by Bromley, Irons & Seitzer | 1 Aug 2007 | Sedimentation
Richard Bromley Gillian Irons Ira Seitzer A group of about forty 9–13-year-old primary school children from the Warkworth Home School group and Warkworth Primary School have been involved for the past three years with the Auckland Regional Council’s Mahurangi Action...
by Cimino | 1 Aug 2007 | Sedimentation
We were discussing the curious characteristics of committees. I mentioned, to the new Mahurangi Action Plan project leader, that the last ‘formal’ Friends of the Mahurangi meeting was a year ago, and at Ransom Wines. And then felt it necessary to quickly explain that...
by Cimino | 1 Aug 2007 | Mahurangi West Hall
Prince-amongst-men Hutch Mick Rick and Bernie When the editor asked his neighbour, legendary earthmoving contractor Mick Berger, about creating a marquee site at the Mahurangi West Hall, he also asked him who might be approached to do the engineering design: Hutch....
by Cimino | 22 Jul 2007 | History of the Mahurangi Magazine
It is an eternity since the inevitable was accepted. That ‘the Mahurangi’ would need a website. But observing the various efforts, back in the dawning of the internet, it was concluded, better perhaps to have no web presence, than a site typical of the time. Few sites...
by Jim Dollimore | 16 Jul 2007 | Sedimentation
L e t t e r Jim Dollimore, Biomarine Limited Since [13 July] we have had another storm!—I will have to close the factory for at least a week and send the staff on holiday. However the oyster farm and oyster culling staff will be around and it is a good opportunity for...
by Cimino | 15 Jul 2007 | Marine farming
The concept is consummate. With a severe storm approaching, faced with the likelihood of the harbour being closed for up to five days, and the prospect of having to lay off four or five workers until harvesting recommenced, Jim Dollimore emailed the editor suggesting...
by Cimino | 15 Jul 2007 | Dredging, Marine farming, Sedimentation
She was fresh home from a sailing holiday in Tonga. But Kim Morresey was only too happy to be back on the water, and as a seafood enthusiast, couldn’t be happier that it was aboard a Mahurangi oyster barge. Sadly, oysters were not on the menu, the harbour being closed...
by Cimino | 30 Jun 2007 | Establishment trials
Three small open-ground plots containing a total of around a thousand plants were established in the spring of 2006. The conditions at the Jones Road nursery proved to be very conducive for most of the indigenous species planted. From the outset, three factors were...
by Simon James | 31 Jan 2007 | Heritage vessels, Mahurangi history
Introduced by Cimino 1 January 2008 It was always intended that the content of the many Mahurangi Bulletins and the solitary printed edition of the Mahurangi Magazine would be published in the online Mahurangi Magazine. Consistent with a New Year’s Resolution, the...
