WHIRINGA-Ā-NUKU OCTOBER 2019 / ISSUE 96

OUT & ABOUT A bumper events calendar OURAUCKLAND.NZ

SWINGIN’ SAFARI A tour of Auckland’s newest playgrounds

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18-22 CITY OF TALES CONTACT US How our individual journeys add up to one big journey of Auckland Council change for the region aucklandcouncil.govt.nz 09 301 0101 (24/7) aucklandcouncil.govt.nz/ contactus 04 Auckland Council, Private HEAR OUR VOICES Bag 92300, Auckland 1142 Why we all need to vote facebook.com/aklcouncil twitter.com/aklcouncil 06 About OurAuckland THE BRIEFING OurAuckland keeps you Information and inspiration up to date with council from Council HQ services, projects and events and helps to fulfil our legislative obligations to 08-09 keep Aucklanders informed. IN YOUR We conduct regular research NEIGHBOURHOOD to ensure OurAuckland is an What’s hot and happening efficient way of doing this. in your area Te reo Māori We’re proud to use te reo 10 14-15 Māori in OurAuckland. If THE INSIDER’S GUIDE BACK IN TIME you come across a word you Irra Lee and Ben Fraser Highlights of the Auckland don’t know, you can learn what it means at share their slice of Auckland Heritage Festival maoridictionary.co.nz 12-13 16 OurAuckland ourauckland@ SWINGIN’ SAFARI SAILS OF THE CENTURY aucklandcouncil.govt.nz Take a tour of Auckland’s Tuia – Encounters 250 ourauckland.nz new playgrounds welcomes a special flotilla Subscribe to OurAuckland e-newsletter at 24-28 ourauckland.nz/enews WHAT’S ON Disclaimer Festivals, shows, sport, free OurAuckland includes paid events and more advertising, in addition to Auckland Council editorial content. While Auckland 30 Council appreciates the SEE HERE NOW support of advertisers in Great shots of Auckland’s helping to pay for production best heritage buildings of OurAuckland, the inclusion of any specific advertisement is not an official endorsement or stream sites, 32 coastal council kerbside collections recommendation of that NEED TO KNOW sites, nine groundwater between 28 October and 1 advertiser’s products or sites and five lakes, and has November will be collected services by Auckland Council. Correction: The September ambitious plans to grow the a day later than the normal Published by Bauer Media in issue of OurAuckland stated number of sites it monitors day. Remember to put partnership with Auckland that 36 sites around the over the next few years. your bin/bags out before Council. For advertising region are assessed for 7am on collection day to enquiries email advertising@ water quality every month. ensure they are picked up. bauermedia.co.nz. Labour Day Rubbish Printed by Webstar using RIMU, the council’s centre and Recycling Kerbside All collections will return to sustainably sourced paper. for environmental, social, Collections: Labour Day is normal the following week. economic and cultural just around the corner and Visit the Auckland Council research, monitors water due to the public holiday website or phone 09 301

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WHIRINGA-Ā-NUKU OCTOBER 2019 3 BY THE NUMBERS

38.5% Total voter turnout in the 2016 local elections in Auckland. Voting opened on 20 September and closes at noon on 12 October 423 The number of candidates running for council positions in local elections. There are 21 mayoral candidates, 54 people vying for councillor roles, and 348 people contesting local board positions

Auckland Council’s Ngā Pōti ā-Taiohi / 68% Youth Voting civics education of Auckland’s protected heritage Hear our programme, along with 13,000 buildings were built between students from 74 schools from all the 1880s and 1920s. And 60% around Tāmaki Makaurau. of them are still used for their voices The programme has given me the original purpose confidence to use my voice and vote, and it has equipped me with the The local government elections are on knowledge I need to make an informed this month and, as an 18-year-old, I will decision. I have learned what the be voting for the first time. elections are about, and the differences Sadly, we know from experience between local and central government. that the people least likely to vote are People who start voting at a young youth, and Māori and Pasifika. age often become lifelong voters. I I believe young people don’t vote as intend to exercise my right to vote at much as other demographics because every opportunity, and so should all we’ve been made to believe that our young people. opinions don’t matter. But they do matter. We should get involved in our Jade Nathan is the Deputy Head Girl at democracy, especially local politics. Aorere College in Papatoetoe and was Age shouldn’t be an issue, because asked to contribute an opinion piece for Auckland Council makes decisions for the this issue. areas that we all live in. These decisions affect everyone, and the people we vote for will affect the future of Auckland. We need more young people to become engaged in local elections. 712,555 This year, I have participated in Items in Auckland Libraries’ Kura Heritage Collections Online – 38,499 of these are GET CONNECTED WITH heritage images OURAUCKLAND.NZ 2494 Protected heritage places in Discover more at ourauckland.nz Auckland Get weekly updates on news and events across Auckland at 18% ourauckland.nz/enews of Auckland’s protected heritage Follow us on social media places relate to Māori-origin archaeology

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INFORMATION AND INSPIRATION FROM AUCKLAND COUNCIL HQ RURAL RISE AND OUTLOOK SHINE In an electric finals event, Get out your gumboots, Auckland’s top young because Ambury Farm talent left the Stand Up Day is back. Give the kids Stand Out audience and a taste of life on the farm judges buzzing at Vodafone at Ambury Regional Park Events Centre on Saturday on Sunday 20 October, 14 September. 10am-4pm. The popular The Auckland Council- family event took a break petting, wood chopping, with most of the activities. run event, which was last year but it’s back and sheep shearing, vintage There is also a supervised supported by radio better than ever for 2019. farming machinery, bike parking area if you station Flava, saw singers, There will be displays and farm rides and a General cycle there. Visit at.govt. dancers, bands, choirs, and activities for everyone to Collective market. Entry nz for public transport and musicians battle it out for enjoy, including animal and parking are free, along cycleway options. a share of $6000 in prizes. Winners included Aorere College’s barbershop quartet What the Fourth, THE JOYS OF BEING YOUNG multi-instrumentalist With a registered AT HOP card, children aged 5-15 years can Risnm Tangianau from now travel free on buses, trains and some ferries on weekends Quality Education Services, and public holidays. So escape on a weekend adventure and singer Sione Tahavalu explore the many beautiful places around the region. This of De La Salle College, change comes as part of the $1.1 million Auckland Council contemporary dance contribution towards public transport initiatives announced troupe Careless Whispers, this year. For children under five, bus, train and ferry travel is and first time competitors

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BIKE TRAILS, PUMP TRACK, MAUNGA PLANTING, RESERVE PROJECT, EVENTS FUNDED, AND IT'S TIME TO VOTE

IN YOUR NEIGHBOURHOOD E EKE RIDE / SANDERS WHAKAMĀTAUHIA RESERVE (ABOVE) EXPERIENCE / ALBERTON Check out the 500m-long VINTAGE MARKET DAY cycle trail designed for Step back in time and visit children under 10 at Sanders the charming Alberton Reserve, Pāremoremo. This heritage property at 100 track will help beginners to Mt Albert Road to shop for gain skills and confidence fine china, textiles, Crown before graduating to more- Lynn, clothing, Depression challenging mountain-bike glass, crystal, kitchen and trails. There are more tableware, jewellery and than 22km of bike trails retro bric-a-brac. 13 October, to explore within the 41ha 11am-3.30pm, rain or shine. reserve, which also has a Market entry is free but house separate horse-riding area. admission is $10 for adults. KUHU ENGAGE / VOTE TODAY MATAREKA ENJOY / We get to vote only once PUMP TRACK every three years on who The portable Pump Track represents us in local is back in Henderson. decision-making. Now is Bring your bike or scooter that time. Drop your voting and have a go when you’re papers into a postbox by next passing through 8 October or into a ballot the town centre. It’s on box at your local service the Falls car park on the centre or library before corner of Edmonton Road noon on 12 October. Visit and Alderman Drive and voteauckland.co.nz for

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THE FUN IN FUNDING The much-loved Franklin Road Christmas Lights, Farmers Santa Parade and Auckland International Buskers Festival will receive financial help from Waitemata Local Board. Franklin Road Christmas Lights organiser Roscoe Thorby says this is the 27th year the street’s homes will be lit up. “It’s become an iconic event in Auckland.” Santa Parade organiser Pam Glaser says the event – now in its 86th year – has given families decades of cherished memories. The buskers festival, in the city centre over Auckland Anniversary Weekend, creates a real buzz, says event manager Casey Morris. “People love the comedy, mime, magic, contortion, acrobatics and the clowns.”

TREE’S A CROWD HUGE PLANTING EFFORT TIPPED TO DRAW BIRDS BACK TO MAUNGA

More than 74,000 native trees and shrubs FOR MORE will be planted on the city’s tūpuna maunga OF YOUR LOCAL (volcanic cones) by 2021. Nineteen thousand NEWS VISIT have already gone in over the past 12 months. CANAL OURAUCKLAND.NZ More than half of the 74,000 are destined for the Howick and Mount Wellington areas, CONNECTION with 33,300 planned for Ōhuiarangi / Pigeon Mountain and another 12,100 for Maungarei / OPEN SPACE IN INDUSTRIAL AREA TO COME ALIVE WITH PEOPLE Mount Wellington. On Ōhuiarangi, more than 1000 local Transforming an industrial part of Ōtāhuhu into an area where people schoolchildren have participated in three will be able to walk, cycle, run and learn more about the area’s planting days, and about 150 community heritage is the vision behind the Ōtāhuhu Canal Reserve Portage members have volunteered. Project. Tūpuna Maunga Authority chair Paul Discussions are under way to develop a concept plan for a new area Majurey says large-scale planting has always of open space in the heart of Ōtāhuhu that reconnects the Manukau been part of the vision to restore the maunga. Inlet and Tāmaki River. Vegetation on them was historically pūriri Ngā Mana Whenua o Tāmaki Makaurau, the Ōtāhuhu community forest. and Māngere-Ōtāhuhu Local Board are working together on the Through the planting, common bird project to honour this special place. species that could begin returning include Importantly, the project will once again enable the passage of waka tūī, korimako (bellbird), ruru (morepork), between the Waitematā and Manukau harbours and allow the running pīwakawaka (fantail), riroriro (grey warbler), of the annual Portage Crossing waka ama event to take place in the kererū (woodpigeon), tauhou (silvereye) and footprints of tūpuna Māori. kōtare (kingfisher). Current funding from the local board will take the project to concept Native plants that would act as food stage, but it could be some years before people see any major changes sources for the birds include ferns, karaka, as further funding will be required to make it a reality. pūriri, tōtara, māhoe, mangeao, puka, Find out more about the project at ourauckland.nz. kohekohe and tītoki.

WHIRINGA-Ā-NUKU OCTOBER 2019 9 3 The insider’s guide 1 It takes a local to really bring a suburb to life and help visitors make the most of it. From great public spaces to their favourite independently owned businesses, Howick Youth Council leaders Ben Fraser, 17, and Irra Lee, 20, take us on a tour of their slice of Auckland. 4

TE TUHI ART GALLERY 2 5 13 Reeves Road, Pakuranga Irra Lee: My first time at Te Tuhi was with my high-school class a few Scheme and was based on their years back, to see the NZQA Top Art experiences as refugees and migrants exhibition showcasing the best NCEA to New Zealand. The library is very design, painting, printmaking and popular with students at exam time. sculpture portfolios from all over the country. Te Tuhi hosts the travelling COCKLE BAY BEACH exhibition every year, with a section Shelly Beach Parade, Cockle Bay dedicated to work from local schools, BF: Cockle Bay is one of the most and a lot of youth council events. picturesque spots in the area. The Ben Fraser: We love the sense of beach has large pōhutukawa trees 1. At Pakuranga Library 2. Ben Fraser and Irra community that Te Tuhi has. Every time that blossom spectacularly in the Lee 3. Cockle Bay beach 4. Picton Street, you enter, there’s a community group summer. There are large grassy areas, Howick Village 5. Michael Parekōwhai’s Atarangi II sculpture outside Te Tuhi using the space, from dance classes and an adventure playground and historic art rooms, to students doing defensive- Windross House, which is great for BF: Howick Village is the kind of place driving courses. During the day, excited lunch or dinner. All the locals know you can walk down the street and primary-school students come for art this is the place to be if the weather’s receive a smile from everyone you pass. lessons. It’s really the heart of Pakuranga. warm. Back in my primary-school days, The old Howick Village is very popular The incredible and passionate team at Te my family and a few others used to go among locals. The Howick Santa Parade Tuhi do a remarkable job. to Cockle Bay beach every January or is a magical time every year. The streets February for an annual fish-and-chips are filled with kids experiencing the PAKURANGA LIBRARY night. We used to play cricket, run excitement of seeing Santa come past 7 Aylesbury Street, Pakuranga around, swim, and then tuck into a in his sleigh. I’ve gone from being one IL: Great books, great librarians, and delicious meal. It’s perfect! of those kids to volunteering to help just an overall great library. It’s not organise the parade last year. always easy to find a place to spend HOWICK VILLAGE time or to study and work together Picton Street, Howick KIWI CHICKEN with friends. I first came to the library IL: I have a fantastic time at Monterey 345 Chapel Road, East Tāmaki after a friend suggested we work Cinemas. I like that it is locally owned IL: I love spending time with family and together on a project there. and has retained so much of its history. friends over a box of crunchy Korean BF: The library is a fantastic example of There’s also Uxbridge Arts & Culture fried chicken. It’s some of the crispiest a well-maintained council facility and Centre [which is funded by council]. The I’ve ever had. The restaurant is popular I think it’s great it is able to provide a annual Midnight Madness [Friday 22 with locals, and the couple who own it venue where local people can showcase November] is a highlight, too, because are lovely and will remember you. their work. There was a book launch at Picton Street comes alive with people the library recently. It was written by a and entertainment. The character and IF YOUR AREA DESERVES TO BE FEATURED, TELL US WHY. EMAIL OURAUCKLAND@ Howick Youth Council alumnus and his heritage of Howick Village is unique AUCKLANDCOUNCIL.GOVT.NZ WITH THE friends as part of the Youth Enterprise and should be protected. SUBJECT LINE ‘INSIDER’S GUIDE’ LOWE 3 / KELLE BLIZZARD; 4 BRYAN 2 / ELEANOR BLACK; PHOTO

10 NGĀ WĀHI O TE ROHE WHĀNUI / PLACES an unfurling 12 OCTOBER 2019 - 7 JUNE 2020

Seven contemporary artists explore early Māori and European encounters through new work inspired by museum taonga

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OCTOBER EVENTS Curator Tour SATURDAY 12TH OCTOBER, 1PM

Join curators Linda Tyler and Bridget Reweti for this conversation style exhibition tour of Takiri, An unfurling. Free event. Bookings recommended.

Late Night Art TUESDAY 15 OCTOBER, 5PM - LATE

Celebrate the opening week of Takiri with this late night art event for Auckland Art Week. Curators talks, artist talks, poetry slam, kai, music, bar and exhibition artist Nikau Hindin activating her blue bead exchange project. Free event. Bookings recommended.

Tuia Encounters 250 – Tamaki Makaurau FRIDAY 25 – MONDAY 28 OCTOBER (LABOUR WEEKEND)

Visit the Tuia 250 fleet in berth at the Museum and Princes Wharf and participate in the waterfront- wide festival of activities and programmes. Ta moko and whakairo demonstrations, alongside open vessel tours and interactive navigation experiences happening at the Maritime Museum.

Book online at maritimemuseum.co.nz 1 2 Swingin’ safari The temperatures are on the rise, the kids are keen to get out and about during the school holidays, and the parents are always looking for new (and free) family activities. So why not visit a new playground this month? Each year, Auckland Council invests in 3 building new playgrounds and redeveloping old ones, so whether you’re into climbing, sliding, swinging, dribbling, exercising, exploring or picnicking, there are many options to explore.

ROYAL RESERVE, MASSEY nature play, Marlborough Park has Opened this year after an 18-month large open spaces and mature trees. project to turn an overgrown field into The updated play areas feature an one of the best playgrounds in the improved basketball court and walking region, this $4.1 million facility has paths, a new junior playground with already proven to be very popular with shade, a flying fox, park furniture and a children of all ages. It boasts custom- youth centre. 4 built towers, an accessible junior play area, two learn-to-ride bike tracks and SACKVILLE RESERVE, GREY LYNN the only 2m-wide hill slide in Auckland. This popular neighbourhood ancient Māori play artefacts to create playground may be small, but it’s a traditional Māori playground that OTAMARIKI PARK, ŌTARA perfectly formed and new play features features a network of long logs, Otamariki Park playground is a large for children that were added last year linked one to the other, to create modern facility for all ages. Revamped have made it even better. Additional elevated walkways. earlier this year, its features include a seating has been provided to make it giant slide, a range of swings, monkey a great spot for picnics, and the area is WAIMAHIA PARK, WEYMOUTH bars and a crow’s nest climbing tower. now more accessible, with a new path Kids can run, jump, climb, dig and Next to the playground, older kids and from the street. enjoy water play at a new playground teenagers can enjoy shooting some that recently opened in the Manurewa hoops on the basketball court. The MĀRA HŪPARA, MOUNT ROSKILL suburb of Weymouth. As it’s near the playground is at 193 East Tāmaki Road, Nestled in the woods of Underwood shores of the Manukau Harbour, the close to Ōtara shopping centre. Reserve along the Te Auaunga play space is themed on the gathering of Awa (Oakley Creek walkway) is a kaimoana (seafood), which can be seen MARLBOROUGH PARK, traditional playground made from in the shellfish motifs on some of the GLENFIELD natural materials. The new attraction structures. Features of the playground

A great place for family picnics and brings together a collection of include a large rope climbing frame, a COLE; 7 / DOUG GINO DEMEER; 3 / NUMAT; 1 & 2 / PHOTO 5 & 6 / KELLIE BLIZZARD LOWE; 4 / BRYAN

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trees. It reflects the beauty of the 7 bush and coastline and uses chunky, durable wood for seating, a tower, swings, and climbing and bridge big koru-shaped sandpit, shade sails, around its edge. In the future, you’ll structures. This expansive space a raised pathway and dirt mound play even be able to come and pick fruit features many sporting fields and sits area, a water feature and slide, swings, from the trees. on the shores of the scenic Tāmaki seesaw and a spinner. River, so once you’re done at the KUPE SOUTH RESERVE, ŌRĀKEI playground, you can go for a stroll and BONAIR CRESCENT, MILLWATER Shoot some hoops on the half-court, watch the boats sail by. Opened in May this year, this park take the kids on a swing or break a at the southern end of Millwater has sweat on the adult gym equipment CONSTELLATION PARK, a wide range of facilities including at the new playground in Kupe South BEACHLANDS a half-court with basketball and Reserve in Ōrākei. The playground Located between Constellation netball hoops, a playground with a caters for all ages. Avenue and Intrepid Crescent, this seesaw, slide, basket swings, in-ground new community asset combines the trampolines all under cover, a rope MOUNT WELLINGTON WAR usual popular playground features climber and wobbly goals, a fitness MEMORIAL RESERVE, such as swings, a climbing wall and area, a large lawn area for ball games, MOUNT WELLINGTON slides with a figure-eight bike track public toilets, a water fountain and The new playground is designed to and an inclusive carousel, which can be a network of paths and picnic tables be an extension of the nearby native accessed by wheelchair users.

WHIRINGA-Ā-NUKU OCTOBER 2019 13 Back in time Looking back to see how far we have come is important, and the Auckland Heritage Festival allows us to do just that. This year, it takes inspiration from Tuia – Encounters 250, which has as its theme ‘Tuia te muka tangata ki uta – Weaving people together for a shared future'. Between Saturday 5 October and Monday 28 October, you can discover how our people journeyed to Tāmaki Makaurau by sea, air or land and how they made their mark on the region – whether physically, culturally or spiritually. More than 200 events are planned, so here are our top picks.

Bookings are required for events marked ‡ Visit www.heritagefestival.co.nz for details.

KEEN CRAFTERS EARLY SETTLERS’ CRAFT DAY Learn more about the many home crafts early Auckland settlers used both for survival and for relaxation. Thu 10 Oct, 10am-3pm, free. Old Masonic Hall, 3 Baxter Street, Warkworth

TRANSPORT AFICIONADOS TE WHAU AND THE CANAL THAT WAS NEVER BUILT Historian Lisa Truttman talks about a 19th century proposal for a Waitematā-Manukau FABULOUS FOODIES canal using the Whau Estuary. ST ANDREW’S CEMETERY TALK AND AFTERNOON TEA ‡ Sat 12 Oct, 2pm-3pm, free. Share stories of some of the founding families of early Avondale Library, 93 Rosebank Epsom. Sat 5 Oct, 2pm-4pm, adult $25, child $10. Road, Avondale St Andrew’s Church, 100 St Andrews Road, Epsom PORTS OF AUCKLAND A FEAST OF PUHA, PORK & POTATOES ‡ HERITAGE TUGBOAT TRIPS Experience a unique fusion of Māori and European flavours. ‡ Ninety-minute cruises on Thu 10 – Sun 13 Oct. Reservations from 4pm, set-price feast the William C Daldy steam $35. BBC, 17 Birkenhead Ave, Birkenhead tugboat across the Waitematā. Sat 5 – Sun 20 Oct, Sat-Sun, 10am, 12.30pm & 2.30pm, adult $15, child $5, under 2 free

ART ENTHUSIASTS INSIDE THE VICTORIAN VILLA ‡ Lecture by historian Edward Bennett (left) on Victorian architecture and interior decoration, and an insight into the European settlers and their influence on decoration. Thu 10 Oct, 6pm-7pm, free. Leys Institute Library, 20 St Marys Road, Ponsonby

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ACTIVE EXPLORERS GUIDED TOUR: HISTORIC COASTAL DEFENCES ON MAUNGAUIKA / NORTH HEAD ‡ Visit the coastal defences built to guard Auckland against a Russian invasion in the 1880s. Explore dark tunnels and listen to some legends. Sat 5 – Sun 27 Oct, Sat-Sun, 10am-1pm, 2pm- 5pm, free. Meet at the Royal New Zealand Navy Museum, 64 King Edward Parade, Devonport

EARLY SETTLERS’ CATHOLIC GRAVEYARD WALK A guided tour of the church graveyard (right) to learn about early Fencibles and settlers who journeyed to, and built, Onehunga. Sat 12 Oct, 10.30am- noon, free. Church of the Assumption, Cnr Galway & Church streets, Onehunga

ARMCHAIR OBSERVERS AUCKLAND CITY CENTENARY 1971: FILM AND PANEL DISCUSSION ‡ Join a panel of historians from University of Auckland to discuss stories of Tāmaki Makaurau, followed FUN FOR FAMILIES by a function in Old Government House (above). Fri 18 Oct, HERITAGE WALK AND GAMES FOR FAMILIES 4pm-5.30pm, followed by a social function to 7pm, free. Old See the history of early Albany (above) come to life in a walk Government House Lecture Theatre, Cnr Princes Street and around the village. Tue 8 Oct, 10.30am-noon, free. Starts at Waterloo Quadrant, Auckland Central Albany Village Library, 30 Kell Drive

ALL AT SEA: MEET THE THE LONG VOYAGE: VILLAGERS Join the CHILDREN’S GAMES villagers as they make this ON-BOARD SHIP new land their home. Watch Discover the activities as they act out first-hand children enjoyed on their accounts of life in early journey to New Zealand New Zealand. Sat 19 Oct, by ship. Wed 9 & Fri 11 10am-5pm, see fencible.org. Oct, 1.30pm-3.30pm, nz for ticket pricing. Howick donation. Farrington Historical Village, Lloyd House Museum, 44 Elsmore Park, Bells Road, Mahara Avenue, Pakuranga Birkenhead

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1. The waka hourua Ngahiraka Mai Tawhiti Sails of the century 2. The Endeavour replica 3. Fa’afaite i te Ao Mā’ohi from Tahiti Tuia 250 ki Tāmaki Makaurau rounds out this year’s Auckland Heritage Festival with the arrival of a very special group of sailing and Hui Te Ananui a Tangaroa / New vessels. Here’s what you can look forward to from four days of Zealand Maritime Museum to host a series of events in support of the events and activities at the waterfront over Labour Weekend. flotilla’s arrival. Whether you want to learn about traditional Māori activities This year, New Zealand marks 250 • The Endeavour replica from the such as hāngī, toi moko or tapa, the years since the first onshore encounters Australian National Maritime Museum sailing techniques or boats used by between Māori and Pākehā, when His in Sydney Polynesian navigators, or the stories Majesty’s Bark Endeavour made landfall • The Spirit of New Zealand three- of local boat-building dynasties, in Tūranga / Gisborne. masted barquentine from Tāmaki there’ll be something for everyone. Six heritage vessels will sail around Makaurau Events are free to attend and there New Zealand for three months • The gaff-rigged schooner R. Tucker will also be Vector Lights for Tuia 250, between October and December as Thompson from Pēwhairangi / Bay of entertainment and food trucks in the part of the Tuia – Encounters 250 Islands. ‘Viaduct Village’. programme. Auckland will welcome the vessels Auckland Council’s Manager of The Tuia 250 Voyage began in into the Waitematā Harbour about Heritage, Noel Reardon, says “the Pape’ete, Tahiti, on 19 August when noon on Friday 25 October. Over the Auckland Heritage Festival will help the double-hulled canoe Fa’afaite i te weekend, some will offer visitors tours us learn more about the courage, Ao Mā’ohi set sail. Using the traditional and an opportunity to meet crew resilience and skill of our extraordinary celestial navigation methods of Pacific members at Princes Wharf. Polynesian voyagers who were first voyagers, the crew is guiding it more Aucklanders are invited to be part in the world to develop blue-water than 4300km to Auckland. of this historic journey by getting out sailing while navigating the world’s The other vessels in the flotilla are: on the water alongside the boats or largest ocean many centuries ago”. • The waka hourua (double-hulled looking on from the harbour’s edge. canoes) Haunui from Tāmaki Makaurau Also over the weekend, Auckland FOR MORE INFORMATION AND A FULL LIST / Auckland and Ngahiraka Mai Tawhiti Council will join Tāmaki Paenga Hira OF TUIA 250 EVENTS IN AUCKLAND, VISIT from Tauranga / Auckland War Memorial Museum OURAUCKLAND.NZ/TUIA250.

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My family are proud descendants CITY OF of the kāhui ariki (royal family) of Waikato Tainui, and were staunch contributors to the King Movement. My heritage goes back to the landfalls of the Tainui waka over 800 years ago. I was brought up on my marae in TALES rural Waikato, and I have since lived all over Tāmaki Makaurau. Everywhere I go in Tāmaki Everyone’s journey through life is different, but all Makaurau, my Tainui roots let me of our individual stories – and the different waves find connections to the place I’m in of immigration, from early Polynesian explorers through familial ties to the people and ancestral residence in the places. Even to recent arrivals – add up to one big journey of suburban Devonport felt like home change for the region. With the Auckland Heritage to me, and I later discovered that the Festival and Tuia 250 coinciding in October, Tainui great waka made landfall there. I currently live in Warkworth, just Tom Sadler and Adrian Malloch showcase a two-minute walk from the Parry some of those individual journeys. Kauri Park, which I visit almost every day after work. I love contributing to my family and our cultural space here 1 through upholding the ahi kā (the burning fires of home). We do this by carrying our ancestral knowledge forward, in fishing, weaving, and healing practices that make use of the natural resources of the area. The feeling of sustained history there makes it feel like the centre of my world. And there is a lot of growth; new and more diverse peoples are moving into the area. My creative work seeks to expand how people can see customary Māori practices in a contemporary sense – inside and outside the gallery space and in communities. I have held workshops to teach traditional Māori cloak weaving, from harvest to finished article, to sustain the customary processes and techniques of my ancestors. I think that art and cultural celebrations are an avenue that have the power to keep Tāmaki Makaurau a place of inclusiveness and acceptance to all its diverse communities.

ARAPETA ASHTON WILL SHARE KORERO AND ORAL HISTORIES IN PAOPAO: THE ART OF MAORI TAPA, SATURDAY 12 OCTOBER, 11AM- 2PM, AT NATHAN HOMESTEAD, MANUREWA. TICKETS $5, BOOKING IS REQUIRED, VISIT HERITAGEFESTIVAL.CO.NZ FOR DETAILS.

1. Arapeta Ashton 2. David Wong Hop's mother, Alice Ah Chee, is the baby on the left in this family photo taken in Auckland in 1911 3. David Wong Hop with Prime Minister Helen Clark at Parliament when the poll tax apology was given in 2002 4. With his wife, Lorna ADRIAN MALLOCH

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DAVID WONG HOP, Chinese oral Many strove to assimilate as best they from the Helen Clark-led Labour historian and Auckland Council could, and a great deal of their cultural government for the historical poll tax. Seniors Advisory Panel deputy chair identity and memory was lost. I learnt Some of my most rewarding work little of my Chinese background in was with the Chinese Lantern Festival, I am a fourth-generation Chinese-New my childhood and grew up speaking where I worked as the middleman Zealander. My family first journeyed English. That changed only when I between the stallholders and Auckland to Aotearoa in the 1870s, arriving from began working in one of my family’s Council. I also give heritage talks Canton (now known as Guangzhou) fruit shops after I dropped out of through the Auckland Libraries and the by way of San Francisco on a ship that school. I spent a great deal of time Auckland Heritage Festival. was originally destined for Australia. It working alongside my mother and I have travelled all around New was blown off course by harsh weather began to learn about Chinese culture Zealand and the world, and have lived in the Pacific, and after 100 days at and history through her stories. in Lynfield for 50 years. I truly believe sea, it instead arrived in Auckland. I wanted to move more towards Auckland is a city of good vibes. It By the 1920s, my great-grandfather my Chinese heritage, and I returned is cosmopolitan, multicultural and Chan Ah Chee had established himself to education by studying at the inclusive. In my time I have seen – and as the largest grower of vegetables University of Auckland, emerging with would love to continue seeing – the in Auckland – and one of the biggest a commerce degree in accounting social barriers between peoples fall. employers of Chinese migrants. and Chinese. After a career as a Most of those migrants came at a public servant, I indulged my passion JOIN DAVID WONG HOP AND LISA TRUTTMAN young age from a rural background, for history in my retirement. I am AS THEY LOOK AT SOME OF AUCKLAND’S leaving home for opportunities overseas, a founding member and president PRE-1890 STORIES IN JOURNEYS TO often with little to no education. Here of the Chinese New Zealand Oral TAMAKI MAKARAU, SUNDAY 13 OCTOBER, they faced a lot of institutionalised History Foundation and have worked 10.30AM-12.30PM, WHARE WANANGA, discrimination from the European-New extensively to record and preserve the LEVEL 2, CENTRAL CITY LIBRARY / TAMAKI Zealand community. In fact, Chinese Chinese-Kiwi experience. I worked for PATAKA KORERO. FREE EVENT, BOOKING IS migrants were specifically charged many years to secure an apology to PREFERRED, VISIT HERITAGEFESTIVAL.CO.NZ an entry (‘poll’) tax by legislation. the New Zealand-Chinese community FOR DETAILS.

WHIRINGA-Ā-NUKU OCTOBER 2019 15 20 one’s proactive reflects the family) that parents lived alife of tautua (service to My Sunday schoolsuperintendent. church roles of laypreacher, elder, and example, tookonthetraditional Samoan communities inmany roles — dad, for and servechurch our families to for education,and they joined the whirlwind romance. They were marriedin 1953 aftera Ponsonby.headed to a tram met on and islands of Samoa main ends ofthe came extremefrom opposite mum the the University of Auckland. Heand Makaurau becausehe wanted to attend be educated.My dad came to Tāmaki to Samoa to pay for hersiblings to as amachinist to sendher wages back Instead, her family senther to work Monday. a teacherthe following be a Friday expecting to start studying to came to NewZealand,she flew in on mum my Sataua, Savaii,Samoa. When Samoa, and dad, Sofi Pua, of Papa Upolu, Malaela Aleipata, of Purcell, Aotearoa begins with my mum, Vaitulu The story of the aiga(family) Puain Urban Pasifika street historian STRICKSON-PUA THE REVMUAMUA 5

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GAVIN, SUZY AND FAMILY 5. Muamua Strickson-Pua 6. The Pua Mt Albert family in the 1970s 7. Gavin and Suzy and their four children outside the house Suzy: My great-uncle arrived in New they’ve lived in for 13 years Zealand from Croatia in 1925 and went north to Kaitaia to work as a when he met my English mother in gumdigger. He wanted his four nieces London during the 1970s. They were and nephews, including my dad, married in 1975, and resided in Bristol to have a better life so he paid for for a few years before deciding that their trips out here. My grandparents Auckland was the best place to raise stayed in Croatia. Dad came over in a family. So in 1978, they returned 1968 and stayed for a year in New to Auckland, where they bought a Zealand to test it out. He went back house in New Lynn before moving the following year to get my mum, further west to enjoy the quiet life. who was eight months pregnant with My father’s been a hard-working their first child when they arrived. tradesman since he was 16; he still They went on to have five children, works and calls it being retired! My all born in Auckland and all still here. mother is the brains behind the

Our first family home was in New operation. I have an older brother and Exhibition partners Windsor and we stayed there for sister with families of their own, both about 20 years. Growing up, many living in Auckland. fond memories were made helping I’ve had the pleasure and privilege my parents out at the stall they of learning about the Croatian culture operated in Victoria Park Market. All through Suzy. Recently, we were the kids would help. I went through fortunate enough to travel to Croatia Curated by Designmuseum Danmark and Michael & Mariko Whiteway. The exhibition tour is coordinated by intermediate and college with Gavin, and England with our four young BrainTrust Inc., Tokyo. and here we are many years later with children. We stayed in the old family Verner Panton Heart Cone Chair 1958 (designed), four amazing children. house where Suzy’s father grew manufactured by Vitra, stainless steel, wool. Photograph up and the kids got to meet their © Matsubara Yutaka Gavin: My father, who was born in relatives and experience a different New Zealand and has English and way of life, back where it all began. Scottish lineage, was on his OE That was an amazing journey. Plastic Purse, 1970s. Auckland War Memorial Museum Tāmaki Paenga Hira. 1995.56.12. Fiji – the others hadalready moved the last of hissiblingsstilllivingin was and is of Chinese-Fijian descent, to Fiji, where Imetmy husband.He Townsville, Australia, and then moved I spentmy high-school years in therefrom Australia. Papua New Guinea andlaterreturned native people there. He fell in love with Kokoda andhe was taken care of by the the time. His father’s planecrashed in which was stillgoverned by Australia at and was borninPapua New Guinea, Australian of Scottish-Irish descent Islands heritage.My father was an mother is very proud of her Solomon My constabularythere. part ofthe first Islands) to Papua New Guinea; he was father moved from Malaita(Solomon and Solomon Islands Her descent. Island New Guinea butis of Torres Strait Guinea. Mymotherisalso from Papua I was borninPort Moresby, Papua New with my husbandandchildren from Fiji. I moved to Aotearoa in the early 2000s Auckland Museum Associate Curator at (Pacific) JULIANA SATCHELL-DEO Before coming to NewZealand,

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New Zealand’s largest international short film festival presents selections of the best new shorts from Aotearoa and around the world. This year’s themed programmes are Freaky Futures, My Generation, The Sampler, Doc Station, Unconventional Families, Better Work Stories, Love and Other Catastrophes, and Japanese Focus. ASB Waterfront Theatre (5 Oct), Waiheke Island Community Cinema (6 Oct), Rialto Cinemas Newmarket

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UXBRIDGE SCHOOL ALADDIN HOLIDAY PROGRAMME 2-5 OCT, WED & THU 4-11 OCT, WEEKDAYS 10AM & 1PM, FRI 11AM From $49 & 7.30PM, SAT 2PM & 6PM Adult $20, child/ Workshops and classes student/senior $15 in pottery, painting, photography and Junior members of puppetry. Uxbridge Arts Hawkins Youth Theatre & Culture, Howick Company bring this classic tale to life. Hawkins Theatre, Papakura SCHOOL HOLIDAYS IN NAVIGATING THE SEAS BY THE CAMPFIRE THE SQUARE 7-11 OCT, 30 SEP - 11 OCT, 10AM- 30 SEP - 11 OCT, MON- MON-WED 10AM-2PM, 2PM DAILY $5 FRI 10AM, 1PM & 2PM THU & FRI 10AM-6PM Adult/senior $10, child $12 FREE Drop in to explore the gallery trail and make Hands-on activities and a Pukekohe Business an albatross puppet and 360-degree planetarium Association and Franklin star chart. New Zealand show. Stardome Local Board present Maritime Museum, Viaduct Observatory & Planetarium, free entertainment and Harbour One Tree Hill Domain activities. Pukekohe Town Square

HOLIDAY ART CLASSES AT ESTUARY ARTS CENTRE AUCKLAND COUNCIL 30 SEP - 11 OCT, POOLS & LEISURE MON-FRI From $25 HOLIDAY FUN Spring school 30 SEP - 11 OCT, Half- and full-day classes MON-FRI 8AM-5PM with slime, sculpture, Prices vary drawing, painting and more. Estuary Arts Centre, Ōrewa This holiday programme holidays has sports days, games, trips and more. Region wide

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