devonport flagstaff july 11 2014

July 11 2014 The DevonporT FlagsTaFF page 1

July 11, 2014

Interview: Clinical nutritionist Gil Hardy… p16

Flagstaff wins journalism awards… p3

Film-maker’s special Devonport screening… p5

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Sex attack on schoolgirl at North HeadPolice are investigating claims that a girl

believed to be only 14 or 15 years old, and heavily intoxicated, has been sexually as-saulted at a local beauty spot.

The alleged assault took place at The Cove, a popular gathering place for young people at the foot of North Head.

Police have put on extra patrols of this area

at weekends and after dark.In a letter sent out to some parents, Taka-

puna Grammar School’s Head of Student Services, Mary Pottinger, claims the sex attack took place at one such gathering.

“It has come to our attention that over recent weekends and past months, there have been large gatherings of young people late at night,

involved in consumption of alcohol, drugs and sexual activity, including sexual assault.

“We understand that most of them are our students, and that many are in Years 9 and 10. Last Saturday night (June 28th) there was one such gathering, at the cove on Cheltenham Beach.”

Cheeky operators… Alex (7) and Joshua (5) Bent at the Devonport Community House Kids 4 Kids Market. More pictures pages 18, 19.

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The school has made a number of referrals to the Police, Youth Aid, and Child, Youth and Family Services.

It is urging parents to monitor the wherea-bouts of their children at night for reasons of their own safety.

The letter concludes: “Please accept this letter as an attempt to prevent further damage or injury to students of Takapuna Grammar School.”

The Flagstaff was unable to contact either

Ms Pottinger or principal Simon Lamb as the school was closed for the holidays.

Sergeant Kirsten Evans, Youth Aid Section, North Shore Police, said police were very limited as to the details it could release in matters involving minors.

“However, we can confirm that we are currently assessing information that has been provided to us, that relates to a recent congre-gation of young people on Cheltenham Beach at the end of June.”


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Vieth judged country’s best junior reporter The Devonport Flagstaff’s Maire Vieth has

been judged best junior reporter in the country.Vieth won both the Best Junior Journalist

and Best Junior Sports Journalist awards at the 2014 New Zealand Community News-paper Association (CNA) Awards held in Wellington.

The junior category is open to journalists with less than three years’ experience, and the 2014 awards relate to work published in 2013.

Vieth’s best-journalist portfolio included stories on fraud at Takapuna Grammar Rowing Club, coverage of the downblast that ripped through Devonport and an interview with New Zealand chess grandmaster Murray Chandler and his move to set up a chess centre at St Paul’s church.

Judge Alan Samson said of Vieth’s entry: “A very competent portfolio for a junior reporter, putting some of the senior entries to shame. I especially love the way she uncovered per-sonal stories in the storm. Impressive too in the way she has investigated a fraud. Good, diverse entry.”

Junior sports journalist judge Armin Lindenberg said Vieth’s work was outstanding “by a very talented journalist, with the ability to find and then work the angles.”

Her entry included story about a 13-year-old girl (Kate Williams) who was the best rugby player in her grade, and a top youth cyclist (Adam McPheat).

“But her standout-out piece was a well researched and well crafted profile of Nic Cowan, the mentor and manager of our shot put champion, Valerie Adams.

Lindberg said: “This was a great get by Maire and made compelling reading. It was worthy of a full page in any daily or Sunday sports section or weekly colour magazine.”

Flagstaff editor Rob Drent also won the award for Best Headlines and was runner-up as Best Photographer in newspapers with circulation 7,500 to 20,000.

The Flagstaff was third equal best paper in the 7,500 to 20,000 division.

“This year the Devonport Flagstaff, always a contender, pushed its way into third equal place with the Whakatane Beacon,” said judge Mike Fletcher.

Best in the country… Maire Vieth, judged both top junior sports and top junior news reporter, with Flagstaff editor Rob Drent

The Flagstaff received special mention in the Community Involvement award for stories it ran on closed workshops at the Devonport-Takapuna Local Board.

After the local body elections, the board decided to open up its workshops to the public.

“Thank heavens for papers like the Flag-staff,” said Community Involvement judge Greg Treadwell.

Flagstaff editor Rob Drent said Vieth had made great strides during her two years as a reporter and the Flagstaff and the Devonport

community were lucky to have someone with her passion and drive.

The Flagstaff team: Rob and Maire, design-er Brendon De Suza, proofreader/sub editor/web manager Jo Hammer and office manager Janet Klee have been together for some years and “the commitment shows”, Drent said.

“We’ve taken the Flagstaff online this year but nothing has changed really. We remain a Devonport newspaper with Devonport news about Devonport issues and Devonport peo-ple,” Drent said.

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A film written and directed by a former Takapuna Grammar student is to be the opening night film at next week’s New Zealand International Film Festival.

The Dark Horse is the eagerly-awaited second feature film by James Napier Robertson and is being tipped as one of the most important home-grown releases of the year.

An actor by trade, Napier Robertson (31) has played leading roles in a number of local and international TV shows including Power Rangers, Being Eve, Mercy Peak, The Tribe and Shortland Street.

He made his debut feature film five years ago, the black thriller I’m Not Harry Jenson, which premiered at the Auckland Film Festival. The film was critically acclaimed and brought the young film-maker to the attention of the New Zealand Film Commission.

At the time, Napier Robertson told The Flagstaff: “I will always love acting but I love writing and directing and feel that is my real passion.”

The Dark Horse is described an inspirational true story based on the life of the late Genesis Potini, a hitherto little-known chess champion from Gisborne.

It tells the story of how Potini overcame mental illness to mentor youth on the East Cape.

The central role is played by Cliff Curtis with support from James Rolleston (Boy) and Kirk Torrance from Outrageous Fortune. The cast also includes several extras from Takapuna Grammar School.

The film opens at the Civic Theatre, Auckland, on July 17, and there is a special showing at the Victoria Theatre on August 1, when Napier Robertson will take part in a question-and-answer session.

His proud parents, John Robertson and Stephanie Napier, who live in Stanley Bay, are hoping for strong support from the community for the special Devonport screening.

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Dark Horse to light up Devonport… James Napier Robertson is bringing his movie home for a special screening at The Vic


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The sale of one of Devonport’s most known and historic buildings is still on hold, but “progressing favourably,” says Michael Osborne, estate agent for Link Business Broking. Osborne says he was negotiating with parties and was hoping to make an an-nouncement by the end of July.

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But the deal only applies for journeys from Auckland to Devonport, so locals can’t take their youngsters over to the city for free.

To travel for free children have to be ac-companied by a full-return-fare paying adult.

The offer is valid for children aged 5-15 years and applies to return tickets from Auckland.

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Preschoolers are invited to celebrate Ma-tariki with a craft morning at Takarunga Playcentre on Thursday 24 July. Activities include making flax stars and kites which, weather permitting, will get their first outing on top of Mount Victoria upon completion. There will also be interactive story telling with local drama teacher and former playcentre parent Kate Bartlett. All welcome. Gold coin donation.

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New York’s small, low-cost, pilot project approach to cycle lanes could be the new model for Devonport, says local cycling advocate Chris Werry.

“New York used a lot of temporary and cheap materials, like paint or plastic barrels, to set up various temporary cycle routes around the city. They didn’t spend millions and if, for some reason, a pilot didn’t work, they removed it again and nothing much was lost. Then they tried something else,” he says.

Werry, a member of Cycle Action Auckland (CAA), handed the Devonport-Takapuna Local Board a list of local pilot ideas. These include:• Moving Memorial Drive car parks outside

the cycle lane• Mark Lake Road cycle lane with cats eyes

or plastic stick barriers• Install more bike parking in Devonport

village• Install cycle lane where we have the space,

eg. on Tainui RoadWerry says he is not a “hard-core cyclist”

but gets around locally mainly on his bike. He wants his two young children to follow in his tracks but says Devonport’s streets are currently not safe enough. If they were, he and other parents would be more comfortable to let their kids bike around.

“Being able to cycle around Devonport safely should be part of their childhood, like certain other freedoms that they have here because it is such a safe place,” he says.

CAA chair and Devonport local Barbara Cuthbert supports Werry’s ideas. “Ideas like those from Chris are vital as local feeders that need to be advanced by local boards,” she says. Local board member Alison Roe was supportive as well and said she would discuss the ideas further with Werry.

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After starting a promising career as a cov-ers band, local lads Josh Lake and Joe Arrow are poised to showcase their own songwrit-ing skills.

The former Takapuna Grammar School students have been playing together for a year since meeting at an open-mic session at the Takapuna Bar.

“We sort of knew each other from school but not very well,” said Lake (21). “Someone suggested we had a jamming session together and we hit it off from there.”

As ‘Josh and Joe’ they play two or three gigs a week, including a regular Thursday night slot at Florrie McGreals on Hurstmere Road, Takapuna.

“We play anything that creates an atmos-phere and gets people up dancing,” said Arrow (23).

Their big break came when Arrow’s audio engineer cousin Edd Saffel was visiting from the UK.

“He’s worked for a lot of up-and-coming artists and offered to produce an EP for us,” says Arrow.

The result is Lake Arrow’s debut, five-track EP, Stone Cold Road, which will be officially released at a launch at Tiny Triumphs on August 2.

“It’s an amalgamation of things we’ve written separately and together,” says Lake.

“It’s a mixture of influences, some of which we weren’t expecting, that evolved in the recording process.”

The duo are saving up to go on tour to the US at the end of the year.

Another TGS student, Tom Mannion (18), has taken photographs, produced cover art and recorded a video of the band.

“I know Joe from Devonport Drama and was keen to help the guys out,” Mannion said.

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Local musicians have a bright future covered... (from left) Josh Lake, photographer Tom Mannion and Joe Arrow


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$100,000 curtain raiser for Devonport LibraryA $100,000 budget has been set aside

for a space-dividing, silk curtain in Devonport’s new library.

But the public art piece will be mostly invisible during the day.

Creator of the curtain, Judy Millar, was selected from 85 artists to design an object of public art for the new building and bring a unique energy to its interior.

Auckland Council project manager Da-vid Thomas said the curtain will be three metres high and made out of double-sided silk. It comes with its own dry-cleaning schedule and a ten-year maintenance or replacement budget of $30,000. “We expect that people will want to touch it,” Thomas says. A large part of the project’s total $100,000 budget is going into the track-ing, railing and security system to hang the curtain, as well as the printing and sewing of the piece, he said.

The curtain will be visible from the street after business hours, when it will be used to divide off and secure the facility’s main area from the community room that remains open to the public.

During library opening hours the curtain will be stored next to the new fireplace, where it will also be shaded from being bleached by the sun, Thomas says. It will

also need to be treated with non-flammable chemicals, he says.

Barry Brickell tiles are being restored by a curator and will be displayed on a mounting above the fireplace, Thomas told a Devonport-Takapuna Local Board workshop.

Board member Dianne Hale questioned Thomas about the curtain’s durability, fad-ing and weight. Thomas said he expected it to last at least ten years, that the silk would

be weighted down in the seam and that once folded away at the fireplace, it would not be in any sunlight.

• Judy Millar, born in 1957, was raised on the North Shore and graduated from Elam School of Fine Arts. She divides her time between Auckland and Berlin and has repre-sented New Zealand at the Venice Biennale in 2009 and 2011. Her work appears in art galleries throughout Europe, including Berlin, St Gallen and Prague.

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A day that marked a huge loss for Inge Wisselink was brightened by much-welcome news from home.

Just before her elderly father’s funeral in Holland, she received a text saying that her missing cat Max was featured in the Flagstaff. He had been found at Devonport Panelbeaters.

Max had been missing for three weeks and Wisselink had presumed he was dead. She was relieved to hear that he was alive and well, if a bit dusty, and had been mistaken for a female and renamed Turtle.

Eleven-year-old Max disappeared on Queen’s Birthday weekend. Wisselink and her partner Paul Anderson went searching for him and dropped flyers in letterboxes around their Spring Street home.

Ten days later, with Max still missing, Wisselink left for Holland to say goodbye to her dying father.

“I really thought Max was dead. He ran away once before and when he came back two days later he was really, really sick,” she said.

“It took several weeks and trips to the vet to get him back to health after that. This time we had resigned ourselves to the fact that he wasn’t coming back and had died somewhere.”

Anderson received a phone call from Wendy Komiskey at Devonport Auto Centre who had seen a picture of Max on a poster in New World. She thought Max could be the cat that had been staying next door at Fleet Street Panelbeaters since a stormy night.

“Wendy said it was a female cat, so I didn’t think it could be Max and never went to have a look,” Anderson said.

However, when the cat was featured in The Flagstaff, Anderson took one look and

knew it was his Max.“I recognised him instantly and went to

get him. He was well and had lost a little bit of weight but he was pleased to be home.”

Max was a homecoming surprise for Inge when she arrived back home last week.

Happy homecoming for absent friends

Welcoming committee... Inge Wisselink and Paul Anderson with their lost-and-found cat Max and Huntaway cross Ruby


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A Character Apartment With ViewsTreasured for over 20 years our current owner is now ready to part with this wonderful piece of history, a quirky 2 bedroom apartment with

garaging, within the iconic old homestead that sits proudly above the cluster of townhouses built in the 1970s that share the land. Incredible views are enjoyed from the private balcony. Perfect for first time buyers or investors wanting to step onto the property ladder. A rare opportunity!

Auction On Site, Sunday 3rd August 2014 at 11.00am (unless sold prior)View www.harcourts.co.nz/DP7342

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Devonport 17/53 Vauxhall Road

Phil Clark & Peter AytonM 021 940041 M 021 336 300E [email protected] E [email protected]

Yes, You Can Live In Devonport!Yes, it needs a lot of work, Yes, it is tired, Yes, it is in a good location, Yes, it is very spacious, Yes, you can live in Devonport!

Bring your architect/builder/decorator - roll up your sleeves and reap the rewards of some hard yakka! Check this out, being sold ’as is’.Pick up the phone and arrange a viewing now - be ahead of the pack!A Fantastic Opportunity For You To Live In Devonport

Auction On site, Monday 28th July 2014 at 12.00pm (unless sold prior)View www.harcourts.co.nz/DP7348

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Devonport 4 Bulwer Street

Phil Clark & Peter AytonP 09 446 2125 M 021 940041 M 021 336 300E [email protected] E [email protected]

All Smiles In Brick & TileWell presented unit, it´s even better inside. Brick and smiles from the 1970´s era, delivering all you could want for easy living. The location is

brilliant, this is affordable living and so handy to the ever popular Devonport and the ferry to town. Nest or invest.

Call now to arrange your private viewing.

Auction On site, Sunday 27th July 2014 at 5.00pm (unless sold prior)View www.harcourts.co.nz/DP7358

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Devonport 1/12 Aramoana Avenue

Jackie Mark & Jane HastingsP 09 446 2113 M 021 458 797 M 021 735 263E [email protected] E [email protected]

Much On Offer For So LittleThis 4 bedroom 2 bathroom home with harbour views & wonderful sunsets is positioned beside Belmont Primary School, with access through to

Belmont shops nearby. Ideal home for families who didn´t think they could afford the area. 190m2 in size, built in the 1970s with double garaging, there is still more opportunity to add further value to this property. Vendors have purchased, take a look at this beauty, make it yours!

For Sale $865,000View www.harcourts.co.nz/DP7286

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Belmont 3/19 Westwell Road


Devonport18 Clarence St Devonport

09 446 2030www.devonport.harcourts.co.nz

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Caroline DevereuxP 09 446 2107 M 021 573 305 E [email protected] Devonport

Sit Back And Enjoy The View!Views and opportunity ... await you in this unbeatable and unique location. This four bedroom Transitional Villa offers character and panoramic views

of Shoal Bay. You don’t have to go away to feel as if you are on holiday with plenty of room to entertain family and friends. Leave the car at home and take the ferry to work! This is a must to view!

For Sale $1,320,000View www.harcourts.co.nz/DP7264

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Bayswater 33 Beresford Street

Jackie Mark & Jane HastingsP 09 446 2113 M 021 458 797 M 021 735 263E [email protected] E [email protected]

Convenient Living - Freehold SectionThis lovely modern one level 3 bedroom 2 bathroom home is very easy to live in, is beautifully sunny, and has excellent indoor/outdoor flow on the

northern side. Built in 2000 this home is at the Belmont end, quietly positioned down a driveway, on a freehold 383m2 section. The urgency of our owners should prompt the same in you, your immediate inspection is recommended.

Auction On Site, Saturday 26th July 2014 at 3.00pm (unless sold prior)View www.harcourts.co.nz/DP7352

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Bayswater 172a Bayswater Ave

Diana MurrayP 09 446 2115 M 021 911522 E [email protected] Devonport

Simply StunningThis immaculate Villa sitting proudly on a corner site in central Devonport is fully renovated, professionally landscaped and lucky for you it is now for

sale.Don´t delay in this market.....it may be sometime before another one this good comes along.

For Sale By Negotiation View www.harcourts.co.nz/DP7356

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Devonport 128 Victoria Road

Jane Hastings & Jackie MarkP 09 446 2116 M 021 735 263 M 021 458 797E [email protected] E [email protected]

Polished And Ready, Just Like NewOnce upon a time there was an empty section. Then this 3 bedroom home with a study was relocated complete with new foundations and

services creating the transformation from an ugly duckling into a beautiful swan. Giving thought to sunshine angles, outdoor flow and outdoor living, the garden has been beautifully planted. Ideal for retirees, professional couples or families. Make this your forever home!

Auction On Site, Sunday 3rd August 2014 at 12.00pm (unless sold prior)View www.harcourts.co.nz/DP7338

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Bayswater 107a Bayswater Ave

The DevonporT FlagsTaFF page 14 July 11 2014Letters Bus lanes need to take priority for the good of the majority

Need to work together not build apart

In reply to the letter written by Barbara Cuthbert in the Flagstaff, June 13 2014, I wish to make some observations and comments. Firstly, she states that the Lake Road cycle lane is the most popular on the North Shore because it connects to the Devonport ferry. However, it is rare to see a cyclist on the Lake Road cycle lanes during peak hours, weekends being the days when cyclists appear to use them. This indicates that they are primarily used by leisure cyclists not those going to work. Anecdotal evidence suggests that leisure cyclists also drive to the urban periphery, park their cars and then go on bike rides, therefore, not using the lanes on Lake Road. Buses, however, are used by people going to work and are frequently held up due to the lack of bus lanes on Lake Road. This causes problems with buses failing to connect with ferries and so making people late for work.

So thanks to Ms Cuthbert and the lobbying of her organisation, we now have congestion on Lake Rd during peak hours; therefore, traffic cannot be said to have been improved, as she suggests. Why was a more extensive investigation not done to ascertain the need for bus lanes in favour of cycle lanes, especially as there were already cycle lanes on the footpath?

Now Ms Cuthbert wants physical barriers to protect these few cycling souls from the horrors of the traffic. What next?

Secondly, she assumes that the North Shore is populated by frustrated ‘would be’ cyclists, but is this so? Could it be that her middle-class world view does not encompass a life that is cycle-free? Some people cannot afford cycles and the equipment that goes with them. Others do not wish to cycle. I personally have hor-rific childhood memories of riding to school through the frost-covered landscape of a Gis-borne winter feeling miserable, not to mention the nightmare that is the head wind. So let’s look at the transport needs of Devonport more extensively and develop a bus system that is frequent, efficient, connects with ferries and covers the other areas of the peninsula. Let’s develop more bus routes instead of focusing on the one major route and prioritise bus lanes over cycle lanes on Lake Road.

Thirdly, perhaps Ms Cuthbert can explain why on a Saturday morning in early May she was sighted riding her bike on the footpath outside Takapuna Grammar rather than on her beloved cycle lane?Angela Maynard

I would like to comment further on Derk Schoemaker’s letter in the previous Flagstaff regarding cyclists.

My husband and I recently moved to Nar-row Neck after living more than 20 years in Mairangi Bay. We own a small dog and enjoy walking daily around the neighbourhood; however we are shocked and disturbed by the number of cyclists who have taken over the footpaths and clearly think they have every right to do so despite the road code which states that cyclists are only allowed on the footpath if delivering newspapers or mail, or if the pathway is marked as a shared pedestrian/cycleway. We are astounded by the number of high-school aged boys who prefer the footpath to the road and casually spread themselves across the pathway often riding two or three abreast; even more concerning is the speed some of them travel at with no fear or consideration of drivers struggling to reverse their vehicles safely out of their driveways. I am surprised that there have not been some serious incidents. The street we live in is very quiet so heavy traffic cannot be suggested as a reason why this behaviour has become the norm. And I must add that the cyclists are not just school children but adults as well, on the footpaths and in the parks; apparently it has become the responsiblity of the pedestrian to give way!

Other areas around the Shore are also home to cyclists and multiple schools yet we’ve never come across this before. Cyclists defi-nitely are a law unto themselves in Devonport. Karen Jones

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I was disappointed to read your reportage on how Whai Rawa wish to develop their prime real estate in Devonport.

That it appears to be with no or as little public consultation as possible; that it seeks to limit public access to Polly’s Park; that it appears to be intensification that does not take into account Devonport’s special character nor the concerns of existing residents; and that it has a confidence that Auckland Council will address any traffic concerns its development will contribute to

manifests as developer’s arrogance.With as engaged and informed a community

as Devonport is wouldn’t it be great if we could sit down together and discuss a future that would build community not tear it apart; that would generate buy-in for developments that have the potential to be mutually beneficial.

These developments will only be better – more sustainable and more profitable – if the community they are part of are along for the ride.Margaret Taylor


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Letters

Have we missed something? Was there or wasn’t there a consultation process with the general public regarding whether or not we have a monstrosity of a bus shelter in front of the ferry building? There was, but it appears the consultation process with the general pub-lic was nothing more than a sham! Auckland Transport (AT) and Auckland Council are totally ignoring the vast majority of Devonport rate-paying public who oppose the shelter. It is not enough to ask for public opinion and then do nothing about it!

Let’s get this clear. AT is going to build a bus shelter that covers the length of the beach, along the promenade. So it’s is going to block the view of the beach and the harbour. No mat-ter how it is designed it will have a huge impact

on the public’s view and what people see.Devonport is a very popular destination

for tourists who arrive in Auckland by sea. It would appear that coming across the harbour by ferry is part of the tourist attraction and ex-perience as well as being able to amble around Devonport - enjoy its quaint atmosphere and beautiful harbour views. There is nothing else to match it in Auckland. Yet AT want to turn Devonport into some kind of “transport hub”!

Devonport should be given the respect it deserves; its connection with the sea and harbour should be enhanced NOT blocked out!

Doesn’t AT understand - we don’t want a bus shelter, it would be totally out of character and out of place!

Sharon Byron-McKay

In reply to the letter by R France in the June 27 issue, I wonder if he/she realises that the London cab brings a smile to local and visitors’ faces alike.

It is the subject of many a wave, a thumbs up, a friendly chat or a photograph, and has been used for fundraising for local commu-nity projects such as the Wilson Home and Vauxhall Primary School. For three months it was loaned to a lady with a husband who was paralysed from the neck down with motor neurone disease. Requests have been made to use it as a wedding car, to which the owner/driver of the cab will oblige where possible, at no charge. Children love it and home buyers are thrilled when taken out in it to be shown houses, for the mere novelty. The vehicle is a promotional tool, absolutely, but so is the back of a bus.

Yes I am a local real estate agent, and if Mr/Ms France consider my owning or driving of it “beyond naff”, then perhaps they might like to talk to the many who have benefited from it – all within our local community. Jane Hastings

London cab a marketing tool that

also benefits the community

AT abusing Devonport with bus shelter push

The most magical bus shelter in Devonport is at Narrow Neck Beach. This morning I braved a north-east gale down Old Lake Rd to this dark haven – calm, enclosed in wood, with a small cut-out hole from which to spy the coming bus. It’s on a bit of a lean (most engaging), the tiled roof has been replaced with Colorsteel in a most insensi-tive renovation, but this stop offers more: it faces the road, yet as well, a back-to-back replica faces the open sea. Come summer, when families crowd the beach, oldies lie back in the seaside shelter while grandkids cavort on the beach.

Bus shelters are not glass things that set the sun beating on the heads of New Zea-landers – the most skin-cancer prone people of our time. Auckland Transport wants a new metropolitan model. Bureaucracy and branding rear their ugly heads. Shut them out, I say.David Mitchell

Perhaps our local MP, Maggie Barry, could explain to us through this column, the exact grievances that led the Government to give Navy and reserve land in Devonport to Ngati Whatua. T Bracey

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BINGO NIGHT Saturday, 19th July at 7.30pm

Devonport Croquet Club, Wairoa Road A night of Bingo fun to help raise some

funds for the Devonport Community Garden. Tickets $10. It's a BYO event and they are

encouraging players to bring a plate of finger food for the games-break for a mix and mingle.

Contact Charlotte on 021 949 049 or email [email protected]

ST LEO'S SCHOOL MOVIE FUNDRAISER

Sunday, 20th July 10.45am How to Train Your Dragon 2Victoria Theatre, Devonport

Doors open 10.00am for limited door sales Tickets $10 per child, $12 per adult also

rates for family groups.For enquiries phone 446-0100

TGS OPEN AFTERNOON Thursday 24 July,

4.00pm to 4.20pm & 5.30pm to 5.50pmTakapuna Grammar School Hall

Open afternoon for those interested in enrolling students in 2015. Information sessions and presentations by the principal and students followed by guided tour of school campus

by senior students.

SPANISH LESSONS - FREE Wednesdays, 6.30pm - 7.30pm

Venue: Corellis Café, 46 Victoria RoadBrush up on your Spanish skills for free at Corellis - all levels welcome. For more

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Gil Hardy likes to say he has two claims to fame. In 1962 he played on Ringo Starr’s drum set just be-fore Starr became a Beatle. Fifteen years later, he helped invent a bag that changed the lives of people suffering from intestinal failure. This year Hardy received a pres-tigious international award for his achievements in clinical nutrition, and last month he bought a new drum set. He spoke to Maire Vieth.

Fifty to sixty New Zealanders suffer from intestinal failure and most of them live in Auckland, says Gil Hardy, a UK biochemist who moved from Oxford to Devonport in 2004. Hardy compares intestinal failure to kidney or liver failure. It is most commonly caused by Crohn’s Disease, a progressive inflammation of the bowel, but also by other conditions. “It really is gut failure, when the gut can no longer absorb food,” he says.

Hardy invited Lisa Martin along to our interview. Martin, who is 28, suffers from intestinal failure and for the last six years hasn’t eaten a bite and has only had a few sips of water or tea. She receives all her food intravenously, administered 24 hours a day through a catheter in her chest.

Martin leads a relatively normal life. She can move around freely as long as she car-ries a portable container of intravenous food with her. “It enables me to get out and be with my friends, to work and to make music, which I love,” says Martin, who plays piano, saxophone and violin and works from home as a property manager.

Hardy pioneered the use of such a con-tainer in 1977. Until the 1960s, people like Martin simply died of malnutrition. Intrave-nous feeding, also called parenteral nutrition (PN), became possible with sterile solutions of glucose, lipids, and minerals and vitamins. “The different nutrients were produced in separate sterile bottles and people were attached to a Christmas-tree-like apparatus with five or six bottles and were basically

confined to a life in hospital,” Hardy says.In 1977, Hardy and a young gastroen-

terologist at London’s St Mark’s Hospital designed and pioneered the use of a single disposable three-litre plastic container to administer a combination of all nutrients. “I was the first one able to produce one of these bags which later could be produced in large quantities by the industry,” Hardy says. Did he patent them? “No, but I should have,” he says

Hardy researched how the different nutrients, once mixed together, could be prevented from reacting with each other. “We aren’t as clever as Mother Nature, who can put together nutrients in a stable fashion. A lot of research was needed to make sure that what’s in Lisa’s bag is compatible and stays in solution because otherwise it goes into her lungs and blocks them,” says Hardy, who produced the first stable L-Glutamine-enriched amino acid.

Hardy’s work brought about a major shift in the UK’s treatment of intestinal failure, “because with just one container, people got out of bed, walked around and eventually went home. From being mobile, everything else was relatively normal,” he says about what is these days known as Home Parenteral Nutrition (HPN).

Now Hardy wants the lives of New Zea-landers like Martin to further improve. Five years ago, he helped launch a support group called Parenteral Nutrition Down Under (PNDU) with a website and an internet

Improving lives down under… Gil Hardy with Lisa Martin, whose life was changed by his invention

Hardy’s invention gives patients their lives back


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forum. He had been involved with a similar group in the UK and seen its benefits.

Martin has been a member of PNDU for the last two years and says the practical, emotional and social support the group offers is tremendous. For now, all its adult members live in Australia, which is some-thing Martin and Hardy want to change. At a gastroenterology conference to be held at Auckland’s Skycity Hotel this November, they will spread the word. “I am sure there are other New Zealanders out there who feel overwhelmed and alone, like I was feeling, and the support group could be hugely ben-eficial to them,” says Martin.

Hardy moved to New Zealand ten years ago “almost by accident,” he says. Old friends were then working at the University of Auckland and invited him and his former wife for a visit. The couple travelled the country and Hardy gave a few lectures as well.

“We happened to be in Devonport for the day and walked past this house, which was for sale, while it had an open home. We fell in love with the place and bought it on a whim. It turned out well and I never regretted it,” Hardy says.

At the time, Hardy was a professor at Oxford Brookes University but his contract was coming to an end and he welcomed the prospect of change. Once Hardy settled in New Zealand, he was offered a six-month position at the University of Auckland, and two years later, a similar arrangement by Massey University.

These days, Hardy is Professor of Clini-cal Nutrition at Massey’s Institute of Food, Nutrition and Human Health. He is also an Honorary Professor of Pharmaceutical Nutri-tion in the University of Auckland’s Faculty of Medical and Health Sciences and he col-laborates with scientists from all around the world. “I still work with centres in the UK, Mexico, Uruguay and Brazil, where we do research studies and write papers,” Hardy says. He has published over 200 papers in the field of clinical nutrition and will present another six at a conference in Los Angeles later this year.

Hardy has always worked alongside doc-tors, nurses, dieticians and pharmacists. “It is that collaboration with the health profes-sionals that has led the Americans to give me an award this year,” he says. The American Society for Parenteral and Enteral Nutrition selected Hardy for its 2014 Distinguished In-ternational Nutrition Support Service Award.

Recently, he and his collaborators discov-ered that adding large doses of Selenium to PN for the short term reduces inflammation and ventilator-associated pneumonia, or that using fish oil in solutions helps bring down people’s liver function when necessary.

Hardy grew up in the Essex town of Col-chester, “which in Roman times served as the capital of England,” he says. His father was an engineer and his mother a weaver. Hardy, who has an older sister, was the first

in his family to go to university, “because I was good at passing exams and my parents and teachers encouraged me to go,” he says.

As a teenager, he was also good at swim-ming and diving. “I even have some med-als. I was an okay swimmer but diving was my real love. High diving, somersaults and things like that,” he says. These days, Hardy regularly swims a few hundred metres from his home, at Cheltenham Beach.

At university, chemistry and maths came easy to Hardy, but physics didn’t. “My fa-ther would have loved for me to become an engineer I think, but it was the new organic chemistry, involved in life and plants, that I enjoyed and from there I got interested in nutritional metabolism and it has fascinated me ever since,” he says. After receiving a chemistry degree at Bristol he headed to Bath to study for a PhD.

As a student, Hardy also played the drums in different rock and jazz bands. In 1962, he worked at a summer camp as the drummer for the support act of the Liverpool band Rory Storm and the Hurricanes. Their drum-mer was Ringo Starr. “We were tight for space on stage and my drum set wasn’t as good as Ringo’s, so he let me play on his. We played every evening and he and I chatted quite a bit, but after the camp we went our different ways,” Hardy says.

That August, the Beatles sacked their drummer Pete Best and recruited Starr. “We

never heard from him again,” Hardy laughs. For nearly 50 years he has been too busy to play the drums. “But recently I was at a concert and thought I would love to have another go. When one of my students sold his amateur set, I bought it,” he says.

After getting his PhD, Hardy went to work at a laboratory near Cambridge where for five years he undertook research funded by the pharmaceutical and food industries. He was headhunted by the American company Travenol as the scientific manager of their East Anglia research lab.

“They now provide Lisa’s feed. They are a multi-national company called Baxter Labo-ratories and have facilities in New Zealand too,” Hardy says.

He worked for Travenol in Munich and Brussels for two years before returning to academia, eventually as a Professor at the School of Biological and Molecular Sciences at Oxford Brookes University.

Hardy’s passion for science is evident even in the way he furnishes his home. “I have a fetish for scales, weights, mortars and pestles from all over the world. I have many of them displayed around the house and es-pecially love the ones made from mahogany and brass. I even once carried a big specimen on the plane form Buenos Aires. Perhaps I inherited a bit of my father’s engineering gene after all,” he says.


Hundreds of local youngsters became wheeler-dealers at the Devonport Commu-nity House’s Kids 4 Kids Market buying and selling all manner of goods between each other. Changing hands were homemade pikelets in the shape of the alphabet, mar-malade made from a neighbour’s grapefruit tree, cupcakes with owls’ eyes, $1 neck mas-sages and hand-sewn pencil cases, as well as used toys, books and clothes.

The market, held on 29 June, also raised $500 for the KidsCan charity. It included $140 of profit that Nicolette Grant (9) and Olivia Hockey (10) donated to the cause from selling old books and ballet shoes, grapefruit, cupcakes and 20 bags of fudge.

Young entrepreneurs create business buzz

It’s all about the money honey…Ruby Jacobs (6), dressed up in black and yellow stripes and selling the Devonport Community Garden’s Bee Friendly seed mix

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Making a profit… Sam O’Sullivan (5) left, while above Floyd Langdon (8) created money by magic with his card tricks

Devonport’s new library building will be open for business by Christmas, says Auckland Council library manager Marion Read.

“It will be tight, and the contractor is currently three days behind schedule, but he assured me that they could make that up and meet the end-of-year deadline,” Read told the Devonport-Takapuna Local Board.

“We hope to be open by Christmas,” she said.

Contractor Naylor Love started work on

the library in March after the old building was demolished. Around 95% of the new building’s structural slab has now been poured, which Read said was a “major step forward.”

The upcoming months will see the erec-tion of the main structure of the building, followed by the installation of stairs and mezzanine floor concrete pour. The roof is expected to go on at the end of August and the building should be weathertight by mid-September, Read said. The remaining

time will be taken up with work on the interior fit-out and exterior landscaping.

Naylor Love is scheduled to hand over the completed building to library staff by December 8. They will then get the library operational, installing shelves, and bring-ing in books and art work from storage.

Library on target for Christmas completion

A Stanley Bay resident has recently com-plained about Navy personnel monopolis-ing public parking outside the Stanley Bay ferry area, forcing commuter cars to park elsewhere.

In January, Auckland Transport (AT) said it could not enforce who parked in public parking spaces. “Whilst this parking area is conveniently located next to a ferry facility, the car park area is not, at this stage, a park-

and-ride and caters for all visitors to the area,” a report says.

But in April, AT took a tougher stand and spoke to the Navy about the parking issue. “We have confirmed there is ample parking for Navy personnel provided within the base and staff should not and do not need to park in the designated ferry commuter car parks,” an AT report to the Devonport-Takapuna Lo-cal Board said.

Navy spoken to on Stanley Bay parking


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Belmont 21 Westwell Rd

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Toni GregoryM 021 044 3663A/H 09 446 1023Devonport 09 445 2010

Sue HarrisonM 021 909 549A/H 09 445 6519Devonport 09 445 2010

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Linda SimmonsM 027 459 0957A/H 09 445 6337Devonport 09 445 2010

Lorraine WoodM 0800 571 771A/H 09 445 8215Devonport 09 445 2010

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Opportunity Awaits.....Don’t miss out on this stunning piece of Devonport history. Now is your time to secure this beautifully appointed Edwardian home. With four bedrooms, two bathrooms, two living spaces, an office, attic and plenty of storage space, this could be all yours. Oh, did I mention the 65m² of commercial space?

1 Kiwi Road DevonportEddie de HeerM 021 498 390A/H 09 445 4495Devonport 09 445 2010

Lisa McGeehanM 021 447 184A/H 09 446 0640Devonport 09 445 2010

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Linda SimmonsM 027 459 0957A/H 09 445 6337Devonport 09 445 2010

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MODERN OFFICE SUITE

Air conditioned office suite in central location in the Devonport Arcade.64m² with a general office, separate managers office, kitchenette and toilet.Rent and term of lease negotiable.

Devonport 13 Victoria RdTed HillM 0800 248 526A/H 09 445 3256Devonport 09 445 2010

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Devonport Retail OpportunityA large (153 m²) Devonport waterfront shop to lease.The work currently being done by the Council to improve the Esplanade will benefit this shop enormously.Reasonable rent of $58,000 p.a. plus GST and outgoings.

Devonport 1 Queens PdTed HillM 0800 248 526A/H 09 445 3256Devonport 09 445 2010

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Devonport 09 445 2010

ANOTHER WORLD - COME SEE!A great opportunity to discover this exceptional three bedroom, two living, two bathroom home. A total home and garden package superbly located at the end of a quiet cul de sac within the village. A unique property with few rivals. A must for those in search of something special - COME SEE!

Devonport 21 Rattray St

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Trish FitzgeraldM 021 952 452Devonport 09 445 2010

Sue HarrisonM 021 909 549A/H 09 445 6519Devonport 09 445 2010

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STREETS AHEAD IN BERESFORD!Offering a superb contemporary lifestyle in one of Bayswaters most sought after streets this stylish five bedroom, three bathroom home captures the essence of family living. A home of great proportions with its over height joinery, generous storage and internal access double garaging.

Bayswater 28A Beresford St

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Hardy FanM 021 908 198P 09 213 1168Devonport 09 445 2010

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Style and SophisticationThis immaculate and substantial residence is one of the finest Edwardian Villas in the Stanley Bay area. Set on a full 1012m² flat and sunny northwest facing plot of land with securely fenced and attractive gardens to front and rear, this majestic home has everything a modern day family could ever wish for.

Devonport 19 Summer StreetCarol WetzellM 027 245 3392 A/H 09 488 7559Devonport 09 445 2010

Ian CunliffeM 0800 248 521A/H 09 445 3967Devonport 09 445 2010

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JAW DROPPING OPPORTUNITY!Just one of three and priced to sell, this solid brick and tile two bedroom unit has been with the same vendor for over 25 years. In a quiet cul-de sac just a short stroll to the Belmont shops and Bayswater Primary, this central unit comes with a lock-up garage and the opportunity to add further value.

Belmont 2/3 Opua St

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Toni GregoryM 021 044 3663A/H 09 446 1023Devonport 09 445 2010


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One of Devonport’s Finest HomesThis grand historical home is the perfect combination of charming villa and modern lifestyle. Six bedrooms, six bathrooms this home has previously been operated as a B & B. Close to top schools, the village, ferry and cafes, this is not to missed. A huge full site and double garaging this property has it all.

Devonport 100 Victoria RdCarol WetzellM 027 245 3392A/H 488 7559Devonport 09 445 2010

Ian CunliffeM 027 27 9322P 0800 248 521Devonport 09 445 2010

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Lance Richardson AREINZM 021 796 660Devonport 09 445 2010

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Wakatere celebrates sailing successes Wakatere Boating club’s prizegiving cer-

emony celebrated one of its most sucessful years, which saw its sailors win five national championships.

Winners over the season included: • Kate Stewart, who won the Tauranga Cup

(P Class dinghy National Championship) and placed second in the prestigious P Class Tanner Cup.

• Marcus Somerville, sailing with Isaac McHardie, won a number of titles both in New Zealand and internationally, including the New Zealand 29er class National Championship and the United Kingdom’s National Youth title in 29er.

• Andrew Brown and his son Cam won the New Zealand Sunburst Nationals, sailed out of Wakatere Boating Club.

• Derek Snow won the New Zealand 3.7 National Championship, sailed out of Manly Sailing Club.

• Paul Snow-Hansen, with Daniel Willcox of Murrays Bay SC, won the New Zealand 470 National Championship, sailed out of Kerikeri Cruising Club in the Bay of Islands.

Prizewinners were: Waterwise Cup (for Junior Sportsmanship), Chris Coleman; Hughes Trophy (Most Guns in Season Points), Chris Coleman; Top Junior Female Cup, Kate Stew-art; Wakatere Paddle (Top Female Sailor), Kate Stewart; Hayman Rosebowl (Most Helpful Senior Member), Simon Probert; Mabee Cup

(Meritorious Male Junior), Markus Somerville; Yachtsman of the Year (Most Meritorious Skip-per), Paul Snow-Hansen; WBC Commodore Award (Outstanding Achievement), Morag Fryer and DJ Jordan.

Junior Performance AwardsAwards went to sailors 18 years and under

who have been selected for NZL representa-tive teams to travel overseas and compete in the coming months. These included: Kate Stewart (420 Worlds, Germany, July 2014); Jono Weston (Optimist Europeans, Ireland, July 2014); Greta Stewart (Optimist Europeans, Ireland, July 2014); Xanthe Copeland (Optimist North American Champs, Mexico, July 2014); Jordan Stevenson (Optimist North American Champs, Mexico, July 2014); Ellie Copeland (49er FX Europeans, Helsinki, July 2014; 49er FX Jnr Worlds, Denmark, July 2014; 49er FX Worlds, Spain, Sept 2014); Jack Simpson (49er FX Europeans, Helsinki, July 2014; 49erFX Jnr Worlds, Denmark, July 2014; 49er FX Worlds, Spain, Sept 2014); and Markus Somerville (29er Youth Worlds, Portugal, July 2014).

Other juniors at the club have also been over-seas recently: Robbie McCutcheon (Optimist Asian Champs, Bahrain, March 2014); Tess Pat-terson (Optimist Asian Champs, Bahrain, March 2014); Francesco Kayrouz (All Japan Junior Regatta, Tokyo, May 2014) and Celia Willison (All Japan Junior Regatta, Tokyo, May 2014).


Many newcomers to our area, have come from places where millions are cramped into polluted, crazed environments.

I suspect many people arriving from the UK and China must love the clean sea and air and the space, and that still a few fish swim in our harbour.

This ideal of a super city is poorly founded on greed and stupidity that we are seeing imported into Devonport. Silence is now falling on the law change over our reclaimed sea beds. But this is so serious an issue and yet the validity of Bayswater freehold titling, and the antics of seeking a special housing designation for the location remain unexplained as to the logic and origin of the law changes and who solicited the law change.

The silence of Maori on the matter and the lack of disclosure can surely not be left by us, as citizens of a special character area, to go unex-plained. The utterances of Auckland Transport leaders speaking of building a super-highway into Devonport, does not seem to alarm our councillors or you lot. To make matters worse Devonport now faces giant companies develop-ing huge iron structures, to create the corporate wonderland they seek in retirement business and in food supply business.

Tell me it suits Devonport’s environment or the New Zealand ethic; we need to comprehend the scale of bad taste that we are threatened with locally for profits, not for the community wellbe-ing at all. We are described by the likes of Count-

down, huge iron-shed builders, as a catchment. We are seen as some asset to be mined with no regard for quality of life or real human values considered. They will tell you competition is healthy and guarantees good value.

But we now know better – food is cheaper in London. Devonport is like a special little Italian or French town that has thrived for hundreds of years. It’s worth saving and it’s not for up for grabs by corporate greedies.

Good thoughtful growth could be palatable on a large scale. Smales Farm for example, whereby the best in open-space management has been employed using top edge eco-architecture and forward thinking on social spaces, people spaces, and public transport, with aesthetic design and guaranteed delivery of the promised schemes. No vile cheap architectural wonders built on price alone. But around here?

Look at our ferry building – once in the paper showing copper glass timber and timeless design, it looked fantastic. What did we get? A tin shed eyesore with no windows to the beauty of our harbour.

The worst thing in our town now is the reali-sation that you can do backroom deals and get away with it. All we can rely on now is the open support of a democratic media. Our Flagstaff has become pivotal as a watchdog on local politics; the paper can allow the inquisitions needed to protect our town from the less than honourable intentions of a few. Ron Dykman (abridged)

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Devonport should be treated like a little French town

On the Thursday before Easter I was in-volved in an accident after being blinded by the sun. I just want to say a big thank you to all those people who asked if I needed help and to say how much I appreciated the two gentlemen who stopped and helped me. Unfortuately I did not get your names but I wanted you to know how much I appreciated your help.

Also a very big thank you to Chloe and Jake - two wonderful young people who stayed with me and rang the insurance company for me. They were amazing.

The mishap happened after I turned out of Wairoa Rd into old Lake Rd, in the narrow bit by the pedestrian crossing. So please be aware of the sun at this time of the year.

Again many thanks to all those who helped, including the concern Chloe’s mum showed me. Also Jenny for taking me home.Audrey Hainsworth

Thanks for post-accident help

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Ross crowned by rowing kingdom

Ross Kingdom has been crowned Auck-land Rowing Association’s 2014 Administra-tor of the Year.

The Takapuna Grammar School (TGS) Rowing Club’s Vice President received the award for his work spearheading the club’s organisation of the annual Head of Harbour Regatta and TGS Waitemata Regatta.

Both these regattas are held at Lake Pupuke and have been huge successes and important fundraising and sporting events for the club. The Head of Harbour in 2014

attracted 930 competitors from more than 31 schools and was attended by in excess of 2,000 spectators.

An independent audit of the event by Auckland Council commented on how well it was run.

Kingdom said he was delighted to win the award but it was a reflection on the club not him as he had many helpers.

“Head of Harbour required a huge com-mitment from many of the club members: boats needed to be parked, the course set

up, races, umpires and safety boats coor-dinated and spectators fed. The regattas were supported by many local businesses through sponsorships sought by the row-ers,” he said

Kingdom spent many hours project managing these events. The club in its nomination detailed his tireless efforts in connection with Head of Harbour and commented that he had a very positive outlook and the ability to motivate people to get involved in support of the club.

A winner… Ross Kingdom and wife Julie (behind trophy) with other members of the TGS rowing club


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Stanley Mobley had a painful welcome to his new life in Devonport.

The six-year-old had only just started at Vauxhall School when he fell three metres from the top of a fireman’s pole on the school’s playground.

Stanley’s mother Su praised the way Vaux-hall School children and staff responded to the accident.

The Mobleys had moved to Devonport from Tauranga five weeks before, were brand new to the school and didn’t really know anyone, says Su.

“I have two younger boys and one of them is autistic. When the school called and said Stanley had fallen and that an ambulance was on its way I couldn’t settle him down. I also didn’t have anyone to help me out. So I couldn’t rush off to the school like any other mum would,” she says.

She did not need to worry. “The children, teachers and principal took my place and looked after Stanley brilliantly,” Su says. A girl rushed off to get Martin Laurence, a teacher who made sure Stanley, who had hit a piece of concrete with his head and was bleeding profusely, stayed lying still and did not move. “I heard Stanley screaming over the phone,” she says.

Su says Principal Gary Lawrence called the ambulance twice and Stanley’s teacher Fiona Hanning travelled with her son in the ambulance to Starship Hospital. “By the time I got there, he was smothered in blood and had head and neck braces on, had X-Rays and a CAT scan and Fiona was still with him,” she says.

Miraculously Stanley had no broken bones but needed 27 stitches. Paramedics told Su that had he been badly injured, the teacher’s effort to keep Stanley still would have been critical. “They just said how amazing the reaction of the school was and I agree. They just took my place when it was needed and looked after us all,” she says.

Stanley was welcomed back to school four days after the accident.

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What is believed to be the first Auckland self-published book festival is to be held in Devonport

Organiser Louise De Varga said the festival has the potential to contribute to Devonport’s tourism economy.

She is promoting local accommodation and transport providers to authors and visitors.

A children’s book writer and avid reader herself, De Varga is the driving force behind the August event at St Paul’s. So far, she has signed up over 60 self-published authors from as far away as Christchurch.

They will sell over 200 books, most of which are not available in book stores. “They’ll be available to sign them and chat to people as well, and with Devonport’s literary heritage I think here is the best place for it,” De Varga says

“It all started after I wrote a book for my children about a dragonfly called Kapowai and had about five rejections from different publishers over the years,” says De Varga, who lives in Belmont. This year, she decided to take matters into her own hands and self-publish her story about a friendly Kiwi insect.

She worked with an illustrator friend from Nelson and found a publishing firm that helped with editing, proofreading and layout,

De Varga learned that selling them was

another story. “It is hard to impossible to get them into any bookstores,” she says.

De Varga is a member of the New Zealand Society of Authors. “When I stood up at one of their meetings and asked if anyone was interested in an independent book fair, quite a few hands went up and it has been growing from there,” she says.

De Varga has left her day job and is dedicat-ing herself completely to getting the fair off the ground.

“Lots of people are already asking me when I will organise a fair in Wellington or in Christchurch and I am up for that, so that this becomes a recognised annual book event,” she says.

“We chose August because from next year on it will be New Zealand Book Month and the festival can become part of it,” she says.

Self-published authors have to think outside the box, De Varga says.

She currently sells a selection of self-published books at local markets. “It has been going really well. People love meeting the au-thor and the fact that I am just a regular person, nothing flash,” she says. She has knocked on the doors of all local schools.

“Most of them now have Kapowai the Dragonfly’s Birthday on their book shelves,” she says.

First self-published book fair comes to Devonport

Team building…Havana Pick, Claire Hall, Molly McLennan Leathem, Dani Clements-Levi (coach), Erin Cutts, Ella McKinney and Jessica Scott

The year-six team 1 netball side from Devonport Primary School cleaned up local beaches recently as a team building exercise.

They started at Torpedo Bay and went up to North Head and finished at Cheltenham

Beach. Coach Dani Clements-Levi said, “We got

a fair amount of rubbish, and the best thing was seeing all the girls so happy that they have contributed to helping the environment.”

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Dugald Page started painting at 18 and continues to create new work

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spanning 60 years; it includes painted reliefs, sculpture, electronic paintings

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glass, print-making and photographs of his famous stained glass windows.

The Depot Artspace is proud to host iconic New Zealand potter Barry

Brickell’s only, and possibly last, Auck-land exhibition of domestic ware. In-

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Devonport mums are promoting a cycling culture in their families. The local cycling group Flat Whites heads out every Friday for a cycle somewhere around the Shore, including the Green Route from Devonport to Takapuna. Most recently, the group’s new patron, Allison Roe, showed them around the hills of Matakana. Roe is a past winner of the Boston Marathon and member of the

Devonport-Takapuna Local Board.Rixt Brownlow, who started the group

with friend Verity Sutcliffe three years ago, said: “Originally, our aim was to get back into shape after the pre-school years.

“Now we ride every Friday around the Shore, rain or shine.” The passion for cycling has extended to others.

“Everyone has gotten their families on

bikes too now. Carol and Gretchen have just done the Otago Rail Trail, I did the Hauraki Rail Trail with my lot, and Julie, Red and I have done the Dual and a few other chal-lenges,” says Brownlow.

“Mothers tend to be the decision makers on how families spend their leisure time, so hopefully we are creating a generation of cyclists,” she says.

Flat Whites get families pumped about cycling

On their bikes… Helen Beale, Red Lunday de Waal, Carol Weaver, Julie Moncour, Gretchen Fraser, Rixt Brownlow and Allison Roe take a break from spinning their wheels around the hills of Matakana

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Ten years to the day after starting as principal of St Leo’s Catholic School, Mary Kedzlie is returning to her Coromandel roots.

Last Friday’s end of term was her last day in the job she took at the beginning of term three in 2004.

Kedzlie says she is leaving St Leo’s in good shape. “The school is in a good place to move forward, full of excellent teachers and brilliant parents. Getting our new building up was a major highlight and it meets our needs really well. The Catholic character of

the school is alive and well, and our kids tend to be high achievers at Carmel and Rosmini. I think it’s because we are a small school with many leadership opportunities for the kids,” she says.

St Leo’s currently has 103 primary school children and its roll is capped at 125.

Originally from Thames, Kedzlie says she is still a “Coromandel girl” at heart. Her parents live in Thames and Kedzlie and her sister have owned a bach in Matarangi on the Whangapoua Harbour for 15 years. She will move there permanently now. Going back home was always part of her long-term plan but after she sold her house in Northcote for a good price, she decided it was a good time to make the move.

“I want to be closer to my extended fam-ily, my parents are getting on, and I am in a position to make a lifestyle choice, so I am doing it a bit sooner than I thought I would,” she says.

Kedzlie has a few plans up her sleeve. “I like mentoring and sharing with others what I know. I might set myself up as an educational consultant. I like the idea of running a little B & B on the side. If all else fails, at the end of the day I am a trained teacher and I’ll go back to that,” she says.

Living close to the sea and right next to a golf course has its attractions.

“I plan to do a lot of beach walks. I play golf badly at the moment, but I am planning to improve on it quite a bit,” says Kedzlie.

Mary Kedzlie leaving St Leo’s School after ten years

Moving on… Mary Kedzlie is leaving St Leo’s Catholic School after exactly ten years as principal.

The popular Wood Sculpture Live event at the Lake House Arts Centre will not take place next year.

The biennial event has been going for 14 years and attracts talented sculptors from around the country, who transform native and exotic timber into stunning sculptures.

Lake House manager Lisa Rogers told Devonport-Takapuna Local Board com-munity forum it needed $30,000 to stage the 2015 exhibition, and it doesn’t have the funds.

Rogers said that the Lake House had a small staff of which she was the only full-time employee and Wood Sculpture Live needed its own dedicated manager.

In the past, the event has been curated by the Lake House manager but Rogers said this was no longer viable.

“The event puts a huge strain on us and we have no funding for the event until 2016.”

Chairman of trustees Fay Freeman said Lake House got substantially less funding than other arts centres and was looking into ways of increasing its revenue.

Ideas being explored include asking Auck-land Council to buy the heritage building and/or re-negotiating its lease.

The forum heard volunteer numbers were down and the centre was about to embark on a recruitment drive to attract younger helpers.

Wood sculpture event gets the chopBuying a drink could become harder in

Devonport next year, with council proposing a raft of stricter rules around the sale of alcohol. Among other things, council’s draft Local Alcohol Policy (LAP) proposes to reduce hours of sale in liquor stores, supermarkets and restaurants and to make it harder to set up liquor outlets in the future.

Whereas Devonport had been part of the CBD’s city fringe in an earlier draft of the policy, it is now treated as a residential suburb. Stricter rules for alcohol trading in neighbour-hood centres, including limiting the number of off-licence premises, are proposed across all Auckland suburbs, including those on the Devonport peninsula. The LAP is designed to minimise alcohol-related harm and is out for consultation until July 16. For more informa-tion, see www.shapeauckland.co.nz

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GrammarTakapunaJULY 11, 2014SCHOOL NEWS


Support for the City Mission

Singing success again Visitingour zoo

Important world issues debated at MUNAOrange Week this year was held in the

third week of June. It involved bringing in cans of food to go to City Mission for those living in poverty. Students donated 1,068 cans, a solid increase on the 1,525 contributed in 2013.

This is one of the House challenges, and Tainui House led the way with 560 cans ahead of Arawa with 437. A gold-coin mufti day was also held on Wednesday, which raised $1754.

Supporting the community in this way is one of the activities for students to raise awareness of community issues by participating in and contributing to a good cause.

BY BRIDGET CONNOLLY

It’s not often you see a group of students dressed in sombreros, shawls, flags and suits catching a 6.30 am ferry to the city, on a weekday. That is where eight students from Takapuna Grammar School could be found on the day of the prestigious Model United Nations Assembly (MUNA), held at Auckland Girls’ Grammar School.

About 300 students from secondary schools all around the upper North Island attended the two-day conference, where each team was assigned a country to represent, from every corner of the globe, to perform in front of their peers, as a part of the United Nations.

For TGS, the teams consisted of Tim Spring, Augustine Morgan-Guthrie and Andy Song (Colombia), Alice Kim, Wendy Jian and Gary Qian (Azerbaijan) and Aodhan Taylor-Innes and Danielle Desvaux de Marigny (Rwanda).

Extensive research went into preparing for this event once everybody found out their country, including forming an in-depth understanding of the culture, politics, and history of each. This knowledge would prove to be very useful when the teams had their turn on stage to address two of the six ‘remits’- the topics each country would be debating in front of the crowd; mainly foreign affairs that required UN intervention. The Rwanda team of Danielle and Aodhan was awarded the prize for Best in the African bloc.

The conference truly opened our eyes to some of the most prominent issues occurring in the world today, of both political and social concern. MUNA was an invaluable experience and each team-member took many important lessons away from the conference, including practising and improving our debating skills on some incredibly relevant topics.

Not only this, but we also developed a deeper understanding of the working

of the United Nations, and the methods they put in place in order to further world peace. Thank you to Mrs Hutton and

Miss Douglas for organising our team members and preparing us so well.

BY AUGUSTINE MORGAN-GUTHRIE

The weeks leading up to the Big Sing are filled with nervous energy and extra sectional practices as the three choirs get ready for one of the biggest choral sing-ing competitions in New Zealand. The Big Sing is the secondary school choral competition where the best go every year for a chance to compete at Nation-als, which will be in Auckland this year.

The mixed choir, Skat a Tak, the girls’ choir, Leonessa, and the boys’ choir, Sul-tans of Sing, travelled to the Auckland Town Hall to perform in the regional competition.

The previous Sunday, a small concert at school was held to showcase the choirs’ talents to their friends and families, and now they were about to do the same in front of other competing secondary schools, including some of the best in the country.

The day went splendidly, with all three choirs receiving a Commended award.

Sultans of Sing also won ‘Commendable presentation of an Other Styles work’ for their number, Always Look on the Bright Side of Life. At the Gala Concert the fol-lowing evening, Skat a Tak performed one of their songs, Java Jive.

Deputy Principal Mrs Louise Roe at-tended and commented, “At the Big Sing in the Town Hall our students did us proud – beautifully musical and impec-cably behaved. TGS received much infor-mal praise from some influential people in the music scene, and were also recog-nised formally in the awards.”

Ms. Jane Horder won the ‘Conduc-tor’s Professional Development Award - awarded by the adjudicator to a con-ductor who shows promise.’ The choirs all say, thank you to Ms Horder for being such a wonderful conductor and choir director, and thank you to Gemma Lee for being a spectacular accompanist.

BY SABINA GIURGIU

The three Year-13 biology classes headed off to Auckland Zoo for their annual trip in late June. The trip ties into the NCEA Level 3 Human Evolution topic, but it is also a great fun-filled day for the students and a bit of a break from sitting in the classroom.

The day started off with a talk from Tali, the lecturer at the zoo. She gave the students an overview of how hu-mans had evolved into the upright walk-ing, talking modern Homo sapiens that we are today. Class by class, students went through the cultural evolution of humans, covering everything from the development of tools to speech.

At the end of the day, students got the opportunity to explore the zoo for them-selves. The highlight was interacting with the animals. All in all, it was both an enjoyable and educational day.

BY SOPHIE WYNN




Support for the City Mission

Singing success again Visitingour zoo

Important world issues debated at MUNAOrange Week this year was held in the

third week of June. It involved bringing in cans of food to go to City Mission for those living in poverty. Students donated 1,068 cans, a solid increase on the 1,525 contributed in 2013.

This is one of the House challenges, and Tainui House led the way with 560 cans ahead of Arawa with 437. A gold-coin mufti day was also held on Wednesday, which raised $1754.

Supporting the community in this way is one of the activities for students to raise awareness of community issues by participating in and contributing to a good cause.

BY BRIDGET CONNOLLY

It’s not often you see a group of students dressed in sombreros, shawls, flags and suits catching a 6.30 am ferry to the city, on a weekday. That is where eight students from Takapuna Grammar School could be found on the day of the prestigious Model United Nations Assembly (MUNA), held at Auckland Girls’ Grammar School.

About 300 students from secondary schools all around the upper North Island attended the two-day conference, where each team was assigned a country to represent, from every corner of the globe, to perform in front of their peers, as a part of the United Nations.

For TGS, the teams consisted of Tim Spring, Augustine Morgan-Guthrie and Andy Song (Colombia), Alice Kim, Wendy Jian and Gary Qian (Azerbaijan) and Aodhan Taylor-Innes and Danielle Desvaux de Marigny (Rwanda).

Extensive research went into preparing for this event once everybody found out their country, including forming an in-depth understanding of the culture, politics, and history of each. This knowledge would prove to be very useful when the teams had their turn on stage to address two of the six ‘remits’- the topics each country would be debating in front of the crowd; mainly foreign affairs that required UN intervention. The Rwanda team of Danielle and Aodhan was awarded the prize for Best in the African bloc.

The conference truly opened our eyes to some of the most prominent issues occurring in the world today, of both political and social concern. MUNA was an invaluable experience and each team-member took many important lessons away from the conference, including practising and improving our debating skills on some incredibly relevant topics.

Not only this, but we also developed a deeper understanding of the working

of the United Nations, and the methods they put in place in order to further world peace. Thank you to Mrs Hutton and

Miss Douglas for organising our team members and preparing us so well.

BY AUGUSTINE MORGAN-GUTHRIE

The weeks leading up to the Big Sing are filled with nervous energy and extra sectional practices as the three choirs get ready for one of the biggest choral sing-ing competitions in New Zealand. The Big Sing is the secondary school choral competition where the best go every year for a chance to compete at Nation-als, which will be in Auckland this year.

The mixed choir, Skat a Tak, the girls’ choir, Leonessa, and the boys’ choir, Sul-tans of Sing, travelled to the Auckland Town Hall to perform in the regional competition.

The previous Sunday, a small concert at school was held to showcase the choirs’ talents to their friends and families, and now they were about to do the same in front of other competing secondary schools, including some of the best in the country.

The day went splendidly, with all three choirs receiving a Commended award.

Sultans of Sing also won ‘Commendable presentation of an Other Styles work’ for their number, Always Look on the Bright Side of Life. At the Gala Concert the fol-lowing evening, Skat a Tak performed one of their songs, Java Jive.

Deputy Principal Mrs Louise Roe at-tended and commented, “At the Big Sing in the Town Hall our students did us proud – beautifully musical and impec-cably behaved. TGS received much infor-mal praise from some influential people in the music scene, and were also recog-nised formally in the awards.”

Ms. Jane Horder won the ‘Conduc-tor’s Professional Development Award - awarded by the adjudicator to a con-ductor who shows promise.’ The choirs all say, thank you to Ms Horder for being such a wonderful conductor and choir director, and thank you to Gemma Lee for being a spectacular accompanist.

BY SABINA GIURGIU

The three Year-13 biology classes headed off to Auckland Zoo for their annual trip in late June. The trip ties into the NCEA Level 3 Human Evolution topic, but it is also a great fun-filled day for the students and a bit of a break from sitting in the classroom.

The day started off with a talk from Tali, the lecturer at the zoo. She gave the students an overview of how hu-mans had evolved into the upright walk-ing, talking modern Homo sapiens that we are today. Class by class, students went through the cultural evolution of humans, covering everything from the development of tools to speech.

At the end of the day, students got the opportunity to explore the zoo for them-selves. The highlight was interacting with the animals. All in all, it was both an enjoyable and educational day.

BY SOPHIE WYNN


The official opening of Hauraki’s new Lake Town Green playground was a col-ourful affair. Children of all ages jumped onto a new generation of playground toys

inside a Hobbiton-inspired landscape, in-cluding a stone xylophone, open carousel, embedded trampoline and basket swing.

The playground on the reserve was

initiated by a group of neighbours who got council to come on board and commit $250,000.

Children play big role in Lake Town Green opening

Likely lads… Mitchell Snelling, Luke Robertson, James Morcombe, Heath Barrett, Reuben Dobson and Rocco Conaghan were warming up on the toy xylophone after their Saturday morning sports

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THE NAVY COMMUNITY NEWSLETTERREALISTIC SEAMANSHIP TRAINING IN MOTION

By the end of the year, the Navy will have a new building on our waterfront, built to house seamanship training aids that provide state of the art and realistic hands-on training for all sailors in our Navy.

On Thursday 3 June, the Chief of Navy paid a visit to South Pacific Industrial’s workshop at Wiri, Auckland, where they are building a full-scale model of an Inshore Patrol Vessel (IPV) focsle to practise seamanship evolutions from berthing and anchoring, to less common procedures such as coming to a buoy.

The facility will also include full-scale Offshore

Patrol Vessel (OPV) Midships with a Replenishment at Sea refuelling point; OPV Quarterdeck (sized to IPV dimensions); Confined spaces training area; Elevated working from heights tower; RAS tower; Naval buoy; and briefing room, instructor office, and toilet/shower facilities.

The genesis of the facility is the RHIB accident and resulting fatality on board HMNZS CANTERBURY in 2007. After this, the RNZN requested a Royal Navy audit of seamanship capability, which recommended amongst other things, further investment in realistic working

environments to address training gaps and to alleviate safety risks for the conduct of seamanship in the operational environment. The resulting investigation has led to the design and build of a Seamanship Training Aids facility.

We anticipate local residents will experience minimal disruption during the construction of the building at Devonport Naval Base (DNB). The relocation of the full-scale IPV focsle from the workshop will occur during the early hours to minimise disturbance; all residents along the intended route will be advised ahead of time of this activity.

Chief of Navy with RNZN and SPI staff saw the IPV model taking shape.

Chief of Navy receives a brief on the computer modelling that has been utilised.

CDR Paul Johnson and CPOCSS Patu Te Reo discuss the seamanship training aids.


Monkeying around… Eloise Northam (12)

Swinging by… Rachael Bro and daughter Aria (6) are no basket cases

Ghoulish guest at the revamped playground... Max Hamilton

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classes). Join any time during the term. Phone 021 213 0213 or email for bookings or more info.

WHAT TO WEAR WITH WARDROBE FLAIRThurs 31st July 7.30pm

Stuck in a clothing rut? Your body has changed but your clothes haven’t? Always in black, head to toe? The Community House is hosting a style night fund-raiser with Trudi Bennett from What to Wear with

Wardrobe Flair. Trudi covers body shapes, clothing cuts and styles, colours, accessories all with a sense

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BALLET IN THE PARK – FREE23rd July 1.30-2.30pm

Join Chloe from Made to Move at Windsor Reserve for Ballet in the Park with your budding ballerinas.

Rain date 30th July. Email Chloe for more info [email protected].

PRESCHOOL MASK AND MOVEMENT WORKSHOP

July 24th 1.30-2.30pm $7Run by Lynn from The Aunties, children will make a mask creation followed by a fun-filled, easy to follow movement-orientated song. Encouraging a love of music and movement is one of the greatest gifts you can give to your children! Spaces limited so call 445 3068 or email [email protected] to book. www.theaunties.co.nz/pre-

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MASTERING ART - NEW CLASSTHURSDAY 9.30am -12.30pm

Lucy Bucknall’s Mastering Art, will now run on Thurs/Fri 9.30am -12.30pm starting 31st July.Some art-related experience is preferable but not essential. Commitment and an open mind

are crucial. With regular drawing, life drawing and art history – students learn basic and

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A $135,000 new metal handrail has been erected on the refurbished Victoria wharf, replacing the white painted wooden one.

Devonport Heritage are disapointed by the addition and their spokesperson Caludia Page said: “It seems to me that the design has been considered only in terms of func-tionality and without any consideration of heritage values.”

“It could have taken inspiration from the forms of railing along Queens and King Edward Parades,” she said.

Page also questions how the new design will connect to the rest of the new board-walk that is part of the Marine Square and Devonport wharf project.

Council’s design standards differ widely from project to project, Page said. “They recently replaced some railings at Narrow Neck Beach as you go up the hill to Ha-mana Street and I was very happy to see they matched the design of the originals.”

“The recent repairs to the Victoria Road retaining wall and the sea wall at Devonport Beach are of a high standard and to be com-

mended but this project is of a much lower standard aesthetically,” she says.

Council’s project manager Ian Murray said the budget for the Victoria Wharf upgrade allowed for replacement of the previous handrail.

Heritage – Council’s design standards off the rails

Before and after... Wooden handrail replaced at a cost of $135,000

Every little helps for community groups

The Devonport-Takapuna Local Board has awarded grants totalling more than $10,500 to community organisations.

Recipients are:Devonport Peninsula Trust ($2,100) towards admin costs; Devonport Community Creche ($2,000) to-wards outdoor play equipment; Devonport Community House ($2,200) towards a retractable awning; The Depot ($2,500) towards costs for the Love my Community project; Devonport Toy Library ($530) towards wages; Devonport Garden and Floral Art Club ($500) towards associ-ated costs for the Elderly Day Out; North Shore CMA ($750) towards activities and transport costs in Belmont and Sunnynook.

The birds and the bardKevin Ireland is launching his new

poetry collection, Feeding the Birds just one year after his previous publication.

It is Ireland’s 21st book. Publisher Roger Steele said: “Kevin is so prolific and he is just getting better and better.”

Many of the poems in the new collection are about birds. “They are a symbol for fun, freedom and spontaneity. They also tend to wake Kevin up,” said Steele.

Feeding the Birds will be launched on Thursday 17 July at 7:30 pm during a Devonport Library Associates event at the Depot Artspace.

Students rewarded for challenging behaviourA team from Takapuna Grammar School

won an Award of Excellence for Environ-mental or Social Awareness at the annual ASB 2014 Stage Challenge held in Auck-land last week.


A Devonport football player is doing us proud at the FIFA World Cup.

Milo Brown, a North Shore United 12th grade football play-er, is at a World Cup football training programme in Brazil for 12 days under the tutelage of Austin MacPhee, National Team Assistant Coach/Analyst at the Irish Football Association.

Milo has played games in Brazil as part of an international team of 11 to 13-year-olds play-ing a local Brazilian side from Buzios in the Rio de Janiero province.

Milo was in Brazil with his mother Diana and part of the trip was to see World Cup matches.

Milo a Year 7 Belmont Inter-mediate student, was the Most Valuable Player for North Shore United's U11 grade last year.

The international team had a 2-0 win against the Brazilians in a close game where the hosts showed superior ball handling skills.

The international players are being trained by a mixture of UK/US-based and Brazilian coaches.

Devonport football star at the World Cup

Action from Brazil… Milo Brown (left) on attack

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