by Dr Ronald Locker | 2 Apr 2018 | Part 5 A Maritime Community
Jade River: A history of the Mahurangi Dr Ronald H Locker First published 2001; second edition 2001; online 2014— This online edition is a work in progress. Short contents About About the author Foreword to online edition Preface Acknowledgements Link with the...
by Dr Ronald Locker | 1 Apr 2018 | Part 5 A Maritime Community
Jade River: A History of the Mahurangi Ronald H Locker First published 2001. Published online 2014– This online edition is a work in progress… Contents Part 5 A maritime community | Memoirs of a scowman Page 183in printed edition Kauri logger to back aboard Tudor...
by Cimino | 31 Mar 2018 | Moratorium on population, Sea-level rise
As if its bureaucrats needed any encouragement. Trump’s America now has its Environmental Protection Authority peddling the equivalent of Lisa Simpson’s Ignorital©. The agency requires its officials to lace their public utterances with phrases contrived to give the...
by Cimino | 27 Mar 2018 | Dredging
As submitted by Mahurangi Action Incorporated 28 March 2018: Mahurangi Action supports the urgent funding of the consented dredging of sediment from the Mahurangi River, to restore the navigability of the river up to and including the Warkworth Town Basin. The...
by Dr Ronald Locker | 27 Mar 2018 | Part 5 A Maritime Community
Jade River: A History of the Mahurangi Ronald H Locker First published 2001. Published online 2014– This online edition is a work in progress… Contents Part 5 A maritime community | Memoirs of a scowman Pages 179–183in printed edition Life aboard the Kasper scows I...
by Dr Ronald Locker | 26 Mar 2018 | Part 5 A Maritime Community
Jade River: A History of the Mahurangi Ronald H Locker First published 2001. Published online 2014– This online edition is a work in progress… Contents Short contents About About the author Foreword to online edition Preface Acknowledgements Link with the Mahurangi...
by Cimino | 24 Mar 2018 | Dredging, Local, Local board, Warkworth
At least Ōrewa is equally inconvenient for all Rodney residents. In its case for twin local board areas, the Mahurangi Magazine pointed out: So disparate are the areas, that meetings of the Rodney Local Board are held in Ōrewa, which is in neither half. Now,...
by Cimino | 20 Mar 2018 | Rivermouth ferry
Exploring a plan-b Pūhoi Rivermouth ferry With a long-term solution calculated to cost $2 million, it is time to consider a plan b. This not to suggest that $2 million is too rich to realise the magnificent potential of the Mahurangi Coastal Trail. It is too much,...
by Cimino | 11 Mar 2018 | Transport and climate action, Warkworth
Most Warkworthians are unhappy that their town is now a satellite growth centre. Had a concerted campaign been waged against it, and unlimited funds spent fighting it, Auckland Council may have been forced to rethink. But that would not have stopped the Mahurangi...
