by Cimino | 16 Sep 2007 | STV
Updated 31 August 2019to provide the more positive scenario likely for Dr Climate Action, 12 years hence Five friends meet up to see a movie. Screening is a romance, a horror, a comedy and an arthouse film. The friends hold a verbal ballot, agreeing to go with the...
by Cimino | 15 Sep 2007 | STV
Safety in numbers. Unlike Wellington City and seven other local bodies, Rodney District Council and the rest of the herd have clung to first-past-the-post. The council, when rejecting preference voting prior to the 2004 election, denied the community the courtesy of...
by Richard Bromley | 6 Sep 2007 | Marine farming, Sedimentation
The students’ Stream Rescue Team can be seen in action at Rodney District Council’s strategy and policy meeting this Thursday at 9 am. Representatives of the Stream Rescue Team, made up of 10–13-year-old students from the Warkworth Homeschool Group and Warkworth...
by Cimino | 5 Sep 2007 | Marine farming
New Mahurangi Action Plan project leader, Kim Morresey, has helped set up a meeting of stakeholders determined to end the impasse over derelict oyster farms. Responsibility for governance of marine farming now rests with Auckland Regional Council. The transfer of...
by Cimino | 3 Sep 2007 | Editorial
Living a long life doesn’t necessarily result in wisdom, but in the case of my stepfather-in-law I have no doubt at all that it has. Norfolk-born, John Wright was sent to Sydney in 1941 to help, initially as its chief chemist, establish Cable Makers Australia—part of...
by Cimino | 3 Sep 2007 | Editorial
I can only imagine that friends of the Mahurangi will be feeling a range of emotions regarding the large quantity of diesel entering the river. The diesel was noticed downstream by Warkworth residents on Wednesday morning and reported to the Auckland Regional Council....
by Cimino | 31 Aug 2007 | Establishment trials
The Sustainable Farming Fund is laudably flexible. Recipients of the Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry’s fund are urged to speak up if, partway into a project, better outcomes can potentially be achieved by re-jigging the plan. The pilot open-ground indigenous...
by Cimino | 27 Aug 2007 | Climate strategy
Updated 30 July 2011 The Sunday papers had arrived. As had the staggering bulk of the new Sydney telephone directories. The editor’s host lamented the bulk of the papers, and the contrasting lack of content: They’re all conjecture—I’m sure they print them on Tuesday....
by Cimino Cole | 13 Aug 2007 | Front matter
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 Front matter Laying keel of online history of the Mahurangi Cimino Cole Robert Thexton, descendant of Mahurangi...
