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21 Bow St, Raglan Phone: 07 825 8669 Fax: 07 825 7410 Website: www.rwraglan.co.nz Email: [email protected]

AUCTION Fri 3rd February 2012 - 6pm Ray White Office, 21 Bow St, Raglan

MAKE ME YOUR OWN – I’M RATHER SPECIAL!!Four double bedroom home on 625m²Two large living areas, 2 ½ bathroomsFantastic designer kitchen, entertainer’s oven Large family area flows out to sunny deck or alfresco dining Glorious Mtn views, magnificent sunsets & a glimpse of the harbour.Prior Auction offers considered.

ID#RAG20886OPEN HOME

Sunday 1pm1 Seabreeze Way

INVESTMENT OPPORTUNITY• 2 Storey House In 2 Legal Flats• 2 Brm Flat Upstairs / 3 Brm Flat Downstairs• Panoramic Harbour & Mountain Views• 2 Acre + Lifestyle Block – Prime Location• Single Garage & Storage Shed Prior Auction offers considered.


Saturday 12pm335 Wainui Road

OCEAN RETREAT BUSH BABYA slice of Raglan’s best real estate nestled into native bush surrounds near Whale Bay. Master bedroom has its own private decking and huge views. 2nd room/ storage/ laundry/ studio. Open plan living with cosy wood burner with wet back & sun drenched decking enjoying gorgeous ocean and bush views. Hide away, holiday ambiance. Situated on 1258m².ID#RAG20965

OPEN HOMESunday 1pm

150 Whaanga Road

TOP SHELF PROPERTY Fabulous family living / Easy care garden 3 dble brms + office, entertainers kitchenSun drenched open plan living & decksLarge paved entertainment area Double garaging with internal access Prior Auction offers considered

RAG#20923OPEN HOME

Saturday 1pm23a Violet Street

STEP INTO THE MARKET Stylishly redecorated this tidy little home has all you need. With two bedrooms inside the house and an additional room outside you will enjoy the open plan living and fully fenced section. Relax on the lovely decking while enjoying the easy care section.Ideal opportunity for you to enter the fast-growing market in Raglan!Prior Auction offers considered.ID#RAG20964

OPEN HOMESaturday 1pm6 Violet Street

SIZE IS NOT A PROBLEM 4 bedroom home with endless optionsWonderful family homeModern new kitchen Large double garaging and workshop Large shade houses with irrigation throughout 1212m² of landPrior Auction offers considered.ID#RAG20907 OPEN HOME

Saturday 2pm55 Government Road

WOODEN IT BE NICEThis 3 bedroom weatherboard home has many great features: Double garaging2 bedrooms with ensuite + family bathroomNative timber flooringPrivate off road locationJust a walk to the beach, on the bus route.Wonderful family home/ investment/ rental (Currently rented $300/wk)Prior Auction offers considered.


Saturday 1pm10 Violet Street

TOO GOOD TO MISS! • 2 homes on 1 freehold title2 houses, 2 incomes – 2 two bedroom housesIncome opportunity hereSuperbly located – sea views, easy walk to town and harbourIdeal accommodation investment – live in one, rent out the other!Prior Auction offers considered.


Sunday 2pm16 Stewart Street

NEW BEGINNINGSSolid brick 3 brm family home in rural setting Office & rumpus, single garage, internal accessPlumbed shed (potential ancillary unit), well planted garden3973m² fenced & ready for a new family Prior Auction offers considered.ID#RAG20938

OPEN HOMESaturday 11am

297 Te Papatapu Road

WATER & MOUNTAIN Located close to town & beach. This is a 2 bedroom immaculate home, fully lockable garage with power. Elevated and sunny, only minutes to the nearest beach & town centre. The house has polished timber flooring, is fully insulated, newly roofed, newly painted and has a newly decked spa pool area. The easy care, fully fenced section will make this home a pleasure to live in. Prior Auction offers considered.


Sunday 1pm19 Manukau Road

Phone now for an appointment to view 448 Wainui Road

RAGLAN RUSTIC REAL ESTATEBoard and batten rustic house plus a separate large barn with adjoining carport - ideal as a workshop/ studio.The main house has one large bedroom which could be converted into two; plus one single bedroom/ office area. Huge potential for improvement.7253m² sectionEstablished orchard and extensively planted.Listen to the sound of the surf - Very close access to beach and surf, only minutes to Raglan town.Prior Auction Offers considered. Phone now for an appointment to view.ID#RAG20984

AUCTION THIS SATURDAY!! 5 o’clock Saturday 21st January, Ray White Office. Be There!!!

Open Homes Saturday 2pm

- 9c East Street

Sunday 2pm - 69d Otonga Valley Rd

FINAL NOTICE



AUCTION Fri 3rd February 2012 - 6pm Ray White Office, 21 Bow St, Raglan

MAKE ME YOUR OWN – I’M RATHER SPECIAL!!Four double bedroom home on 625m²Two large living areas, 2 ½ bathroomsFantastic designer kitchen, entertainer’s oven Large family area flows out to sunny deck or alfresco dining Glorious Mtn views, magnificent sunsets & a glimpse of the harbour.Prior Auction offers considered.


Sunday 1pm1 Seabreeze Way

INVESTMENT OPPORTUNITY• 2 Storey House In 2 Legal Flats• 2 Brm Flat Upstairs / 3 Brm Flat Downstairs• Panoramic Harbour & Mountain Views• 2 Acre + Lifestyle Block – Prime Location• Single Garage & Storage Shed Prior Auction offers considered.


Saturday 12pm335 Wainui Road

OCEAN RETREAT BUSH BABYA slice of Raglan’s best real estate nestled into native bush surrounds near Whale Bay. Master bedroom has its own private decking and huge views. 2nd room/ storage/ laundry/ studio. Open plan living with cosy wood burner with wet back & sun drenched decking enjoying gorgeous ocean and bush views. Hide away, holiday ambiance. Situated on 1258m².ID#RAG20965

OPEN HOMESunday 1pm

150 Whaanga Road

TOP SHELF PROPERTY Fabulous family living / Easy care garden 3 dble brms + office, entertainers kitchenSun drenched open plan living & decksLarge paved entertainment area Double garaging with internal access Prior Auction offers considered

RAG#20923OPEN HOME

Saturday 1pm23a Violet Street

STEP INTO THE MARKET Stylishly redecorated this tidy little home has all you need. With two bedrooms inside the house and an additional room outside you will enjoy the open plan living and fully fenced section. Relax on the lovely decking while enjoying the easy care section.Ideal opportunity for you to enter the fast-growing market in Raglan!Prior Auction offers considered.ID#RAG20964

OPEN HOMESaturday 1pm6 Violet Street

SIZE IS NOT A PROBLEM 4 bedroom home with endless optionsWonderful family homeModern new kitchen Large double garaging and workshop Large shade houses with irrigation throughout 1212m² of landPrior Auction offers considered.ID#RAG20907 OPEN HOME

Saturday 2pm55 Government Road

WOODEN IT BE NICEThis 3 bedroom weatherboard home has many great features: Double garaging2 bedrooms with ensuite + family bathroomNative timber flooringPrivate off road locationJust a walk to the beach, on the bus route.Wonderful family home/ investment/ rental (Currently rented $300/wk)Prior Auction offers considered.


Saturday 1pm10 Violet Street

TOO GOOD TO MISS! • 2 homes on 1 freehold title2 houses, 2 incomes – 2 two bedroom housesIncome opportunity hereSuperbly located – sea views, easy walk to town and harbourIdeal accommodation investment – live in one, rent out the other!Prior Auction offers considered.


Sunday 2pm16 Stewart Street

NEW BEGINNINGSSolid brick 3 brm family home in rural setting Office & rumpus, single garage, internal accessPlumbed shed (potential ancillary unit), well planted garden3973m² fenced & ready for a new family Prior Auction offers considered.ID#RAG20938


297 Te Papatapu Road

WATER & MOUNTAIN Located close to town & beach. This is a 2 bedroom immaculate home, fully lockable garage with power. Elevated and sunny, only minutes to the nearest beach & town centre. The house has polished timber flooring, is fully insulated, newly roofed, newly painted and has a newly decked spa pool area. The easy care, fully fenced section will make this home a pleasure to live in. Prior Auction offers considered.


Sunday 1pm19 Manukau Road

Phone now for an appointment to view 448 Wainui Road

RAGLAN RUSTIC REAL ESTATEBoard and batten rustic house plus a separate large barn with adjoining carport - ideal as a workshop/ studio.The main house has one large bedroom which could be converted into two; plus one single bedroom/ office area. Huge potential for improvement.7253m² sectionEstablished orchard and extensively planted.Listen to the sound of the surf - Very close access to beach and surf, only minutes to Raglan town.Prior Auction Offers considered. Phone now for an appointment to view.ID#RAG20984

AUCTION THIS SATURDAY!! 5 o’clock Saturday 21st January, Ray White Office. Be There!!!

Open Homes Saturday 2pm

- 9c East Street

Sunday 2pm - 69d Otonga Valley Rd

FINAL NOTICE

Ray White Office, 21 Bow St Raglan ph: 07 825 8669.

EASY DECISION HERE $349,000 • 1950’shomewithaEuropeanfeelingasyouarriveatthewroughtirongates.• Largemasterbedroomupstairswithopenplanliving• 2bedroomsdownstairs• LocatedinpopularCambraeRd• Nestledinnativebush,waterviewsfromthedeck• Situatedon640m2

ID#RAG21451

CLOSE TO TOWN $299,000 • Walkthroughthegateintothesecludedgarden&enjoythe‘tropical’atmosphere.• 2brmcottageideallylocatedclosetotown• Estuaryandmountainviews.• Perfectforweekendgetaways,holidaylets,permanentrentalorforfirsthomebuyers.

• Situatedon502m2ID#RAG21539

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To the Editor, Many Raglan West residents were

astonished to learn last week that the Raglan West store was shortly to close because its owner declined to renew the lease of Dave and Gail Brown.

The Browns are adamant that they had no desire to terminate their lease and have no knowledge of the landlord's plans for the business.

The store currently offers all the usual products one would expect to find in a local dairy, as well as a varied assortment of tasty home baked pies and pasties, much appreciated by locals and those passing through Raglan West on their way to the coast.

I moved in to the area about 15 months ago and one of the reasons I was attracted to Raglan West was the facilities provided by the Raglan West store.

My thanks to the Browns for the cheerful service that they have provided to their customers over the last 15 months. I wish them well in whatever they choose to do in the future. In the meantime, I await with interest the new tenants of the premises. The recently departed business operators will be a hard act to follow.

J Ritchie, Raglan West

To the Editor,Raglan 60 Club News LetterHi folks well it`s news time once

again. So far this year has started off with every one in good spirits. We have already been on two trips, one to Huntly RSA, which was a great day had by all. The food and entertainment was great.

The other was to Otorohanga Club where the food was outstanding along with the entertainment. We have still got Te Kuiti on 20th June, 25th July Waipa Club & Cambridge 26th September.

We have had our AGM and as a result the officers are Ruth Rawlinson (president), Geoff Meek (vice president), Gaywyn Pruden (treasurer), Rose Meek (secretary). New committee members are Rod Park, Ruth Backwell, Maxine McGinlay, and Margo Clark. The Raglan 60 Club remit was passed and is as follows: remit is to alter the subs to $5.00 a year due at the AGM.

We are a friendship club and visit other friendship clubs.

Regarding the trips. You will need to be a Raglan Club member, a 60 Club member and support the Raglan 60 Club on a regular basis at our monthly functions.

Secretary Rose Meek

*Total significant wave height and *Tide times for Raglan Bar

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Raglan Weather & TidesCheck www.weathermap.co.nz for latest forecasts

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Signing up for Masterchef a masterstroke: Aaron Brunet now has the option to pursue a long held ambition to work with food.

Raglan’s own MasterCheffinds celebrity status unreal

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Aaron Brunet had to pinch himself this week to check that the celebrity whirl he’s been caught up in since his MasterChef win – finally revealed in a two-hour cliffhanger on TV One last Sunday night – is for real.

The IT consultant turned king of the kitchen had a big day of radio, TV and photo-shoots lined up when the Chronicle called him in Auckland on Tuesday morning, and hadn’t had the remotest chance of making it home to Raglan to see the huge congratulatory signs in the main street.

“I have to say it’s been amazing, exciting, pretty cool … and fun!” he said of his newfound celebrity status. “You have to pinch yourself.”

But there was one thing he was sure of. “It’s a massive relief to finally be able to talk,” he said, after six months of enforced silence on how he’d fared in the highly rating television series.

Neither his nor wife Ani’s parents, who were watching the grand finale in Auckland with them and their teenage daughter Ariana on Sunday night, knew the outcome of the national pressure-cooker competition – now in its fourth season – until the rest of us did.

And that included a crowd who’d gathered downtown at the Harbour View Hotel to watch the excitement on the big screen.

Aaron admitted it was really tough to stick by the confidentiality clause of his contract for the six months since filming of the programme was completed in Auckland’s MasterChef house overlooking Rangitoto Island. He felt particularly bad not telling his mum, he said, who is from northern Italy and from whom he learnt to cook as a child.

People had been doing their best to weasel information out of him, he added, right down to the jokes about when the Skoda he’s won as the country’s top amateur chef would turn up in his Wainui Road driveway. Now he was looking forward to the luxury Octavia model arriving, which he said would be “absolutely incredible”.

And, yes, the Fisher & Paykel appliances – all part of the $100,000-plus prize package – would be useful too. “Our kitchen could do with an update,” Aaron mused, mentioning their broken dishwasher.

Aaron reckoned he’d be in the kitchen now for the rest of the year, compiling about 80 recipes for the cookbook he’s already got on the go with Random House as part of the winner’s deal. “It’s an enormous amount of work,” he admitted, “but great fun.”

All the recipes will be tested by friends and family.

Aaron’s received lots of messages and support throughout his very public MasterChef journey, the outcome of which will now see food taking a bigger slice of his life than working from home as an IT consultant.

As viewers saw on Sunday night, he’s already had an offer of a job in one of George Calombaris’ restaurants after the Australian celebrity chef enthused over his deconstructed chicken. “Yeah, well the girls are keen to move to Australia,” Aaron responded.

But in talking to the Chronicle this week Aaron made it clear he was still tossing around his options. “I’m definitely heading towards food … but it’s hard (at this stage) to know in what way,” he said.

But he did credit living in Raglan for the past four-and-a-half years as giving him the right environment to indulge a lifelong passion and, at 43, take a step towards working in the food industry.

Aaron said another really positive discovery during the months of “nerve-racking” challenges dished up was that he had more resilience than he realised.

But did he ever imagine he’d end up on the last show? “I tried to keep a flame burning inside,” he explained. “I had a little bubble of self-belief and I tried to imagine standing there in front of the judges.

“Sometimes I doubted but I kept the flame, the belief, alive.”

And that unflappable approach on screen – where did it come from? Wife Ani is a yoga teacher and Aaron himself did yoga every day in the MasterChef house, and before the challenges, to keep his mind focused and relaxed. “It’s hard to cook great food when you’re freaking out.”

Aaron praised his rival in the grand finale, Paula Saengthian-ngam, for such a strong showing. “We both deserved to win, we both had our own mountains to climb,” he told the Chronicle. “Luckily for me it (the winner) was me.”

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There’s been plenty of baking and delicious aromas coming from the kitchen at Banteay Srey Cambodian Restaurant and Cafe thanks to the generosity of spirit of local well-known caterer Stan Grime.

Stan has been teaching the restaurant’s owner Mai Sorm how to bake and present a whole range of mouth-watering traditional cakes and slices - many are familiar names to us and old favourites from generations past.

“I was so grateful when Stan, a regular here, offered to step behind the counter and teach me ways of baking that I had no experience of having come from Cambodia. We do have sweets in my home country but they’re nothing like the sort of thing Kiwi taste buds are used to”, says Mai.

Word is getting out about the quality of the

cabinet food and the coffee, matching the reputation the restaurant has already established as a great place to dine at in the evenings.

With the colder days and things a little slower Mai has decided to close Monday to Wednesday during the day but is still open seven nights a week from 5 pm for dinner.

“Now I have the side room open it

gives my customers, especially those larger groups, their own space to dine in and if anyone wants to book for a special occasion with enough notice I can organise for the room to be private.”

If you haven’t yet tried the ‘scrummy’ treats on offer at Banteay Srey, Mai is looking forward to you paying a visit. Sue Russell

More cooking in the kitchen than just Cambodian food

Raglan Curtain Bank all ready for winterW h a i n g a r o a Environment Centre has a mission to warm up Raglan homes and improve the health and wellbeing of our community.

With much support, WEC has adopted the Raglan Curtain Bank. Ken and Julia Brown of the Raglan Christian Fellowship ran “Curtains for Cold Homes” for many years, providing curtains to dozens of Raglan homes. WEC has taken the task on and has a goal of providing a curtain service to 20 Raglan homes in the coming months.

Raglan Curtain Bank provides curtains to low-income households who live in a cold and/or damp house and have insufficient curtains. Well-fitted thermal or lined curtains prevent heat loss through windows and shut out draughts. This makes curtains a fantastic, cost effective way of helping a family to stay warm and healthy.

After receiving several donations of curtains from our community, WEC had a great pile to sort, clean and measure. But the task was easy and fun thanks to help from a dozen volunteers

at our working bee in April. Volunteers split into pairs and made new friends while measuring and tagging the curtains.

WEC runs Raglan Curtain Bank with support from volunteers and Whaingaroa Affordable Housing Trust, storage and working space from the Town Hall Committee, curtain donations from our community and funding from WEL Energy Trust and Waikato Regional Council.

How can you help? As the curtains go into homes, we need new donations. If you have good-quality curtains that you don’t need, drop them off at WEC in the town hall for someone who does!

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Di Jennings, Dorte Wray and Lesley Clough sort out the curtains

Batgirls: Hannah Mueller and Mahuru Robb

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Commonly referred to as the ‘City of the Future,’ Hamilton isn’t particularly known for its native bat population. During the last week of the school holidays however, the Chronicle found that Hamilton is in fact home to the long-tailed bat; all thanks to a couple of batgirls from Raglan.

Running a series of bat tours through the Waikato Museum, Mahuru Robb and Hannah Mueller – both ecologists at environmental planning organisation Kessels & Associates – have been giving presentations aimed at both kids and adults about our country’s only true flying mammals: bats, or pekapeka.

“Not many people actually know that we have bats in our local area. Bats can get a bit of a bad rap so raising awareness and educating people helps to keep their habitats safe,” says Mahuru.

Roosting in trees and stumps while using gullies as a highway to move through the environment, if people are aware of the bat’s existence they can check for bat roosts before cutting down trees and clearing forests.

Hannah, who was involved in surveying the Te Uku wind farm for bats, also adds that it wouldn’t be surprising to find bat populations up on Karioi.

In the Waikato, long-tailed bats have been found near Port Waikato, within the Maungatautari Mainland Island, in the southern reaches of Hamilton City, in and around Cambridge, west of Ngaruawahia, Tauhei, as well as within the Pirongia Forest Park.

The two native species we have in our country are the long-tailed and short-tailed bats. Both classified as ‘nationally vulnerable’ in the North Island, and ‘nationally critical’ and ‘nationally endangered’ respectively in the South Island, the girls stress the importance of awareness in the preservation of our country’s endemic bat species.

With one species of native bat –

the greater short-tailed bat - already extinct, the Department of Conservation currently have a bat recovery plan in place that was written back in 1995.

“During a survey in Te Kuiti, there was a cat found with 31 bats in its stomach during the autopsy,” said Mahuru during her presentation.

Taking part on the very last night of the tour, a 20-strong group headed out to Hammond Park right on dusk, armed with binoculars and bat detectors. With clear skies the weather was perfect for detecting bats and the detectors picked up around 20 ‘search buzzes,’ echolocation clicks emitted by the bats.

“It’s always a highlight to see people getting excited about the local environment and animals,” said Hannah.

The nocturnal bat tours are run twice a year through the Waikato museum. Usually booked out, the next tours will be held in October so keep an eye out on the Waikato museum website for the next tour!

Maki Nishiyama

Eco crusaders catch native bats in action

Raglan’s historic Harbour View Hotel is up for tender despite the fact owner Jeff Holloway “really enjoys” working there still after 14 years in the business.

“It’s a great business in a fantastic town,” he told the Chronicle just before heading off to Europe for a month with wife Kerry.

“But it’s time for us to go,” he added, citing health reasons for his decision to sell up.

Jeff has also sold the business – though not the land and building – at his Katikati hotel, The Talisman. And he’s sold their farm at Okete too.

It’s a lifestyle change to get away from the daily commitments. He’s bought a section in the Gulf Harbour near Orewa on which to build, but old habits die hard and he admits he’s “looking at” a business there.

Jeff says moving out of Raglan will be difficult. He’s built the business up

A skeleton staff of 25 run the three separate bars – public, private and garden – as well as nine rooms for lodging, a wholesale liquor store and owner’s accommodation. But staff numbers swell in summer to 40 or 50, Jeff says, half of them overseas visitors who decide to stay in our “unique” town.

Prospective buyers have three options through Ray White Raglan Real Estate, says Jeff. They can buy the land and building, or the business, or the freehold going concern which is the “whole lot”.

“It’s a great opportunity and business for someone to carry on,” he adds.

The property has a total building area of 970sqm and sits on a 1709sqm section. E. Symes

Harbour View owner calls time on hotel and town he loves

over the years and believes now it has “a pretty good reputation” for good quality, well-priced food and services.

And there’s a lot of repeat customers, he says, from motorbike and aero clubs to golf groups all stopping for lunches and sometimes overnight stays.

The upstairs accommodation has been completely refurbished during Jeff’s time at the hotel, which is one of the Waikato’s oldest. It was built in 1866 but almost 40 years later completely destroyed by fire.

Rebuilt in 1904, it now has a protection order from the Historic Places Trust, though this covers only the main building and not the extensive developments.

In its more recent history, the Harbour View has drawn punters from around the country even without the attraction of Midge Marsden and the Mudsharks, whose regular appearances at the pub in the ‘80s are the stuff of legend.

Jeff reckons the town has certainly changed during his time here, becoming increasingly attractive to both local and overseas tourists, with a “huge” influx of Europeans in particular.

Hotel owner: Jeff Holloway

If you keep a garden, you’ll probably experience having an abundance of a certain fruit or vegetable. Oftentimes, we let this extra produce go to waste, when we could be sharing it with others.

Sharing fresh produce is a great way to do something both nice and helpful for others, the environment and your community.

If you have an abundance of any fruits and vegetables that you would like to

share with your community, I will willingly come to your home, harvest

and/or collect your produce and distribute to local worthy organisations.

Phone or text Vanessa on 02102756522Some organisations your donations

will service include:Raglan Food BankRaglan Area School Breakfast ClubRaglan Community Medical Centre

Kindness idea: share your home grown fresh produce

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The Wainui Bridge at Raglan will be closed overnight for structural maintenance work on 17 and 18 June.

On both these nights the bridge will be closed to traffic from 11pm to 5am, with access available for emergencies only. The work is weather dependent, and in case of bad weather the alternate nights are 24 and 25 June.

“This is important structural maintenance work that needs to be done on the Wainui Bridge,” Waikato District Council General Manager Service Delivery Tim Harty said.

“We’ve timed the bridge closure for overnight on a Monday and Tuesday to minimise inconvenience to the Raglan community.”

The joints which connect the spans on the 60-year old bridge will be replaced, while rocks will be laid at the base of the eastern approach to the bridge to prevent erosion.

Wainui bridge closed overnight on 17 and 18 June

A Raglan identity whose love affair with Whaingaroa Harbour, net-making and fishing spanned many decades – and who effectively was the Raglan Coastguard in its early days – was farewelled with a celebration of his life at the new Coastguard base at the wharf last Saturday.

Dutch-born Bert de Besten came to New Zealand in 1950 and, after working in Hamilton for a time, decided it would be better for the family – his then wife Nora, and children Miriama and Frances (Frankie) – if they moved to Raglan. He got a job with Raglan Engineering and also as a labourer on the wharf, helping unload the many cargo vessels which then called at the port.

Celebrant Steve Soanes told the service how Bert developed a love for the harbour and would spend a lot of time fishing and netting with his father-in-law John Gillett Senior. He also developed a love for Maori food that stayed with him the rest of his life: just days before his death he asked for a feed of muttonbird, and his widow and companion of 28 years, Daphne, said he ate the whole lot and loved it.

After tiring of the engineering business, Bert bought a fish and chip business which he ran over the years at two separate locations in Bow Street. But – as Steve Soanes related – Bert

also worked on the wharf for many years, as did most of the self-employed working men in Raglan.

“He had particularly fond memories of the molasses ships that came over the Tasman from Bundaberg … many a night would be spent having a few beers and listening to the Fijians (crew members) singing Isa Leii,” Steve told the service.

With the coastal cargo vessel trade in its last throes, Bert put a trip back to Holland to visit his ill mother ahead of the redundancy payout promised only to wharfies who worked the last vessel that came into port. But on his return he got the call that the last ship was in port and he got a payout of $7000 at a time when $4000 would buy a very decent home in Raglan.

Bert then tried his hand at commercial fishing, working the harbour for flounder, and Steve said it was a case of “heaven help you” if you set a net anywhere near Bert’s. But Bert was also willing to share his knowledge and expertise – where and how to fish in the harbour, reading the water conditions for mullet, where to get the odd crayfish – with those he felt were worthy of it.

Saturday’s service heard slinging nets became a way of life for Bert, and he taught family and locals how to sling, set nets and smoke fish. He also made nets for many locals, and became a dab hand at making hinaki or eel pots. The Maori folk at Waingaro where he set his hinaki nicknamed him “Mullet”.

Former commercial fisherman Aaron Laboyrie talked at the service of his fond memories of Bert smoking huge quantities of kahawai off his charters – the paying passengers wanted only snapper and gurnard – and distributing the fish around town. Avril Hawken, wife of current

Coastguard president Wally, said Bert “was one of the few who smoked fish to perfection, he was one in a million”.

There was a Coastguard guard of honour at Saturday’s service for a man Avril said “was the Coastguard in the early days … the police would call him first”. Bert’s duties in more recent times were more behind the scenes – launching and retrieving the Coastguard boat by tractor, and ensuring the vessel was full of fuel and ready to go at all times – but he also drove the tractor pulling the Coastguard float in every New Year’s Eve parade bar this years.

Steve Soanes told mourners at Saturday’s service to ask themselves why they were there. “Surely it is to honour and respect that very good name Bert built up in our community and elsewhere over 83 years of life,” he said.

Edith Symes

Wharf send-off for identity who loved Raglan’s harbour

Former Raglan surfing identity Kevin McKell was also farewelled recently, at a service in Hamilton.

Kevin, a designer and shaper of “Hydraflite” boards at his coastal property, died in Waikato Hospital at the age of 60 after what was described as a “courageous battle” with illness.

Online tributes describe him as having been a “great surfer and craftsman” and “one of life’s real gentlemen”. He is understood to have moved from Raglan some time ago.

Raglan surfboard maker farewelled

Bert de Besten

Exciting new partnership for Gals ‘n’ Gurnard

Gals ‘n’ Gurnard, Raglan’s very own women’s fishing tournament was a huge hit earlier this year and organisers have now partnered with the Waikato Breast Cancer Trust to bring you Gals ‘n’ Gurnard 2014.

After a meeting involving members of the Raglan Club Inc. fishing section, Club president Barry Dalbeth and Waikato Breast Cancer Trust executive Helen Furlong, the Trust was chosen as a deserving cause for the tournament to support.

Every year in the Waikato alone, around 250-300 women are diagnosed with some form of breast cancer. The Waikato Breast Cancer Trust seeks to raise funds for clinical trials and research as well as raising awareness about breast cancer and improving outcomes for women.

“Years ago, the only treatment for breast cancer was a full mastectomy. It’s a lot different now so who knows what kinds of treatments will be available in a few years,” says Sharon Tribe, fundraising coordinator and personal assistant to the Trust’s Chairperson and co-founder Dr. Ian Campbell.

With some themed

activities planned around the fishing tournament, all profits will go directly to Waikato Breast Cancer Trust.

“This is something that affects ladies of all ages. If we can do a little bit to help out, whether it’s raising some money or getting some exposure for this worthy cause, that’s a great outcome,” says organiser Graham Hubert.

Tournament dates: 6th January to the 11th January 2014. For more info, or if you are interested in helping out, contact Sharon at (07) 839 8726 ext. 97845 or email: Sharon. [email protected] Maki Nishiyama

Barry Dalbeth and Helen Furlong

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RAS Under 15 Rugby team after their recent 45-12 victory over Fraser College

Winter gardening is a time for thought: planning for spring, maintenance of soil structure and organisms, care of garden tools and machines (lawn mowers, hedge cutters etc) - sharpening, changing oil and cleaning. Now we have the time.

As said previously, your soil should be turned over, limed, and compost dug in. Mustard, oats or lupins will be up. Note your worm numbers. A good worm count reflects healthy living. In my case compost and the burying of fish scraps always means good numbers and plenty of activity.

The lunar calendar is always important, with a good pull and tide sizes at the full moon on 23 June. The new moon is on 9 June. Plant shallots and garlic during the first and last weeks of June. Plant seedlings from 11-22 June. Plants are still growing, despite rain, wind, and cold, and we have bedding flowers such as poppies, pansies, violas, primulas, stocks, carnations and hanging lobelias making a lovely show. Vegetable seeds and plants - cabbages, silverbeet, leeks, spinach, broad beans, cauliflower, broccoli and beetroot - are all goers too.

Winter oil or sulphur spray your roses and fruit trees. Gardens now need light, so cutting back or trimming hedges, bushes and trees is appropriate. If frosts damage your bushes and shrubs always leave them, because cutting will only damage them more.

Depression: the Black Dog

Area Fishing Report: by Raglan Wharf Seagull

Whether (weather) or not? Get a weather window and go!

Early winter fishing off our coast provides fish in absolutely top condition. Snapper are fat; even 40cm fish are in excellent condition. Gurnard are in close as long lines and kontikis are proving. Big kahawai are still taking cut baits in the snapper mix out in the 20m mark. There have been a lot of fish (snapper) just north of Mussel Rock to Carters beach.

Flounder are in abundance, and more are entering our harbor with every tide. I speared a bag limit on two nights out of four and had to walk over fish on the way home. This is just off our water front at low tide up around the bays. I always thought that when the kowhais flower the yellowbellies come in, but they seem to be early this year. New moon tides are better than full moon when the flounder seem to be scarier, and take off before you get to them. It’s all the best fun, and good to see some first timers getting out there and catching a feed.

The Charles Mitchell evening at the Raglan Club was one to remember, especially his study of snapper spawning, and the conditions needed for a successful egg hatch - water temperature, available micro food, and the fact that every hatched snapper is a female until later in its life cycle, when some become males. Charles also talked about the farming of

eels, their migration to Tonga and return as elvers. He told us about whitebait, and the checking of their barium ear bone with a microscope, their five month cycle, how rain affects their run for the season, and the numbers he has released into our harbor. Finally he discussed mullet, and how elusive they are to catch when grown to full size. A very interesting and knowledgeable scientist.

It is a total shame that in this country we can’t create areas in some of our harbours and estuaries where we can sustain the above fisheries to the benefit of all fish species in the food chain. Charles’s model in the upper reaches of Raglan harbour works really well.

In the gardening column I say it’s maintenance time and it’s the same with our fishing gear, tackle boxes, rods, reels, boats, motors and trailers. It is time to go over and check everything.

1st July sees new recreational boating rules for our region. One of the changes is that it will be mandatory for all occupants on boats under 6 metres to wear properly fitting lifejackets if the vessel is moving. It is an absolute tragedy in this country to see how many lives are lost each year through drowning. It is simple: you drive a car, you wear a seatbelt, you’re in a boat, you wear a lifejacket.

Safe boating, see you out on the water and take care.

BONUS MONTH - we have amazing giveaways this month for the early birds

1. Ten packets of 15 broad bean seeds. These, when mature, are green and great cooked. Possibly one of the largest seeds you will sow.

2. Attached is a plastic dial up seeder, useful for sowing very small seeds evenly in garden rows, eg carrots, onions, beetroot, parsnips, spinach, silver beet and flowers like sweet pea and lobelias.

3. Lastly, the early birds will get one of eight 2 litre containers of worm pee concentrate. This needs to be diluted 10/1 when using. It is great for indoor and potted plants.

Yes, it is winter, but we can still enjoy our gardens.

The Raglan Wharf Seagull

Dr Andrew Darby, Clinical Director of Adult Mental Health Services at Waikato Hospital, is disarming in his enthusiasm for not only his chosen strand of medical practice - Psychiatry, but more so in his willingness to talk about his very own journey with ‘The Black Dog’ as it is known – ‘Depression’.

Looking back now he can see why he succumbed to depression, not long after moving here from South Africa.

“I was working at Tokanui Hospital, working “crazy hours”. I was also a new immigrant, so there was a lot of change I was having to adjust to.”

Trying to do everything all the time, given the perception that physicians should be able to cope and were not allowed to become unwell only added to the stresses.

“I became more isolated, didn’t have any energy, lost my appetite and enjoyment in my interests and in people including my family.”

Now, he’s very clear about maintaining his own well-ness and is careful to allow sufficient margins in his life – margins that allow a healthy balance between work and play. He also understands that technology is playing its own part, contributing to some degree of social dislocation for many people today.

“You know I love technology. When I go cycling I’m connected to my IPOD, but while it’s great for time-out, and for dissemination of information, it is useless for communication, so people are more and more socially isolated these days.”

Exercise, even while attached to a music machine, is so beneficial in the recovery of depression that Darby cannot over-state its importance. Natures-own ‘upper’ endorphins are released through exercise but just as importantly,

exercise by its very nature involves taking time and creates space for reflection and processing.

He likens stressors to the bending of a plastic bank card. While it can absorb a certain amount of bending if the bending continues or increases at some point the card is going to snap. The human condition is just the same.

“We have to have stress in order to function. It keeps us energised, thinking, planning, making decisions and acting, but if there is too much stress constantly, something is going to give. The trouble is that heading toward depression is insidious in nature. You’re not happy one day and depressed the next. That’s why, even following the trauma of living through the Canterbury Earthquakes, Cantabrians didn’t just get depressed the next day.”

Recently Dr Darby met about 30 Raglanites in a public meeting in the town hall supper room to talk about depression, organised by Pastors Jeanette and Alan Vink from Raglan Union Church.

Alan says their interest in talking openly about depression was motivated by “an appreciation that churches in the past haven’t always been embracing or supportive of those with differences”.

Dr Darby gave practical information and tips about what depression really is. He empowered family and friends to approach this ‘very sensitive of issues’ when they feel depression is settling in with a friend or family member.

“You know if someone breaks their leg, they’re not going to think twice about going to hospital to get it fixed, but when it comes to experiencing the emotional pain of depression that decision is not so clear, because developing depression is a process, not the snap of a bone.”

The Union Church, on the corner of Wainui and Stewart

Streets, has a d o p t e d the bi-line ‘No Perfect P e o p l e A l l o w e d ’ as a way of express ing its own commitment to breaking down the barriers that have prevented everyone feeling welcomed.

“The idea that church is only for ‘good’ people or for those who have got their ‘act’ together is a misconception. Church-going people are neither of these things and are certainly not perfect. We’re setting out to actively address this and Dr Darby’s public seminar is one strand in this endeavour”, says Pastor Alan.

Some useful websites about depression exist, notably, www.depression.org.nz and www.blackdoginstitute.org.au

Sue Russell

Dr. Andrew Darby

Major causes of depression• Genetics

• Biochemical

• Illness

• Ageing Brain

• Gender

• Stress

• Personality

Treatments • Physical

• Psychological

• Self-help and alternative

Source: www.blackdoginst i tu te .org .au

goes into detail on the causes and treatments listed above while www.depression.org.nz has a video to guide you through accessing information.

The Raglan Area School U15 Rugby team started this seasons Secondary School Competition with a huge victory in front of their home crowd against Fraser College.

The final score was 45 to 12. The team played with great urgency, dominating in the forwards backed

up with exciting back line moves. The players have shown great commitment at training and the hard work paid off. The win was well deserved on the back of two close defeats in the preseason games. Stand out players included Onyx Curtis, Toki Falwasser-Anderson and Ryan Peel.

The Under 15s are grateful to the expertise and guidance of

coaches Jason Tatana, Dominic Trail Addis and Frank Turner. The Under 15s would like to thank Frank for his generous donationsof 22 rugby shorts! We would also like to thank all our supporters. We are looking forward to an exciting season. The boys are enjoying their rugby and playing with pride.

Joseph Rao, Under 15s Manager.

School rugby side making strong start to season

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FREE BUDGET ASSISTANCE @ Raglan Community HouseFREE CV WRITING ASSISTANCE @ Raglan Community House. Appointments required. 8258142.RAGLAN CREATIVE MARKET this Sunday 9am – 2pm at the Old School Arts Centre. Web raglanmarket.comMAINLY MUSIC Mondays & W e d n e s d a y s 9.30am@ Te Uku Church.MON @ THE RAGLAN CLUB. 500 cards, 1pm. TUES @ RAGLAN CLUB -- Texas Hold’em 6.30pm. WEDNESDAYS @ BLACKSAND CAFÉ. Knitting Circle from 9.30am. All welcome. Beginners welcome.WED @ Raglan Club, Fun Quiz 6:45pm.HEALING ROOMS. 2nd and 4th THURS. 11-12.30 pm. Plunket Rooms.RAGLAN RAMBLERS WED 12 JUN: 9am from Wainui Rd car park next to the fire station - Whatawhata Hill Country Research Station has limestone outcrops and views over the Waipa valley in an 8km walk. Bring lunch.

PINK RIBBON LUNCHEON – Sat 8th June, 10.30am @ Raglan West church, 7 Taipari Ave. Fundraiser for breast cancer. Guest speaker. Bookings essential . Ph Suzanne 825 6560.HEALTH SEMINARS: Monthly @ Old School Arts Centre with local Medical Herbalists & Natural Health Consultants Karen White & Nikky Jansen. Tuesday 11 Jun 7-9pm. ‘Preventing & Overcoming Winter Ills & Chills’. Including Natural Health Solutions, Dietary & Lifestyle factors. Bookings essential. Numbers limited. Contact Karen 825 5799, Nikky 825 6885 or Old School Arts Centre 825 0023 to reserve your place now.RAGLAN CHAMBER OF COMMERCE, AFTER FIVE - Tuesday 11th June 2013. Promoting the Arts, Tourism and Surf Life Saving. Featuring: Hamilton & Waikato Tourism, TW Raglan Surf Life Saving Club and Arts Waikato. Venue: TW Raglan Surf Life Saving Club, Wainui Reserve, Ngarunui Beach, at 5.30pm. Everyone welcome. RSVP to: [email protected]

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Speaker: Shimshon Chaddock

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Speaker: Roger Carter7 Taipari Ave. RaglanWest

contact 825 7305

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FlowersLilypot Florist* Fresh flowers* Send flowers* Potted plants07 825 68472 Wallis Street

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For SaleFIREWOOD: THE RAGLAN GOLF CLUB fund-raising project. Split, dry-stored pine available at $80 per cub. metre, delivery within 10 km. Phone the Club 825 8483 and leave message, or Alex on 825 0997.Casual Work WantedCHIMNEY (FLUE) CLEANING: Avoid Chimney fires, more efficient wood burning, Greater Raglan area, $95 ph Alex 8257575.

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Situations VacantF I T N E S S I N S T R U C T O R REQUIRED at Raglan Gym as a “on call” position. Qualifications are an advantage but not essential as on the job training/c o r r e s p o n d e n c e courses to get you qualified could be an option to the right applicant. For an application form please email [email protected]

To LetFULLY FURN. COTTAGE Upper Wainui Rd, suit single/couple prof. or artist. No animals. Avail. from June. $250pw. Ref. Ph 8257180.HOUSE, FULLY F U R N I S H E D , 2bdrm,suit couple,heat pump, logfire, very tidy. n/s,n/dogs.refs ess. $330pw.ph 8258410.RAGLAN 2-3 BDRM cottage, long term, no gge/no pets, $240 pw, ph 825 8330.

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Public NoticesSENIOR CITIZENS ASSOCIATION: next meeting will be held on Thursday 13th June @ the Fire Brigade Hall at 11am. There will not be a guest speaker so we will be running a bingo morning. Lunch and raffle available. All welcome.NVP MEN’S MEETING. What is non-violent? Come along to talk, share and connect. Wednesday 12th June @ Community House, 7-8.30pm. Contact 021 902 423.

KIWIS AGAINST SEABED MINING. All Welcome to our Issue Update and AGM. Thurs June 27th,7pm @ Super room, Town Hall.DO YOU HAVE A TREE laden with fruit that you don’t know what to do with, or a few extra veggies in the garden bed? I am willing to harvest and/or collect these and deliver to the food bank and other places in need throughout the local and wider community. Phone or txt Vanessa on 02102756522 or 8250336 to arrange collection.SENIOR CITIZENS ASSOCIATION: next meeting will be held on Thursday 13th June @ the Fire Brigade Hall at 11am. There will not be a guest speaker so we will be running a bingo morning. Lunch and raffle available. All welcome.

Public Notices

ICONZ for Boys Yr 2 – Yr 6- starts 25th June

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Public Notices

YEARS 9-13 TEACHERS ONLY DAY: 14TH JUNE 2013

The Ministry of Education has allocated two days this year for NCEA Alignment Training for

Secondary School Teachers (Year 9-13). One of these days will be Friday 14th June.

For all other students (Year 0-8) it will be a normal school day.

Nga mihiMalcolm Cox

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ClassifiedTHE AGM FOR RAGLAN Community Radio will be held on Wednesday 26th June, 7pm at the Raglan Community House.

FUNDRAISER AUCTION

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Raglan Ray White Office, Friday 7th

June, 6pm. There will be

items sponsored by our supportive local businesses,

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All supporters welcome.

Huge thanks to Ray White Real

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OPEN HOMES this weekend 8th & 9th June


AUCTION: 28th June 2013 - 6pm Ray White Office, 21 Bow St, Raglan

CLASSIC RAGLAN BACH $299,000If you act quickly this diamond in the rough could be yours. Priced to sell and in a prime location, this property must be viewed a classic Raglan bach with Estuary and Mt Karioi views, double garage, section of 888m2. The house is a one bedroom home with a good size lounge with a deck. The location is sought after, easy walk into town, parks, beach and local Raglan area school. Bring your imagination the options are yours!ID#RAG21305

DON’T FORGET OUR PURCHASER/VENDOR COMPETITION!!! SEE THE TEAM!1st prize - $5000 travel voucher, 2nd prize $2000 travel voucher

611 WAINUI RD - OPEN VIEWING: SATURDAY 1-3PM. All Tenders to be at Ray White Office, Raglan by 4pm, 5th July 2013. Unless sold prior by Private Treaty. ID#RAG21475

SOLSCAPE: TENDER

POSITION IN GOVERNMENT $283,000 Be quick, great investment property or perfect for first home buyers. 2 double bedrooms, well presented property with single garage, veggie gardens and fish cleaning area, with fenced area for the kids & pets. Handy location, close to beach access, with great Mount Karioi views.ID#RAG21407

IDEAL BEACH BACH $290,000 • 2 double bedrooms with

sun room• Large garage• Low maintenance• Great location• 1/2 interest in 918m2

ID#RAG20755

BUYER’S NIGHT Ray White are conducting a Buyer’s Night , essential for first time buyers, Friday, 7th June at 6pm

at the Ray White Office. Take the time to talk to Mortgage Adviser (Brett Wood), Insurance Adviser (Andrew Webby), Lawyer (Rhys Ellison), Valuer (Wally Hawken) and Builder (Mark Fitzgerald) re

prices, building report, fees when purchasing during the months of June/July. Listen to the amazing deals these professionals are offering to our clients through us during those winter months.

Special conditions apply to the concessions offered by Lawyer, Builder.

UNDER THE RAGLAN SUN Location, views and potential!• 2 double bedrooms, open plan living• North facing deck• Wide views from Bar to inner Harbour• Large double garaging and work shed• Close to town and wharf • Attractive single level home, 130m2

floor area• Seize this opportunity before

someone else does!• Prior Auction offers considered.


Saturday 12pm4a Government Rd

RURAL HEART • Lovely rural setting• Views of countryside & Mt Karioi• Grazing pasture, ponds,

wetland area• Paddocks and some farm

buildings• Situated on 2.68 ha.• Prior Auction offers considered.


Saturday 11am178 Houchen Rd

AUCTION 28.06.13

VENDOR SAYS “SELL NOW”• Located on a no exit road, 12 mins

approx from Raglan Township, with Te Mata community & school close by.

• Well presented lifestyle block (5013m2) elevated with rural views and commanding views of Mt Karioi.

• No Covenants, fully fenced, would suit eco living regarding services.

• Prior auction offers considered.

ID#RAG21531


87 Houchen Rd (Lot 3)

AUCTION 28.06.13

FIRST IN - FIRST SERVED $299,000 • 13 year old house relocated onto quiet

cul-de-sac about 5 years ago• Storm water, foundations, plumbing, all

have been done• 3 dble bdrms, open plan living flowing to

north facing deck• Built of durable, low maintenance

materials, freshly painted inside• Lovely views of Mt Karioi, easy walk to

wharf, town, beach, and public transport• Realistic vendors have made a decision -

an outcome is desired


Sunday 1pm1 Lily St

LIFESTYLE AT THE BEACH $599,000 Presented in top condition on a 3,775m2 section. Solid 3 bedroom home includes master with ensuite and walk-in wardrobe. Impressive with sumptuous space, timeless design and sleek modern décor. This home is designed to capture all day sun in a secluded setting. Double garage (131m2), plenty of off street parking. Ideal for entertaining or family living including a generous lawn that adds to the indoor/outdoor flow. With Mt Karioi as a backdrop this rural setting is enjoyable. Only minutes from the surf, beach and township. Location is key!

ID#RAG21285

Saturday 11am - 178 Houchen Rd (Lifestyle)Saturday 11am - 87 Houchen Rd Lot 3 (Lifestyle)Saturday 12pm - 4a Government RdSaturday 12pm – 14 Kaitoke StSaturday 1-3pm - Solscape: 611 Wainui Rd

Sunday 12pm - 57 Government Rd

Sunday 1pm - 1 Lily St

LORENZEN BAY BABY $550,000Nestled in quiet cul-de-sacWell positioned for Harbour water views 3 double bedroomsExcellent indoor/outdoor flow onto the deckAccess through the bush to Lorenzen Bay for all water sportsThis solid character home is waiting for a new owner!ID#RAG21536

SERENITY $449,000• Stop looking, relax, you’re home!

Something special with character!• 3 bedrooms, master with ensuite• Large open plan living. wooden floors• Good size garaging with internal access• Low maintenance grounds planted out

with natives• Walking distance to town and the wharfID#RAG21534

AUCTION 28.06.13

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FUN CHARITY AUCTION

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