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Planting badly eroded hillside behind Sullivans campground
Come and help us plant trees! We are replanting the badly eroded hillside behind the Sullivans Bay campground. In exchange for your help, we will provide a barbecue lunch and hot drinks, hundreds of grateful trees and our thanks. Get to know what’s happening…
Meeting to form Transition Town Warkworth
No doubt you are aware of climate change. Maybe you have heard of peak oil. But what can you do? Peak oil and climate change will drastically change the way we live. Food, transport and energy costs are predicted to soar. Weather patterns…
Open-ground open day at Taupō Native Plant Nursery
Taupō is a long way from the Mahurangi. So why, the reader may wonder, this interest in the Taupō Native Plant Nursery. The full story is elsewhere, but briefly, it has everything to do with the elevated sediment accumulation rate in the…
Mahurangi Action submission to the Royal Commission on Auckland Governance
PDF as lodged Introduction Submission in Brief Submission Detail Background of Submitter Introduction embraces this opportunity to discuss the needs of the...
Success after three decades bleatin’ into submission
The locals’ vehicle-free concept blew the regional council’s plans for a road bridge across Te Muri out of the estuary. It was 1986 and test drilling in the bed of the estuary had rudely reminded locals that the splendid isolation Te Muri enjoyed was about to…
Can get bitter or get learning
’s submission to the Royal Commission on Auckland Governance could be its one opportunity to have its say on the subject. Or not. It all depends on what the government does with the...
Aucklanders in need of well-developed models
It seems difficult to credit it now. When the editor’s family moved to Waiwera, in 1959, the local council offices were in Greys Avenue, Auckland. Coming from Te Kūiti, which had its own council offices, this seemed bizarre. But much that is taken for granted about...
Demonstration of support, and demonstration of force
Sunday afternoon saw another tremendous turnout at the Mahurangi West Hall, this time to support a Pūhoi-based initiative. The very worthy recipient of Mahurangi West hospitality and generosity was the Pūhoi Volunteer Rural Fire Force. Like rural volunteer rural fire...