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Kookaburra As a Means of Communication and As an Outlet for News and Articles Written by Interested Persons” Kawau Island Residents & Ratepayers Association Rule 3(G) 635,1* .22.$%855$ 0DJD]LQHRI.DZDX,VODQG1HZ=HDODQG .DZDX,VODQG.RRNDEXUUD “To publish the Kawau Island Kookaburra as a means of communication and as an outlet for news and articles written by interested persons” Kawau Island Residents & Ratepayers Association Rule 3(g) &RUUHVSRQGHQFHDQGFRQWULEXWLRQVWR [email protected] $GYHUWLVLQJPDQDJHGE\ -XGH:[email protected] .,55$PHPEHUVKLSLVLQYLWHG &[email protected] 0HPEHUVKLSLQFOXGHVIRXULVVXHVRI.RRNDEXUUDHDFK\HDU &KHFNRXWRXU.DZDX,VODQGZHEVLWHZZZNDZDXLVODQGRUJ .,55$(;(&87,9(&200,77(( &KDLUPDQ/HV0HOODUV 6HFUHWDU\1LNNL3RUWHRXV 7UHDVXUHU,DQ+HQGHUVRQ *DHO$UFKHU &ROLQ%ULJKW 3HWHU%XFNWRQ 3DP'DOORZ 6KHOOH\)XWFKHU $QGUHZ)\IH $ODQ0DUVKDOO /LQ3DUGH\ 3DXO 7D] 6WUDXVV 0DQG\:HDYHU VHFRQGHG &DUO:HDYHU VHFRQGHG .22.$%855$6SULQJ &RQWHQWV &RPPHQW Cover Photos: Jude Hynes, Jude Wood Michael Marris Comment 3 Mansion House Holiday 32 Spring is a season of reawakening and reju- Europe and so the KI Boating Club will burst venation. I have been enjoying an increasing into life again. Leanne Graham has stunningly Michael Marris Jenny Spring sense that our precious Kawau community is transformed Kawau Lodge. Maree Pickett, as Letter To KIRRA 4 FENZ (Kawau) 34 coming into its own spring. Our Island is out- always, is the consummate café manager both Grant Whitehouse Chris Carding rageously precious to all of us. We monitor its at Sandspit and soon, again, at Mansion House Vivian Bay News 5 Bon Accord Bar & Bistro 36 every little social tremor and seek to take its Bay. We are indeed fortunate. pulse regularly. Fay Richardson Robyn & Davo Lee With this new influx of property owners comes Pembles Bay News 6 Real Estate News 43 There have been some few years of quietness. new ideas, new enthusiasm and the opportu- Andrew Fyfe Ross Sutherland Our permanent population decreased signifi- nity to move ourselves into a different era of community life. Kookaburra has a magnifi- North Cove News 8 Poem: The Tree At Pahi 44 cantly. Properties remained on the market for long periods and were sometimes sold at dis- cently enthusiastic new advertising manager, Ross West Peter Newson count rates. Engaging community members to Jude Wood, and Sally Ostrick has put her hand South Cove News 10 Ruth and Ian Henderson 46 actively participate in community matters has up to take over Ian Henderson’s job as Treas- Andrew Stone In Their Own Words sometimes been dispiriting. As well, exempli- urer of KIRRA. How encouraging is this! An- drew Fyfe has taken control of resuscitating The Beach House 13 Anne Moses 1929 - 2018 48 fied in this issue, our community members in- evitably move on, albeit in different ways. Music in the Gardens. Luke and Karina Shelley Futcher As a community we are superbly self-con- Camp Bentzon Report 14 Ngaire Schumacher 1927-2018 50 There is a sense abroad now of a new awak- tained in so many ways. This has come from Peter & Erin Hyde Simon Cometti ening. Houses are selling, it would seem at a careful, Island-focused persistence over an easier pace than before, and reading Ross Kawau Lodge 17 Val Wicht 1930 – 2018 51 many years, and a commitment to our own Sutherland’s commentary in this issue is heart- self-determination – so far as possible. This Leanne Graham Laurence McLeod ening. Kawhiti Point with its eight magnificent is a philosophy now ready to be injected into An Orange Tree and History 18 Gardening Matters 54 sections facing out to Little Barrier is again be- new generations. There is always much to be Michael Sprague Jane Myhre ing marketed. The ferry and the water taxis are done. But it is wonderful: there are new people carrying new faces – younger faces and many Afloat Around Kawau 20 Fire Team 58 becoming engaged and they bring a new spirit with young families. Plus pets! This is the re- of adventure. Our Island will always be a chal- Lin Pardey Gavin Brunton generation our Island community has been lenging environment. It will only ever attract Team Spirit 22 LegaSea 62 looking for. people willing to meet this. Jude Wood Scott Macindoe The Beach House, Bon Accord Bar & Bistro, Our Kawau Island community has many Kawau Coastguard 24 Park News 67 Kawau Lodge and Mansion House Café have unique characteristics. Our dedication and our Luke McCarthy Lesley Bradley-Vine all undergone extensive overhauls and each commitment to managing both our own envi- A Winter’s Day 26 The Island of Kawau 68 now boasts a management regime and wel- ronment and our own way of social develop- Kawau Girl H. Hector Bolitho coming hospitality culture that would match ment are at the forefront of any Kawau Island any to be found on the mainland. These are im- vision. We are protective; we are passionate; Poem: Write Me A Happy... 29 Council Jargon Speak 70 portant social gathering points for the Kawau we are highly focused; we are committed to Lois E Hunter An Editor’s Comment community (as well as visitors, tourists and working cooperatively; we try so far as possi- Pohutukawa Trust 30 KIRRA Executive Minutes 72 boaties). This is the first week of spring and ble to keep the mainland and in particular the Carl Weaver, Chairman Classified Advertising 76 the seaplane is flying past on its way to Vivian mainland bureaucracy at bay. Therein lies our Bay. Robyn and Davo are about to return from future. .22.$%855$6SULQJ .22.$%855$6SULQJ /HWWHU7R.,55$ 9LYLDQ%D\1HZV Grant Whitehouse Fay Richardson Hi Team KIRRA The dolphins are back, I’ve been watching and waiting for them. The directors, committee and shareholders of North Harbour Starboard Wharf Limited Spring is here on Kawau. would like to formally thank KIRRA for your support through our recent issues with Auck- What an early season for the vege garden, po- land Council. Michael attending our Council tatoes well on their way, peas flowering, and meeting and his sage advice before and after the glass house got so hot, I had to plant out the meeting has been invaluable. At this stage the courgettes and cucumbers. It will be inter- our issues are on hold as Council awaits “legal esting to see how they grow outside. advice” but we have fingers crossed that this means they have made a tactical retreat until The new strawberry patch is looking good we reapply for our consent in a couple of years. with a cover made out of recycled timber from Again, thanks for your help and it is reassuring the neighbours, thanks to Dave’s effort, now I to know that this valuable Brains Trust is here know it is safe from the wekas. to help our group of 26 ratepayers, along with everyone on Kawau. July and August so far have been drier than usual, I will be pleased to see our house tank As a small token of our thanks we would like fill up again after it was emptied, levelled out to make a $100 donation to KIRRA. We will and cleaned. We are all talking about the up- make the transfer in the next day or so. coming summer and how much water we have stored. Many thanks Grant Whitehouse, Chairperson, NHSW Ltd. Wallabies are down eating all the lawns along the Bay, something I have never seen before. There is so much fresh growth that it must be enticing them down. The huge log that floating into the Bay has been • Marine construction chain sawed and chopped up into firewood by Trevor, Luke and Dave: always a community • Wharfs/Jettys/Pontoons/Gangways effort makes a big job easier. • New builds/Repairs/Refurbishment • Seawalls Winter has passed quickly with lots of little • Boat Ramps/Boatlifters/Boat Sheds gatherings of the remaining few locals at my • Consents/Engineering & Design house, the fire is always on and the drinks available flowing. Now I have my thoughts on the coming sum- mer filled with visitors, boaties, KBC and swimming. .22.$%855$6SULQJ .22.$%855$6SULQJ 3HPEOHV%D\1HZV Andrew Fyfe Hello Goodbye Winter is usually a dormant season, but this year, winter was a season of change. Our late father’s partner Judith – a key part of Kawau for over forty years – said her final farewells to her soul mate and their spiritual home, as she sprinkled the last of Bob’s ashes in Pem- bles Bay. Honouring his wishes, his remains gently floated to the seabed - forever a part of and Niamh (and their Sealegs) are a great addi- Cove side) arrived and departed by water. the view he surveyed since 1972. The 29th of tion to Kawau. Spiritually, they’ve always been Nikki Porteous arrived. With Leanne? I’m not June was a year to the day of Dad’s Mission Bay a part of Pembles Bay. Now they pay rates. sure - it was one of those particularly creative funeral. The weather, a mirror image. Another and free-spirited afternoons which reminded perfectly still, cloudless winter’s day. People make Kawau and any departure is al- me of my years in advertising. The tone was ways sad. When I’m here on my own I need set when Leanne produced a chilled bottle of Judith toasted his memory with champagne, jobs to give me purpose. The repair of Dad’s Perrier-Jouet champagne. Next year’s “Music supported by her close friend Gabrielle. The golf cart has been a recent challenge. One, in the Gardens” will be very special if our ini- occasion crowned by the inevitable Michael which would have been beyond me without tial meeting is anything to go by! Marris speech. Dad’s last, but certainly not the assistance of a car mechanic friend of ours! mine.
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