by Cimino | 25 Mar 2020 | Climate mobilisation
Splendid self-isolation opportunity for civilisation Having squandered more than two months of protection and preparation time, the challenge for civilisation now is to break its determined habit of wasting every crisis in its entirety. Aside from abiding by Prime...
by Cimino | 20 Mar 2020 | Coastal trail
Sweet Te Muri crossing consensus In its 33-year story, the Mahurangi Coastal Trail has seen some meaningful milestones. Last Thursday’s is one such, particularly tangible trail marker. Circa 1987, Auckland Regional Parks management had decided where a bridge was to...
by Bob Moxon Browne | 3 Mar 2020 | Moxon Brownes
The Moxon Brownes Bob Moxon Browne Published 2019 This online edition is a work in progress; captions here are tailored, and additional images are provided, for the Mahurangi Magazine audience Chapter 2 Pages 23–39in printed edition Octavius Browne William Browne’s...
by Cimino | 13 Feb 2020 | Regatta 2021
Planning Mahurangi Regatta 2021 at the town hall Revival of the Mahurangi Regatta was the direct result of 1970s Mahurangi River restoration efforts. Two years of determined advocacy for a more far-sighted solution to the tidehead town’s sewage woes had...
by Cimino | 1 Feb 2020 | Regatta 2020
Mahurangi Regatta 2020 results combined list to come Mahurangi Regatta Results are ordered by division, but a combined-fleet list, ordered by course sailed and elapsed time, in time, will be appended below a-Class Trophy Line honours Kailua 1stAriki 2ndRewene...
by Cimino | 30 Jan 2020 | Regatta 2020
Regatta 2020 lost, found and thanked Effusive thanks have been lavishing the organisers, sponsors, and volunteers from even before Saturday’s Mahurangi Regatta began, but also in its immediate aftermath: Such an awesome event—huge congrats to everyone involved… The...
by Cimino | 12 Jan 2020 | Climate mobilisation, Corruption, Nuclear power
Despite Abraham Lincoln’s definitive closing Gettysburg words, government of the people, by the people for the people, has perished from the earth, placing all earth’s creatures in implacable peril. Billions upon billions of creatures of all species, including human,...
by Bob Moxon Browne | 31 Dec 2019 | History, Moxon Brownes
The Moxon Brownes Bob Moxon Browne Published 2019 This online edition is a work in progress; captions here are tailored, and additional images are provided, for the Mahurangi Magazine audience Chapter 9 Pages 69–84in printed edition Octavius’s brother, Gordon Davis...
by Cimino | 29 Dec 2019 | Campaign Finance Reform, Election turnout, MMP, STV
Compulsory voting cart before smarter-democracy horse Big business would be the biggest loser, was a Labour-led government to legislate to prosecute non-voters. Currently, unlike Australians, New Zealanders are legally allowed to refrain from voting. But with global...
