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Vol. 27 No 15, August 16, 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 Honours Board dispute may go up a notch James (Batman) Langton says he is considering legal action in his ongoing battle with the Opunake Sport and Recreation Trust. Despite twice having won national boxing titles his ...bang! Page 5 name still does not feature on the Honours Board at the Sandfords Event Centre. The Honours Board in- cludes those from Opunake who have become household names like Peter Snell, Don Clarke, Graham Mourie and the Barrett brothers, along- side names which are not so Opunake Lions mark well known. 50 years with trail and James believes his name track project. Page 9. deserves to be up there. He says he had been told being a national champion would qualify for being on the board. The Opunake dairy farmer won the NZNBF cruiserweight title back in 2015, but his name remained off the board, as it has done after he won the New Zealand ProBox heavyweight title in December last year. He and his wife Kelly have organised major box- ing events in Opunake and Hawera and helped raise thousands of dollars for Ta- ranaki charity The Little Book launch at Pastimes Fighters Trust which helps in Opunake page 26. children and their families James Langton in front of the Honours Board at Sandfords Event Centre in Opunake. who are living through major health issues. the Coastal Rugby Club came He announced his retire- he unsuccessfully challenged pick and choose who they James says he has been tak- to an end. ment earlier this year, but for the Australasian cruiser- like.” ing legal advice as to where At the 2015 Coastal Rumble now says he would be pre- weight title in Australia. He “I didn’t want to go down he should go next in his ongo- he defeated Monty Filimaea pared to defend his heavy- says he also represented his this path. This has just come ing dispute with the Opunake in front of a sold out crowd at weight title. James says he country when he fought Mark out of frustration. I spent Sport and Recreation Trust. the Sandfords Event Centre had been in discussions with Flanagan for the IBO Oceania weeks of work volunteer- He will present a letter argu- to win the NZNBF cruiser- Junior Fa’s people and is hop- cruiserweight title. This fi ght ing to help put up the Event ing for his inclusion on the weight title, only to lose the ing for a rematch. He would was also held in Australia, Centre. Some of the people I Two Joyces: Honours Board. title to Monty Betham in like to do this in Opunake, and shown on Australian TV. worked alongside are on the Exhibition at Lysaght “They did offer space in the Auckland a few months later. probably around November. He says he doesn’t under- committee today.” sports cabinet, but I belong up In December he was again “Wherever this fi ght is held stand the Trust’s reasoning. there with the rest of them,” a New Zealand champion, it will be my last fi ght. It will “I just can’t get a grip of Continued page 3 he says. this time as a heavyweight, be my swan song.” what their criteria is. They James took up boxing after a when he defeated Isilelei “We should be excited rugby career which included Fa to take the New Zealand about the possibility of hav- being a double centurion for ProBox title. ing a heavyweight title fi ght in Opunake, but we’re actu- ally talking about legal action BUUSY?SY? instead,” he says. Previous Coastal Rumbles FOR QUICK held at the Sandfords Event EASY MEAL Centre had attracted sell-out crowds of up to 700 peo- IDEAS ple, with many others being turned away. VISIT YOUR James says that he has been told that he doesn’t meet the LOCAL criteria for being included on SUPERMARKET the board as he has competed as an individual, rather than competing for his country. He says that according to that logic, anybody from Opunake who won Masters 4SQUARE 45 Golf or Wimbledon would 77 TASMAN ST never get on the board. He OPUNAKE argues that he has represented 06 761 8668 New Zealand on a number OPEN 7am to 9pm EVERYDAY! of occasions, the most recent being his fi ght in March when See us online at www.opunakecoastalnews.co.nz FOR ADVERTISING OR EDITORIAL PLEASE PHONE/FAX (06) 761-7016 2 NEWS AND VIEWS Thursday, August 16, 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 Honours Board dispute may go up a notch email: [email protected] EEditorditor You are welcome to use a pseudonym but must supply your name and address to us. Accounting for the future, today to be forever cleaned up?” to make the world a better Plastic Rubbish This was one 10 year old’s place.” Hawera - Opunake - 06 278 4169 I certainly agree with response to watching the Fiona Young OPUNAKE OFFICE Yvonne Wara Ward of Opu- Award Winning and “Life OPEN EVERY WEDNESDAY FROM 10am TO 3.30pm nake about plastic bags im- Changing” feature documen- pacting our irreplaceable tary, “A Plastic Ocean -We environment. Need a Wave of Change.” Rugby Club Already it seems 100 people What are you willing to give have seen a documentary fi nal up and do to clean up and go The Coastal Rugby Club movie called Plastic Ocean, beyond plastic? this year had three of their HARDINGS which to me should be shown FUNERAL SERVICES LTD A Plastic Ocean is an epic rugby sides in the club rugby all over Taranaki, in all our global adventure following a fi nals held at TET Stadium in 17 REGENT ST HAWERA schools and to the public at documentary fi lmmaker and Inglewood. large making everyone aware Our professional attention to detail a world record free-diver as It seems their Premiers lost of how extremely dangerous & empathy is our hallmark they travel the earth discover- to New Plymouth Old boys plastic bags can be. ing the shocking impact plas- 29-9 while their Division 1 China it seems has now tic is having on our oceans The fi lm A Plastic Ocean lost to Southern 19-14 which stopped taking our country’s and the marine animals that screened recently in had to be played in extra time PHONE 06 278 8633 plastic items, so what now? SERVING OUR COMMUNITIES FOR 3 GENERATIONS live there. They investigate Opunake. to fi nd a winner,. Division It’s no good trying to bury how our addiction to plastic 2 lost to Inglewood 20-17, them. My suggestion is to is impacting the food chain which isn’t any sort of refl ec- have a huge furnace some- and how that is affecting plastic pollution. He very tion on how they all played. where, not only for plastic, every one of us through new well understands what’ s at Some people shouldn’t for- but also for glass. and developing human health stake and strongly encour- get that since the merger As people of Taranaki problems. The expedition ages us all to see this fi lm between Okato, Rahotu and we must try and keep our leads the two adventurers to and make signifi cant changes. Opunake, this mighty rugby streams, rivers, lakes, land unusual scientifi c discover- Two screenings have been club has got stronger every and beach fronts clear of all ies. heart-breaking truths privately hosted in Opunake year, so how many rugby plastic items, as some are and important solutions to at Everybody’s Theatre as clubs in New Zealand have already doing it. Maybe we one of the biggest problems part of a national and globally had three of their rugby sides could have something that confronting mankind. engaged project. The second in any rugby fi nal? Sooner or clears our ocean fl oor also. Sir David Attenborough has screening was requested from later this rugby club will win Once again we still have called A Plastic Ocean. ‘The Opunake High School, with all three club rugby titles. people who really don’t care most important fi lm of our students from St Josephs and I remember myself playing about anything, but these are time.” Powerful words from members of the community for the Okato Juniors . It was the very fi rst to grizzle and this respected elder whose also attending. always a battle royal against moan if something really incredible documentary fi lms Comments from students Rahotu and Opunake, espe- goes wrong. have been praised the world afterwards highlight some cially when the senior teams Tom Stephens over through his career as a of the fi lms inspiring impact. met. It was all on for young New Plymouth renowned broadcaster and “It was eye-opening. Gives and old. naturalist. Attenborough has us more of a worldwide per- It’s a great pity that Yarrow We need a intimately seen the decline spective of pollution.” Stadium wasn’t available, but wave of change of our ecosystems, rise of “It was really sad and very that’s how it goes sometimes, “Would you give your arm species, extinction and the interesting and made me Tom Stephens for all the plastic in the ocean devastating realities from think about what to change New Plymouth ADELPHOS The designers “What do people need?” They had created something tion age.

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