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Science to underpin a revolution measuring success
Six thousand, two hundred and forty trees measured. To be precise, some were not so much measured, as their death or absence noted. Even so, research technician Michael Bergin took more than 18 000 measurements, the cack-handed editor’s…
By appointment to the prime minister – Our best brain
Mismatch: Why our world no longer fits our bodiesReview first published as Our Best Body in the Mahurangi Magazine, January 2007 Re-published to celebrate the appointment of Professor Sir Peter Gluckman, founding director of the Liggins Institute, as the inaugural...
Very, very well-deserved re-launch luck
Event Saturday 16 May 2009, 10.30am onward Wharf Street, Warkworth The fine forecast for Saturday is staggering good luck. Given the months of fine weather Warkworth enjoyed this summer, contrasting with the recent weeks of early winter cold and rain. But this luck...
Mahurangi West Hall meeting to get behind the seawall
Craig Davis is a rare breed of coastal engineer. One that is passionate about resisting the human instinct to armour the coastline with manmade structures. But if a seawall is needed, Mr Davis can be relied upon to design one that does not offend nature. Seawalls are...
Official invitation to the Jane Gifford Re-Launch and Homecoming Celebration
Event Saturday 16 May 2009, 11am onward Wharf Street, Warkworth The Jane Gifford Restoration Trust cordially invites everybody to the re-launch and homecoming celebration for the 101-year-old scow Jane Gifford. The trust plans a huge welcome-home celebration,...
Jane Gifford re-launch with a little help from our friends
Event 11am to 2pm Wharf Street, Warkworth ‘We’re having the re-launching and homecoming celebrations for the Jane Gifford a fortnight on Saturday there.’ ‘Hang on Hugh, I’ll just pull over.’ ‘We’re wondering if the Friends would be prepared to mobilise its Mahurangi...
Finding Fred Anderson’s punt and sailing with the scow pilot
Must have been in the late 1960s I think. Lindsay and I found the punt ashore in Lagoon Bay. We took it back to Rodmersham where Lindsay’s father, Gladwyn Wynyard, recognised it as one that Fred Anderson had built for himself years before. He rang Mrs Anderson who...
Thirty into 1.4 million equals one Tamahunga local board
It was an unimaginable scenario in 2007, when the Labour-led government determined it was time to fix Auckland. That in 2009, a National-led government, and Act Party minister of local government, would be remedying royal commission…