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...
by Cimino | 27 Aug 2007 | Climate strategy
Updated 30 July 2011 The Sunday papers had arrived. As had the staggering bulk of the new Sydney telephone directories. The editor’s host lamented the bulk of the papers, and the contrasting lack of content: They’re all conjecture—I’m sure they print them on Tuesday....
by Cimino Cole | 13 Aug 2007 | Front matter
Jade River: A History of the Mahurangi Ronald H Locker First published 2001. Published online 2014– This online edition is a work in progress… Contents Front matter Laying keel of online history of the Mahurangi Cimino Cole Robert Thexton, descendant of Mahurangi...
by Bromley, Irons & Seitzer | 1 Aug 2007 | Sedimentation
Richard Bromley Gillian Irons Ira Seitzer A group of about forty 9–13-year-old primary school children from the Warkworth Home School group and Warkworth Primary School have been involved for the past three years with the Auckland Regional Council’s Mahurangi Action...
by Cimino | 1 Aug 2007 | Sedimentation
We were discussing the curious characteristics of committees. I mentioned, to the new Mahurangi Action Plan project leader, that the last ‘formal’ Friends of the Mahurangi meeting was a year ago, and at Ransom Wines. And then felt it necessary to quickly explain that...
by Cimino | 1 Aug 2007 | Mahurangi West Hall
Prince-amongst-men Hutch Mick Rick and Bernie When the editor asked his neighbour, legendary earthmoving contractor Mick Berger, about creating a marquee site at the Mahurangi West Hall, he also asked him who might be approached to do the engineering design: Hutch....
by Cimino | 22 Jul 2007 | History of the Mahurangi Magazine
It is an eternity since the inevitable was accepted. That ‘the Mahurangi’ would need a website. But observing the various efforts, back in the dawning of the internet, it was concluded, better perhaps to have no web presence, than a site typical of the time. Few sites...
by Jim Dollimore | 16 Jul 2007 | Sedimentation
L e t t e r Jim Dollimore, Biomarine Limited Since [13 July] we have had another storm!—I will have to close the factory for at least a week and send the staff on holiday. However the oyster farm and oyster culling staff will be around and it is a good opportunity for...
by Cimino | 15 Jul 2007 | Marine farming
The concept is consummate. With a severe storm approaching, faced with the likelihood of the harbour being closed for up to five days, and the prospect of having to lay off four or five workers until harvesting recommenced, Jim Dollimore emailed the editor suggesting...
by Cimino | 15 Jul 2007 | Dredging, Marine farming, Sedimentation
She was fresh home from a sailing holiday in Tonga. But Kim Morresey was only too happy to be back on the water, and as a seafood enthusiast, couldn’t be happier that it was aboard a Mahurangi oyster barge. Sadly, oysters were not on the menu, the harbour being closed...
