Former Auroa Piper Hits Right Note on ANZAC Day
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Vol. 29 No 5, May 7 2020 www.opunakecoastalnews.co.nz Published every Thursday Fortnight Phone and Fax 761-7016 A/H 761-8206 for Advertising and Editorial ISSN 2324-2337, ISSN 2324-2345 Inside Former Auroa piper hits right note on ANZAC Day Coronavirus how we’re coping. Page 3 Mayor and councillors have their say. Page 4. Watch your speed and don’t tailgate in Okato or anywhere. See page 6. We didn’t forget. P 10 Former Auroa Highland Pipe Band member Curly Duff added a poignant note to this year’s ANZAC Day. Photo Cate Duff The perils of working Alistair (Curly) Duff’s Pipe Band go back a Curly. “Everybody’s been “I had just bought a farm he had planned to retrace from home. Page 17 links to the Auroa Highland long way. The band had very emotional about the and was ready to settle down. William’s steps through been founded in 1928 by shutdown. I just did it Three to fi ve of us learned at Italy. In World War II. With his grandfather Scottish spontaneously.” the same time,” he says. travel restrictions in place immigrant James Crawford Decked out in the Auroa Having learned to play these plans have had to go Duff, the son of a Clydeside Pipe Band’s MacDuff under the direction of the on the backburner. shipyard worker. The tartan Curly made the six band’s long serving pipe These days Curly only MacDuff tartan was to be minute walk from home to major Dave Heal, Curly plays the bagpipes at family the band’s own until the very the beach, with the pipes performed with the band events like funerals. Before end when the band wound up he had played many a time at regular functions which ANZAC Day the last time LOCAL FRESH in 2000. Come ANZAC Day at Auroa, playing Flowers included Christmas parades was his sister-in-law’s and Curly would always be of the Forest. This lament, at Manaia and at Opunake, funeral in October. playing as part of the band commemorating the Scottish which was held then as it is at commemoration services dead from the 1513 Battle of now, always on Christmas along the Taranaki coast. Flodden is often played at Eve. ANZAC Day was Local news, Local people, For the last 21 years, home Remembrance services. another big day with band local businesses, local for him and his wife Cate “It would have been about members playing at services sport, local arts and has been Mt Maunganui. twenty past six,” recalls in Opunake, Manaia, events. It was here that his latest Kaponga and Okato. Delivered free around Curly. “So many people the mountain every ANZAC Day effort as a lone were down there at the Curly had already shifted fortnight. piper on Papamoa Beach beach, and a few of my to Mt Maunganui when the gained national attention neighbours came down. I band fi nally called it a day. and captured the public took my shoes and socks off “The band started in my imagination.. and got into the water.” grandfather’s old dairy On a day when COVID-19 Curly was about 24 when cowshed. It did a 70 year forced ANZAC services to he started to learn the pipes. stint and then amalgamated be called off for the fi rst time The Auroa Highland Pipe with other bands,” he says. www.munchandbloom.co.nz in a century the video of Band was celebrating a COVID-19 as well as being Curly playing the bagpipes Fresh Cut, Locally Grown, Delivered to Your Door jubilee and there was a call responsible for Curly’s leap at sunrise went viral, and he for more members. Curly into the limelight also put featured in both print and says he had always had an paid to his plans for May. 06 761 7016 fresh BOX range from $27 broadcast media. interest in wind instruments Carrying with him his father “It was amazing,” says and decided to give it a go. 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