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
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 its Foundation on such Principles, and organizing...
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:...
by Cimino | 4 Nov 2007 | MMP
Updated 16 November 2011 The member of Parliament’s ‘What’s to fix with mmp’ wasn’t rhetorical, and consequently the editor was somewhat taken aback. It was a sharp reminder that opinion on mixed-member proportional is, mixed. That it is either a huge improvement on...
by Cimino | 30 Oct 2007 | Reviews
My suggestion for the group’s name was Mahurangi Environmental Defence Society. When we were establishing Friends of the Mahurangi, in 1974, the Environmental Defence Society was the organisation I most wanted ours to emulate. That name didn’t get traction and nor did...
by Tegan Illingworth | 30 Oct 2007 | Sedimentation
Forum South-East Asian Survey Congress My name is Tegan Illingworth. I am nine years old and I live in Warkworth, which is north of Auckland and Auckland is the biggest city in New Zealand. I am here to share information about Waicare. One reason I am in Waicare is I...
by Rebekah Leibeziet | 30 Oct 2007 | Four waters, Sedimentation
Forum South-East Asian Survey Congress My name is Rebekah Liebezeit. I am 13 years old and I live in the Mahurangi area, one hour north of Auckland. I am also part of the group called the Stream Rescue Team. This group of about fifteen students concentrates on...
