by Cimino | 1 Oct 2010 | Action plan planning
It is synonymous with summer at the beach. Swimming, interspersed with luxuriating in the warm, soft, dry sand of the beach. Increasingly though, the reality is hard-packed sand all the way to the seawall. The practice of building near the shoreline was always going...
by Cimino | 28 Sep 2010 | Regional parks
Captain Jones had first tried to secure Ōrewa Beach. But £10 000 was too rich for the government of the day, and so most of the land between the highway sea was subdivided—with a single beach house now fetching the several million dollars that that figure equates to...
by Cimino | 25 Sep 2010 | Heritage vessels
Local lawyer helps the Kestrel come home by Cimino25 Sep 2010Heritage vessels0 comments Where Fairburn Walked Ross Mullins 1987 Ferry me across the shining water Take me home again Rock me rock me gentle on the harbour I will feel no pain Warkworth lawyer Hugh...
by Cimino | 25 Sep 2010 | Climate action economics, Energy bridging
Most are utterly unrepentant. Free-market high priests appear more than happy for the subprime mortgage market to take the fall for the global economic downturn—all those folk with no business aspiring to home ownership, really! Other economists point to different...
by Cimino | 22 Sep 2010 | Action plan planning
In the event, it took about two minutes. Thirty-five years ago, the then county council wasn’t interested, when single-term councillor John Male urged it. Nor was Rodney District Council, when, on innumerable subsequent occasions, Mahurangi Actionthen known as Friends...
by Cimino | 15 Sep 2010 | Regatta 2011
The scow builders would have approved. Their only question would have been, how could it have taken so long? The Mahurangi was an early centre of shipbuilding. The vessels built were mostly coasting schooners and cutters—relatively shallow-draft long-keel craft that...
by Cimino | 9 Sep 2010 | Māori representation
Humans are hard-wired for fairness. Which is why so many traditional supporters of the Australian Labor Party abandoned it following the treachery visited on its fleetingly victorious leader Kevin Rudd. The political system of Aotearoa, until joined recently by...
by Cimino | 6 Sep 2010 | Motorway
Updated 10 September 2010 China has 3529 kilometres in use and another 6696 under construction. High-speed rail in Japan, however, with its similarly challenging terrain is probably a better guide for Aotearoa. But even at the relatively high Japanese rates, the cost...
by Marcus Shipton | 6 Sep 2010 | Nuclear power
Marcus Shipton says give nuclear a chance Based on a talk at the Mahurangi Club Isaiah 11:6 And the wolf will dwell with the lamb, And the leopard will lie down with the young goat, And the calf and the young lion and the fatling together; And a little boy will lead...
by Cimino | 2 Sep 2010 | Cartoons, Energy bridging
It doesn’t seem cheap. Filling the tank seems to cost a prince’s ransom, particularly for older folk who can remember doing it prior to the first oil shock. For a decade before 1973, four dollars would fill the tank of a Mini. But the oil shocks to date are nothing to...
