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Time to submit to better transport
It can be done online, up until midnight Friday 28 January. Feedback is sought by the New Zealand Transport Agency regarding the indicative route of the Pūhoi–Wellsford motorway. Submissions that a motorway should not be built…
Up with the running sand sculpture rules
It’s right up there with running. Of the perennially popular shoreside events at the Mahurangi Regatta, sand sculpture accounts for nearly as many certificates as the running races—33 were awarded in 2010. Inspired by the creativity of year’s last sculptures,...
For canine crew members, regatta rules okay
Dogs are welcome at the Mahurangi Regatta, just not everywhere. For example, dogs are not permitted at Sullivans Bay at any time. But next door at Mita Bay dogs can be taken ashore to the beach, so long as they are under direct and continuous control, which probably…
Short-handed short term but long-term promising
Most are still in holiday mode. Or if back at work, they are certainly in holiday mode come the weekend, and particularly the long, Auckland Anniversary weekend. Which makes mustering the sixty or so volunteers involved on the day of the Mahurangi Regatta much harder...
New Year’s resolution breeding obvious
By next New Year’s Day, the population will have just reached seven billion, yet propaganda abounds claiming that it’s not the approaching-seven-billion souls currently inhabiting Planet Earth, but the unsustainable lifestyles of a small proportion of the world’s...
Bareboat charter link to Boxing Day tradition
It’s not the first time Rob Thexton has stepped up. The first and only print edition of the Mahurangi Magazine carried a full-page display advertisement that Rob paid for. But rather than advertise his bareboat charter business, Rob kindly elected to promote sales of...
La Niña good for neither regatta nor harbour
Much of the mud results from just a few storms. The quantity of sediment reaching the Mahurangi Harbour annually can range from 13 000 to 136 000 tonnes, reflecting the major rainfall events such as that which accompanied Cyclone Bola. And heavy rainfall events...
Rodney seat shapes up as green transport battleground
Possibly not panning out exactly as the National Party planned. By freeing up the Rodney seat, Lockwood Smith stated he was facilitating more firepower to be directed to the defence of the planned Pūhoi–Wellsford motorway—his position as…