Bosses Drop from Sky Tower

Light rail Competition possible for for Bay of Shore P3 Islands trip p7 North Shore Times Tuesday, September 20, 2016 YOUR PLACE, YOUR PAPER Bosses drop from Sky Tower LAINE MOGER ‘‘Our punchline is Growing up in South Auckland, 'transforming young Martin Payne says he knows what lives forever', and it’s like on the ‘‘other side of things’’. that's exactly what So when his sister-in-law we do.’’ ‘‘tapped him on the shoulder’’ to Graeme Dingle raise money for the Graeme Dingle Foundation, he couldn’t really say no. Even if it did mean programme targets the different throwing himself off the side of needs in children, from low self the Sky Tower. confidence to youth offenders. Payne was joined by 26 other ‘‘Our punchline is community leaders and bosses ‘transforming young lives for- from around Auckland, to hurl ever’,’’ Dingle says. themselves 192 metres off the Sky ‘‘That’s exactly what we do.’’ Tower. Joining Payne, was fellow As general manager of Water North Shore resident and Supply Products, the Birkenhead Kaipatiki Local Board member Point resident was the perfect Richard Hills. candidate for Drop Your Boss. Despite not being the ‘‘biggest Drop Your Boss is an annual fan of heights’’, Hills says it was event to raise money for the great to support working with Graeme Dingle Foundation, an youth in New Zealand organisation founded 21 years ago Dingle remembers Hills as a by outdoors enthusiasts Graeme teenager, when he went to Dingle and Jo-anne Wilkinson. Antarctica as a part of the pro- Their vision was to improve New gramme with co-founder Wilkin- Zealand’s negative youth stat- son. istics. ‘‘We’ve watched him just ‘‘People have tough lives,’’ Martin Payne receives a hug from his mother and his daughter before getting suited up. PHOTO: CHRIS MCKEEN/FAIRFAX NZ blossom since then. Payne says. We prove our outcomes in the ‘‘The foundation is trying to Co-founder Graeme Dingle tunity to experience, first-hand, raised. people in we produce,’’ Dingle pluck kids out of the wrong path says he launched the unconven- the challenge of overcoming fear Funds go towards the foun- says. and put them on the right path, tional fundraiser in 2013, in order that young people face everyday. dation’s programmes for Kiwi Visit givealittle.co.nz/event/ which is a great thing.’’ to give participants the oppor- So far, nearly $50,000 has been kids aged between 5 and 18. Each dropyourbossauckland2016. Teachers protest funding EMILY FORD School principal Richard Coote ing maintenance - things like are less than impressed. power and water bills - will all be More than 1600 teachers packed ‘‘We want better funding and competing for money from the into North Shore Events Centre want to ensure the very best same pool of funding. on September 9 for a protest meet- teacher is in front of every child A Funding Review Advisory ing over proposed funding in New Zealand. Anything less Group, made up of 18 teacher and changes. than that is unacceptable,’’ Alex- principal representatives, has The changes would see the cur- ander says. rejected the independent funding rent teacher-pupil ratio replaced Nationwide meetings to proposal. by flat funding per pupil, which protest the changes have been Education Minister Hekia teachers say will result in fewer staged by the two major education Parata says she is not surprised teachers and bigger class sizes. unions - PPTA and NZEI Te Riu and the group’s report - which Takapuna Normal Intermedi- Roa. Both worry about the approved six of seven funding More than 1600 teachers from the North Shore met on September 9 for the ate School principal Owen Alex- changes could also mean their proposals, will help inform her combined union meeting opposing the funding proposal. PHOTO: SUPPLIED ander and Birkdale Intermediate teachers, support staff and build- report to the Cabinet. 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Both people need to have a it consultation at the same time. stuff.co.nz SEPTEMBER 20, 2016, NORTH SHORE TIMES 3 Govt indicates North Shore rail In brief HOUSE FIRES Firefighters from Birkenhead and TOM DILLANE Takapuna stations attended a house fire in Northcote in the The Government has given its early hours of September 9. first-ever clear indication it will Station officer Dean Irwin says help fund a rail link to Auckland’s the fire was in a bedroom and North Shore. was believed to be caused from The announcement appeared smoking in bed. There were no in the Auckland Transport Align- working smoking alarms in the ment Project (ATAP) plan house, he says. He says the fire released on September 15 and service wants to remind people states ‘‘Waitemata Harbour cross- to be careful with matches and ing improvements, including lighters, to dispose of cigarettes mass transit upgrade of Northern appropriately and not to smoke Busway’’ are a priority during the in bed. The fire service 2030s. encourages people to fit long-life The report is significant photo electric smoke alarms for because it is the first time the early warning in the event of a Government, Auckland Council fire. and New Zealand Transport Agency (NZTA) have indicated PRODUCT RECALLS together there will be a ‘‘mass The Government’s new product transit’’ component to the recall website, recalls.govt.nz, has Additional Waitemata Harbour been embraced by consumers Crossing (AWHC).

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