Meetings and celebrations
Warkworth Town Hall Talks are all action
Wednesday night’s wonderful, wonderfully well-attended town-hall talk wasn’t supposed to happen and wouldn’t have, had Auckland Council not hired Adrian and Alex Hayward to promote the use of the Warkworth Town Hall. The same day Adrian…
read moreMahurangi Action 44th annual report
Global Warming of 1.5°C will forever define 2018, the year that the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change finally published a report that refrained from kicking the climate-action can ever-further down the road. Since that report, as is the…
read moreagm tagged to 14 November town-hall talk
To save dragging some of the same folk out twice in one month, Mahurangi Action is tagging its annual general meeting to next month’s Warkworth Town Hall Talk. This is not to suggest that the society is permanently abandoning its…
read moreMahurangi Action president’s report
The planned fivefold increase in population of its tidehead town is critical to the future of the Mahurangi watershed. If, within a couple of decades, a town of more than 20 000 has an attractive, swimmable river as the hero element of a broad linear…
read moreMahurangi Action 2015–2016 annual report
Since it was formed 42 years ago, Mahurangi Action has had some big wins. But not only has the 2015–2016 term of office seen the greatest number of wins in a single year, one of those wins was 42 years in the making: The decision by Watercare Services to cease the...
read moreScott Homestead annual general afternoon tea Saturday
Last year’s was the culmination of a Te Muri walk and a cross-harbour ferry ride. This year’s annual general meeting will be somewhat more perfunctory, on account of it coinciding with the Mahurangi West Hall working bee and Pūhoi Fire Station Givealittle-athon....
read moreMahurangi Action committee nominations open
It’s is a committee for people who detest them. In contrast to most incorporated societies, which typically meet monthly, Mahurangi Action meets continually, via the Mahurangi Magazine and email. Although committees are an integral…
read moreMinutes of 2015 Mahurangi Action annual general meeting
Scott Homestead Scotts Landing 7 November 2015 Meeting opened 3.22 pm 7 November 2015 Attending Tessa Berger, Jefferson Chapple, Cimino Cole, Margaret Faed, Hugh Gladwell, Joan Gordon, Michael Gordon and Sarah Ransom. Apologies Jim Dollimore, Mike Hanne, Cluny...
read moreTaking Te Araroa and the coastal trail cross-harbour ferry to AGM
Mahurangi Action’s inaugural meeting was held on 17 December 1974 for good reason. Things had come to a head regarding Warkworth’s flawed—many people believed—decision to build a sewage treatment plant that had little capacity to cope with the precipitous flows that...
read moreTrue test for Mahurangi Action is its plan for the next 40 years
In 1974, the town was planning to replace its appallingly inadequate riverside municipal septic tank. Warkworth’s council was finally facing up to the need to treat its wastewater, after decades of wilful neglect of the issue, which, after heavy rainfall, routinely...
read more40 Years for Mahurangi Action’s shortest annual report
This year’s annual general meeting needs to be the society’s shortest in its 40-year history. Time and tide dictate that Mahurangi Action members expedite their formalities during the afternoon tea stop at Scott Homestead, before those celebrating the organisation’s...
read moreCelebrations and subscriptions as Mahurangi Action looks at 40
There is surely no better way the milestone could be marked. On Sunday fortnight, Mahurangi Action will be celebrating its 40th anniversary, alongside the Auckland Council and community celebration of the 10th year of the Mahurangi Action Plan. Mahurangi Action was...
read moreMahurangi Action draft minutes
Meeting Mahurangi Action Incorporated Committee Resolutions Resolutions unanimous unless otherwise noted Date Tuesday 26 February 2013 Time 5.30 pm Start Meeting opened at 5.37 pm Attending Cimino Cole, Michael Gordon, Mike Hanne and Burnette O’Connor...
read moreSunday 25 November 2012 annual general breakfast
Mahurangi Action Incorporated Annual General Meeting Venue Old Masonic Hall Baxter Street Warkworth Format Coffee and croissants Gold-coin koha Date Sunday 25 November 2012 Time 9.30 for 10–11am Ahead of last year’s regatta, Mahurangi Action was incorporated, to...
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