by Cimino | 18 Jun 2009 | Regional governance
Auckland governance legislation select committee submissions closed Friday 26 June By this time next year, there will be a Mahurangi plan. Mahurangi Action founding chairman John Male made the first bid for a Mahurangi plan in 1975, pitched at the old Rodney County...
by Cimino | 13 Jun 2009 | Pioneering
Unintentionally, it had bordered on false advertising. To offer to prospective planters the prospect of discussing their interest in indigenous plants with one of Aotearoa’s most interesting tree scientists, Dr David Bergin. However the volunteer who was bursting with...
by Cimino | 2 Jun 2009 | Open-ground, Regatta 2060
It presumably was not the sentiment Rod Oram had intended to invoke in his audience: This is all quite depressing! Oram had begun his Urban Design and Auckland Governance talk by quoting an undisclosed inside source claiming cabinet to have been in disarray over the...
by Cimino | 26 May 2009 | Establishment trials
Corrected 13 April 2014 Six thousand, two hundred and forty trees measured. To be precise, some were not so much measured, as their death or absence noted. Even so, research technician Michael Bergin took more than 18 000 measurements, the cack-handed editor’s...
by Cimino | 21 May 2009 | Reviews
By appointment to the prime minister – Our best brain Mismatch: Why our world no longer fits our bodiesReview first published as Our Best Body in the Mahurangi Magazine, January 2007 Re-published to celebrate the appointment of Professor Sir Peter Gluckman, founding...
by Cimino | 13 May 2009 | Heritage vessels
Event Saturday 16 May 2009, 10.30am onward Wharf Street, Warkworth The fine forecast for Saturday is staggering good luck. Given the months of fine weather Warkworth enjoyed this summer, contrasting with the recent weeks of early winter cold and rain. But this luck...
by Cimino | 10 May 2009 | Foreshore access
Craig Davis is a rare breed of coastal engineer. One that is passionate about resisting the human instinct to armour the coastline with manmade structures. But if a seawall is needed, Mr Davis can be relied upon to design one that does not offend nature. Seawalls are...
by Dave Parker | 6 May 2009 | Heritage vessels
Event Saturday 16 May 2009, 11am onward Wharf Street, Warkworth The Jane Gifford Restoration Trust cordially invites everybody to the re-launch and homecoming celebration for the 101-year-old scow Jane Gifford. The trust plans a huge welcome-home celebration,...
by Cimino | 1 May 2009 | Heritage vessels
Event 11am to 2pm Wharf Street, Warkworth ‘We’re having the re-launching and homecoming celebrations for the Jane Gifford a fortnight on Saturday there.’ ‘Hang on Hugh, I’ll just pull over.’ ‘We’re wondering if the Friends would be prepared to mobilise its Mahurangi...
