by Cimino | 20 Jan 2014 | Motorway, Open-ground
In a straight line, the stream would run from Mahurangi to Palmerston North. That is, if all the streams in the Mahurangi catchment were laid end-to-end, and assuming, of course, that there was sufficient head to cause this hypothetical stream to run. Then if this...
by Cimino | 9 Jan 2014 | Regatta 2014
Probably more than a dozen clubs attend. The exact number of yacht and boating clubs attending is not known by the host Mahurangi Cruising Club, but 39 of the 120 affiliated to Yachting New Zealand are listed in the Makaurau region. With Deputy Mayor Penny Hulse...
by Cimino | 3 Jan 2014 | Motorway
Paid-up ‘friends’ of the Mahurangi once numbered 300—on the back of the launch of Jade River: A History of the Mahurangi. The society titled Friends of the Mahurangi, now Mahurangi Action Incorporated, published Ronald Harry Locker’s masterly 416-page work in 2001....
by Cimino | 30 Dec 2013 | About the Regatta
Intricacies of the Gregorian calendar and fixing regatta It’s a reminder of the utility of weeks. When Christmas along with New Year’s Day, fall in the middle of the week, it is all too easy to be set adrift from the structure provided by the seven-day week. But the...
by Cimino | 18 Dec 2013 | Regatta 2014
It is Mahurangi Harbour’s only annual gathering, but it is sublime. Fittingly, the Mahurangi Regatta is a celebration both for Aucklanders privileged to call the harbour home, full- or part- time, and of those who reside in less utterly idyllic parts of the region but...
by Cimino | 8 Dec 2013 | Farm-forestry trail
Forty farm plans completed and 120 kilometres of riparian margin protected. From those figures, it would be easy to imagine that Mahurangi catchment’s elevated sediment accumulation rate was well on its way to being comprehensively addressed. Assuming that the...
by Cimino | 27 Nov 2013 | Dredging, Geothermal energy, Motorway, Sedimentation
Clearly, something has to be done. State Highway 1 between Pūhoi and Wellsford is lethal, and at times congested. In 2010, the Campaign for Better Transport in its Operation Lifesaver document came up with two options, either of which, by now, could be having a huge...
by Cimino | 22 Nov 2013 | Paths and trails
It’s nine years six weeks since it was signed. So there is every likelihood that, by the tenth anniversary of the signing of heads of agreement, what Justice Rhys Harrison described in his declaratory judgement as the outstanding practical problems will indeed have...
by Cimino | 3 Nov 2013 | Committee
On 3 November 2013, the following were elected as the committee of Mahurangi Action Incorporated for 2013–2014: Cimino Cole (as secretary) editor incumbent Jim Dollimore biologist incumbent Hugh Gladwell lawyer incumbent Michael Gordon (as treasurer)...
by Cimino | 25 Oct 2013 | Concurrent elections, Election turnout, MMP, Online, STV
Another local body election, and another uninformed swipe at STV. While it is probable that the at-large, single-transferable-vote, district health board elections are the single biggest reason only a third of Aucklanders returned their ballots, the explanations for...
