by Cimino | 19 Sep 2007 | Marine farming
I just had to call Shane Hartley. Fortunately for Shane he was on the phone, so I had to contain my excitement and write an email. Others hadn’t been quite so lucky that afternoon and quite a lot of phone time was spent reporting an historic breakthrough: The...
by Cluny Macpherson | 16 Sep 2007 | Representation
L e t t e r As one who encouraged you to stand for Rodney District Council, it seemed to me that the best reason for having you elected was to have a committed advocate for the harbour and its catchment in that body. As a councillor, I believed you could use your very...
by Cimino | 16 Sep 2007 | Local
My first action was to seek advice. I was considering standing for Rodney District Council, and sought the counsel of Graham Nielson who was my supervisor when I was employed by the council to computer-model Helensville’s water reticulation—the good old days when the...
by Cimino | 16 Sep 2007 | STV
Updated 31 August 2019to provide the more positive scenario likely for Dr Climate Action, 12 years hence Five friends meet up to see a movie. Screening is a romance, a horror, a comedy and an arthouse film. The friends hold a verbal ballot, agreeing to go with the...
by Cimino | 15 Sep 2007 | STV
Safety in numbers. Unlike Wellington City and seven other local bodies, Rodney District Council and the rest of the herd have clung to first-past-the-post. The council, when rejecting preference voting prior to the 2004 election, denied the community the courtesy of...
by Richard Bromley | 6 Sep 2007 | Marine farming, Sedimentation
The students’ Stream Rescue Team can be seen in action at Rodney District Council’s strategy and policy meeting this Thursday at 9 am. Representatives of the Stream Rescue Team, made up of 10–13-year-old students from the Warkworth Homeschool Group and Warkworth...
by Cimino | 5 Sep 2007 | Marine farming
New Mahurangi Action Plan project leader, Kim Morresey, has helped set up a meeting of stakeholders determined to end the impasse over derelict oyster farms. Responsibility for governance of marine farming now rests with Auckland Regional Council. The transfer of...
by Cimino | 3 Sep 2007 | Editorial
Living a long life doesn’t necessarily result in wisdom, but in the case of my stepfather-in-law I have no doubt at all that it has. Norfolk-born, John Wright was sent to Sydney in 1941 to help, initially as its chief chemist, establish Cable Makers Australia—part of...
by Cimino | 3 Sep 2007 | Editorial
I can only imagine that friends of the Mahurangi will be feeling a range of emotions regarding the large quantity of diesel entering the river. The diesel was noticed downstream by Warkworth residents on Wednesday morning and reported to the Auckland Regional Council....
by Cimino | 31 Aug 2007 | Establishment trials
The Sustainable Farming Fund is laudably flexible. Recipients of the Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry’s fund are urged to speak up if, partway into a project, better outcomes can potentially be achieved by re-jigging the plan. The pilot open-ground indigenous...
