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The official magazine of the Mairangi Bay Business Association www.mairangibayvillage.co.nz Message from the Business Association To submit a news item please contact: Community News: commencing Sunday, 7th March, from Terry Holt • Phone: 021 042 8232 4:00pm to 6:00pm, and then on Sunday Email: [email protected] 14, 21 and 28 March. Further details can Village News Magazine be found on the Mairangi Bay Face book Editorial & Advertising enquiries: Terry Holt • Phone: 021 042 8232 page, website and later in this issue. Email: [email protected] There will be live music, kids Paul Hailes • Phone: 021 217 3628 entertainment ,face painting and a Email: [email protected] sausage sizzle. Bring a picnic or grab Gary Covich • Design and Production a takeaway from the many eateries in Jane Warwick • Contributing writer Here we are already into our second Mairangi Bay and have some fun at Additional photos by Unsplash.com issue for the year and just when we the beach. These community events Mairangi Bay Business thought we were on a good roll with are proudly supported by the Business Association Coordinator: COVID disruptions –another glitch that Association and the Hibiscus and Joanne Martin • has further tested the fortitude of all our Bays local Board. Email: [email protected] business owner’s here in the Village. I am We are again excited to be Mairangi Bay Village Website: Terry Holt • in awe of how resilient all of our business able to bring our magazine Email: [email protected] are by simply getting on with doing their to more readers. This will be Mairangi Bay Business very best at a time when “curved balls the 2nd edition with 10000 Association Chair: “ are a daily event. Top marks to those copies and also can be read Chris Harrop • Phone: 021 464 548 who had to make changes to ensure online if you missed picking up continued service. a copy .If you wish to get your Cover photo: Charlotte Handley and Greta Hutton. Once again on behalf of all the copy online contact editor@ Photo by Bao Dingqiang, club photographer businesses, we all send our sincere mairangivillage.co.nz thanks to you –the very people who make We urge everyone to maintain a difference by continuing to shop and their vigilance with the COVID Coming Events supporting local where you can-your requirements and keep scanning Americas Cup 6-15 March support is much appreciated. the QR code to help keep us all safe too. Summer soundwaves With the recent short-term level 7, 14, 21 and 28 March changes, our four “Summer Sound Chris Harrop Moments of Mairangi Bay Waves” beach events have had to Chair until 31 March be pushed forward with new dates For the Mairangi Bay Business Association Easter 2-5 April

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Q1. What is the world’s northern most city? Q2. What is the hard tag at the end of a shoelace called? Q3. What substance is fermented to make alcohol? Q4. Which South African It’s that time again! Time to enter passing parade of villagers. cricketer was banned for life in 2000 for match the annual Moments of Mairangi If your friends are envious of your Mairangi Bay workspace, you might let fixing? Bay photo competition to find them know they can rent some space of Q5. How many ‘pips’ are there the best image to describe how their own upstairs on the corner of Beach on the Greenwich Time great the village and surrounds and Hastings Roads. Excellent spot and, Signal (National RNZ on the hour)? are. You could start your quest to of course, we all know why…beach, great shops, great cafes and eateries…how any Q6. What is the largest island find the perfect entry during the of us get any actual work done with all in the Mediterranean Summer Sound Wave, now on these distractions is a mystery! Sea? the new dates of the 7th, 14th, One thing that Mairangi Bay doesn’t Q7. What is the French word 21st and 28th March. have any more is an ATM machine. The for duck? nearest one is now Constellation Drive or Q8. Who did pop singer Debbie Otherwise, there are myriad Windsor Park. Let’s hope one does return Rowe marry? opportunities for a great photograph as to the village. we all know. Flick to page seven to see And, finally, Team New Zealand Q9. Sand consists of silicon and how to enter the competition. will take on Luna Rossa to retain the what other element? While you’re wandering around looking America’s Cup 6-15 March. Best wishes Q10. What is the name given to for inspiration you might note that the to Team NZ in their quest to retain the a cow that has not had Furry Friend’s Mini Cat Café now faces Auld Mug. a calf? the street. It was, to begin with, at the Don’t forget Easter – 2-5 April – and OUR SERVICES back of the store but now you can check out the directory for events and Answers on page 23 enjoy both the company of cats and the Church services. • Property - Sale / Purchase / Refinance • Wills & Family Trusts • Separation & Relationship Property • Deceased Estates • Enduring Powers of Attorney

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Where should we plant trees? Advocating for a recycling centre on We want your suggestions on some the North Shore good locations for planting trees in We’ve been working with public spaces. The Hibiscus and Bays neighbouring Local Boards like Upper Local Board will be planting at least 120 Harbour and advocating for a central trees each year to improve the overall North Shore community recycling tree canopy cover we have and to centre (CRC). There are 9, soon to be combat the loss from private properties 12, CRCs across Auckland. For us, the and developments. closest is a half-hour drive away, in Presenting to Auckland Council’s Environment The emphasis will be to plant difficult locations like Devonport. and Climate Change Committee appropriate species of specimen Auckland Council has updated their trees in parks with playgrounds and strategy for the Resource Recovery We’ll continue to keep the pressure local streets that could provide green Network which we gave extensive on so that our community has good corridor connections between parks. feedback on. The plan is to expand to access to facilities that will contribute to 23 facilities by 2031. reduce waste entering landfills. If you have location suggestions: Recently, we presented to the Mayor • Use this easy to use form to pinpoint and Councillors at the Environment Free events coming up the exact area (it refers to reporting and Climate Change Committee. We Yoga with Dani Raemaekers a problem, but this is how the team advocated that a large facility on the Mairangi Bay Reserve. Every Tuesday in want to receive the information): North Shore can achieve a significant March, 6:00-7:00pm www.aucklandcouncil.govt.nz/report- reduction of waste to landfill and would Summer Sound Waves problem/ recover high-value materials too. We Mairangi Bay Surf Life Saving Club: Live • In the comments section please type: also have established community music, kids entertainment & sausage sizzle. ‘this is a suggested location for tree organisations willing to run it, location Bring your own picnic or grab a takeaway planting under the Urban Ngahere options, and eager residents who would from one of the many eateries in Mairangi Action Plan’. make the most of a facility like this. Bay. Every Sunday in March, 4:00-6:00pm.

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Autumn is now here, with the TREES & SHRUBS harvest season in full swing! Camellias Don’t forget to continue to water These easy-to-grow evergreen shrubs and feed your veggie patch to produce an abundance of gorgeous encourage the growth of your last flowers. Early varieties bloom from summer edibles. Remember to autumn through to winter. plan ahead and make sure your Plan planting out shrubs and hedging late fruiting. Keep on top of weeds so early spring bulbs and winter in your garden, as this is the perfect they don’t become a problem later. veggie garden are planted by the end of the month. time to re-landscape your property. Fruit Trees Look at adding natives such as Corokia, Harvest all your pip and stone fruit. If Plant now Hebes and Griselinias, as well as classic you have too much, either use them hedging like Buxus, olive and laurel. in sauces and jams for later use, or VEGETABLES give to a food collection station in This is the month to start thinking FLOWERS & PERENNIALS your community. Give your plants a about your new winter veggie Instant Colour light prune after fruiting. garden. Start staggering crops by Flowers such as marigolds, gazanias, Lawns planting out seedlings at different and petunias will last well into autumn. Sprinkle your lawn with SaturAid times to have a continued harvest. As it cools, start to plant winter to retain moisture and water with Direct sow carrot and parsnip seeds. flowering annuals such as pansy, collected rainwater or greywater. Plant seedlings of cabbage, kale, calendula, and polyanthus. Harvest beetroot, broccoli, lettuce, coriander PERENNIALS Get the fridge and freezer ready and parsley. Colourful garden Mum as you will be harvesting beans, Chrysanthemums are now in stores! FRUIT pumpkin, kumara, potatoes, They come in an array of colours and Autumn is natures planting time for capsicum, chilies, courgettes, look stunning indoors and out. trees and shrubs. Plant out citrus, passionfruit, grapes, watermelon, Cyclamen, flowering from autumn right guavas, avocado and feijoas. For best plums, peaches, nectarines, Nashi through winter, are the perfect way to results, plant two different feijoa (or pears, eggplants, sweetcorn, apples darken up those shadier spots. avocados if you are planting these and squash. instead) varieties to ensure good TEND pollination. Plant an earlier season Vegetables To find out more about these tasks and more great gardening advice, come and a later season variety to extend Harvest your summer veggies, including instore or call us on 0800 PLANTS to talk your harvest. tomatoes and courgettes, to encourage to one of our friendly staff members.

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Friendship Club MOBILE LIBRARY of East Coast Bays DR JOHN REYNOLDS Every Thursday, 09:30 to 10:30, We welcome potential new Corner Hasting and Beach Roads, members to join us at Mairangi Bay TEA & TOPICS TALK Mairangi Bay Presbyterian Church Hall, Penzance The Legend of Road, on the 1st Wednesday of the Eileen Chang: her life, month from 10:00am to 12:00 Noon. Enjoy morning tea, good speakers literary career and and other small group activities from influence. our 100 plus membership.

Eileen Chang (1920-95) gained literary fame in Contact: Cheryl Brant, Membership Secretary, Japanese-occupied Shanghai between 1943 and 1945. In 2006 the New York Review of Books Phone 09 479 4853 or Michael Smart, President, published Love in a Fallen City, a collection of her short stories. In 2007, Lust, Caution, a film 09 476 7452 adaptation of Chang’s 1977 short story directed by Ang Lee was released, bringing the author to a global audience. MAIRANGI COMBINED PROBUS

Our speaker will be Dr Yu-Wen Chih Meet the 4th Tuesday of the (Asian Studies, University of Auckland), an month 10am to 12 noon independent researcher & the Chairperson of MURRAYS BAY Presbyterian Church Hall10 Penzance Rd Mairangi Bay. We are a social club for retirees the Chinese Pen Club in Auckland. This free talk SAILING CLUB to enjoy monthly meetings, morning tea and will be delivered in English. Everybody welcome. Beach Road, Murrays Bay guest speakers. We have a monthly café coffee When: Wednesday 17 March 2021 https://murraysbay.org morning in Mairangi Bay. Outings to gardens, 10:00am – 11:30am Phone: 0274321321 museums and places of interest within the Where: East Coast Bays Library [email protected] near locale. Fortnightly Ten Pin bowls are social and always fun to have friendly banter. We welcome new members to join the fun and friendship of our Club.

MAIRANGI BAY Contact: President David 476 7445 [email protected] TENNIS CLUB Secretary Raewyn 479 7432 Ramsgate Terrace, Mairangi Bay [email protected] Phone: 09 479 4329 Mike Membership 410 8544 www.mairangibaytennisclub.co.nz [email protected]

The North Shore Photographic HEARTBEATS HIBISCUS Society COAST: MAIRANGI BAY First Tuesday of every month from 10:00am BOWLING CLUB ... Meets on the second and fourth at Community House, Wednesday of each month at the 214 Hibiscus Coast Hwy, Orewa East Coast Bays Bridge Club, 11-13 Ramsgate Terrace, Heartbeats Takapuna: First Thursday of every Lyons Ave, Murrays Bay. Mairangi Bay month from 10:00am, Mary Thomas Centre, 3 Phone 09 478 6033 The North Shore National Salon of Gibbons Rd, Takapuna (behind the Library) Photography opens for entries on http://bowlsclub.org/club/7131/ the 1st June. Contact: Trent Lash (Convenor): Mobile: 022 06 06 199 Diane Costello Email: [email protected] Phone: 022 088 7928 www.facebook.com/groups/476099493155288/ www.northshorephoto.co.nz

Easter is nearly here! We already have some gorgeous Easter books in stock and we will have a fabulous range of Easter cards too! There are some great activity and sticker books to 360 Beach Road, Mairangi Bay keep the kids happy Ph 478 5328, [email protected] Mairangi Bay illage JOHN F. KENNEDY MEMORIAL PARK: V MILITARY TUNNEL TOURS relax • revive • retail Guided tours are every second Sunday of the month 11:00am – 2:00 pm. Miliary historian volunteers explain the background We are a vibrant, mainlyPETANQUE retired mixed group of Petanque the features with pictorial displays discussing guns and defensive camouflage still in use today. players and offer free coaching and can supply free balls to new players. Our group meet and practice from 1:00pm Bring a torch, however, the guides all have good torches to keep everyone safe! - 3:00 Tuesdays and Thursdays and 10:00am – 1:00pm on Sundays. You can play the sport at any level in our club In wet weather, especially during winter, gumboots are from local, regional, national and international levels. advisable. No dogs allowed in the tunnels, but we can look after them while you go through. John F.Kennedy Memorial Park - Castor Bay

A moderate level of fitness is required and a gold coin donation Contact: Roger Brown – would be appreciated to go towards the ongoing upkeep. 022 353 7606 or 09 479 5185 [email protected] Private group tours are also available, please enquire. Contact: John Crews – Chairman – 09 410 2653 [email protected] or Chris Owen - 09 479 5290 [email protected]

EAST COAST BAYS Pupuke BRIDGE CLUB SURF LIFESAVING CLUB Friendship Club Exercise your mind, meet new friends, Sidmouth Street, Mairangi Bay learn bridge: sign up for lessons in 2021. We invite new members to come along Phone: 09 479 4717 to Pupuke Golf Club, East Coast Rd, Contact Helene: 027 296 3365 www.mairangibayslsc.org.nz Mairangi bay from 10:00am until 12:00 [email protected] noon on the first Monday of most months of the year. Our committee arranges activities, Mairangi Bay interesting speaker lunches and day Presbyterian Church trips out. We would welcome male singles and married couples. BORN AGAIN BODIES - If you are interested, please contact (Exercises for the Elderly). Ngaire Muller: 09 478 5515 When: 1:00pm each Wednesday. email [email protected] Who: all are welcome.

Torbay Plunket & Contact: Gary Syme (09 479 2212) Auckland Mama Market CONVERSATIONS IN ENGLISH Beach When: 1:00 – 2:30pm each Wednesday. Who: All welcome. Volleyball Contacts: Grace Liu (021 048 7978) or Harbour Volleyball Stewart Milne (027 293 8499) THE BEST PLACE TO BUY AND SELL NEW AND Ramsgate Terrace, Mairangi Bay SECONDHAND BABY AND KIDS' STUFF – all welcome. www.harbourvolleyball.co.nz EASTER SERVICES Raising funds for Palm Sunday: March 28 @ 10:00am. Maunday: Thursday 1 April @ 7:00pm. Good Friday: 2 April @ 10:00am. EAESATS TCCOOAAST BAYYSS L LEEISISUURRE EC ECNETNRTERE 12 Bute Rd, Browns Bay 12 Bute Road, Browns Bay Easter Sunday 4 April @ 10:00am. Milford Rotary & Next Rotary 11 Hastings Road Generation North Shore [NRG] (Vehicle Access 8-10 Penzance Road) – Information Evening ENTRY BY GOLD COIN DONATION Clive Menkin [email protected] 09 478 6180 [email protected] Milford Rotary – Membership Chair 2020/21 torbayplunketnearlynewsale Phone: 021 530 962

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If you should need convincing to make friends and stay connected Auckland, plus a carpet green, allowing with your community. play throughout the year. Skills coaching that not only is lawn bowls One of the most common is open to all members, and to visitors good for you in regard to deteriorations of getting older, is the for a small fee of five dollars. exercise and friendship, but loss of muscle mass and a weakness of So, really, what are you waiting for? joints, particularly fingers and wrists. also provides a number of If we want to retain our independence health benefits, you need only in our later years, we need to be fit look at John Miles who plays enough to climb stairs, get ourselves off the floor should we trip and cook and every week and is still winning care for ourselves with nimble fingers. titles… at 95 years old! Playing bowls regularly can address all these probable ailments and, best of all, John is the perfect example of the it doesn’t feel like exercise. It feels like health benefits – mental and physical having fun with friends. – of the game, the virtues of which There are lots of fun tournaments have been studied and published by throughout the year including the, universities and medical associations sometimes hilarious, Saturday Haggle, worldwide. with some great music and company. These virtues are many but the main The club has a large modern kitchen, points are improved fitness, improved large screen TV and a comfortable Bar John Cary coordination and skill development, Lounge area. Mairangi Bay Bowling Club increased confidence and self-esteem The club has been in action since 1948 Ph: 09 478 6033. 11-13 Ramsgate and enhanced mental wellbeing. And and it boasts two of the best maniatoto Terrace, Mairangi Bay most of all, playing bowls is a great way (single species turf cover) greens in www.mairangibowls.org.nz Book Review

“The Second Son“ by Loraine Peck When Ivan Novak is shot dead putting out his Believing he can keep both his father rubbish bins in Sydney’s western suburbs, his and Amy safe Johnny plans the heist family wants revenge, especially his father of a lifetime and takes a huge risk. Milan, a notorious crime boss. It’s a job for the But will it pay off? second son, Johnny. This is a tense and fast -paced debut Johnny is loyal to the family “business “ but he novel with really well developed and loves his wife Amy and their son Sasha; and complex characters. Amy is about to deliver her ultimatum: either Highly recommended and the three of them escape this wave of killing available now from Malcolm’s and retribution or she will leave, taking Sasha. Takenote Mairangi Bay

18 Mairangi Bay Village News HEALTHY HOMES, ARE YOU READY?

Now that the raft of new unexpected based the unknown. We have a new “normal” and we don’t laws regarding residential know what it is. tenancies are in effect, it So the critical date for Healthy is time for landlords to be Homes compliance is 1st July this year, getting on with the Healthy just over three months away. From that Homes commitments. date landlords will have only 90 days from any new or renewed tenancy in Sadly however, many landlords are which to fully comply. And we would MIke Pinkney taking the view that there is no urgency emphasise that this government because tenants are either on fixed is extremely unlikely to give any terms (tenants can break them) or have concessions to landlords who do not currently comply leaving almost half been in place for many years and are do so. The deadlines have been known a million homes to be brought up unlikely to leave. for long enough. to standard, many over the next 12 This could not be more wrong. The problems will be timing and months or so. Even in “normal” times people’s supply. If a tenant gives notice that Our recommendation is to at least circumstances change unexpectedly. they are leaving say in November, the plan and schedule the compliance With the on-going impact of the Covid 90 days will include the holiday period process now but – do something. pandemic and lockdowns we still when it is harder to get tradespeople. expect many business and personal Also, with over 600,000 homes affected For more information go to circumstances to change in as yet we foresee shortages of materials www.tenancy.govt.nz or call a professional property manager. unimagined ways. This is not a time and tradespeople and therefore price Mike Pinkney 021-78-3030 to expect more of the same based increases. Based on our observations [email protected] on recent years but more of the we believe that only around 20% Beach Road, Mairangi Bay

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Mairangi Bay Village News 19 MURRAYS BAY WIN AGAIN!

Commodore Cam Dunn, Grace Still (Glendowie), Nicola Hume (Murrays Bay), Kayla Abbott (Murrays Bay)

On Auckland Anniversary weekend the Murrays Commodore Cam Dunn, Lorenzo Bay Sailing Club held the Sirena (Italy), Joe Leith (Murrays Bay) Cassidy Construction

& HPCA Chartered Joe Leith, won the open division of the Accountants Optimist Optimist class in the competitive 72 boat Results: fleet made up of sailors from around NZ. and Starling Auckland Optimist Open Fleet Second place was son of America’s Cup Championships. 1st Joe Leith Murrays Bay SC challenger Luna Rosa, CEO Max Sirena, 2nd Lorenzo Sirena Royal Akarana YC Lorenzo, all the way from Italy and third 3rd Will Leech Charteris Bay YC The event attracted 166 sailors place was Christchurch sailor Will Leech. 1st Girl – Tessa Clinton Wakatere BC from all over the country from as far First girl was Tessa Clinton from Devonport. Optimist White Fleet afield as Charteris Bay Yacht Club in In the Starling class open division with 1st Zara Scott Murrays Bay SC Christchurch. 46 sailors, Thom Pilkington won from 2nd Tom Shannon Wakatere BC The weather played its part Wakatere, Winston Liesebach Napier 2nd 3rd Arthur Rebbeck Wakatere BC in providing glorious summer and Jack Manning Glendowie third. Nicola conditions with light seas breezes Hume of Murrays Bay was the first girl Optimist Green Fleet 1st Jake Dickey Napier SC filling in each afternoon. There were home in her first regatta. 2nd Jacob Horne Murrays Bay SC well over a hundred volunteers from MBSC members and local North Shore 3rd Annabelle Cartwright Howick SC the club and local community pulling sailors featured on all division podiums to together to make it happen. prove yet again what great young talent we Starling Fleet Our local Murrays Bay champion, have in our local community. 1st Tom Pilkington Wakatere BC 2nd Winston Lieseback Napier SC 3rd Jack Manning Glendowie BC 1st Girl – Nicola Hume Murrays Bay SC

Starling Development Fleet 1st Kate Rasmussen Maraetai SC 2nd Marcus Hilder Wakatere BC 3rd Anna Waymouth Kohimarama YC

Congratulations to the winners and to all of those involved in organising, participating and supporting the event. The next major regatta to be hosted at Murrays Bay is at Queen’s Birthday weekend 5-7th June - the hotly contested youth class of 29ers for which up to 40 teams will compete.

20 Mairangi Bay Village News “Let someone else do the driving” and travel in comfort from Auckland to National Park return on the Northern Explorer, New Zealand’s longest running train passenger service.

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Our exclusive package includes • Return Scenic fares on the Northern Explorer Train Auckland to National Park station and experience the incredible Raurimu spiral en route • Return door to door coach transfers from National Park railway station to and from the Hotel • 3 x nights accommodation at the fabulous Chateau Tongariro in a standard room with full breakfast included daily • Bonus High tea at the Chateau Tongariro • Ride the Sky Waka up Mt Ruapehu

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