. My only question to you is, what were you planning to do to this small lady, by herself if she did end up stopping?
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Continued from Page 1:Will Ryan says he decided it was necessary
for Auckland voters to have and outlet to ex-press their frustration at the behaviour of the Mayor. “This isn’t just about one man’s affair and I am not interested in his private life. Len Brown thinks he can hang on by the skin of his teeth and get away with it. I’m calling upon the people of Auckland to keep piling on the pressure!”
“Personal indiscretions are not the only reason Aucklanders should be calling upon Brown to resign,” Mr. Ryan adds. “Rates have increased faster than inflation in every year of Len Brown’s tenure. Borrowing is out of control, topping $1.2 billion this year. Hous-ing prices continue to skyrocket partly be-cause of the policies of this Council and Len refuses to do a thing about it.”
“Whether you oppose big spending poli-cies or questionable judgement and behav-iour, there is a reason for just about every-one to hit the streets and demand Len Brown stands down,” says Stephen Berry. “I’m call-ing for all concerned individuals from both sides of the political spectrum to make best use of this chance to tell Len Brown he has lost the support of the people and his man-date to remain in office.”
Will Ryan, 29 has been a life-long support-er of classical liberal politics; however this is his first foray into political activism. Stephen Berry, 30 is the leader of Affordable Auckland and stood as the party’s candidate for Mayor in 2013, finishing in third place.
The event page for ‘Len Brown Stand Down – The Protest’ can be found on Face-book.
Warning signs were put up at Clarks Beach last week af-ter readings showed the water had potentially dangerous levels of bacteria during one of its weekly tests.
A reading the following day showed levels were safe again, echoing the issues which saw Auckland’s Mission Bay also closed for swimmers.
Acting Chief Operating Officer Ian Maxwell said at the time that high levels of bacteria were found by the coun-cil’s Safeswim monitoring programme, which tests water quality weekly at 63 Auckland beaches.
Further testing at both beaches showed the tests ap-peared to be a ‘one-off.’
“We may never know what caused the issue. It’s highly likely it was a localised ocean source, such as a dead ani-mal or something similar,” Ian Maxwell said.
“The good news is our testing regime picked it up and we took the sensible precaution of advising people of the risk. People can check out our weekly test results by call-ing 0800 SAFESWIM (0800 723 379) or visiting www.auck-landcouncil.govt.nz/safeswim”
Two local restaurants have been awarded the 2014 Beef & Lamb Excellence Award.
Beef + Lamb New Zea-land CEO, Rod Slater, says the Excellence Awards have a respect which comes from their longevity.
Bracu, at Bombay, and The Monarch, at Pukekohe were the two local restaurants named in the award, which has now been running for 17 years, and winners receive a gold rimmed presentation plate to hang in the restau-rant. Before they can receive the Award, restaurants are judged on all elements of their dishes from composi-tion to taste, degree of cook-ing and tenderness.
The National Government is sitting on its hands as history re-peats itself and New Zealand’s international deficit grows on the back of a housing bubble. Figures released by Statistics New Zealand show that the current account deficit has risen to 4.1% of GDP, or $8.8 billion. Treasury projects it will increase to 6.5%, or $16.7 billion, in 2017. Since National has been in power, the current account deficit has totalled $29 billion.
John Key and Bill English set themselves the task of preventing New Zealand going through another round of housing bubbles fuelled by international borrowing. For the first time in five years New Zealand has imported more goods and services than it has exported. This is bad news. The same borrow and spend pattern that drove New Zealand deep into debt in the 2000s is repeating.
If National kept their promise they would be ringing the alarm bells as the country’s deficit grows. They’re staying silent in the hope that they can pass off reckless borrowing as sustainable growth in election year. One cause of the current account deficit
is our relatively high interest rates, which lead to an over-valued currency. New Zealand’s relatively high interest rates are bring-ing in international cash that fuels our housing bubble. As a result, our banks owe $100 billion overseas and send over $3 billion of profits overseas each year.
Borrowing more and more money from overseas so that we can sell our houses to each other at ever-higher prices is not a path to prosperity. It’s a bubble economy. National’s high dollar policy is strangling our hi-tech exporters and fuelling imports. The ris-ing dollar is costing us well-paid, high-skill manufacturing jobs and letting foreign imports undercut domestic businesses.
The Green Party economic plan will focus on bringing down the dollar to a fair level; stabilizing the housing market by driving out speculators and giving families an affordable pathway to home ownership; and backing our high-tech manufacturers so that they can sell their products to the world.
History repeating as country moves deeper into deficit
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Hi, its 2014 already! I hope everyone has had a good Christmas and New Year and managed to spend some qual-ity time with their friends and families.
Hopefully everyone will look at their work, relationships, home life and look at ways of improving. If every family home made just one positive change then it would go a long way to improving Waiuku as a place to live and work in.
Since the 23rd of December there have been around 120 re-ported incidents. So as you can appreciate it has been busy. These incidents have includ-ed 22 burglaries, 12 driving related offending or crashes and seven cars being stolen or dumped here in Waiuku.
Although this sounds a lot, which of course it is, Police have some very good leads on a number of these incidents in the hope of resolving them in the near future. The Scene of Crime Officers that carry out the fingerprinting of these burglaries or stolen cars have got some good fingerprints off various surfaces.
One good story was the bur-glary of an address on Eastern Drain Road. A male neighbour has noticed some suspicious
activity and has used his vehi-cle to block the offender’s vehi-cle in. One offender did a run-ner, and got caught by Police shortly after, the other offend-er, after begging to be allowed to drive away, was arrested at the scene.
This quick thinking and alertness of the neighbour re-ally helped the Police catch these two criminals. They are now both in custody, and not able to create more victims of their crime. It just goes to show that if you know your neighbours, are alert, and have a positive attitude to helping then it can make a huge dif-ference. So well done to that person.
A few weeks ago I mentioned impounding cars due to the drivers being idiots.
Since Christmas we have im-pounded at least another four. It is just plain stupidity, with people losing their cars and li-cences for nothing more than a quick couple of second’s worth of noise and black smoke.
Waiuku Police went to the address on Colombo Road the other day. Located were 11 cannabis plants growing out the back. They were pretty sad looking things so I put the plants out of their misery and
arrested the 62 year old female who now has to find her way to court next week. At the address was a 44 year old male who was breaching his bail by being at the address. He was duly ar-rested as well.
If there is an offender pre-sent, or has just left, then this is the time to ring 111. It could be a prowler, someone break-ing signs, into cars, houses, assaulting someone or having an argument with someone. Police could be just around the corner, and is the quickest way to get Police attendance.
Ringing the Waiuku station, although we have an answer machine, does not guarantee us here at the station of being informed about an incident in an expedient manner. If in doubt ring 111, it can always be scaled down.
Remember that the phone number for Crimestop-pers is 0800 555 111 or www.crimestoppers-nz.org. Use this if you want your information to be anonymous.
In the past few years we have been getting some very good information and we do respond to them, and do fur-ther investigations. Sometimes action may not be as quick as people would like, this is only
because the information is being assessed and may be part of something bigger that needs a much more de-tailed investigation. But just remember it can be used for anything you want to pass on. We are especially looking for information on people that receive stolen goods, or where stolen goods are being hidden. But be assured all in-formation is processed, read, and I can assure you nobody has any idea where it comes from, not even the police commissioner!
That’s all for this week, once again from the team here in Waiuku: Lorraine, Aaron, Greg, Toby and Rod, thanks for all your help, we rely on your information to make our job easier, and Waiuku a safer place to live, play and work in.
Impounds, arrests and 120 incidents!
5 THE POST NEWSPAPER, JANUARY 14, 2014
Auckland City Councillors voted unanimously to censure the Mayor.
Included in that censure were:• Receiving the Ernest Young report.• Expressing profound disappointment and
disapproval.• Censure of his activities.• To make an appropriate contribution to the
legal costs of the investigation.• Require a stronger working relationship and
accountability.• Note the mayor’s apology and contrition and
in the wish for political stability and competent governance agree to work with the mayor.
These are pretty tough requirements. I have received many phone calls and emails about supporting a vote in no confidence and getting rid of the mayor.
The Councillors have no ability to do that, only the mayor can relinquish the post.
That made the vote of no confidence a lame duck and meaningless. A slap with a wet hop card. The censure by its wording has some real teeth but more importantly expresses our wish to move forward with the office of the mayor for the betterment of Auckland.
That is what is most important. The last term of Council was all about the preparation of the plans. This term must be about implementation and refinement of those plans. With the green shoots of economic growth turning into real plants we have the opportunity for the first time in five years to achieve meaningful financial per-formance. Rural productivity from all sectors is at or near record highs.
The housing build is moving up the gears and into next year when we see the SHA’s kick in that will only add even more momentum. Politically we all need to work together to maximise these opportunities for Franklin, for Auckland , and for New Zealand.
Some other things to think about.The Living Wage: I strongly support a real days
pay for a day’s work. I support rising incomes with a rising economy. I feel that some areas there is excessive pay and in others there is too
little. I feel the income disparity between the haves and those less well off is too great.
I do not support the living wage as it will not achieve the results mentioned above. Just to lift hourly pay rates is not enough. If someone’s income rises then so the working for families subsidy drops.
Families may well end up worse off! Tax bracket changes can also be effected in the negative. As far as Council employees are concerned I support a review of the re-muneration policy to achieve posi-tive outcomes for those who are in the lower pay tiers.
Unitary Plan: This is important as your property may well be af-fected. On the 28th February sub-missions close to the Hearings on the UP.
Some things to consider:Heritage sites marked
on your property. Check the maps. There was publicity a few weeks back about this issue. Over 3000 sites were added in the last few days and given statutory rights. There is a cost to this when a property owner wants to build,
alter or do earth works. I know of many in-accuracies in the sites marked. There have been cases where property owners have been put through compliance hoops and considerable expense in the name of herit-age and sites of significance.
Significant Ecological areas is another area where there has been a loss of potential rights in the name of enhanced biodiversity.
I’m in favour of protecting our wet lands, native bush and habitats, but he cost
of doing so should not fall solely on the property owner. If the owner has an SEA imposed upon them then there should be rates relief on that proportion of that land that is SEA.
Have a think and please make a submission. Your rights are at
stake here.Submissions can be
done on line at the Council’s web site or forms are available at your local Council office.
I am looking forward to 2014, it’s going to be a great year!
Bill CashmoreFranklin
Councillor.
“Why we didn’t
hang the Mayor out
to dry”
After Auckland City councillors voted to censure the Mayor, Franklin Councillor Bill Cashmore explains why a vote of no confidence would have been meaningless.
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There are many older residents of the region who well recall having the ‘Empire’ lollies for special treats and who, even today, say the taste of the traditionally-made sweets takes them back to their child-hood.
In 2007 the company was pur-chased by Ravinder Parmar, and a few years later, merged with another confectionery company and was renamed Kiwi Empire Confectionery, as it expanded into modern new premises in Mount Wel-lington.
Ravinder’s wife, Dr Parmjeet Parmar, PhD, (pictured right), joined the company a few years later, from an academic and research background at Auckland University, where she completed a post-graduate degree. With a degree in biological sciences, Parmjeet’s experience in the health field has seen her keen to develop a new range of naturally-based con-fectionery to go with the traditional range of lollies, sweets, chocolates, rocks and bars.
As Operations Manager, Parmjeet says the com-pany, which now employs around 15 full-time and casual staff, is maintaining its traditional ‘old English’ manufacturing recipes while expanding the product range.
This has seen Kiwi Empire Confectionery a sought-after manufacturer for corporate specialty products
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“While we are always looking to de-velop our products, we recognise that our core business has been the high-boiled sweets which New Zealanders have grown up with for more than
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Above: Franklin Fuchsia Group Secretary Shirley Guthrie com-bined a Fuchsia-pink car, top and flowers recently as she helped prepare the group’s 15 annual show which starts this Friday.
Kicking off from 10am on Friday and from 9am on Saturday, the show, at Waiuku’s Civic Centre, features demonstrations, raf-fles, calendars, plant sales and plenty more. For further informa-tion, contact Mary Hull on 027 287 2681.
Pictured below are some of the group involved putting thr show together; Mary Hull, Margaret Van der Coer, Janice Mor-row, Cora Rodgers and Shirley Guthrie.
Fuchsia group in the pink!
Feedback sought onTuakau legal highsWaikato District Council wants feedback from
the public on a proposed Psychoactive Substances (Local Approved Products) Policy which aims to keep the sale of legal highs out of residential neigh-bourhoods and away from sensitive sites such as schools.
The policy comes as a result of Council wanting to control the location of these premises within the district, as provided for in the new Psychoactive Substances Act 2013.
Under the Act, Council has no role in the issuing or enforcing of licenses and can only put a policy in place to approve locations where the products can be sold. Council cannot ban the sale of the legal highs outright.
Waikato District Council Acting Chief Executive Tony Whittaker said the Council’s preference would be for these products to be banned, however as the Act provides for them, he says Council must do its best by adopting a policy that helps protect the public.
A draft policy has been put together and propos-es that premises selling legal highs be restricted to the central business areas of Ngaruawahia, Huntly, Raglan, Te Kauwhata and Tuakau and kept out of residential areas.
Mr Whittaker said these areas were identified as the safest place for legal highs to be sold as there is a more prominent Police presence, CCTV monitoring as well as a higher volume of vehicle and pedestrian traffic.
Mr Whittaker encouraged residents to have their say on the proposed policy.
“The sale of legal highs in our district is unde-sirable, however we believe we have put together a policy that protects our communities from this harmful activity the best we can, but we would like to hear from our residents. Their voice is very im-portant when making these kind of decisions.”
Consultation on the proposed policy will take place from Tuesday 14 January to 17 February 2014.
A Statement of Proposal and a copy of the pro-posed policy can be viewed at www.waikatodistrict.govt.nz or by calling 0800 492 452.
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Over the holiday period, the Franklin Parents Centre committee members provided a small Christmas thank-you package to LMC mid-wives working out of the Pukekohe Maternity Unit.
Christine Dangel, President of Franklin Par-ents Centre said “We wanted to thank the LMC midwives in particular for all the support they provide our members and all of the families in Franklin.
“LMC’s play such a big part in bringing new family members into our lives and caring for new Mums and babies in our community we think they deserve a bit of appreciation, espe-cially at this time of year.
New World in Waiuku and Pak n Save in Pukekohe also think they do a great job in our community and helped us to thank the deserv-ing midwives and regular speakers at our par-ent education classes.”
Pictured right are Christine Dangel, President Franklin Parents Centre, with daughter Emma, LMC Midwives Annette Norris, Rhonda Peters and Lyn Stark, Maternity Resource Centre Ad-ministrator Christelle Jordaan.
47 year-old Tuakau mother of four Kim Allan and around thirty friends and supporters crossed the 500km mark a few days before Christmas at the end of her heroic run to beat the women’s world record for distance without sleep.
She completed 332 laps of the Sri Chimnoy Peace Mile in Auckland in 86 hours 11 minutes and 5 seconds, the new time to beat.
Mark Gray, the co-manager of Kim’s support team, who were with her every step of the way, said, “Last year nothing went her way and she only completed 375kms. To come back this year and do it is mind blowing. I just cannot get my head around it, it’s like dreaming.”
Although clearly exhausted, Kim was still able to thank the large crowd that had gathered to cheer on her victory, acknowledging her family, her support team and the New Zealand Spinal Trust, her designated charity. To the cheer-ing crowd, an unsteady but smiling Kim said, “It’s been it’s own little world down here in the Domain and I’m going to miss it. But I’m really glad I’ve done it and don’t have to do it again.”
Carolynn Day from the New Zealand Spinal Trust was giv-en the honour of holding one end of the finishing tape and was able to congratulate Kim personally immediately after the run. Ben Lucas, CEO of the Trust, was keeping tabs on Kim from Christchurch, “What an awesome effort! I’ve been keeping a close eye on her progress through her Facebook page and updates from Mark Gray. I’ll call her when she eventually wakes up!”
Claire Donachie, the friend who inspired Kim to make the Trust her beneficiary charity, was delighted to receive the news in her Waiuku home. Her main concern was that Kim was OK and did not need a hospital check up like last year. Claire, who was thrown from a horse in 2012 and now uses a wheelchair, joined Kim for a lap on the Saturday.
“I don’t know many people who would put themselves through such a gruelling experience to raise money for peo-ple she doesn’t know,” said Claire. “Kim knows how impor-tant it is to get people with spinal injuries back to as normal life as possible. Keeping the body and brain active helps with pain management and keeps the spirits up.”
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Two flamingo chicks have successfully hatched at Auckland Zoo – the first chicks ever bred in Australasia, and the first time a zoo has success-fully bred from an entirely hand-reared flock any-where in the world.
Former exotic birds team leader, now head of capital works and infrastructure, Michael Batty has been waiting for these chicks since raising and transporting Auckland Zoo’s flock of Greater flamingos to New Zealand in 2001, from the Wild-fowl & Wetlands Trust (WWT) in Slimbridge, Eng-land.
“No zoo has ever successfully bred from a completely hand-reared flock before. These two chicks are the first in the world. It’s wonderful, we’ve achieved the circle of life,” says Michael.
Flamingos are flock birds, but Michael says each bird develops its own personality traits and he looks forward to see what these two will be like.
Team Leader Pridelands Nat Sullivan, has been monitoring the chicks’ progress since incubation.
“It is a privilege to be part of the first hatching. They’re doing really well, communicating with each other which may be why the second chick is making even faster progress than the first.”
As young flamingos, they lack the pink feath-ering for which the birds are famed. This pink plumage develops over their first three years, due to the carotenoid pigment in their diet, which is high in alpha and beta-carotene (humans eat beta-carotene when they eat carrots).
Their sex will not be determined for some time and it will be a few months before visitors can come and see them, but it will be worth the wait.
New chicks a first for Zoo
In a first for Australa-sia, Auckland Zoo has seen the arrival of two flamingo chicks.
• Both parent flamingos build the nest, and these are mounds made of mud, small stones, straw and feathers
• These mounds can be as high as 30cm and are shaped like a volcano. Mound build-ing begins up to six weeks before the eggs are laid
• A female flamingo only lays one egg on the nest, but both parents take turns at sitting on the egg until it hatches – which takes about one month
• A baby flamingo is a brown/grey colour and does not turn pink until it reaches two years of age
• There are six different types (species) of flamingo - the Greater flamingo is the tall-est, growing up to 150cm
• Groups of flamingos can be called flocks, a stand or flamboyance
• Their webbed feet are used to stir up the mud and water when they are looking for food.
• They get their bright pink colour from eating shrimp-like crustaceans
• Flamingos have long pink legs – and their knees are actually their ankles
• When resting or sleeping, flamingos stand on one leg with the other leg tucked up under their body. It’s a flamingo’s most comfortable position!
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The West Franklin Com-munity Trust (WFCT) has announced the major refit of the Town Hall is now under-way, with roofing work and the replacement of windows above the entrance already started.
The WFCT looks after the day to day management of the Hall including handling enquiries, taking bookings, setting and collecting fees, cleaning and caretaking roles, promotion, reporting and maintaining the asset.
Last year the WFCT sub-mitted a three-year Im-provement Plan to achieve updated compliance levels, improve users facilities and increase the functionality of the hall.
The Franklin Local Board approved seven of the sub-mitted projects with a value of $128,750, and later added a further $15,000 in ap-proved work.
The approved projects are- Foyer Stairway Hand-
With holidays coming to an end, Councils are urging local residents to be careful with water as they settle back in at home.
With the warm dry weeks ahead, it is important that water conservation efforts are maintained.
Smart Water Programme Co-ordinator Charmaine Pe-tereit is pleased with the ef-forts people have been mak-ing to conserve water so far.
“We have been able to re-main at Alert Level 1. How-ever with everyone returning from holiday, higher than av-erage temperatures and little rain forecast over the coming weeks the move to Alert Lev-el 2 becomes more likely.”
“Now is definitely the time we need everyone to be on their ‘Smart Water A Game’ and there are all sorts of sim-ple things you can do to help out.
“For example, if you have to wash the car or boat, do it on the lawn, run full wash-ing machine and dishwasher loads and follow the Alert Level 1 requirements.”
The water alert levels are part of a ‘Smart Water Starts with You!’ sub-regional cam-paign. The campaign aims to make long-term change to how we use water and is a joint venture between Ham-ilton City Council, Waikato District Council and Waipa District Council.
$145,000 refit for Waiuku’s Town Hall
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rails – Health & Safety Com-pliance, Upstairs Meeting Room Heat-pump – Increase User Satisfaction; Upgrade Toilets – Increase User Sat-isfaction; Replace Corroded Foyer Roof – Protect the As-set; Install Fireproof Stage curtains – Health & Safety Compliance; Replace Stage Lighting Rigging – Health & Safety Compliance; Replace Leaking Window Frames – Protect the Asset
The Hall is used two nights a week by Kyokushi Martial
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The WFCT wish to thank the Franklin Local Board, in particular Dan Lynch and Jill Naysmith who attended the Trust meetings and have provided advice and sup-port.
The Trust also appreciates the behind the scenes work by Alison Farrell of the Auck-land Council Southern Prop-erty Group.
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Music, prayer and good deedsas Waiuku enjoys Christmas
Above: Some of the crowd that gathered to enjoy Carols on the Tamakae Reserve last year.
Above: The winning quiz team from the ‘Christmas Quiz’ at
the Wolf and Beaver. Inset: Glenn Knight of Waiuku Family
Support with Barb Wilkinson of the Wolf. Below, local church
members gathered for Carols on Tamakae Reserve. Bottom:
Festive music from a local quartet in the town square.
The Christmas spirit was alive and well in the local region as the holiday season arrived in full swing in Decem-ber. Local churches got together to put on a relaxing and uplifting combination of song and readings at the Tamakae es-tuary, while the town plaza resounded to Christmas tunes in the sunshine with a local quartet. Meanwhile, the last quiz
for 2013 at local establishment the Wolf and Beaver saw quiz and pub partici-pants turn up with toys and gifts to be distributed by Waiuku Family Support. The Christmas Quiz, which has now be-come something of a tradition, saw doz-ens of toys delivered to Family Support, which were wrapped and distributed by the group to local families in need.
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The Franklin Art Gallery’s Community Gallery at Frank-lin: The Centre is hosting one of the region’s most talented local artists this week.
The aim of the gallery is to mix local artists join with art-ists of national importance, creating an art calendar which continues to put Franklin on the art map, and the first for the new year features Robin Ranga, who combines being local, with being nationally-known.
Her solo exhibition of paint-ing and sculpture opened last night (Monday 13 January).
Wood carving was Robin’s first initiation into her art practice which awakened an appreciation for nature’s pre-cision, resilience and fragility. She now works in a variety of
media responding to her inter-est and inspiration from organ-ic form and design. Following her notion that “perception is a personal interpretation in all we do, see and feel”, many of her works explore compas-sionate issues.
Since graduation in 2005 (Bachelor of Visual Arts) Auck-land University of Technology, she has become an award win-ning multimedia artist: 2009, 2010 and 2013 Finalist Portage Ceramic Awards, 2009 Franklin Best Local Artist Award (paint-ing) 2010 Easter Show 2nd painting on board, 2011 Easter Show - 2nd Open Ceramic.
Pictured left is Robin in her workshop and, inset, is the piece which was a finalist in last year’s Portage Ceramic Awards.
A fundraising event will be held on Saturday and Sunday, February 1 and 2, to help one of Papakura Theatre Com-pany’s young club members.
Gemma Rushton, who in November last year won the title of NZ Junior Dog Handler 2013, has won the right to rep-resent New Zealand at Crufts, the big-gest dog show in the world, held annu-ally in Birmingham, UK.
In March this year Gemma will be competing in the International Junior Handling Class against some 40 other junior dog handling champions from all over the world.
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The Plumbers, Gasfitters and Drainlayers Board (PGDB), which regulates the industry, is calling on Auckland homeowners to ask plumb-ers, gasfitters and drainlayers for their licence cards to ensure they are authorised to carry out the work.
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gasfitters and drainlayers must relicense with the Board in order to work legally in New Zealand.
“We’re reminding homeowners not to risk their family’s health and safety or their insurance over the holiday season by hiring unauthorised tradespeople to undertake work.”
“Unlicensed plumbers, gasfitters and drain-layers potentially place consumers in harm’s way with their poor skills. New Zealanders have the right to have confidence that any plumb-ing, gasfitting or drainlaying service provided to them is safe and compliant.” He added: “Anyone carrying out plumbing, gasfitting and drainlay-
ing must be able to produce their licence card if asked. This provides consumers with an assur-ance that the work is being legally carried out by an authorised and competent tradesperson, who is currently licensed by the PGDB.”
Consumers can also check to see if a plumber, gasfitter or tradesperson is authorised to carry out the work by logging onto the PGDB’s website at www.pgdb.co.nz, he said. “If a homeowner believes work has been done by someone who is not authorised, or has concerns about the com-petency of tradespeople, they can make a com-plaint to the PGDB.”
A resident who has recently ar-rived in Pukekohe says she has been appalled at the lack of regard local people have for the beauty of the area, and says she is issuing a chal-lenge to locals to clean up the region.
Nicky Webber says it can be as easy as taking a rubbish bag with you when you go for a walk, but says something needs to be done.
“I moved from Auckland city, to the beautiful area of Pukekohe in April last year to enjoy the lovely en-vironment and country living.
“I have been appalled at the scant disregard for the environment many people seem to have here. Apart from the weeks of fires burning around us during October and November, there are now piles of rubbish in the streets.
This week my son, Sven Brasler, and I picked up this huge bag of rub-bish from Buckville Road, (pictured at left).
“It only covered about 200 yards of the street so there is much more to be done!
“The amount of smashed bottles, RDT cans, plastic of all kinds chok-ing up the storm water drainage trench at the side of, what should be a lovely country road leading to the town, was nothing short of shocking.
“I challenge everyone in Pukeko-he to take a rubbish bag with them when they walk and collect all the non-degradable material they can find to protect our environment.
“It’s easy and effective, and you just tie it up and leave it at the side of the road for collection.
“Clearly much of the rubbish is from young people throwing any-thing they like out of their speed-ing vehicles! Please make it your mission as responsible citizens and parents to have a conversation with your family about this awful ap-proach to our community.”
Winners namedThe three winners of the
Green Door colouring com-petition which featured in the Post Newspaper prior to Christmas have been named.
In the Under 5 section Tay-lor Alexander was the win-ner.
The 5 - 8 years prize went to Kaelan Paranihi and in the 9 - 12 years section it was Crystal-Rain Nicholson who won.
Timely reminderfrom local police
Waiuku Police Sergeant Simon Palmer says the lo-cal station has had plenty of burglaries to deal with recently, and issues a timely reminder regarding home security:
• Look at your locks, win-dow fasteners and dead-bolts.
• Improve the security around your sheds and ga-rages.
• Install a couple of sensor lights.
• Consider an audio bur-glar alarm.
• Get to know your neigh-bours and consider a sup-port group.
• Ensure that all your prop-erty is named, engraved, is identifiable, is photo-graphed and a list is kept of serial numbers, makes and models.
Warning over unlicenced tradespeople in Auckland area
Rubbish challenge issuedto Pukekohe residents
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Selling Christmas trees is an annual event for the Franklin Pakeke Lions Club, in fact, it is the club’s major fund-raiser each year.
The trees are planted on a rotational basis and members nurture them at two proper-ties, in Yates Road and at Counties Racing Club, Manukau Road, Pukekohe.
There are 3,000 in the ground at any one time at various stages of growth and the fer-tilising, weeding and pruning is done vol-untarily by members on a monthly basis throughout the year.
On Thursday, December 5, the best of these trees will be offered for sale at three venues in Pukekohe, Pak ‘n Save (Queen Street), Countdown (Tobin Street) and The Warehouse (Manukau Road). Prices will start at $25 per tree. The Franklin Pakekes have been growing Christmas trees for 21 years and their popularity has been evident in recent times where the numbers sold have grown to 900 last year.
The club is catering for over 1,000 this year.Most of the members are retired but they
enjoy working for the community, and they
enjoy the camaraderie which goes with the project. The proceeds from the sale of Christmas trees goes back into the commu-nity, into such charities as Kidz First Hospital and Camp Quality. The Club is always look-ing for new members, and meet twice per month. One is for a dinner meeting with a guest speaker at the Pukekohe Cosmopoli-tan Club and the other is a business meeting held at the former Pukekohe Borough Coun-cil building (now Plunket) on the corner of Edinburgh and Wesley Streets.
“We welcome new members,” says spokes-person, Ron Wellwood who is happy to ac-cept phone calls from anyone interested in joining this group of public spirited people.
Those wanting to pre-order Christmas trees are also welcome to call him on 09 239 2155.
Above: Showing” the flag”: Proudly hold-ing the Franklin Pakeke Lion’s Club’s ban-ner during a Christmas tree working bee are (from left); Merv Laws, Warwick Deighton, Ron Wellwod, Ken Garret, Graeme Gill, Athol Golding and Ivan Gale.
Local artist Yana Meech is exhibiting at the Franklin Arts Centre Community Gal-lery, with an exhibition which runs until De-cember 5.
Yana lives in Ararimu and belongs to the Papakura art group. A self taught artist she mainly paints in acrylic on canvas, experi-menting with many different styles from contemporary landscape to abstract.
Working out of a purpose built art studio at her country home makes the perfect loca-tion for her artistic work. Much of Yana’s in-spiration comes from her surroundings and her own mood.
Her works sells throughout New Zealand and overseas including UK, Scotland, Aus-tralia and the United States.
Yana has exhibited extensively, from the Hibiscus Art Show in Orewato the New Zealand Art Show in Wellington. She was placed second in the acrylics section at the 2011 Franklin Arts Festival.
The Waiuku Library is to close from the end of the day on December 7, and will re-open on Wednesday, December 18, as it re-furbishes its premises.
The Library will be increasing its floor space to include the old council chambers.
Work began on the chambers area refurbish-ment in early Novem-ber. The walls have been stripped back for painting and lighting will be im-proved. The non-fiction collection will be moving into the revamped area and the rest of the collec-tion will expand through-out the old space. New carpet will be laid throughout the foyer and library, and there is a display in the library
showing the colour scheme and new layout.The library will also gain two more public
internet computers (making six in total) and move over to Tomizone Wifi during the clo-sure period, which will bring it in line with other council wifi networks.
Council says the carpet tiles are procured through a local supplier and were chosen for their durabil-ity, adding that they are also easy to maintain and cost-effective.
Council could not con-firm the cost of the pro-ject, a spokesperson say-ing various aspects of the upgrade were being done
by different sectors of council, and she was unable to provide a total costing.
Trees raise community funds
Inspiration from her home
Library closes for renovationOpen throughout the holiday period, with the only exception being Christmas Day, the Pollok Craft Co-op is an oasis of arty tranquility nestled on the Awhitu Peninsula. With craft and art from a variety of local artists, many of whom are known internationally for their work, the Co-op also offers a sunny sculpture garden and a chance to stop for a while on the Awhitu drive, enjoy a coffee or tea, and take in some of the talent that this region produces.
Coming eventsMusic in the Park Date: Sat 25 JanTime: 3pm-5pmVenue: Tamakae Reserve,King Street, Waiuku,
Bring back the era of front to front dancing.
Performances range from the early swing music of Goodman and Basie, Sinatra, The Andrew Sisters, through the newer swing bands like Louis Prima, Nat King Cole and Louis Jorden. Swing band Prima Swing Riot will create the perfect afternoon.
Mystery car cruisingThe members of Iron Sands Rod & Custom Club
Waiuku are busy planning their second bi-annual Mystery Cruise for February 23rd 2014, start time 10am.
The run leaves from Glenbrook Vintage Railway, Farmpark Road and will again tour around the Franklin District on a secret route. The event is for Hot Rods, Custom and Classic Cars only though it doesn’t matter if you are not a member of a club to take part for the day but organisers say ‘sorry no Jappas allowed!’.
Last year the new run attracted over 100 vehicles and fi lled the Waiuku Cosmopolitan Club where everyone enjoyed a meal and refreshments. The Sponsors were very generous and there were many Spot Prizes to add to the categories of Best Ford, Best Chev, Best Other and Hard Luck Trophies.
The Club is thrilled to have the support of these great sponsors again: Final Touch, Crown Batteries, A.C.M.E. Autostop, New Zealand Home Loans, The Kentish Hotel and Glenbrook Vintage Railway.
So tune up that classic, hot rod or custom vehicle and join the friendly crew of Iron Sands Rod & Custom on their “Mystery Cruise” around our great corner of Franklin.
Movie in the ParkDate: Fri 7 FebTime: 7:30pm-10:30pmVenue: Tamakae Reserve
The beloved movie musical of the smash hit
play Grease will show outdoors in Waiuku on February 7. Bring the whole family down for a great night! The night will be themed around the show, so dress up, get ready to sing, enjoy donuts and coffee, and relax in the evening for what is expected to be a truly wonderful family event.
Have you ever wondered just how much faster a For-mula One car is than your everyday runaround? Or even just a ‘regular’ Ferrari?
To help provide petrol-heads with the answer to one of the lingering questions to the meaning of life, organis-ers of the New Zealand Festi-val of Motor Racing celebrat-ing Ferrari will run a unique on track pursuit at Hampton Downs to find the answer.
In the red corner will be Guido Belgiorno-Nettis and his fire-breathing 1000bhp plus 156/85 Formula One car. In another red corner will be Kiwi ace Tim O’Connor in his enduro racing specification Ferrari 458 Challenge.
And in the road car corner will be a yet to be confirmed driver in a current Fiat 500 ‘Bambino’.
After its demo lap session, the Ferrari Formula One ma-chine will make for the start-ing grid and will be followed by the 458 Challenge and the Fiat 500 which will leave the
Emergency services were called to the scene of a fatal crash at the intersection of Kopuku Road and Symes Road in Maramarua, at about 3.50 pm on Saturday.
The crash involved a Kawasaki Roadbike and a Toyota Hilux Ute and is still under investigation by the Serious Crash Unit.
At the time of the crash the driver of the Ute was travel-ling south and the Roadbike was travelling north.
The ute was turning into Symes Road from Kopuku Road when the vehicles collided.
The motorcyclist was transported to Auckland Hospi-tal by Air Ambulance and later died at the Hospital. The driver of the Ute was not injured. The deceased is a 31 year old man from Auckland.
Senior Sergeant Gael Mockford said that the large num-ber of serious and fatal crashes in the Waikato is very con-cerning. The afternoon crash brings the number of people killed on Waikato roads this month to three. In January 2013 only one person was killed on Waikato Roads.
This crash is the seventh fatal or serious injury related crash attended by members of the Waikato Serious Crash Unit in the week.
“Every serious crash in the Waikato this week has oc-curred on rural roads. Police are concerned that drivers are becoming too complacent and not identifying the risks associated with driving in rural areas. Police urge drivers to be vigilant behind the wheel.”
Following the tragic death of a child in Southland, Fed-erated Farmers says it is working to improve New Zea-land’s on-farm safety record across the board.
In terms of relative numbers, there are an estimated 100,000 quad bikes on New Zealand’s farms compared to 63,167 road-going motorcycles and 23,298 mopeds.
“Solutions to improve quad bike can be complex and if there was an obvious solution that made quad bikes much safer, then we would certainly support it,” they say.
The Federation has advocated for safety aids to alert riders if their bike is in gear. This, along with an emphasis on training and the use of age-appropriate bikes, as well as helmet use, is having a positive benefit for safety.
“The fact is that quad bike users need to be trained in active riding techniques, which are required to operate quad bikes safely across rural terrain.
“In the case of conventional roll bars, the manufactur-ers and other researchers have looked at the risks and benefits of fitting these to quad bikes but the outcomes were mixed.
“Quad bikes, just like any other piece of farm machinery and vehicles can be very dangerous and must be treated with respect by anyone operating them.”
Just a few days into 2014 and the reigning New Zealand Enduro Champion Chris Birch of Auckland was already making good his New Year resolution to “keep myself on the podium”, the 33-year-old KTM ace enjoying back-to-back victories at Whangaruru, north of Whangarei, at the weekend.
“I have a pretty busy time coming up now before the nationals begin and I’m heading to Singapore this week to conduct some coaching schools over there. There’s lots of cool stuff coming up for me actually ... mostly involv-ing me coaching, but that’s always good for my build-up for competition anyway. Any time spent riding the bike is good time.”
The six-round KTM New Zealand Enduro Champion-ships, and Birch’s national title defence, are set to kick off at Whangamata on February 22, with rounds to follow at Wellington, the Riverhead Forest, Christchurch, Oparau and, finally, the series wraps up at Waimiha on May 10.
As New Zealand beachside populations swelled dur-ing summer, so too has the number of calls to the AA from motorists stranded at the beach.
AA Roadservice’s national manager John Healy says callouts from popular coast-al spots soar during the sum-mer holiday period as people
head to the beach for a holi-day or take a day trip to cool off.
“Nearly 60 per cent of call-outs to beach locations over the last two weeks have been for flat batteries, difficulties with starting, or keys locked in cars,” he says.
“Our service officers and contractors have accessed
AA responds to stranded beachgoers a number of locked vehi-cles to retrieve car keys that have inadvertently been left in the boot, after people have dropped the keys in-side while they’re unloading bags, or getting beach gear and picnic baskets out.
“Because they’re relaxed and in holiday mode, people quite often make mistakes they wouldn’t normally make.”
AA Roadservice officer Larry Harbott says conges-tion heading north of Auck-land City is the worst he’s seen in his 36 years as a ser-vice officer, which has made it more challenging to reach some beach locations.
Mr Healy reminds motor-ists that if there is an animal or child locked in a vehicle, they do not need to be an AA Member to phone for help.
Bambino v Ferrari?
pit lane behind it. All three will drive round
the circuit and line up on the grid with the Fiat being flagged off first, some con-siderable time ahead of the 458 GT which in turn will be starting several seconds ahead of the F1 car.
The pursuit will be prac-tised and perfected so that spectators (and drivers!) can see just how much quicker around the challenging but relatively short Hampton Downs track an F1 car is from a modern every day small ‘hot hatch’!
“Although it is getting on for 30 years old itself, the 156/85 is a monster of a car and will be incredibly ver-satile and agile around the Hampton Downs track,” ex-plained Festival Chairman Jim Barclay.
“The 458 Challenge car is also a truly fantastic ma-chine, employing and de-ploying technology which makes even the F1 car look pretty basic.
“The 500 Bambino is a small car that’s much more relative to every day driv-ers. The pursuits should be a lot of fun and should give our spectators a very visual demonstration of speed dif-ferentials.
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Onewhero’s Jayden Turn-wald is within strike range of the top of the New Zealand motocross rankings and he reckons it’s just a matter of time before he gets there.
Judging by his recent form, this may be a realistic prop-osition for the 14-year-old Yamaha ace.
Turnwald, who will start back at school as a year 11 student at Onewhereo Area School, near Pukekohe, fin-ished runner-up to Ham-ilton’s Josiah Natzke in the junior 12-14 years’ class at the big annual New Zealand Motocross Grand Prix at Woodville last January.
He is hoping for a repeat of that performance, or even to celebrate a slight improve-ment to the No.1 spot, at the 2014 edition of the iconic event in just a few weeks’ time.
His impressive form over the past 12 months certainly indicate that he’s on the right track.
He finished third overall at the Waikato Motocross Championships, again be-hind winner Natzke, with Ngatea’s Benjamin Broad in the runner-up position, and Turnwald achieved the same
result at the Labour Weekend Motocross Extravaganza in Taupo.
Turnwald finished third overall in the 12-14 years 125cc class at the New Zealand Junior Motocross Championships in April, once again behind Waikato’s Natzke and Ngatea’s Broad, and he has continued to se-cure podium placings at ma-jor New Zealand events since then.
He took his YZ125 to place fourth overall in the 12-15 years’ 125cc class at the re-cent Whakatane Summer-cross, just after Christmas, and headed to the Valley Championships at Pateton-ga, near Morrinsville, last weekend in a confident mood and determined to achieve another top-five fin-ish.
“I’m often on the podi-um but always the brides-maid, never the bride,” he shrugged.
“Hopefully that will change soon.”
In fact, it did change, as he finished 1-2-1 to claim the 12-14 years’ 125/250 class.
“I will step up to the 15-16 years’ 125cc class for the Woodville GP, racing the jun-
2013 proved to be a very strong and successful year across the whole vehicle sales sector. Sales records were set in some segments, while others recorded their best performance in many years.
Used import passenger vehicles had another strong year, outselling new passen-ger vehicles by more than 16,500 units. December sales of 9,534 used import pas-senger vehicles were 2,415 units (34 percent) ahead of the same month in 2012. During the year, 98,971 units were sold – 20,660 units (26 percent) more than in 2012 – making it the strongest year for used import passenger vehicle sales since 2007.
Toyota was the most pop-ular used passenger vehi-cle brand in 2013, followed by Nissan and Mazda. The Mazda Demio was the most popular individual used pas-senger vehicle model, head-ing off Nissan’s Tiida and Su-zuki’s Swift.
Sales of 6,371 new pas-senger vehicles in December were up 269 units (15 per-cent) compared to Decem-ber 2012. For the full year, sales of 82,433 units were 5,562 units (7 percent) ahead of 2012, making it the best year for new passenger vehi-cle sales since 1984.
Toyota was also last year’s most popular new passen-ger vehicle brand, followed by Holden and Hyundai. Predictably, the Corolla was again the most popular in-dividual passenger vehicle model and New Zealand’s best selling model overall, heading off the Suzuki Swift and the Holden Commo-dore.
Sales of new commercial vehicles, which had per-formed strongly all year, were also up in December. On-road motorcycles round-ed out a successful year for the wider vehicle sales sec-tor. December sales of 696 units were 193 units (38 per-cent) more than December 2012. During the year, 7,024 units were sold.
Local rider aiming high
Onewhero’s Jayden Turnwald (Whangarei Yamaha YZ125), rising up the ranks.
iors on Saturday and then I will also race the senior under-21 125cc class on the Sunday.”
He is studying hard for NCEA credits towards a ca-reer in either graphic design-ing or perhaps panel-beat-ing, so he is fully prepared for a life outside motocross if his dream of a professional racing career in Europe or the United States doesn’t eventuate.
But, for the moment at least, he is focussed on put-ting his Yamaha YZ125 out front as he builds towards the Woodville GP and then the 2014 New Zealand Junior Motocross Championships later in the year.
Turnwald is supported by Yamaha Whangarei, RCK Contractors, Ward Demoli-tion, Ride Concepts NZ, Traf-fix Ltd, Fox, SuperLiquor Tu-akau, Koromiko Engineering and MotoX Central.
Words and photo by Andy McGechan, www.Bikesport-NZ.com
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After the long awaited Auckland rain, it turned out to be a stellar day in Round two for Awhitu Peninsula’s Team Torpey at Western Springs Speedway earlier this month.
The crew set up camp at their perma-nent Western Springs Speedway pit bay, looking super sharp in their new Mitre 10 Trade Racing uniforms, and ready to race.
For Race one, local racer Glenn Tor-
pey drew second on the grid. All went well for the first three quarters of a lap, until the Mitre 10 Trade Racing beast caught a huge rut in the track bending a rear arm.
Unfortunately this severely affected the handling of the car and Glenn was pushed back to finish in seventh place.
In the next heat Team Torpey started in tenth grid, and easily made up a few places to finish in a solid eighth place.
The 20 lap feature race started with 15 cars battling it out for Round Cham-pion. Glenn did exceptionally well to hold the Mitre 10 Trade Racing Sprint-car in 10th place while all the other driv-ers wrestled their Sprintcars around the lumps and bumps.
After the mighty crash in the first round, the team said “It was awesome to finish the nights racing with the Sprintcar all in one piece!
Local racer Cory Holmes is going from strength to strength as he campaigns in the Formula First Championship.
He described his seven-seconds-plus win in the third race at Pukekohe as the best feeling he has ever experienced in his racing journey in the formula.
The first round was at Taupo, which saw him produce some of the fastest lap times in the field, and he managed to secure a fifth placing after qualifying.
A poor start in the first race saw him drop down the field and gearbox issues didn’t help, but he managed to fight back for an eventual fifth.
The second race also saw gear problems, and a disappoint-ing seventh position. Rain for the third race evened out the field, as Cory says:
“With it raining it brought the field closer together slowing the race up, I was able to finish the last race in third. Overall Taupo was a good meeting for us as a team and was great get-ting back into the season. Our engine needed some work for Pukekohe but we were happy.”
With the engine fixed for Pukekohe, Cory was ready to show his pace.
“ I knew this track was fast so it was going to be a chal-lenge for me to have the speed and racecraft to keep with the top five and keep my hopes of finishing with the podium,” he says.
“At the end of Fridays practice I had the fastest lap time which was 1:20.9 and was the only car to get into the 1:20’s.
“On Saturday we had qualifying in the morning ending up
fourth on the grid for the first race.”A good start and a move into second, then first showed the
pace of the car, and was the first time he had led a race at this level.
However he dropped back to the field, but managed to fin-ish third. The second race saw a better result, and his first win, although it was under a red flag.
“The race was red flagged with one lap to go meaning I was the winner for the race which was my first ever win. I was a little gutted about the race getting red flagged because my first win was under safety car but I’m still happy with the points and I’ll take the win,” he said.
In the final race Cory snatched a break on the field, manag-ing to move from fifth to first in the reverse-grid event.
“Throughout the eight lap race I was able to get a one sec-ond lead each lap which allowed me to have a seven second lead on the rest on the field.
“With one lap to go I could not believe that this was actu-ally happening, it was the best feeling I have ever felt in my racing journey with Formula First.
“I crossed the line coming first and with a round win. Over-all in Pukekohe I came out with a third, and two firsts which was great points and a huge confidence booster.
“ I’m on the right track so far and achieving some of my goals for the season,” he said.
The next round is at Taupo on 4-5th January.Above: Cory’s team provides some shade in the hot condi-
tions. Photos courtesy of Craig Smith, Holeshotz Photography.
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After the long awaited Auckland rain, it turned out to be a stellar day in Round two for Awhitu Peninsula’s Team Torpey at Western Springs Speedway earlier this month.
The crew set up camp at their perma-nent Western Springs Speedway pit bay, looking super sharp in their new Mitre 10 Trade Racing uniforms, and ready to race.
For Race one, local racer Glenn Tor-
pey drew second on the grid. All went well for the first three quarters of a lap, until the Mitre 10 Trade Racing beast caught a huge rut in the track bending a rear arm.
Unfortunately this severely affected the handling of the car and Glenn was pushed back to finish in seventh place.
In the next heat Team Torpey started in tenth grid, and easily made up a few places to finish in a solid eighth place.
The 20 lap feature race started with 15 cars battling it out for Round Cham-pion. Glenn did exceptionally well to hold the Mitre 10 Trade Racing Sprint-car in 10th place while all the other driv-ers wrestled their Sprintcars around the lumps and bumps.
After the mighty crash in the first round, the team said “It was awesome to finish the nights racing with the Sprintcar all in one piece!
Local racer Cory Holmes is going from strength to strength as he campaigns in the Formula First Championship.
He described his seven-seconds-plus win in the third race at Pukekohe as the best feeling he has ever experienced in his racing journey in the formula.
The first round was at Taupo, which saw him produce some of the fastest lap times in the field, and he managed to secure a fifth placing after qualifying.
A poor start in the first race saw him drop down the field and gearbox issues didn’t help, but he managed to fight back for an eventual fifth.
The second race also saw gear problems, and a disappoint-ing seventh position. Rain for the third race evened out the field, as Cory says:
“With it raining it brought the field closer together slowing the race up, I was able to finish the last race in third. Overall Taupo was a good meeting for us as a team and was great get-ting back into the season. Our engine needed some work for Pukekohe but we were happy.”
With the engine fixed for Pukekohe, Cory was ready to show his pace.
“ I knew this track was fast so it was going to be a chal-lenge for me to have the speed and racecraft to keep with the top five and keep my hopes of finishing with the podium,” he says.
“At the end of Fridays practice I had the fastest lap time which was 1:20.9 and was the only car to get into the 1:20’s.
“On Saturday we had qualifying in the morning ending up
fourth on the grid for the first race.”A good start and a move into second, then first showed the
pace of the car, and was the first time he had led a race at this level.
However he dropped back to the field, but managed to fin-ish third. The second race saw a better result, and his first win, although it was under a red flag.
“The race was red flagged with one lap to go meaning I was the winner for the race which was my first ever win. I was a little gutted about the race getting red flagged because my first win was under safety car but I’m still happy with the points and I’ll take the win,” he said.
In the final race Cory snatched a break on the field, manag-ing to move from fifth to first in the reverse-grid event.
“Throughout the eight lap race I was able to get a one sec-ond lead each lap which allowed me to have a seven second lead on the rest on the field.
“With one lap to go I could not believe that this was actu-ally happening, it was the best feeling I have ever felt in my racing journey with Formula First.
“I crossed the line coming first and with a round win. Over-all in Pukekohe I came out with a third, and two firsts which was great points and a huge confidence booster.
“ I’m on the right track so far and achieving some of my goals for the season,” he said.
The next round is at Taupo on 4-5th January.Above: Cory’s team provides some shade in the hot condi-
tions. Photos courtesy of Craig Smith, Holeshotz Photography.
Round win for local racer in Formula First
Team Torpey ruffles feathers in Round Two
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Counties Manukau Rugby Football Union has appointed their most recent centurion, Grant Henson as their ITM Cup Assistant Coach as the side looks to defend the Shield in 2014.
The thirty-seven year-old former hooker will join Tana Umaga as the Set Piece Coach for the current Ranfurly Shield holders.
Steelers Head Coach Tana Umaga said “Grant has great respect amongst the play-ers, is hugely knowledgeable in the set piece area and is passionate about Counties Ma-
nukau Rugby which makes him an ideal fit for our environment.”
Henson, who has played 101 games for the Steelers and coached the Counties Manukau U20’s last year, is thrilled with his new role.
“This is a massive opportunity and I am looking forward to learning from Tana.
“I am hugely excited about sharing my knowledge with our players and adding val-ue to what has already been established.”
Henson will take up his new role in late January.
The all new North Island Endurance Series is all set to kick off in 2014 with rounds at Pukekohe, Taupo with the grand finale to be held at Hampton Downs.
Experienced motorsport groups the HRC (Historic Racing Club), the Drivers Endurance Series, North Island Endur-ance racing Series, the Northern Sports Car Club, Hampton Downs Motorsport Park, NZIGP and Taupo Motorsport Park have formed a collective board to organise and promote the series, which will run in June and July next year.
The Board is made up of Chris Watson, John De Vere El-lery and Geoff Langham representing the Circuits and Race Organisers, with Kel McBeath and Karen Dovey representing the competitors and the newly-formed North Island Endur-ance Racing Drivers Club (NIERDC) respectively.
The IRC and HRC have been running Motorsport New Zealand-sanctioned endurance series for number of years now and the series articles will be updated specifically to ensure they meet the requirements of all competitors and are exactly the same as the SIERDC rules that are used for the ultra-successful South Island series. This will bring much needed consistency to endurance rules and allow more free-dom in some areas, such as the use of slick tyres.
Last year 39 cars started the Hampton Downs combined endurance event and early indications are that separate races within a race will be needed to accommodate all the entries in 2014, again just like the South Island events.
The 2014 dates for the inaugural North Island Endurance Series are the 6th and 7th of June at Pukekohe, the 5th and 6th of July at Taupo and 25th and 26th of July at Hampton Downs.
Buckland BowlsThe New Year was cel-
ebrated with Club members and visitors enjoying an af-ternoon of bowls together, followed by a ‘pot luck’ din-ner.
Saturday 4th January saw the 1 – 5 year men play their Championship Singles.
This was won by Graham Jones, who will go forward to Centre to challenge the win-ners in this event from other Counties Club entrants.
Buckland Runner up in this event was Brian Nicklin.
Wednesday 8th January: Buckland hosted their first tournament for the year.
This was an any combina-tion Pairs Medley, which had an entry of 24 teams, and was sponsored by Challenge Pukekohe and Top Notch Trophies.
Winners, from Pukekohe were Bryon and Gloria Duf-fin
Runners up, from Manure-wa: Meg Pennell and Spen-cer Smith.
Third placing from Puke-kohe: R. Walsh and Mary Bush.
First Buckland team: Jean Scott and Alan Brash.
Club bowling continued on Saturday 11th January with a drawn Triples Club Tournament, when Buck-land hosted a full green of keen bowlers, who enjoyed a pleasant day, sunny weather and perfect greens.
Waiuku Golf, Mid-week
Open, Lion Nathan Tourna-ment, January 9:
Div One:1st Gross Court-ney Maddern 70.
Waiuku AFC’s position as the only club in the local re-gion playing in the Northern Ferderation’s Soccer League has been lost, following a successful protest by Papa-kura City over their play-off matches against AFC Fury.
Papakura now looks set to be part of the competi-tion, and will resume their intense cross-district rivalry with the Jim Evans-coached Waiuku side later this year.
Papakura were knocked
out of the league, but pro-tested over the eligibility of some of the Fury players, and late last year Auckland Football announced the re-sults of a complex investiga-tion into the players.
In a release, the Federa-tion stated: ‘Auckland Foot-ball has finalised an investi-gation into the eligibility of players from the AFC Fury club following their Lotto NRFL entry playoff series with Papakura City FC held
in September-October.‘After receiving an inci-
dent report from Papakura City FC; Auckland Football, with assistance from New Zealand Football, sought to clarify the status of players involved in the playoff from AFC Fury.
‘Following the investiga-tion it has been found AFC Fury fielded two ineligible players in the playoff tie under New Zealand Foot-ball and competition regu-
Pukekohe round confirmedfor 2014 Endurance series
Papakura wins protest into Northern League
Henson named assistant coach
lations.’ As a result of the findings, Papakura City FC has been awarded the points from both legs of the tie and declared winners of the play-off series.
Auckland Football CEO David Parker says the find-ings come after a thorough process which safeguarded the interests of both clubs and preserved the integrity of the competition.
“We acknowledge this has been a lengthy process but, in the circumstances, both Auckland Football and New Zealand Football have done everything possible to reach an outcome as soon as pos-sible,” Parker said.
“Given what was at stake for both clubs and the Lotto NRFL competition itself, it was our responsibility to use every available resource to make a fully informed deci-sion.”
AFC Fury has the right to appeal the decision with New Zealand Football, but this appears unlikely.
Local sports results in brief1st Nett: Todd Geayley 601st S/fd: Darren Whyte 442nd Gross Jonathon Mor-
ley 74, 2nd Nett Dominic Olson 65, 2nd S/fd Dane Morley 41, 3rd S/fd Frank McGrath 40
Div Two: 1st Gross Merv Price 82, 1st Nett Wayne Green 60, 1st S/fd John Ham-ilton 42, 2nd GrossJoel Stitt 82, 2nd Nett Bruce Wilson 66, 2nd S/fd Paul Parker 40, 3rd S/fd Christopher Peet 40.
Longest Drive: Ladies, Joy James. Men Div One: Caine Robbie: Div Two; Steve May-nard.
Nearest The Pin; Men; Div One Courtney Maddern, Div Two Simon Andruchow.
Twos: Brent Dawson, Cam Fleming, Wayne Green, MitchellLee, Robert Martin , Frank McGrath, John Munro,
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Waiuku’s Dr Mark Eustace completed a gruelling Ultramarathon on the weekend as part of his drive to raise funds for a new surf lifesaving facility.
I am happy to report I just made it in the blistering heat to finish the Kauri Run Ultra on Saturday.
The drive to Fletchers Bay at the north-ern tip of the Coromandel was awesome with spectacular views and some hairy gravel roads as we took a detour en route to Port Charles to check out the first transi-tion stop on Friday.
The day started at 4 am with breakfast and a final briefing before the mad few Ul-tra enthusiasts set off at 5.30am as dawn was breaking. The first 10 km along the Co-romandel Walkway was the most stunning scenery and enjoyable running of the day with not too many and not too steep hills and fresh legs and the cool morning air.
From there along Stoney Bay Road to the first Aid station near Port Charles. The next section had some steeper climbs including the descent to Potiki Bay with some enjoy-able bush running.
After crossing some farmland and a few kms on the gravel road we arrived at Wai-kawau Aid station and 38kms into the race still feeling pretty good.
Leaving Waikawau at about 10am the temperatures were rising and the biggest climb of the day began with about 16kms of mostly climbing up till around 500 me-tres at the top of the Coromandel cen-tral divide. Not long into this section the wheels started to fall off and the good pace I had kept up over the first 38kms came back to bite me.
At around the 45km mark I started get-ting the head spins and increasing nausea ending with an inevitable bout of vomiting when I collapsed on the side of the trail.
My fellow competitors were awesome with several of them giving me salt and other supplies but mostly moral support walking with me to the next two check-points. With 17kms to go at the top of the hill I rested at the checkpoint there and af-ter lots of oranges, fluids and Cramp-Stop I started to come right and was able to jog on slowly finally getting to the Kennedy Bay Rd Aid station where Jo (my amazing support person for the whole day) and my good friend Wayne Knight were waiting pa-tiently.
From here Wayne joined me for the final
Dr Mark completes KauriRun Ultramarathon
Christmas Display lights up again
8kms ascent to the highest point of the day at Kaipawa Trig (560metres) before the final 5km descent to Coromandel town and the welcoming finish line.
Thanks to all those who have sponsored me but anyone keen to do so it is not too late with all donations going to the Karioitahi Surf Life Club for their awesome new premises. Dona-tions can be made at the Waiuku branch of the ASB, the Waiuku Post or Waiuku Health Cen-tre, or direct to the Karioitahi Surf Life Club account: ASB (Waiuku) 12-3044-0320181-00, Reference – Ultra marathon.
A treat for children of all ages, the Waiuku Christmas Display, created by Jim and Phyl Sneddon (above), opens in the Waiuku Town Hall this weekend with an even bigger selection of Santas and Christmas themes than ever before. Open until Christmas Eve, the display this year features something even more special - a talking reindeer which can chat to some of the passersby! Drawing thousands to Waiuku each year, the display has this year partnered with the Glenbrook Vintage Railway to add to the enjoyment of a day out.
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You are invited to enter the
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BOATS
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WAIUKU
Enter & win an ATOMIX
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with all the extras
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$150ea after 15/01/14
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Waiuku’s Dr Mark Eustace completed a gruelling Ultramarathon on the weekend as part of his drive to raise funds for a new surf lifesaving facility.
I am happy to report I just made it in the blistering heat to finish the Kauri Run Ultra on Saturday.
The drive to Fletchers Bay at the north-ern tip of the Coromandel was awesome with spectacular views and some hairy gravel roads as we took a detour en route to Port Charles to check out the first transi-tion stop on Friday.
The day started at 4 am with breakfast and a final briefing before the mad few Ul-tra enthusiasts set off at 5.30am as dawn was breaking. The first 10 km along the Co-romandel Walkway was the most stunning scenery and enjoyable running of the day with not too many and not too steep hills and fresh legs and the cool morning air.
From there along Stoney Bay Road to the first Aid station near Port Charles. The next section had some steeper climbs including the descent to Potiki Bay with some enjoy-able bush running.
After crossing some farmland and a few kms on the gravel road we arrived at Wai-kawau Aid station and 38kms into the race still feeling pretty good.
Leaving Waikawau at about 10am the temperatures were rising and the biggest climb of the day began with about 16kms of mostly climbing up till around 500 me-tres at the top of the Coromandel cen-tral divide. Not long into this section the wheels started to fall off and the good pace I had kept up over the first 38kms came back to bite me.
At around the 45km mark I started get-ting the head spins and increasing nausea ending with an inevitable bout of vomiting when I collapsed on the side of the trail.
My fellow competitors were awesome with several of them giving me salt and other supplies but mostly moral support walking with me to the next two check-points. With 17kms to go at the top of the hill I rested at the checkpoint there and af-ter lots of oranges, fluids and Cramp-Stop I started to come right and was able to jog on slowly finally getting to the Kennedy Bay Rd Aid station where Jo (my amazing support person for the whole day) and my good friend Wayne Knight were waiting pa-tiently.
From here Wayne joined me for the final
Dr Mark completes KauriRun Ultramarathon
Christmas Display lights up again
8kms ascent to the highest point of the day at Kaipawa Trig (560metres) before the final 5km descent to Coromandel town and the welcoming finish line.
Thanks to all those who have sponsored me but anyone keen to do so it is not too late with all donations going to the Karioitahi Surf Life Club for their awesome new premises. Dona-tions can be made at the Waiuku branch of the ASB, the Waiuku Post or Waiuku Health Cen-tre, or direct to the Karioitahi Surf Life Club account: ASB (Waiuku) 12-3044-0320181-00, Reference – Ultra marathon.
A treat for children of all ages, the Waiuku Christmas Display, created by Jim and Phyl Sneddon (above), opens in the Waiuku Town Hall this weekend with an even bigger selection of Santas and Christmas themes than ever before. Open until Christmas Eve, the display this year features something even more special - a talking reindeer which can chat to some of the passersby! Drawing thousands to Waiuku each year, the display has this year partnered with the Glenbrook Vintage Railway to add to the enjoyment of a day out.
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FREE drop off depot for all your unwanted TV’s, com-puters, whiteware, etc. Recycle All Your Stuff Ltd. Unit 1 Waiuku Business Park, 23 Kitchener Road, Waiuku. Free pick up in Waiuku. Ph: 235 5769.
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rAFFLE rESULTS
WAIUkU Country Music Club Christmas Stocking Raffle Results. Winner no 615 Kathleen Turner. Thank you everyone for your support.
WAIUkU Guides – UK fundraising raffle. Results Pig – Julie and Lynn. Christmas raffle: Nancy, Barbara and Jacqui. Drawn under supervision. Thank you for your sup-port.
WAIUkU Bowling tourna-ment – Prescott Builders Waiuku. Sponsored by Gary & Diane Prescott. 1 – B Eagle, A Williams and L Hull. 2 – M Churchill, B Holmes and K Hull. 3 – J Cross, P Miller and J Palmer.
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FRAMING - The Framing Shed. Quality custom pic-ture framing. 31 Victoria Ave, Waiuku. Tues - Fri 9 - 5 or by appointment. Ph Allie: 235 0939 or 027 253 4577.
READINGS - Clairvoyant. Phone: Eunice Attwood on 235 0022. www.euniceat-twood.webs.com.
TO LEASEOFFICE SPACE - Waiuku Business Park, 23 Kitchener Road. Downstairs from $90 + gst per week. Phone: Sam: 021 671 960.
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One of the newest womens groups in New Zealand was formed in Drury last year and now, with the hurdle of official recognition now over, the group is extending a welcome to prospective new members.
Based at the Presbyterian Church Hall, in Norrie Road, Drury, the Inner Wheel Club of Counties was officially chartered as part of District NZ291 with a luncheon at the Franklin racing Club in Pukekohe in December.
Inner Wheel is an International Organisation for Women. Inter-nationally, Inner Wheel is one of the largest women’s voluntary ser-vice organisations operating in the world. With over 100,000 mem-bers in 103 Countries. As a non-government organisation, Inner Wheel representatives work within the United Nations on commit-tees in Geneva, Vienna and New York to better the lives of women globally. As the sister organisation of Rotary International it works closely with its members on service projects.
In New Zealand, there are 64 clubs spanning the country from Whangarei to Invercargill and including clubs in Fiji and New Cal-edonia.
Clubs meet monthly to enjoy friendship and participate in ser-vice to the community, at home and overseas, and the newly-es-tablished Counties club meets on the fourth Wednesday of each month.
The progress of the group to official membership began in March of last year, when members of the District NZ291 Extension Team contacted local women with the aim of forming a local club.
The Inner Wheel District of NZ291 incorporates the regions of Auckland, Northland, Fiji and New Caledonia. District NZ291 cur-rently has 12 clubs including two offshore clubs: Noumea-Plai-sance and Tokalau-Suva.
After much discussion, it was decided to name the fledgeling club the ‘Inner Wheel Club of Counties’, but before it could be formed it needed to have 12 members.
A loyal group of women have turned up to the monthly meet-ings, with members from as far afield as Clevedon, Papakura, Wai-uku, Pukekohe and Tuakau, and they extend an invitation to any-one interested to join them on Wednesday January 22 (the fourth Wednesday of the month).
For further information, contact secretary Lesley Murgatroyd on 235 5341.
Pictured above right are some of the members of the new Inner Wheel Club; Judith Gee, Vicky Reeve, Pippa McLachlan, Lois McKay, Melanie Moylan (president), Sharon Rusden, Lesley Murgatroyd, Robin Fraser and Tracy Heslop.
There might be some busy days of nailing timbers in the coming week, with the The Waiuku Museum Soci-ety’s new barn set to host an exhibition on Sunday!
The Society has been busy over the holiday break working on a new barn to display its large range of ag-ricultural equipment and machinery, but one of its first displays will be local art, although yesterday afternoon it looked as though there was still a bit of work to be done.
The Waiuku Independant Art Group intends to host a series of exhibitions in the new barn, which is near-ing completion. The first of the art exhibitions will com-mence this Sunday, (January 19), from 10.30am. For more information, contact Peter on 235 9999 or Sonja on 235 7837.
Invitation extended to local women to join newest club
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WAIUKU TENNIS CLUB RAFFLEFirst prize – Syd Goodwright – Heineken Open – Men’s Final Second prize - Heather Millen – Sky
City – Do Not Disturb Package Third prize – Shelly Boase – Charter Fishing Trip – “Diversity”
Thank you to everyone who supported our club.
FOR SALEHORSE fly sheet made by Trev’s Covers. 5’3” dark green, attached neck cover. New condition as horse died soon after pur-chasing. $80. Ph: Jenny 235 6947.
FREEREMOVAL - Any old scrap metal incl. old batteries, expired gas bottles, old cars, lawn mowers, etc. Ph Martin: 021 128 5953 or 238 3005.
FREE drop off depot for all your unwanted TV’s, com-puters, whiteware, etc. Recycle All Your Stuff Ltd. Unit 1 Waiuku Business Park, 23 Kitchener Road, Waiuku. Free pick up in Waiuku. Ph: 235 5769.
FREEVIEWDIGITAL Set Up UHF & Satellite. Ph Dave 236 3519 or Ph/Txt: 021 2777006.
FREEVIEW antennas, installations and set up. Phone Mike & Mike 235 7059 mornings. Registered Servicemen.
GARDENINGROSEMARY - I will prune your rosemary bush for you in return for the pro-duce. Upright as opposed to trailing varieties sought. Martine: 027 475 9580.
HAIR DRESSINGTHE Cutting Room Hair Salon. 33 Breaker Grove, Waiuku. Ladies cuts from $30, Mens cuts from $25, Colours from $70. Hours: Tues 11-3pm, Wed 9-5pm, Fri 9-til late, Mon & Sat by pre-arranged appts only. Phone Steff: 235 7149.
LAUNDROMATLAUNDROMAT - Open 7 days. Drop off service and self service. Detergents included. Sports clothing, commercial, wash, dry and fold. Laundry 4 U. Between Video Ezy and Pizza Hut, across parking lot from Ed St Restaurant. Ph: 09 239 2964.
PETSPOOCHIE PARK – Holiday home for dogs. Inspection welcome by arrangement. Ph: 09 235 0052 (Evenings) or 021 856 555. Email: [email protected] for further information.
PICTURE FRAMING
THE FRAMING SHED - Quality Custom Picture Framing. 31 Victoria Ave, Waiuku. Tues - Fri 9 - 5 or by appt. Ph Allie: 235 0939 or 027 253 4577.
SITUATIONS VACANT
CAREGIVER Wanted. Casual/Temporary posi-tion available. Must be reliable, flexible & have a full drivers licence. Non smoker. Training provided. Ph: Ana or Moana on 021 114 9439 or 021 525 240.
TO LEASEOFFICE SPACE - Waiuku Business Park, 23 Kitchener Rd, Waiuku. Downstairs from $90 + gst p/wk. Ph Sam: 021 671 960.
OFFICE SPACE - Waiuku Business Park, 23 Kitchener Rd, Waiuku. Upstairs from $110 + gst p/wk. Ph Sam: 021 671 960.
WAREHOUSE SPACE - Waiuku Business Park, 23 Kitchener Rd, Waiuku. Small, Med & Lge. Easy access. Ph Sam: 021 671 960.
WORKSHOP SPACE - Waiuku Business Park, 23 Kitchener Rd, Waiuku. Easy access. Ph Sam: 021 671 960.
TUITIONLEARN to draw and paint. The fundamentals of drawing and painting tech-niques. Ph. 021 155 8714.
GREGG’S Drumming Tuition. Beginners to advanced. No drums required. Bookings essen-tial. Theory & practical. Teacher of the winner of Waiuku’s X Factor 2013. Check us out on Facebook. 021 265 2780 or 238 7980.
DRUMMING Lesson, full set up in Waiuku, no need to have a kit, beginners to intermediate, theory, rhythm and grooves. Paul on 021 145 4478.
WANTEDTREES WANTED - Gum & Macrocarpa. Also tree felling & shelter belt removal. Ph/txt Chris: 027 212 4590 or 235 0065.
TO buy good quality house hold furniture, tools, antiques etc. Free quotes. Ph: 027 277 5026. Lani
WORK WANTED
BUILDER available through Christmas and New Year. Call Peter 235 7777.
NORMAL SURGERY HOURS:8.30am to 7pm, Mon to Fri
• 9am to midday, Sat, Sun & Public HolidaysNEW YEAR’S HOLIDAY
• Jan 1 & 2 Clinic 9am - 12noonJan 3 onwards - Normal Surgery Hours
MARAE CLINIC: First clinic for 2014 on January 23rd
With over 20 years experience you will be in expert hands for all your aches and pains.
Closed 25 - 27 December & 1 - 3 January 2014
Christmas GreetingsAll our sta� : admin, counsellors and support workers, wish you all an enjoyable holiday break, and special family time this Christmas. A special thanks to all our supporters. We recognise that there are many who do not have family, or may be going through an emotionally distressing time, so Christmas can be very lonely, and painful. Remember you are not alone. Although our o� ce is closed from 20th December to 13th January 2014, we will have some sta� on-call covering this period. So if you need support or counselling over this time, please phone the o� ce leaving us a message with your contact details and we will get back to you. Phone: 2391823 • Mobile: 021 1026326 www.hopeunlimitedtrust.org.nz
Hope Unlimited TRUSTCOUNSELLING & SOCIAL SUPPORT SERVICES
Thank you all for your support, The Post will re-open on Monday 6th January
2014. Our fi rst edition is Tuesday, January 14th. Have a happy and safe
holidays from all of our team!
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EMERGENCY CONTACTSPOLICE / AMBULANCE : 111
COACHESPremiers - Paul Graham:
021 240 6006Premier Reserves - Jimmy Robinson:
021 242 5660U21’s - Peter Summerville: 0274 735 546
U19’s - Tom Kane: 027 277 2346
Please contact the coach if you are unable to make the muster.
