by Lottie Thompson | 30 Oct 2007 | Sedimentation
Forum South-East Asian Survey Congress My name is Lottie Thompson. I’m eleven years old and I live in the Mahurangi Catchment. I’m here to represent my district, Rodney. We are here to share what we do to help our area. My passions are horses and the environment. When...
by Richard Bromley | 29 Oct 2007 | Sedimentation
As we prepare to depart this evening, a huge thank you to the councils, individuals, community organisations, and companies (listed below) who have contributed financially toward the costs of sending the children to Christchurch to present to the South-East Asian...
by Cimino | 28 Oct 2007 | Mangroves
I find it difficult to understand just why I so adore mangroves. I only came into close contact with them in my early teens, when my family moved to Waiwera from just south of the 38th parallel—about the southern limit of mangrove habitat. My respect for them was...
by Cimino | 26 Oct 2007 | Agricultural emissions
Tuesday’s Rodney Times carried an article that had Friends of the Mahurangi executive member Mike Neil highly encouraged: ‘Some good news on carbon, at last!’ Had I seen it? No, but I needed little excuse to put off completing some long-overdue administration chores...
by Cimino | 25 Oct 2007 | Heritage vessels
New Zealand River Recreation Use Survey As oyster farmers, a huge perk of the job was having craft at the ready that were also perfect for recreation. Visitors to the family at Mahurangi West only had to pass an innocent remark about how beautiful the harbour looked...
by Cimino | 22 Oct 2007 | Local
She writes refreshingly rationally. Titled Conspiracy as the Opium of the People, columnist Tracey Barnett warns: We’re fostering a world where the truth can be picked out of a hat. Arabs, Jews or Americans themselves felled the Twin Towers, depending on whether you...
by David Bergin | 17 Oct 2007 | Pioneering
Letter What a great photograph of Jaap! Jaap’s reference to Harry at the end of his Notes for the Nursery at Taupō is Harry Bunn, former director of the biggest division at Forest Research Institute for many years up to his retirement in the mid-1980s. Harry, who died...
by Cimino | 17 Oct 2007 | STV
Trawling through the results of the 2007 local body elections where single transferable voting was used, reveals only discouragingly impenetrable representations of the process involved. Some results were simply listed as Elected and Not Elected. Others provided data...
by Cimino | 14 Oct 2007 | Local
Membership of Mahurangi Action once reached 330. That was on the back of the launch of Jade River : A History of the Mahurangi. Since then it has slipped back to around half that figure, where it has been, more or less, for much of the group’s existence. The...
by Cimino | 13 Oct 2007 | Local
I last stood for council 33 years ago. A candidate for the Hibiscus Coast District Community Council, I came, I was want to say, dangerously close to being elected. Not dangerous in the sense that I was too young, more that I was never comfortable with the adversarial...
