peninsula post 20 september 2012

The Peninsula Post 20 September 2012 20 September 2012 Number 234ISSN 2230-6498 PRINT ISSN 2230-6501 ONLINE

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Coromandel town kiwi population confirmed - page 5

Whitianga boatie Lou O’Reilly fears big congestion problems at the Whitianga Esplanade boat ramp this summer if problems at the ramp aren’t fixed. Full story, page 3.

by Shenagh Gleeson

The Great Walk proposed for the Coromandel Peninsula could also cater for cyclists in some parts.Thames-Coromandel District Council’s Whangamata area manager, Garry Towler, who’s in charge of the project, says the walkway will be wide enough in some places for cycling. “We’d like to see it in as many places as it will support.”Cycling would give another economic development string to the bow, he says.Department of Conservation Waikato conservator Greg

Martin says cycling and walking co-exist on many tracks around the country without problems.“There are definitely safety issues to consider – tracks need to be wide enough and surfaces good enough – but having cycling on the walkway isn’t a concern at all.”TCDC is driving the walk project in its latest incarnation. The idea’s been around for about 30 years but Mr Martin says maybe its time has come. Mayor Glenn Leach wants to establish New Zealand’s 10th Great Walk, linking with towns and communities

on the peninsula, to drive economic development through tourism.The council is spending $40,000 on scoping the project, initially concentrating on a coastal walk on the eastern seaboard of the peninsula. Mr Towler is preparing a report on the number of existing walkways and the new tracks and infrastructure needed to join them up.“It’s really, really interesting. It’s enabling me to join the dots and see exactly what we need to do – to identify where it will be difficult in terms of terrain and land ownership.”

There’s a lot of support for the Great Walk idea, he says. “The feedback is very, very positive. There’s a great deal of enthusiasm.”Besides the eastern seaboard walk, there’s also interest in a walk across the Coromandel Range at some point, for example from Tairua to Thames.Mr Martin says the Great Walk is very exciting.“We think it’s highly desirable. Not along the top of the range but maybe a coastal walk with side tracks.”The range has such precipitous, rugged terrain that a walk along it would be very difficult for most people

and the high rainfall would make it costly to develop and maintain, he says.A coastal walk is much more feasible and can take advantage of the efforts of local groups, although DOC has had some problems with groups achieving the required standards for high-grade walkways.Mr Martin says the department is keen to support the Great Walk and be part of the organisation that develops it but doesn’t have the capacity to fund it. “It will cost millions. It will need some tourism investment from Government – that’s why they’re building a robust case

to go to the Government.” Mr Towler is due to complete his report by the end of the month. He and other council representatives will then meet with community groups, iwi, business, DOC and others to discuss the project’s strategy and principles.Mr Leach wants to be ready in March to take a detailed proposal to Wellington to request funding and support from the Government.He has said he would like to see community groups, young people and the district's unemployed help build the track.

Cyclists could also be part of proposed Great Walk

Whitianga boatie sounds alarm over state of ramp

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Day & Date Temp °C High Temp °C Low Rain mm Wind KphWednesday 12 17 – 2.00 pm 5 – 4.30 am 1.4 mm 33 - 3.00 pmThursday 13 20 – 3.30 pm 0 – 8.30 am 0.2 mm 24 – 12.00 pm

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to manage the organisation of this event. Any feedback or suggestions would be welcomed. Fiona can be contacted on [email protected]. Also acknowledging the Scallop Festival Committee - Linda Bird, Peter Abrahamson, Dave Simmonds, Shirley Wilson and Graham Eccles - who are all volunteers and who generously give their time and resources each year to bring visitors to our community. No event can be run without volunteers on the day and leading up to the event so a big thank-you to everyone who helped out

Kia oraScallops, music, wine, great company and a stunning setting - what a great combination for another successful Scallop Festival held on Saturday. A sell out event with 5,000 tickets sold. The feedback has been very positive, Police were very pleased with the behaviour of the festival goers and the weather behaved itself for at least the main part of the day anyway. A few issues with transport will be looked at and improved for next year’s festival.Congratulations to Cathedral Cove Macadamias who won the Best Stand competition and The Lions Club for the Best Community Stand. Best Dressed were the Mr Men characters with their innovative costumes. A huge thank-you to Fiona who stepped up this year

It was a sell-out for 2012 Scallop Festival

to make it such an enjoyable day.The feedback received from accommodation providers said that they were 20% up in occupancy on last year and that visitors were staying an additional night. Also cafes reported an increase on last year so it’s good to see that events such as this impact positively on our town. On Friday and Saturday the i-Site had 800 visitors come in to print out tickets, book accommodation and activities and get information on our region. Town was busy and vibrant.This Sunday is the Mercury Bay Business Association AGM to be held at the Bowling Club in Cook Drive at 3pm. All welcome. Come along and hear what the association is planning for the coming year. I look forward to seeing you there.Karen Mawhinney

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bringing forward money from the $275,000 budgeted for an upgrade in 2013-2015. The walkway should be fixed before Christmas and the pontoon after Christmas.Some temporary fixes have been put in place in the meantime and operators have been advised to have only one person at a time on the pontoon.A council spokesperson says health and safety staff will check on the jetty daily.

Ferry and charter boat operators are using Hannaford’s Jetty again but with restrictions on the number of people allowed on it at one time.The 20-year-old jetty in Te Kouma Harbour, south of Coromandel town, was closed two weeks ago after it was damaged in high winds. It was also closed in June after storm damage.Wharf users were directed to use nearby Sugar Loaf Wharf but it’s more difficult for them because of access

problems at low tide and because the wharf is a busy facility for mussel barge operators.About 30 people, including wharf users and representatives from T h a m e s - C o r o m a n d e l District Council and the Mercury Bay Community Board, met in Coromandel town last Friday to discuss the situation.It was decided that the community board and council would start immediate repairs to the jetty,

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Peninsula PostErosion has left the Whitianga boat ramp in a bad state, restricting use by boaties.Whitianga resident Lou O’Reilly says the ramp needs urgent attention to make it more usable for summer.Disappearing sand has caused a drop-off on the ramp’s northern edge and a big drop from the top of the esplanade rock wall to the adjacent beach on the north side.

The beach is usable only two hours each side of low tide, Mr O’Reilly says. “Two years ago the sand was nearly at the top of the wall – now there’s a big drop. If my wife was holding the boat at high tide, she’d drown.”The ramp is totally unacceptable in its current state and needs fixing before summer to avoid big congestion problems, he says.The concrete needs extending on the northern edge and a

Whitianga boatie sounds alarm over state of ramp: summer's on its wayCouncil’s Mercury Bay area manager Sam Marshall says dredging is scheduled before summer and he’ll look into methods and timing.He believes funding can also be found to add more concrete to smooth out the lip at the northern edge of the ramp.He supports the idea of a pontoon but says there’s no budget for this and the community board would have to consider how it could be funded. In Whangamata,

pontoon should be installed from the southern side for people waiting with boats for trailers.There have been ongoing problems with the ramp and two years ago, two metres of concrete was added to the toe.There are also continuing problems with sand accretion between the ramp and the Whitianga Wharf.T h a m e s - C o r o m a n d e l District Council carries out regular dredging but

Mr O’Reilly says it needs dredging by traditional digging methods not by the sand-churning method introduced in 2009.Prop wash dredging was introduced after a trial was reported as proving cheaper and more efficient. Sand churned up into the water was carried out into the bay by an outgoing tide.The method has been used successfully in Whakatane and Opotiki for several years.

a similar pontoon was built with funds from car-parking permits at the ramp.Mr O’Reilly believes Mercury Bay boaties would pay for a pontoon as long as they knew any charges would be put towards improvements.The longer-term future of boat ramps in Whitianga is still under consideration by the board. Mr Marshall says it’s one of his top priorities.

Bev Bremner was settling into her new job as Mercury Bay community coordinator for Thames-Coromandel District Council and looking forward to being closer to family after four years in Australia with her husband, Steve.But the couple’s plans were shattered when Bev was killed in an accident on the Kopu-Hikuai Road on Sunday.Council staff in Thames and Whitianga are shocked and grieving. Ms Bremner worked for the council in Thames for 13 years and in her last role was personal assistant to then chief executive Steve Ruru. Husband Steve was the

council’s roading manager.The couple moved to Queensland four years ago. Ms Bremner worked for the

Council staff grieve for recently returned colleague killed in car crashGraham Shields says driving conditions on Sunday were poor. “I’d driven through two hours earlier and there was a lot of surface flooding. The road was incredibly slippery where the accident happened. It was very greasy – uncomfortable to walk on.”There may have been diesel on the road but this has yet to be confirmed, he says.The accident was one of four on the peninsula on the weekend. Six people were injured, some seriously, when another head-on collision happened south of Whitianga around Mill Creek on Friday afternoon.Mr Shields says a local

Mackay Regional Council and Mr Bremner was employed as a roading engineer in the mining industry.Ms Bremner told TCDC senior communications and marketing officer Laurna White she’d kept in touch with everyone back home and when she heard the community coordinator job was coming up, she and her husband had a talk and she decided to apply.They had kept a beach house in Whitianga and Ms Bremner said she had always planned to come back and enjoy spending time with her family. Her parents and a daughter live in Thames.She returned home about

three months ago at the age of 49 and started her new job in Whitianga in July. Mr Bremner was to join her at the end of the year.The crash happened about 3pm on Sunday, as Ms Bremner was driving east by herself from Thames in her Nissan Terrano. Police say she crossed the centre line and collided with a Toyota Landcruiser on a sweeping bend five kilometres from the Whangamata turn-off.Three people in the other vehicle suffered serious to moderate injuries and were flown to hospitals in Auckland.Police Coromandel Peninsula manager Senior Sergeant

person was in a car heading to Whitianga when it crossed the line and collided with a car carrying five people. Three people were flown out by rescue helicopter.Whitianga fire brigade and St John crews worked at this site and Mr Shields paid tribute to them and the Tairua-Pauanui crews attending Sunday’s crash.On Sunday afternoon, a car slid off the road at almost the same spot in Mill Creek with one person suffering minor injuries and another car slid into a drain off the Kopu-Hikuai Road close to Kopu. No-one was injured.

Bev Bremner.


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Business in BriefTwo Whitianga houses feature in the final of this year’s Registered Master Builders House of the Year. Ascension Homes is a finalist for a new home in the $600,000 - $1 million category and Ohlson and Whitelaw Ltd for a home in the $1 million - $2 million category.The finalists were selected from gold award winners in 12 regional competitions held in July and August. The winners will be announced in Auckland on November 17.

Rachael and Julian Lee, from Guthrie Bowron Whitianga, have collected their fourth company award in five years.At the annual conference in Queenstown last month they received the award for Store of the Year in the Curtain/Window Fashions category. They have previously held Supreme Store of the Year for two years in a row.

An international production company visited the Coromandel Peninsula last week to film for a popular Dutch TV series which takes people from the Netherlands to countries all over the world to visit relatives they haven’t seen in a long time.The relatives were based in Thames and knew nothing of the visit before it happened.About three years ago the same film crew filmed a reality cooking series at Hahei and Pauanui. This time they covered more of the region from Opito Bay to Karangahake Gorge.The crew stayed at Kuaotunu Bay Lodge with Bill and Lorraine Muir, who believe this show could help attract Dutch visitors.

Pepper Tree Restaurant and Bar in Coromandel town is one of eight finalists in this year’s Monteith’s Beer and Wild Food Challenge.Chef Scott Corbett’s dish, Guinea Fowl Trifecta – A Real Out Cider, was one of more than 5000 served by 132 contenders in the annual competition.The seven finalists chosen by the judges and one by people’s choice will compete in a live cook-off on Monday. Head judge Kerry Tyack will be joined by guest judges Alan Brown and Yvonne Lorkin.

Honda New Zealand’s latest contribution to tree planting in the Waikato region has taken its total donation over eight years to more than $200,000.A cheque for $14,375 was handed over to the Waikato Regional Council in Hamilton last week to take the total to just under $210,000, funding the planting of about 70,000 trees.The company funds the planting of 10 native trees for every new Honda car sold in New Zealand. The council helps allocate the region’s share of the funds to local community groups.

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Cafe fraudsters caught in Whitianga at weekendTwo people trying to trick café owners around the Coromandel Peninsula into giving them refunds were arrested in Whitianga on Saturday The arrest came when a local café promptly reported a woman attempting to obtain money by falsely claiming that she had suffered food poisoning on an earlier visit.Police say they had similar reports from Thames on Friday and the couple also visited Whangamata.Some businesses in Thames had paid the woman a refund in cash. They later realised that they had been cheated but by the time they informed the police the woman had left town.The offending featured in media reports on Saturday.A 26-year-old woman and a 30-year-old man, both from Auckland, will appear in the Thames District court next week. The woman faces fraud charges and the man is charged with assisting her.Police want to hear from any premises which may have been targeted by this couple.

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T h a m e s - C o r o m a n d e l District Council has held a workshop with community representatives to discuss the development of a disability strategy.Council staff learnt more about existing support for people with disabilities and the current issues they face

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Recordings have proved there are kiwi living in the hills behind Coromandel town.Moehau Environment Group says a call survey in June found a population of kiwi around the town.Males and females were heard at three of four monitoring sites, with the Kennedy Bay

Hill and Flays Rd sites being call hotspots.MEG coordinator Natalie Collicott says the result is great news. “This is the first year an ‘official’ survey has been done, and it is nice to confirm what locals already suspected. The kiwi are there.”A 1000ha kiwi protection

Bioacoustic recorders comfirm population of kiwi around Coromandel townThe survey will be repeated next year to see how the kiwi are doing. Anyone interested in being involved in the Coromandel Area School Kiwi Project should contact Lisa Kearney on 866 7462.

Ms Collicott says the survey result is great encouragement for the volunteers. At the sites near Kennedy Bay Hill and along Flays Rd an average of 1.7 and 1.6 calls/hr were heard respectively. Fewer kiwi were heard elsewhere.“This means that there is still plenty of room for the kiwi

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emerged from a report by the Government to the US Department of Energy.Solutions to the problems facing people in the Fukushima area aren’t easy, he says. Removing contaminated material is difficult and it’s hard for people to leave both financially and emotionally.

When Yuho Asaka and her daughter Umi sought refuge in Whitianga in the aftermath of the Japanese earthquake last year, her partner and Umi’s father, Hidetake Ishimaru, stayed behind.Hide needed to keep earning but he also wanted to help people deal with the effects of radiation from the damaged Fukushima nuclear power plant. He swapped his web-site work in Tokyo for a job measuring radiation. This month he’s visiting Yuho and Umi and the other Japanese people who’ve sought safety and peace of mind in Whitianga.Hide says soil in Tokyo has low levels of contamination and parents are worried about children coming into contact with it.In Fukushima City, Yuho’s hometown, the situation is much worse, with dangerously high levels of radiation, the couple say.Yuho is particularly concerned at the high incidence of thyroid polyps being found in children in the city and at the Japanese Government’s lowering of the safety threshold for

human exposure.Hide says the Government is concerned about scaring people and is very slow in providing information about the situation. Recently information about the threat of further radiation from a fourth reactor at the Fukushima plant

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Yuho believes the area should be evacuated. She desperately wants to be able to offer children and their parents the chance to breath some good air in Whitianga, at least for short periods, and she’s appealing for help in providing them accommodation.

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The weather co-operated for Whenuakite School’s Pet Day on Monday and children, parents and teachers enjoyed a great day as 11 calves, 14 lambs and one kid were put through their paces.Results: Lamb Senior – Leading: Mary Harsant 1, Ella Harsant & Liam McDonnell 2=, James Webster 3; Rearing: Mary Harsant 1, Ella Harsant 2, Georgie Hick 3, Champion: Mary Harsant; Lamb Junior – Leading: Alexandra Litherland 1, Georgia Litherland 2, Savarnah Jones 3; Rearing: Alexandra Litherland 1, William Lockhart 2, Georgia Litherland 3, Champion: Alexandra Litherland.Calf Senior – Leading: Isabella Ramage 1, Lucy Lindsay-Shepherd 2, Grace McLeod 3; Rearing: Lucy Lindsay-Shepherd 1, Emma Hinds-Senior 2, Grace McLeod 3; Champion: Lucy Lindsay-Shepherd; Calf Junior –Leading: Travis George 1, Pippa Matheson 2, Grace Ball 3; Rearing: Emma Jones 1, Grace Ball 2, Pippa Matheson 3, Champion: Pippa Matheson.Kid Senior – Leading, Rearing, Champion: Savannah Mountney-Needham.


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The motor racing Leadfoot Festival at Hahei is causing discord among some residents in the area.Richard Agnew and Karen Blair, who live on Orchard Rd and overlook the festival on racing driver Rod Millen’s property, say the three-day event is disruptive and destroying neighbourly relations.Mr Agnew told the Mercury Bay Community Board last week that the festival had changed the previously harmonious living of residents in the area. A number of other residents share the couple’s concerns, he says.The festival involves three days of racing and also includes noise from low-flying helicopters and loud music. During this year’s event in March, some of

Mr Agnew and Ms Blair’s property was damaged. Mr Agnew says conditions of the consent issued by Thames-Coromandel District Council are not being met. He disagrees with the planner’s assessment that the noise impact is less than major and says the application for consent should have been publicly notified.Council’s Mercury Bay area manager Sam Marshall says events will become more and more important in the future but they have to be done in the context of the environment in which they’re set.The community board recommended that council staff discuss the organisers’ consent obligations with them.

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The weather co-operated for Whenuakite School’s Pet Day on Monday and children, parents and teachers enjoyed a great day as 11 calves, 14 lambs and one kid were put through their paces.Results: Lamb Senior – Leading: Mary Harsant 1, Ella Harsant & Liam McDonnell 2=, James Webster 3; Rearing: Mary Harsant 1, Ella Harsant 2, Georgie Hick 3, Champion: Mary Harsant; Lamb Junior – Leading: Alexandra Litherland 1, Georgia Litherland 2, Savarnah Jones 3; Rearing: Alexandra Litherland 1, William Lockhart 2, Georgia Litherland 3, Champion: Alexandra Litherland.Calf Senior – Leading: Isabella Ramage 1, Lucy Lindsay-Shepherd 2, Grace McLeod 3; Rearing: Lucy Lindsay-Shepherd 1, Emma Hinds-Senior 2, Grace McLeod 3; Champion: Lucy Lindsay-Shepherd; Calf Junior –Leading: Travis George 1, Pippa Matheson 2, Grace Ball 3; Rearing: Emma Jones 1, Grace Ball 2, Pippa Matheson 3, Champion: Pippa Matheson.Kid Senior – Leading, Rearing, Champion: Savannah Mountney-Needham.

Grace Wharton, Maddi Bowen, Mary Harsant with their lambs at Whenuakite School’s Pet Day. Photo byJordan Martin-Free


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CoromandelCoromandel Bridge Club played the second round of the Te Kouma pairs on September 10. Results were:North-South: Val MacDonald and Clive Spokes 58.33 1, Martin Edwards and Jocelyn Ranger 51.39 2, Pat Mitchell and David Stone 46.53 3.East-West - Sue Swan and Dr Bob 56.25 1, Colin McAnnalley and Natalie Taylor 49.31 2, Joan Van Oosterom and Dianne Parkinson 47.92 3

BridgeWhitiangaResults from Round 1 of Mercury Bay Bridge Club’s Spring Competition played on Wednesday, September 8: North-South June Wood and Val Dwight 59.03 1, Alison Tichbon and Dave Dylla 56.25 2; East-West Val Thomson and Sue Gill 57.64 1, Augusta Canegallo and Bob Schibli 56.25 2.Results from Round 2 of the Spring Competition played on Wednesday, September 15: North-South Augusta Canegallo and Bob Schibli 65.97 1, Alison Tichbon and Anne Knowles 47.92 2; East-West Giorgio Allemano and Robyn Hogg 65.97 1, Dave Dylla and Maggie Urlich 61.11 2.Final rankings from the Winter Competition; Bob Schibli 1, Giorgio Allemano 2, Augusta Canegallo 3, Dave Dylla 4, Anne Knowles 5.

HaheiResults of the President Pairs played on September 11: North-South: Lee Hughes, Dave Dylla 67.45 1; Robyn Waters, Robyn Hogg 64.84 2; Annette Cummings, Jocelyn Taylor 60.16 3. East-West: Alva Gibson, Maureen France 55.97 1; John Taylor, Judie Johnson 53.41 2; Carol Brewer, David Wilkinson 53.13 3.

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Fine but very windy for Mercury Bay's opening day

Pam Phillips puts down the first bowl of the Mercury Bay Bowling Club’s opening day on Saturday, September 8, in fine but very windy conditions. The first jack was delivered by club patron Peter Sheehan. The club played four games for the President/Patron’s Cup, which was won by the Patron’s Teams by 11 games to 5.

Men Stableford Scramble, September 12, results: Kevin Smith 40, Wayne Malcolm 39, Andy Fleming 36, Craig Fussey 35, Ken George 34, Bryan Warwick 34; Twos: Keven Clark (2), Alan Henderson (2), Kelly Barson, Mike Borren, Bob Haase.Men’s Saturday Stableford Scramble, September 15, results: Kelly Barson 42, Ken George 39, John Lister 38, Geoff Lowe 38, Andy Fleming 37; Twos: Kelly Barson, John Lister, Kelvin Spence.WomenSheila Speedy Memorial, a 3BBB Net game, was played on Wednesday. Results: Raewyn Hill, Ann Blair, Barbara Bradley 1, Debbie Davidson, Sharon

Young, Maree Denny 2; Nearest the Pin on No 4 Sharon Young; Nearest the Pin for 2 on No 10 Barbara Bradley.9-HoleMercury Bay ladies played a Gross & Net competition with 14 starters last week.Results: Division 1 Gross Alison Goodlet, Net Joan Wedge; Division 2 Gross Margret Coysh, Net Pat Skinner; Pars Joan Wedge.Scallop FestivalScallop Festival Scramble, September 14, results: Paul Lupton 43, Ken George 42, Kelly Barson 41, Ray Burgess 40, Tom Coysh 40, Gordon Davidson 39, Jack Skinner 38, Edith Thomson 37, Andrew Fleming 37; no twos.

There was a great tussle between Coroglen and Te Rerenga last Thursday night, with Coroglen just coming out ahead, organiser Sue Beadle reports.There is one more Thursday night game and then a tournament and prize giving will be held on October 27.Results: MB Green 54 - MB Red 18, MB Gold 22 - MB Black 12, Whenuakite 20 - MB Blue 18, Coroglen 23 - Te Rerenga 21.

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61-0 victory rounds off successful first outing for Mercury Bay Girls First XV

cruised to a 61-0 victory to round off a successful first outing. Coaches Mark Finnerty and Lloyd McQueen were impressed with the girls’ ball handling and support play. The MBAS girls will meet Whangamata on Wednesday in Whangamata and then on to another round in Ngatea on Sunday.Jane Lupton

The Thames Valley secondary schools girls 1st XV competition started last Wednesday with Mercury Bay Area School having a bye in the first round.The other teams this season are from Whangamata Area School, Hauraki Plains College, Waihi College, Paeroa College, Te Kauwhata High School and Thames High School.The season will be made up largely of 10-aside games due

to some teams not having a 15-aside team available.On Saturday, MBAS hosted five other teams in the first weekend round of the 10- aside tournament.The MBAS girls took the field in their new strip and had an amazing start with a 36-0 win over Te Kauwhata in the first half. Unfortunately the game was shortened due to an injury on the field.MBAS met Hauraki Plains in their second match and

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I’ve not seen such a quiet time as this winter since we started the patrol. Our patrols are finding very little of anything or anybody moving around during the night. With the hotel closing for alterations for a few weeks there hasn’t been anywhere near the usual amount of people in town. I do know a few of our younger people have gone to Australia. We had some good news this week. The community chest has allocated some funding for the next 12 months. This is our lifeline really - to keep two vehicles on the road can be expensive and without this funding we would definitely not be able to operate to the extent that we are currently. I understand Whangamata and Thames patrols have also been given funding.Our South team have highlighted their concerns

regarding the safety of patrons from the Coro Gold concert to be held on New Years Eve getting home afterwards. In the early hours of the morning last year Purangi Road was full of people walking home. In one stretch of road there is no footpath or street lighting and there were several near misses. The police manager for the area has agreed there are safety concerns and I understand there is some discussion with the various agencies to address the problem. Our new garaging is now

Quietest winter since our patrol started

moving ahead and we should have our vehicle in its new home within a month. Now a nice little story to finish this report. About two weeks ago there was a spate of burglaries committed in Matarangi, where a considerable amount of property was stolen. The people committing the crime left the scene and on their way home stopped in Whangamata. A concerned resident noticed a couple of undesirable-looking chaps in a car with a flat screen television on the back seat. He took the registration number of the vehicle and rang police. When these guys arrived home in the Waihi district, police met them. In the boot were another couple of TVs and other stolen goods. The value of doing something about what looks unusual can’t be understated. Well done to that person whoever they may be.Laurie Johnston

Laurie Johnston Mercury Bay Community Patrol

Seniors can do it! Just think how it wonderful it would be if you could be so good at using your computer that you could teach your grandchildren some tricks. That’s what being a member of SeniorNet Whitianga can do for you. Our next Open/Enrolling Day is set down for October 3 from 1.30-1.40pm at the Learning Centre.Members have been busy this month. Courses have been well attended and it is good to see the enlightened look on faces as the pieces of the computing puzzle fall into line.A very successful Question and Answer Session was held. Those who attended actively participated in subject discussions by offering advice and ideas to others in the group. There were interesting discussions on smart phones and tablet computers. Another interesting session was held to demonstrate the use of tablet computers. Apple iPad (demonstrated by Mavis Hicks) and Samsung Galaxy 10.1 tablets where displayed and discussed. Both machines are very popular because of their power and portability. Members had the chance to see and hold the machines and get a feeling for the functions they perform. Accessories were displayed that allow external

connection etc. Recent reports of the uptake of this technology by older people suggest the convenience of size, portability and ease of use have a lot of appeal to our age group. We are considering forming a tablet interest group for members using this technology.We note that SeniorNet Thames has closed its operation down after 13 years of assisting members to learn computer skills. This is a sad day for the older citizens of the Thames

Interesting session on tablet computers

community. Declining memberships and a lack of tutors were the reason behind the closure. For this very reason, SeniorNet Whitianga is always on the lookout for tutors and tutor helpers. These people volunteer their time regularly and willingly to pass on their knowledge to members. We know there are a lot of people in our community that could give a few hours occasionally helping to provide this essential and interesting community service.This week we were very fortunate to receive a substantial donation from Pub Charity that has enabled us to purchase seven new computers. This is a major step forward for us as it will enable us to teach the latest operating systems and software on the latest computers. Thank you Pub Charity.

Peter Bethell SeniorNet Whitianga

Capacity crowd for Scallop Festival

Volunteers are invited to join a clean-up at Buffalo Beach and Whitianga Estuary on Saturday as part of Keep New Zealand Beautiful Week.Organisations including Thames-Coromandel District Council, Destination Coromandel and information centres are among those registered to host a clean-up session on the Coromandel Peninsula.Keep New Zealand Beautiful has sent out collection bags for both rubbish and recyclables and TCDC is working with contractors Smart Environmental to accept the collected rubbish for free at Refuse Transfer Stations.The Whitianga clean-up runs from 9.30am-12.00pm, with participants meeting at the wharf.

Coroglen School’s annual Pet Day is being expanded this year into a Country Fair and held on a Saturday. The event is the school’s major fundraiser for the year and runs this Saturday from 10am-3pm.Students have been working on their pet diaries for the last few weeks, and preparing their lambs, calves and alpacas for leading. There’s also a sheep-shearing display and a competition to guess the weight of the fleece.As well as the annual Daisy Dung Drop, there will be fun and games for the whole family including horse rides, toss the gumboot, children’s races, needle in the haystack, target shooting, vertical bungee and hammer strength tests. There’s also a craft, book stalls, white elephant and cake stalls and loads of raffles and food.

Lioness members from around New Zealand and Australia will attend the annual New Zealand Lioness Fun Forum hosted by the Mercury Bay Club in Whitianga this weekend.There are 130 Lionesses attending this year, from as far away as the Gold Coast of Australia. The event is described as a weekend of fun and fellowship, where old friendships are renewed and new ones made, and ideas exchanged.It starts tomorrow night with each club reporting on their activities over the past year and some entertainment. On Saturday, after a free morning, visitors will be hosted by local club members on trips around Mercury Bay taking in points of interests and visiting local artist. There’s a formal dinner and more entertainment in the evening. After breakfast on Sunday, followed by a speaker, the visitors depart.The event was last hosted by Mercury Bay in 1992.

Variety – The Children’s Charity will bring the Variety Mini Bash to the Coromandel Peninsula this weekend.A wacky convoy of 25 vehicles with teams of actors and personalities will distribute more than $20,000 in grants to disadvantaged children.The Bash will arrive in Coromandel town for breakfast on Saturday and then moves on to Whitianga, where the fun kicks off in Taylors Mistake at 10.45am. There’s also a stop at Hot Water Beach from 2.10pm-2.50pm.

The event was covered on TV1’s Good Morning on Tuesday.Police were very happy with the event. Extra police were stationed at Whitianga, including booze bus and event policing staff.The crowd was very well behaved with only a few people stopped from purchasing alcohol due to their level of intoxication, Sergeant Andrew Morrison says.He was less impressed with the five drunk drivers caught over the weekend. There were also 18 warnings for breaches of the liquor ban on Saturday night.

A capacity crowd of 5000 enjoyed the eighth Whitianga Scallop Festival on Saturday, with serious rain holding off until mid-late afternoon.Organiser Fiona Kettlewell, from Whitianga i-Site, says she’s had good feedback from people attending the festival and from stallholders, some of whom reported their best-ever takings.Whitianga café’s, restaurants and bars reported good patronage, with some turning people away.It was Ms Kettlewell’s first time organising the festival and she was thrilled the event came together without any major problems. “I learnt

an awful lot and it was a huge asset having [previous organiser] Megan Nunn beside me.”There was a new layout this year and the three entertainment stages gave people plenty of room to spread out, Ms Kettlewell says.Awards went to Cathedral Cove Macadamias for the Best Stand, Whitianga Lions Club for the Community Stand and the Mr Men characters for Best Dressed.Undercover Whitianga won the Shop Window Competition, with Travel Options second, Dive HQ third and Blackjack Surf highly commended.

These Mr Men characters from Birkenhead won the award for Best Dressed at the Whitianga Scallop festival.


Police notebookSergeant Andrew Morrison says: The Scallop Festival saw a lot of people come into town and there was a bit of luck when the bad weather held off to the end of the festival.The crowd was very well behaved with only a few people stopped from purchasing alcohol due to their level of intoxication. There were 18 warnings for breaches of the liquor ban on Saturday night.Two serious traffic crashes before and after the event resulted in the death of a local woman and at least six people being transported to hospital with serious injuries. Initial indications indicate alcohol and speed were not factors in these crashes.A couple that had targeted cafes and restaurants throughout Auckland and the Coromandel by obtaining refunds by claiming previous meals had given them food

poisoning were apprehended as a direct result of extra police being in town for the festival, and it is an excellent result to get them both before the courts. Arrests26yr old Auckland woman for obtains by deception, September 15.30yr old Auckland man for obtains by deception, September15.(Both are facing numerous charges - with complaints still being reported.)TrafficThe traffic crashes above were very upsetting for everyone involved, with enquiries continuing to establish actual causes.There were also two further crashes on SH25 just south of Whitianga on Sunday, September 16, with no injuries resulting.Disappointingly, five drunk drivers were apprehended over the weekend, with

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three apprehended out of the first 20 cars stopped by the Traffic Alcohol Group giving us shocking initial statistics. The other two drunks were apprehended after stopping hundreds of cars over the weekend, however five drunk drivers is far too many. Occurrences Two domestic incidents attended this week. On September 11 a couple were given advice in relation to their separation, while on September 14 a young couple who were drunk and arguing were given some life advice by the attending constable.On September 13 we attended a disorderly party on Cholmondeley Cres. Two bicycles have been stolen in the past week. Please padlock your bicycle if leaving it out of your view.

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Mercury Bay and C o r o m a n d e l - C o l v i l l e Community Boards have made their 2012 Community Grants.Mercury Bay: Cooks Beach Tennis Club - repainting and repair of tennis court $500, Hot Water Beach Lifeguards Service - installation of solar power panels, water tank and freezer $6000, Matarangi Ratepayers Assoc - promotion of Matarangi summer carnival $1200, Matarangi Volunteer Rural Fire Force - installation of tsunami sirens $8651, Mercury Bay Archery Club - help to stage two major international and national archery competitions $5000; Mercury Bay Art Escape - design and print of Art Escape Tour $1500; Mercury Bay Community Bus Society - installation

of solar powered lights on vehicle garage $60; Mercury Bay Recreation Trust - soccer equipment $6000; Order of St John Mercury Bay - two defibrillators $1000; Parents Inc - life skill programmes in high schools $300; Purangi Golf and Country Club - junior development programme $500; Whenuakite Kiwi Care Group - DOC traps $500; Whitianga Bike Club - free facility for cyclists $2000; Whitianga Volunteer Coastguard - shed extensions $5000.C o r o m a n d e l - C ov i l l e : Coromandel RSA - 2013 ANZAC ceremony $500, Manaia Marae Committee - replacement of kitchen ceiling $1000, Parents Inc Attitude Youth Division - positive life skill programmes for Coromandel Area School

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