by Cimino | 9 Jan 2008 | Action plan planning
Updated 10 January 2008 The Mahurangi Action Plan has officially entered a new and crucial phase— one in which even the name may change. At a meeting of its environmental management committee, on 11 December, the Auckland Regional Council endorsed the engagement...
by Cimino | 8 Jan 2008 | Sedimentation
The two ‘eco-camps’ planned this month for 8–13-year-olds as part of the Mahurangi Action Plan activities continue a worthy tradition of summer camps in the harbour. The Schoolhouse Bay property, which Rex Fairburn found for Mahurangi Action founder John Male, had...
by Cimino | 7 Jan 2008 | Regional governance
Mahurangi residents need to categorise themselves as Aucklanders. That’s if the Mahurangi wishes to be heard by the Royal Commission on Auckland Governance. Either that or Auckland regioners—ghastly language, which the Mahurangi Magazine is reluctant to encourage. The...
by Cimino | 1 Jan 2008 | Editorial
I was asked about my New Year’s resolution. Momentarily feeling a pang of remorse, I had to admit that I hadn’t thought about the matter. I hope I didn’t give my neighbour the impression I considered New Year’s resolutions, or particularly her resolution, cliché. I...
by Cimino | 23 Dec 2007 | Regatta 2008
Reconstruction of the Jane Gifford received a big boost this week. With the undertaking by Ti Point Vineyard to provide long-term sponsorship, the Jane Gifford Trust will receive a bounty from every bottle of wine the aclaimed vineyard sells. At current volumes, this...
by Cimino | 21 Dec 2007 | Development design guide
Development design guide – urban myth and the Mahurangi Urban is an anathema to most folk associated with the Mahurangi. So what, you may ask, has Rodney District Council’s draft urban design guide got to do with the Mahurangi catchment? Surely, if it applies to...
by Cimino | 19 Dec 2007 | Community
Event date: Saturday 23 February 2008 Few of those attending last February’s dinner beside the Mahurangi River could have escaped the realisation that Warkworth had finally acquired its obvious natural annual event. Dave Parker, now a Rodney District councillor, had...
by Cimino | 15 Dec 2007 | Regatta 2008
Wellingtonian is doing Mahurangi proud For far more than 150 years, the Mahurangi Regatta has been the Mahurangi community’s singular annual event. The after-match functions must have taken many forms, but by the 1940s they had migrated from Scotts Landing to...
by Cimino | 13 Dec 2007 | Mahurangi history
Before any decision is made regarding the trees marked for removal, near the boat ramp at Ōpahi, a plan will be prepared and discussed by the community. Rodney District Council’s Parks and Coastal operations manager, Chris Burgess, has advised Friends of the Mahurangi...
