by Cimino | 3 Dec 2007 | Mahurangi history
Some twelve years ago, when he was enjoying much better health, Professor Sir Graham (Mont) Liggins motivated local residents to plant pōhutukawa and tōtara near the beach at the end of Ōpahi Bay Road, on the road reserve. The area, with its now well established...
by Cimino | 1 Dec 2007 | Mahurangi West Hall
Friday night saw another brilliant pre-Christmas bash at the Mahurangi West Hall. In recent years there have been some absolute Christmas crackers: The year Dermot Kelly demonstrated he was still the master of the sing-along guitar, in spite loss of a fingering...
by Cimino | 28 Nov 2007 | Mangroves
Friends of the Mahurangi’s submission was lodged today on the proposed changes to the Auckland regional coastal plan regarding mangrove management. The submission strongly supports the need for Plan Change 4: Mangrove Management, and generally supports the detail of...
by Jim Dollimore | 20 Nov 2007 | Aquaculture
Scotts Landing’s new wharf has proved to be wonderfully successful. As local oyster farmers, our frequent use of the landing means that we get to see just how well it works—from kids fishing through to loading provisions and crew aboard local yachts, and simply as a...
by Cimino | 18 Nov 2007 | Transport and climate action
In a perfect world, economic drivers would be indistinguishable from environmental drivers. Readers of Mahurangi Magazine will no doubt range from climate change sceptics, all the way through to those in the ‘chances are we’re already dog tucker’ camp. But regardless...
by David Bergin | 12 Nov 2007 | Establishment trials
Nursery manager Philip Smith has got everything well in hand. My assistant Michael and I called in briefly last Monday at Taupō Native Plant Nursery, on way to a week working on a Wellington project. All the seed supplied from Mahurangi, from Rodney Straka and Jane...
by Cimino | 12 Nov 2007 | Campaign Finance Reform
Radical-as-the-declaration voter-owned elections Jefferson’s words thrill radical youth eternal: That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these Ends, it is in the Right of the People to alter or abolish it, and to institute a new Government, laying...
by Cimino | 10 Nov 2007 | STV
With the third excruciating reversal of fortunes, Wayne Walker is once again a Rodney District councillor. On election night Walker was provisionally ahead of running mate, runner up Colin MacGillivray, by four votes. However, the position changed the following...
by Cimino | 4 Nov 2007 | STV
First-time visitors often overshoot the turnoff into Ngārewa Drive. It is not because the road to the Mahurangi Regional Parkspecifically, Mahurangi Regional Park – West—Ngārewa Drive—is poorly sign-posted, indeed there are now three major elements to the signposting:...
