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A Surprise Visitor to Opunake Beach Among Recent Visitors to This Time of Year Vol. 27 No 17, September 13, 2018 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 Commemorating a forgotten leader Page 3. Top apprentice. Page 5 A young Leopard seal made its way to Opunake Beach last week and left as unobtrusively as it came in. A surprise visitor to Opunake Beach Among recent visitors to this time of year. Unless the of some seals hanging with their mums for about a on a leash. Please don’t feed Opunake Beach was a young animal was injured it was around for much longer. month before heading off on them. leopard seal which was not their policy to intervene, “Leopard seals primarily their own.” The seal had gone back to found there on Wednesday she was told. inhabit the Antarctic He expressed a note of sea by nightfall. morning last week. Sue says the seal may have icepack but some animals, caution for anybody coming been weaned from its mother particularly the younger near one of these animals. A population estimate in Opunake Beach Camp and come ashore to take a ones, tend to disperse “Leopard seals are 1977 put the total number New police offi cer a lessee Shelley Harkness said rest from swimming. through the southern ocean predators with large teeth. at 222,000-440,000 familiar face page 7. she came across the seal at in autumn and winter. They may be aggressive and worldwide. about 7.30am while doing DOC senior ranger Callum Sometimes they visit the they will defend themselves It is unknown how many her rounds.` Lilley said leopard seals Sub Antarctic Islands and if they feel threatened. individuals visit or inhabit “I would call it an infant as occasionally visit Taranaki southern parts of New New Zealand waters. opposed to a baby,” she said. and a young leopard seal Zealand, but we also appear They can seriously This was the fi rst time was seen at Ohawe Beach to be seeing them more injure dogs or people. We Leopard seals are protected she had seen a leopard seal last month. frequently around most of recommend people staying under the Wildlife Act 1953 come on to the beach so she New Zealand. “ at least 20 metres away and and the Marine Mammals contacted DOC who told “They often hang around “This is likely a juvenile, keeping dogs under control Protection Act 1978. her it was a natural thing for a few days to a couple of they are a metre long or 30kg for seals to come ashore weeks but there are reports when fi rst born. They stay Lamb’s Opunake enters the Fry electric age page 10, $10.99 kg Beef Tripe $10.99 kg Instore Wednesday 19th September At your Local Supermarket 77 TASMAN ST The wisdom of Dr OPUNAKE Libby page 28. 06 761 8668 Open 7am to 9pm EVERYDAY! See us online at www.opunakecoastalnews.co.nz FOR ADVERTISING OR EDITORIAL PLEASE PHONE/FAX (06) 761-7016 2 NEWS AND VIEWS Thursday, September 13, 2018 OPUNAKE & COASTAL NEWS Send your your views to: “Let’s create your business growth Letters to the Editor strategy together” 23 Napier Street, Opunake. LLettersetters ttoo tthehe Your only local community accounting firm Fax: (06) 761 7016 email: [email protected] EEditorditor You are welcome to use a pseudonym but must supply your name and address to us. EDITORIAL Accounting for the future, today Crayfi sh wars Absolute rubbish Hawera - Opunake - 06 278 4169 Kia ora. areas.” What do you mean? “Because of the gale force of the trash which fi lled my OPUNAKE OFFICE As somebody who has Marine Reserves? Surely winds swirling and causing bin, but I was altogether too OPEN EVERY WEDNESDAY FROM 10am TO 3.30pm recreationally fi shed/ dived if you feel they are doing havoc in our cul-de-sac, for slow. my whole life I tend to something illegal you will the last couple of weeks Plastic bottles, bubble support any movement that is talk to a fi shery offi cer? In I’ve elected not to put my wrap, real estate pamphlets pro sustainability of a fi shery fact the tracking system is roadside bins out for the and tins danced over the or area, but I have to say the also used as a safety feature rubbish collection. fence, fl ew down the article “Crayfish Wars?” and by turning it off they Not so for other embankment to fi nally hit HARDINGS made me a little embarrassed are compromising their own households, which saw the river, which tracks its FUNERAL SERVICES LTD to be lumped in the same safety while at sea. Then 17 REGENT ST HAWERA their bins topple, spill and way to the ocean. category as the author. This you, the author of the article spread. But hey, it’s all good. It Our professional attention to detail article was so glaringly say, “The Arrow claims to The mass mess, driven will eventually end up on biased it had no credibility. have had some floats cut & empathy is our hallmark by a sou’eastly, tumbled some beach further down or You state that the CRA9 area off. Neither of our clubs towards the end of the cul- up the coast depending on extends from Bruce Bay to encourage this practice de-sac, swept down my the tides...” Kaipara and that you want the but...” As soon as you use drive and became tangled PHONE 06 278 8633 commercial fi shers to spread that word “but,” everything SERVING OUR COMMUNITIES FOR 3 GENERATIONS around plants, trees and Not Bothered? their take and not hammer you said before it becomes fences. Heather Jensen “our coast.” What is the total invalid. This ultimately I captured a fair amount Opunake number of cray boats that smacks of a NIMBY fi sh in CRA9? And what is witch hunt. Please provide the percentage of those that actual facts and figures A great bus service actually fi sh in Taranaki? 1 instead of assumptions Pickering Motors is a name part time or full time all percent? 70 percent? We have and suggestions that are that’s been synonymous do an extremely great nowhere the same amount of designed to make the public with Opunake for 80 years job as they endure some pressure here in Taranaki as suspicious. You will have and rightly so.. extremely stupid motorists, CRA2 and it appears you are a much more legitimate As one of the many people as some don’t know their simply scaremongering by argument by doing so. who use the connector bus right hands from their left suggesting as much. I have Embarrassed associate. service every so often, they hands while sometimes followed the interactions The story in last week’s deserve their new buses. If forgetting to indicate, plus about this boat on Facebook issue had been supplied it wasn’t for this wonderful all those huge trucks, with and the threats and name- by the Opunake Boat bus service I wouldn’t be logs, milk tankers etc., even calling coming from us toward and Underwater Club. able to visit my auntie at the road works, yet they all still the fisher are mortifying. Unfortunately in the Annie Brydon Rest Home. carry on doing their jobs as You display the tracks of paste up process the last I must really thank this per usual. the boat and suggest that paragraph which included brilliant and wonderful bus So to our Taranaki because they have now turned the attribution to the club service. Regional Council, please this off they will no doubt was left off. We apologise There are many people don’t take this excellent be delving into “sensitive for the error. who don’t have any transport bus service off the road, as themselves, so they have it does a wonderful service Pity about the Iceberg caught this bus service to between Opunake and new Dearest Opunake. I was disappointed to see visit towns like Inglewood, Plymouth, plus one meets Thanks again for the you are still plagued by that Stratford, Eltham and some wonderful people on great weekend visit. The hideous iceberg. I hope it Hawera then return to New this wonderful bus service. mountain looked beautiful, thaws before my next visit. Plymouth on the same day the Anderson’s pies were Yours truly, and vice versa. Tom Stephens hot and the new gallery is A friend and regular Their bus drivers, whether New Plymouth fantastic. visitor Supporting James Langton More Opunake & Coastal News’ out Wow. What is it going to Do they pick and choose New Plymouth Papers are also available at take for the Opunake Sports who they have on their The Challenge Spotswood The Sunshine Dairy, and Recreation Trust to honours board? Both James petrol station at Spotswood. Hawera realise that James Langton and his wife have done a lot The Health Shop on the deserves to have his photo of good work for and within ground fl oor at Centre City. Inglewood Book Centre, 31 on the Honours Board the Opunake town and area. Westside Grille,Tukapa Rata Street alongside the rest of these I am supporting James Street, Westown. sports people. seeking legal advice, which Registered office: 23 Napier Street, PO Box 74, Opunake The Normanby Dairy It seems the board had I believe should go to a Phone: Office (06) 761-7016, A/h (06) 761-8206 Waitara Swetes Dairy, Manaia offered a space in their lower court hearing over this Outside the North Taranaki sporting cabinet, which to For advertising, email: [email protected] issue.
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