Trish Deans wins battle to be local board chair... p2
Award-winner revealed at Sculpture OnShore... p6
The interview: Local artist puts talent to work... p22-23
Slow going for block’s big townhouse project
Ngāti Whātua’s planned 41-townhouse development at its Marsden block close to Hauraki School has been put on the go-slow. It lodged consent for the project in December 2024.
A Ngāti Whātua spokesman said: “We’re currently working through our designs and how best to respond to market needs for our development at Marsden.
“At this time, our focus remains on
But Auckland Council last week told The Flagstaff that it had been “put on hold” pending more information from the applicant.
delivering high-quality homes for the New Zealand Defence Force in Bayswater, where we’re making good progress,” she said.
• The Marsden resource consent currently under application covers 41 townhouses, while the master plan for the block is for 116 townhouses and 24 apartments.
Facing the fear: Ghouls come out for Halloween
Who’s scaring who? …Gavin Donaldson with son Caleb (9) at the Bayswater School Halloween Trail last Saturday. More pictures, pages 8-9
Trish Deans wins battle to lead local board
Trish Deans has emerged as chair of the Devonport-Takapuna Local Board for half a term after a bruising behind-the-scenes battle that resulted in the top-polling candidate – veteran board member George Wood – being shut out of the job he wanted.
Newcomer Scott Macarthur, from the A Fresh Approach (AFA) ticket, will be deputy before stepping up to the chair’s role in 18 months.
Macarthur, who lives in Belmont, was the bottom polling candidate among the new board elected last month.
The outcome follows weeks of jockeying for position. The Flagstaff understands that initially up to five board members were interested in the roles.
The second-highest-polling candidate, Gavin Busch – who was on the board last term with Wood, both standing again under the Citizens and Residents (C&R) banner – said from the start he did not want to be
chair. But the Narrow Neck businessman said he would have been a willing deputy, however C&R’s two votes does not a majority make.
Devonport-based Deans, who ran as an independent, polling third, came through the middle.
Deans said she would have been happy to work with Wood and Busch, but they were three people and six had been elected. “As six adults we all have to work together because the public voted us all in.”
Independents and newcomers added a new dynamic, she said.
The other two members are independent Garth Ellingham, who polled fourth, and last term’s deputy chair and AFA campaign leader, Terence Harpur, who placed fifth.
Harpur said had chosen not to seek the top jobs due to his other commitments. He hoped the board would now unite to work for the best community outcomes, rather
than divide politically.
Busch described the outcome as a case of “the tail wagging the dog”, especially after his and Wood’s endorsement from the community, following a term when they were in the minority to AFA, which had run a campaign marred by a messy split with its Israeli candidate Karin Horen. But he said they would support Deans as chair, with her experience from an earlier board term (with Heart of the Shore from 2019-22) and leading other community groups. He hoped she would be a moderator.
It is understood a number of the board members opposed 79-year-old Wood taking the top job.
Deans said she had been keen to take the chair’s role first, having board experience to offer and because there were big decisions due on funding early in the term.
The board was sworn in at a ceremony at the PumpHouse in Takapuna on Tuesday.
Devonport Heritage: plan change threat to area’s character
Devonport Heritage is holding an information night next week to help people make submissions on Auckland Council’s proposed Plan Change 120.
Under the proposal, 257 Devonport properties will be deleted from the Special Character Area (SCA), although they will remain in the Single House Zone, like the rest of Devonport.
The deletion is part of the government’s push to intensify Auckland, and replaces the provisions of Plan Change 78.
Speakers on the information night include Sally Hughes of the Character Coalition and heritage architect Graeme Burgess.
Devonport Heritage chair Margot McRae said properties that drop out of the SCA can be developed without any constraints on
architectural form, or requirements to be in sympathy with the surrounding heritage homes.
“This means that anything goes in terms of design, materials and street setback, so ultra-modern, statement houses could go up in these areas,” she said.
She said special character was about protecting the collective values of an area and the proposed change would mean further erosion of Devonport’s historic identity.
Under the proposed plan change, there are eight pockets of Devonport that will lose their SCA status.
“Some of these houses are not heritage but allowing open slather on design here will lead to a further loss of the heritage atmosphere and streetscape,” says McRae.
Devonport Heritage is urging people to make a submission calling for the retention of the whole of Devonport’s special character area, as well as all the city’s heritage areas.
Character suburbs across Auckland will be severely affected by the plan change, with thousands of houses losing their SCA protections.
Some heritage suburbs in the isthmus such as Mt Eden, St Mary’s Bay and Parnell will be rezoned to allow apartments of up to 15 storeys.
Submissions open on 3 November and close on 19 December this year.
• The information night is on 12 November at 7.30pm, at Harmony Hall. Preceded by Devonport Heritage AGM at 7pm.
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Tennis players rally round for cancer fundraiser
Keen tennis player Juliet Dewes had a special reason for joining about 50 people for a breast cancer fundraiser at Ngataringa Tennis Club last week.
Recently diagnosed with breast cancer, Dewes started treatment last week.
She gave a speech at the event, hoping speaking out would encourage others to get regular mammograms.
“People have got to get mammograms even into their 80s.”
It was a myth that self-checking could
pick up all forms of breast cancer, she said.
Even if one more woman got a mammogram from her going public, it was worth it, Dewes said.
The treatment and recovery meant last week was my “last match of the season”, she said.
A interclub player at Belmont, Dewes still plans to go to its regular Sunday doubles social afternoon, taking along some baking.
The Pink Day at Ngataringa was its fifth year of breast cancer fundraising. Social
tennis matches were being played, raffles sold and an auction held, with $4432.00) raised.
Players from Ngataringa, Belmont Park and Lake Pupuke clubs were invited to the event.
Sponsors included Hammer Hardware, Skin Sense, Arcade Spa, Paradox Books, Auckland Live, Frank Pilates, David Bell, Devonport Flowers, The Game, and Yarntons and its suppliers.
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Think pink... about 50 people joined in for Pink Day at Ngataringa Tennis Club, to help fight breast cancer
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A copy of a Charles Goldie painting banned from sale and display for 20 years is on show in Devonport – and on the market.
Devonport artist David Kayrouz was commissioned to paint a replica of Goldie’s controversial The Arrival of the Maoris in New Zealand in 2004 for the play Goldie, starring Michael Hurst and George Henare.
The original is kept at the Auckland Art Gallery and part of the agreement to allow the painting to be copied for the play was that it could not be sold or displayed.
However Kayrouz got the ban rescinded this year and the painting is now on view at the Satellite2 gallery in Victoria Rd at its Off the Wall group show of “curious, challenging, tongue-in-cheek” art.
Kayrouz falls firmly into the non-conformist category. The copy took him six weeks to paint and he attempted to use techniques similar to those used by Goldie, including rabbit-skin glue. As part of the move to showing the painting, Kayrouz became interested in Goldie’s history and ongoing relationships between Pākehā and Māori.
“The story behind it is full of riddles and paradoxes and different opinions…it [the painting] asks a lot of questions, which is what art should be all about.”
Kayrouz stamped “Not for sale or display” on the replica and following his research felt the need to add a Māori voice, adding the line “He tito, tēnā” in the last
couple of weeks. Translated, it means: “this is a fabrication”, which is how many Māori view the painting.
Kayrouz hopes his painting will spark further debate over Māori/Pākehā relations from 1900 to 2025.
A book from Goldie’s library The Practice of Oil Painting and Drawing by S J Solomon, inscribed “CF Goldie 1934” and with 350 signatures and notes by Goldie, is also on display and for sale. Kayrouz’ replica is “price on application”.
Kayrouz will give a talk about his journey with Goldie at 4pm, 9 November at the Devonport RSA clubrooms.
• Off the Wall at Satellite2 runs until 16 November.
Painting of a painting... artist David Kayrouz with his version of Charles Goldie’s work
Goldie recreation on show – and on the market
Giant sculptures bring Fort Takapuna to life
A striking steel sculpture of a wahine wearing a korowai has been chosen as the first recipient of a new award at Sculpture onShore.
In a prime clifftop position, the sculpture by engineer-turned-artist
Daniel McKerrow is one of many eye-catching works that thousands of people are expected to see at Fort Takapuna over the next three weeks. But it carries special significance, having been judged as the artwork best aligning with the values and mission of Women’s Refuge, the organisation the event fundraises for.
McKerrow told the Flagstaff he wasn’t aware of the Women’s Refuge Sculpture of Strength Award when he submitted to be included in the outdoor exhibition. “Even if it doesn’t sell, knowing it made an impact and raised awareness would be pretty cool,” he said.
Two years ago McKerrow’s giant sculpture of a tui was accepted for the last event – the first show he had entered, after his wife urged him to get serious about his art. The tui sold for $120,000 and now overlooks the sea at Vivian Bay.
The McKerrows and their young son travelled north from home in Hawera to be at the gala opening on Friday evening, where he was presented with a crystal trophy.
• Sculpture onShore opens to the public from 8-24 November. It is ticketed event and is closed on Monday.
Art trail: long grass on front field
Ahead of Sculpture OnShore’s opening, Fort Takapuna reserve has been tidied up. But long grass on the front field has been deliberately left intact, with Auckland Council saying much has been left unmown so paths could be created for visitors to wend their way around the site’s installations.
Council’s area operations manager, Eloi Fonseca, said the new mowing pattern was arranged in co-ordination with the show’s organisers to support pedestrian movement through the site and protect softer, wetter ground from damage during the event.
Works at the reserve include installing a new concrete drainage channel, studded with rocks, at the rear of the site, leading towards an underground bunker. It will be open for displays, along with the old fort near the car park and for the first time the signal post, which council has temporarily opened up.
Several clifftop areas of the site remain fenced off for public safety, after slips and cracking in 2023. Fonseca says the areas are monitored by council coastal and geotechnical teams.
Council maintains the reserve, which is Department of Conservation land. The dilapidated guardhouse by the driveway is a Defence asset, says council. Defence did not respond to queries on its state.
Grandmother’s spring after winter
Grandmother’s spring after winter
For Elaine, the realisation crept up slowly. First came the hesitation before lifting her youngest grandchild. Then the excuses when they ran to her with arms outstretched.
“I couldn’t pick the little ones up anymore,” the active grandmother admits, her voice catching at the memory. “I was unsure – am I going to drop them, or am I going to have to let go?”
The discomfort in her elbow had quietly stolen one of her greatest joys – those spontaneous cuddles and carries that grandparents treasure. Every morning brought familiar stiffness and another day of careful movements and missed moments.
That changed one evening when Elaine decided to try Koru FX, a natural New Zealand-made cream she’d heard about at her local pharmacy.
“I applied it to my elbow that was really bothering me that night,” she recalls. What happened next caught her completely off guard. “In the morning, I got up and actually didn’t have to worry about it. I thought, oh wow, this is what I’ve been looking for.”
The transformation Elaine describes is almost poetic in its simplicity. “You know how you feel between seasons, winter and summer, when the sun finally arrives? That’s how I’m feeling now.”
For months, she explains, the discomfort had been constant. “You’re always thinking about it, instinctively bracing yourself in the morning because you expect it to be there.”
But that first morning after using the cream brought an unfamiliar sensation – freedom. “I got up and didn’t have to think twice. I just moved naturally.”
Now, Elaine’s mornings start differently. Instead of hesitating, she reaches for her grandchildren without concern. The natural cream, containing ingredients like arnica, mānuka, and black pepper oils, has become part of her daily routine.
“Just last night, she came running in and jumped up,” Elaine shares, smiling at the memory. “I just grabbed her and picked her up. No second thought. Those moments – you can’t get them back once they’re gone.”
The relief isn’t just physical for Elaine. “It’s mentally liberating too. When you stop worrying about your body letting you down, you can just be present.”
She’s particularly pleased the product is natural and locally made. “I prefer natural products, especially being around the kids all the time. Finding something
Elaine and her grandaughter spending some time together.
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Elaine is among thousands of New Zealanders who’ve discovered Koru FX, seeking natural support for tired joints and muscles. The Christchurch-based company has built a following among Kiwis looking for locally-made alternatives.
For Elaine, the change has been profound yet simple. “When my granddaughter runs at me now, I don’t hesitate. I just open my arms. It feels like spring after a long winter.”
Her advice to others missing out on life’s moments? “Don’t accept limitations as permanent. I spent months avoiding cuddles, thinking that was just how things were now. But sometimes the right support can bring your spring back.”
Elaine keeps a bottle of Koru FX in different places around the house.
Zombies put on their sad rags for Halloween fundraiser
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Added ‘attraction’ at school’s annual fundraiser
Hundreds of children, parents and grandparents turned out for the Bayswater School Halloween Trail event last Saturday to raise money for its new junior playground. Among the events this year was a zombie run.
Right: As Edward Scissorhands is Alastair Cribbens with son Archie (9).
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Navy Museum director’s 20-year
It’s only a simple band from a sailor’s hat, but it’s one of the favourite items in the Navy Museum at Torpedo Bay for its retiring director and former Navy Commander David Wright.
Known as a “cap tally”, the hat band came from HMS Veronica, whose crew of Kiwi sailors were dispatched to Napier after the devastating earthquake of 1931. It was given to the father of a newborn baby girl, after the ship’s captain got talking to him as he emerged from the maternity hospital. On hearing the child was not yet named, the captain suggested “Veronica”, and handed over the cap tally bearing that name.
Eighty years later, “Roni’s” family gifted the cap tally bearing her full name to the museum, where it is now on display with photographs of troops helping amid the rubble.
The quirky saga resonates with Wright as an illustration of how service personnel and the wider community can connect in personal ways, making it very much in line with the sort of storytelling he says is a strength of the national museum. “People love the stories of people,” he says.
They also love the museum’s seaside setting, complete with playground and cafe, that attracts many families. “We were all really keen on making it an important community place,” he says.
“We’re not a museum of shush – the more they run around and have a good time, the more we like it.”
Hidden treasures... Tucked away in a museum cabinet is a sailor’s hat band that David Wright values highly
that went from a work duty to a proud passion project.
As commanding officer of HMS Philomel, he had responsibility for the old museum in Spring St.
It was “tiny and gloomy”, he says, with a heavy front door people struggled to open, low visitor numbers and no real community connection. He lobbied the military hierarchy for improvements. “They said ‘get on with it’.”
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Activities for children, working with schools and commemorating events including Anzac Day are part its outreach, ensuring Devonport, home of the Navy, embraces the museum.
The fact that 100,000 visitors a year get to experience all this reflects the more than 20 years Wright has spent realising a vision
It turned out that Wright, a civil engineer by trade who lives in Narrow Neck, was the ideal person to lead the project and take on the museum director’s role.
From 2004 he worked through possible local sites, then navigated the chosen spot’s heritage and archaeological issues and took on the “very hands-on” management of the museum’s design and construction, allowing
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mission telling stories of sailors, ships and the sea
it to open in 2010 with a budget kept under $2 million.
Added stages have since extended the museum’s footprint, with the atrium and old mine store being the most recent additions. There’s still room for a little more expansion seaside, and to build on strong World War I and II collections with more about the Royal New Zealand Navy’s history through the Korean and Malaya conflicts, to the end of the Leander-class frigates.
But that is all for another director – yet to be appointed – to navigate.
Sixty-five-year-old Wright says it is time to hand over the reins and enjoy living the good life locally.
“I want to sleep again – not wake up worrying about things at 3am,” he laughs. “The thing I will miss is the people and the staff are fantastic and all the old sailors and the community.” He says he ran a tight ship, with a terrific team of 13 staff, most full-time.
“But it’s not enough,” he adds.
Retirement ends Wright’s 41 years of Defence service, 28 spent in Navy uniform and 13 as a civilian. A farewell dinner at the museum and an afternoon tea marked the occasion last week.
He is looking forward to more time relaxing with wife Kirsten in the house they moved to in Narrow Neck in 2022 after decades in Belmont. “We’ve built our life down here,” he says. “My wife is an ocean swimmer, I play golf at Waitematā and fish.”
Their two daughters, Ashleigh and Stephanie, both live nearby, with their four grandchildren.
After a looming trip to Japan, summer swimming and walking are on the agenda.
“I’ve been so busy, I want to build community connections. Just time to sit at the local cafe with people for half an hour.”
Coming ashore... David Wright’s retirement
the end of 41 years of Defence Force service
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Costume on the green as croquet
North Shore Croquet Club celebrated its 120th anniversary last Sunday with members decked out in period dress for a tournament and lunch at its Wairoa Rd clubrooms.
“One-hundred-and-twenty years is an amazing achievement,” said club president Dianne Hale.
North Shore is believed to be the third-oldest croquet club in New Zealand, after the Parnell Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club and Nelson Croquet.
“There has been much discussion about the origin of the clubhouse, but the common consensus is that it was the jockey’s changing rooms when the golf course was established as a racecourse,” Hale said.
“Whatever the history, we are proud to have these wonderful facilities, both the clubhouse and the lawns,” she said in a speech at the celebrations.
A group photo of the 100 or so attendees may be used for a time capsule.
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Cricket veteran’s 25-year innings
Long-time North Shore Cricket Club official Kevin Robinson was honoured at the club’s opening day last weekend.
Robinson (pictured, above) has been a member of the club since 1971, and at its recent AGM he stood down as president after filling the role for 25 years.
In his honour, an award carrying Robinson’s name will be added to the club’s senior prizegiving list.
Neve taking on the world’s best
Rising tennis star Neve Upston has won his fourth national title in little over a year and is off to compete in elite junior tournaments in the United States pre-Christmas.
In late October he won the under-14 boys’ singles title at the prestigious NZ Tennis Junior Masters. The title follows a win in the 14-and-under Kiwi Indoor Championships in September, as well as titles last season at the national under-13 tennis champs and a junior invitational event at the ASB Classic. He was recently named Takapuna Grammar School’s Junior Sportsman of the Year.
Late this month, Neve will compete at the IMG international tournament at Bradenton, Florida, which features top juniors from around the world. And then
in December it’s on to the Junior Orange Bowl International Tennis Championship in Miami — one of the most prestigious junior tennis tournaments in the world, which brings together more than 700 of the top-ranked boys and girls in the under-12 and under-14 age groups.
Last weekend Neve played his first match in Auckland’s top-ranked Caro Bowl competition, losing his singles match in three sets to Max Flanagan, a rising junior player who is a couple of years older.
“So it was not such a bad result,” said Neve.
After Christmas he will play for his home club, Ngataringa, in North Harbour’s Chelsea Cup competition.
On the rise… Neve Upston with his fourth junior title in a year
Art for a career, art for a cause
Tony McNeight has given the gift of drawing to thousands. He spoke to Rob Drent about his passion for art, his landmark giant poppy and the Anzacs
The walk up the stairs of the Devonport RSA to his sketching classes provides something of a link between Tony McNeight’s passions for art and our fallen soldiers.
“Every morning when I go there I salute the boys and recite Flanders Fields,” says McNeight, an RSA committee member, describing climbing the stairwell hung with the names and photographs of Devonport men who lost their lives in foreign lands.
McNeight grew up in Devonport, moving to the suburb with his family aged 4 in the late 1950s and settling at Cheltenham Beach.
His dad Bill was a prominent sportsman. A West Coaster, he played rugby for the South Island against the touring British Lions in 1930 but “got the pip” with rugby when he wasn’t selected for the All Blacks, says Tony, and switched to league. He played for the Kiwis against Great Britain in 1936 and captained the New Zealand team to Australia in 1938. War spelt the end of his playing career, but as he served with the armed forces in the Pacific, Lieutenant McNeight played with the likes of the late All Black Fred Allen in a combined services rugby team in Fiji.
As a boy, Tony remembers attempting to follow in his father’s footsteps, going to rugby league musters at the North Shore Albions in Bayswater. But the sport wasn’t for him and he turned to football, playing for North Shore for many years, from midgets to senior reserves.
“I grew up on the beach – it was a great childhood,” he says. At least for his early years, until his father died suddenly in 1965 at 59. Tony was 10. He and his mum Gwyn moved to a new build in Ariho Terrace, in what was then a new subdivision in Devonport.
McNeight can’t pinpoint where his love of art came from. “I don’t believe it’s in people’s DNA, but I used to love lying on the floor as a kid drawing.”
He went to Vauxhall Primary and Takapuna Grammar, learning that he was better the arts than some other subjects. “I scored 5 per cent in School C Maths.” He fared better at history, with 76 per cent.
“I’ve always loved the connection between art and history. From palaeolithic times when men were painting in caves ... the history of colour and the relationship between colour, art history and civilisation, I’ve always found fascinating.”
McNeight left school after fifth form for a creative design course at Auckland Technical Institute. “It was old-school,” he recalls: commercial typography, designing logos. He entered the advertising industry aged 20. Before computers, design was hands-
on. Rothmans was an early client, and the work was exacting. For a cigarette packet design, McNeight had to letter 6-point type with a paintbrush. He worked for agencies including Colenso and then departed for London between 1981 and ’83.
“I was there for the World Cup in Spain in 1982 and got to watch some old mates from North Shore [Adrian Elrick and Duncan Cole] playing [for New Zealand].”
He returned from London married and had daughter Samantha. Design work was pouring in from the corporates leading up to the 1987 sharemarket crash. In 1986 he set up McNeight Designs, a company which went for 12 years. But a series of buyouts and restructures “left me on gardening leave”. So he left for Western Australia, settling in Bunbury, where he began tree bark paintings. They were large works, with an example hanging today in the Devonport Deli.
After a couple of years he found he was missing New Zealand and returned in 2012, again working in design.
The Giant Poppy — a 2015 installation in Auckland Domain — happened almost by accident.
Thanks to his father’s wartime service, McNeight had an affinity for Anzac Day and the men who went to war for their country,
and he would always attend an Anzac Day service. In 2014 he was marking the occasion at the cenotaph at Auckland Museum, and saw the many people laying poppies and “thought what a shame there was no acknowledgement of it”.
For some reason he gazed towards the field across from the museum, and “I had this epiphany of a great big poppy on the field there”.
The thought transformed into an idea, to a concept and then to a reality, a poppy comprising 59,000 discs symbolising the New Zealanders killed or wounded in WW1. Each disc was signed with a personal message by people who had a family member killed or wounded in wars, and they were placed in the shape of a giant poppy the size of a football field. The project raised $60,000 for the RSA.
Tapping contacts at NZ Steel, an old advertising client, the steel was supplied and then cut into discs by a small firm in Waihi. The biggest obstacle was getting through the various council departments for permission, but a meeting of around 10 stakeholders at the proposed site swung the balance. Sponsors came on board and McNeight had a team of five people working on the project.
“When you get something in motion and
Peace Poppy... Tony McNeight with his artwork at a Depot Anzac Day event
going forward, all sorts of things come into your world to make it happen.”
An almost magical moment happened when the poppy was being laid out at Auckland Domain. Around 2000 black discs formed the poppy’s “heart”.
Wind flipped one of the black discs over. “It was the one on which I had written a message to my father, William John McNeight,” McNeight recalled last week, still incredulous.
As part of the Giant Poppy event, McNeight also got to meet a “personal hero” – Victoria Cross winner Willy Apiata, who became something of an ambassador for the poppy. “It was a pleasure and an honour to have him there.”
On the last day of the nine-day exhibition of the Giant Poppy, the mayor of Arras in France happened to be in New Zealand.
He returned to France and contacted McNeight about setting up a similar but smaller poppy in the town in 2018 to commemorate the end of the war. McNeight crowdfunded to pay for airfares and took 5000 of the discs to France.
Devonport sculptor Helen Pollock was also part of the French poppy, with a centrepiece at the exhibition.
On the installation’s last day, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and French President Francois Hollande placed their own signed poppies to complete the work.
After the two giant poppies, McNeight “just walked away ... I went sailing around Greece for 10 days and took stock.”
He bought a sketchbook at the airport, and “I started sketching and thought I would quite like to teach this”.
He knew Erin Hill, who was living in Australia and had launched a drawing business. He launched Erin Hill in New Zealand in 2016 and has run classes since. More than 3000 people have attended his classes in Devonport, elsewhere in Auckland and the rest of New Zealand, and overseas.
Sketching trips to foreign countries have proven popular: he’s off to Hong Kong in two weeks. Other trips have included Sri Lanka and Tasmania. Groups are a maxi-
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mum of 10 and trips are usually for 10 days. In New Zealand, his tours have included the deep south of the South Island and Akaroa, the Kāpiti coast and Motueka.
McNeight, who had moved back to Devonport in 2015, wasn’t quite done with poppies, though, and created a Giant Peace Poppy of 500 discs at the Depot for an Anzac Day exhibition in 2019. He’s also painted a poppy mural on a wall at the Devonport RSA.
McNeight says his poppy creations have “reached their natural conclusion”, for now at least.
But he puts one on the lonesome soldier outside Devonport Library each year around Anzac Day.
His recent work, If Trees Could Speak, is a series of drawings that are his heartfelt response to the battle by Honour the Maun-
ga to save 345 exotic trees on Ōwairaka Mt Albert. After strolling around the maunga, taking photographs and sketching, he was struck by the sense that the destruction of nature really needed to stop.
On being in Devonport teaching art classes and living with wife Gayle, McNeight says he is “living his best life”.
But he will probably scale back his sketching classes over the next year or two. Turning 70 this year, McNeight and Gayle plan to travel more. Some of his favourite places are Niue and the island of Hydra in Greece. “It’s got no cars – only donkeys.”
But he reckons he’ll always return to Devonport, as “we’ve got everything you need here”. Even recreationally: in the last few years he’s taken up the genteel but competitive sport of croquet at the historic North Shore Croquet Club.
The art of croquet... McNeight at the North Shore Croquet Club 120th anniversary celebrations last Sunday
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By Rob Drent
Halloween celebrations and decorations around Devonport seem to become more and more prevalent every year, perhaps reflecting a national trend.
Some of the house/street fitouts must run into the thousands of dollars. What’s the appeal of what was once a primarily American celebration?
Is it just a bit of harmless fun which can be enjoyed by both adults and children alike, with family-oriented events common? Or some merriment after a long winter, at what is hopefully the tail end of a recession?
Whatever the motivation, I hope the most enthusiastic decorators put the material aside for the next year and it all doesn’t go to landfill. Receive 5% off your total grocery bill*
It will be interesting to see who buys the Lakewood Trading Company, WJ Scott Holdings and Hub Holdings properties which include 9 and 11 Clarence St (Asahi, Liquorland, Village Chiropractic and the defunct Bike and Beyond shop); 15 Clarence St (Hammer Hardware); 8 Victoria Rd (Yaza Gelato, Vondel and Devonport Dental); 26 Victoria Rd (Paradox and Portofino); 20 Wynyard St (Chiasso); and 22 Wynyard St (Firefly). They are about to go on the market as the owners sell the portfolio. Some will no
Stewart and Kate Maiava’s Waterview Rd home is a popular attraction for local children each Halloween Eve. Kate estimates they had welcomed around 500 visitors last Friday, judging from the amount of lollies dispensed from a front yard decorated with witches, skeletons and giant blow-up ghouls.
The family of four really got into Halloween when living in the United States, bringing decorations back with them four years ago and amassing more since, with Costco a key source. Kate, who grew up in a nearby street, says she loves the way the neighbourhood has got into the spirit of the event. “The kids find it so fun.”
The biggest challenge for the Maiavas is finding storage space at home so they can reuse their decorations.
Stanley Bay seems to have taken over from Tainui Rd to join Hauraki as the having the peninsula’s most Halloween friendly streets
Stanley Bay spooks... Stewart, Lennox (13) and Kate Maiava get into the Halloween spirit.
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Enrolment at the school is governed by an enrolment scheme, details of which are available from the school office.
Applications for 10 out-of-zone places in year 1, 2, 4, 5, 6 and zero in year 3 are now being invited for those students who will become eligible for enrolment during the period 2 February to 14 December 2026.
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Business Owner & Principal Matthew Smith has proudly
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Business Owner & Principal Matthew Smith has proudly appointed Brooke Hamilton as Branch Manager of Ray White Devonport
Business Owner & Principal Matthew Smith has proudly appointed Brooke Hamilton as Branch Manager of Ray White Devonport
Business Owner & Principal Matthew Smith has proudly appointed Brooke
Hamilton as
Branch Manager of Ray White Devonport
With an unwavering commitment to excellence and a reputation for delivering superior service that transcends the sale, Brooke Hamilton leads Ray White Devonport with grace, precision, and a passion for people. Her leadership is defined by warmth, professionalism, and a dedicated drive to empower both her team and their clients.
With an unwavering commitment to excellence and a reputation for delivering superior service that transcends the sale, Brooke Hamilton leads Ray White Devonport with grace, precision, and a passion for people. Her leadership is defined by warmth, professionalism, and a dedicated drive to empower both her team and their clients.
With an unwavering commitment to excellence and a reputation for delivering superior service that transcends the sale, Brooke Hamilton leads Ray White Devonport with grace, precision, and a passion for people. Her leadership is defined by warmth, professionalism, and a dedicated drive to empower both her team and their clients.
Boasting years of experience in real estate, Brooke has thrived both independently and within elite, high-performing teams. Her signature style is polished, proactive, and deeply personal.
With an unwavering commitment to excellence and a reputation for delivering superior service that transcends the sale, Brooke Hamilton leads Ray White Devonport with grace, precision, and a passion for people. Her leadership is defined by warmth, professionalism, and a dedicated drive to empower both her team and their clients.
Boasting years of experience in real estate, Brooke has thrived both independently and within elite, high-performing teams. Her signature style is polished, proactive, and deeply personal.
Boasting years of experience in real estate, Brooke has thrived both independently and within elite, high-performing teams. Her signature style is polished, proactive, and deeply personal.
Working as Branch Manager with the support of Matthew Smith , Brooke Hamilton is focused on cultivating a culture of growth, innovation, and inclusivity. Under her guidance, Ray White Devonport will set the benchmark for market leadership, powered by cuttingedge technology and a team that reflects the diversity and dynamism of the community it serves.
Boasting years of experience in real estate, Brooke has thrived both independently and within elite, high-performing teams. Her signature style is polished, proactive, and deeply personal.
Working as Branch Manager with the support of Matthew Smith , Brooke Hamilton is focused on cultivating a culture of growth, innovation, and inclusivity. Under her guidance, Ray White Devonport will set the benchmark for market leadership, powered by cuttingedge technology and a team that reflects the diversity and dynamism of the community it serves.
Working as Branch Manager with the support of Matthew Smith , Brooke Hamilton is focused on cultivating a culture of growth, innovation, and inclusivity. Under her guidance, Ray White Devonport will set the benchmark for market leadership, powered by cuttingedge technology and a team that reflects the diversity and dynamism of the community it serves.
Brooke’s industry insights and approachable nature make her not just a manager, but a mentor, a motivator, and a trusted advisor.
Working as Branch Manager with the support of Matthew Smith , Brooke Hamilton is focused on cultivating a culture of growth, innovation, and inclusivity. Under her guidance, Ray White Devonport will set the benchmark for market leadership, powered by cuttingedge technology and a team that reflects the diversity and dynamism of the community it serves.
Brooke’s industry insights and approachable nature make her not just a manager, but a mentor, a motivator, and a trusted advisor.
Brooke’s industry insights and approachable nature make her not just a manager, but a mentor, a motivator, and a trusted advisor.
Brooke’s industry insights and approachable nature make her not just a manager, but a mentor, a motivator, and a trusted advisor.
She is invested in helping her agents unlock their potential and deliver extraordinary results for every client.
She is invested in helping her agents unlock their potential and deliver extraordinary results for every client.
She is invested in helping her agents unlock their potential and deliver extraordinary results for every client.
If you’re interested in learning how Ray White Devonport can help take your real estate business to a whole new level, make contact with Brooke today for a respectfully confidential discussion. Afterall Ray White is Australasia’s largest real estate agency group, with over 1,000 offices across Australia, New Zealand, and several other countries.
She is invested in helping her agents unlock their potential and deliver extraordinary results for every client.
If you’re interested in learning how Ray White Devonport can help take your real estate business to a whole new level, make contact with Brooke today for a respectfully confidential discussion. Afterall Ray White is Australasia’s largest real estate agency group, with over 1,000 offices across Australia, New Zealand, and several other countries.
If you’re interested in learning how Ray White Devonport can help take your real estate business to a whole new level, make contact with Brooke today for a respectfully confidential discussion. Afterall Ray White is Australasia’s largest real estate agency group, with over 1,000 offices across Australia, New Zealand, and several other countries.
If you’re interested in learning how Ray White Devonport can help take your real estate business to a whole new level, make contact with Brooke today for a respectfully confidential discussion. Afterall Ray White is Australasia’s largest real estate agency group, with over 1,000 offices across Australia, New Zealand, and several other countries.
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Class of 2025 acknowledged at Senior Prizegiving
The Takapuna Grammar School Class of 2025 has signed off with 354 Year 13s walking across the stage at the Bruce Mason Centre to receive their graduation certificate.. Here are some of our top award winners:
Proxime Accessit April Liang
Summa Cum Laude
Academic Excellence
Year 13:
Gavin Wu
June Spooner Award 1st in Level 2: Charlotte Crotty
Spooner Cup Best School Spirit
Overall Year 13:
Zen Lamb
Legacy Cup - Student worthy of recognition for service to the school: Freida Jewell
Summa Cum Laude Academic Excellence Year 13: Diana Ding
Spooner Cup Best School Spirit
Overall Year 13:
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Success Cup - For a Special Education student who has demonstrated the true meaning of success: Shonny Stevens
The Dux Cup Daniel Wang with Principal Mary Nixon
White Cup All Round Effort and School Spirit Year 12:
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Positioned on a generous, flat freehold section, 63 Bayswater Avenue presents a rare chance to secure a property with huge potential on the sought-after Bayswater peninsula. Built with solid bones, this three-bedroom home offers an excellent foundation for its next chapter, whether that's enjoying as is, undertaking a stylish renovation, a smart extension, or a complete redevelopment to fully capitalise on the land. Inside, the home is neat and comfortable, featuring light-filled living and a functional kitchen. Outside, the expansive backyard invites endless possibilities, from gardens and entertaining zones to future plans that make the most of the site's scale and sun. Opportunities like this are increasingly rare, act quick!
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Waterfront apartment in Devonport village
When it comes to dream Devonport downsize options, it doesn’t get more central than the Esplanade Apartments. Immersed at the heart of the village and directly across the street from the ferry building, the landmark Queens Parade complex is comprised of just 16 residences and this firstfloor apartment is one of a tightly-held handful on the waterfront, savouring truly spectacular views of the city skyline and the busy harbour. The concrete block building was designed by acclaimed architect Geoff Richards and is generously proportioned, with residents’ needs and privacy carefully considered at every turn. The complex is pet-friendly, has lift access and has been freshly refurbished with stylish modern touches throughout, the ultimate safe and secure lock up and leave. bayleys.co.nz/1470786
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Art Deco charm with modern luxury
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Festive Bites & Delights
FRIDAY 28 NOVEMBER 2025
3.00-9.00PM
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Be ready for Christmas early this year while supporting Waterwise!
This charity event features festive food stalls, including homemade Christmas cakes, Christmas decorations for sale, and live music.
Enjoy the BBQ, and buy a ticket to win a Christmas ham by Well Hung, plus other fabulous prizes and silent Auction items including Te Motu Wines.
Join Devonport Rotary and Bayleys Devonport at our Christmas Market.
20 years ago from the Flagstaff files
• A discount is mooted for locals who attend the Devonport Food and Wine Festival.
• Arthur Jewell is pictured with his great-grandson Oliver, the fourth generation of all-male offspring in the family. It was 97 years since a Jewell daughter was born.
• Around 40 locals, including the Devonport Walkers, bed and breakfast owners and other local businesses, decorate Christmas trees and garlands for placement around the village.
• Laura McNeish dons a HumptyDumpty costume outside the Victoria Theatre as the campaign to save the historic building intensifies.
• Takapuna Grammar School painters Henry Longstaff, Cleo Corey and Robin Fryer exhibit their works at the Depot.
• A green cycleway in Cheltenham through Devonport Domain and Vauxhall
Reserve was approved in principle by the Devonport Community Board. North Shore Rugby Club objected to the plan, saying the route was too close to the clubrooms and the No. 2 field’s deadball line.
• Music lovers — including Kiwi icon Chris Knox — pack the Masonic for a farewell gig for The Checks before the band leaves to support Oasis around Australia and then on to the UK.
• Mainly Music draws around 50 families to Holy Trinity Church for a concert for toddlers.
• A barrage of sporting races are planned for Devonport over the summer of 2005/06, raising concerns with the Devonport Community Board that the many events create disruption for businesses, without generating any flow-on customers.
• Devonport RSA founding member,
former president and life member Jack Robinson dies aged 91.
• Methodist minister Robyn Goudge, dressed in period costume, is rowed ashore in Devonport by partner Geoff Allen as the church celebrates 150 years in Devonport.
• The Weetbix Tryathlon, one of the country’s largest children’s sporting events, is planned for Narrow Neck beach in April 2006.
• Takapuna Grammar has been labelled the School of Rock after spawning two of the country’s brightest young bands – The Checks and The Electric Confectionaires.
• Takapuna Grammar’s head of music, Penny Watson – who had no small role in the development of both The Checks and The Electric Confectionaires, as well as many other young musicians – is the Flagstaff interview subject.
Solved: the mystery of the disappearing flowers
Suspicions that vandals had attacked Devonport’s colourful flower beds were misplaced – the plants were removed by council contractors as part of routine replacement work.
The colourful flowers disappeared overnight on Tuesday last week, prompting readers to contact The Flagstaff with allegations that someone was up to no good.
“These flower beds are changed several times a year as part of the annual bedding cycle, which keeps the gardens healthy, refreshed, and visually appealing throughout the seasons,” said Eloi Fonseca, Manager, Area Operations Devonport-Takapuna and Kaipātiki.
“The timing of this work is planned in advance, as the soil must be treated, weeded and reconditioned before each new planting to maintain soil quality and ensure the next display establishes well.”
New seasonal flowers have already been prepared for planting, and the area will be replanted within the coming week, weather permitting, Fonseca said.
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at the Devonport Community House in November!
COMMUNITY TABLE TENNIS
Wednesday 2-4pm
Thursdays 12-2pm
Come and enjoy playing some table tennis with your community. Balls, bats, tables and refreshments provided. Enjoy a mid day break and a run around!
$2 Koha entry
TEA AND BOARD GAMES
Thursdays 10.30am-12.30am
Join our keen board game players every Thursday. Games can be chosen by the players, the House has a variety of games- so come and meet some friendly locals and have a cuppa on us!
$2 Koha Donation
DIGITAL HELP
Fridays 10am-12pm
Digital Help is for anyone who is needing help with their technical device. For your iPad, tablet, laptop or phone, our technical professionals are here to answer your questions. Every Friday we will be holding these sessions (during term time) and you will be able to bring your device and questions for some one on one help from one of our professional support team members FREE!
TAMARIKI & PĒPI PLAYGROUP
Wednesday 9.15-11.15am and Fridays 12.30pm-2.30pm
Come along with your little babies, toddlers and preschoolers and enjoy playing, singing and meeting other families. Our wonderful Playgroup leader Tami always sets up fantastic activities for the little ones- creating a nurturing and fun environment for the whole family!
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Thousands hit the road for 2025 marathon
More than 17,000 people took part in the 2025 Auckland Marathon, which started on the Devonport waterfront last Sunday. The full marathon attracted more than 3,200 runners, the most since 2014.
Daniel Balchin won the men’s marathon in 2:19:55 and Brigid Dennehy won the women’s event, with a course record time of 2:38:10. In the half-marathon, Christopher Dryden won the men’s title (1:05:24) and Lisa Cross the women’s title (1:15:28).
NORTH SHORE RUGBY FOOTBALL CLUB AGM
Notice is hereby given that the Annual General Meeting of the North Shore Rugby Football Club Inc. will be held in the Clubrooms, Vauxhall Road, Devonport on Tuesday 25th November 2025 at 7pm.
Agenda:
1. Apologies
2. Obituaries
3. Confirmation of minutes of 2024 AGM
4. Presentation of annual reports and statements
5. Election of officers and committee members
6. Appointment of auditor
7. Notice of Motion: That the Club adopt a new Constitution to replace the existing Constitution dated 2009, to align with the Incorporated Societies Act 2022. These changes are in accordance with the requirements of the Incorporated Societies Act 2022. The proposed changes are a requirement of the new Act and must be included before 5th April 2026. A vote will be required, and approval will require 66% of the formal votes cast.
8. Subscriptions for 2026
9. Service Awards
10. North Harbour Rugby Union
11. General Business
Copies of the proposed new Constitution are available from the Club office or can be requested by email at secretary@northshorerugby.co.nz. By order of the Executive Committee
North Shore Rugby Football Club (Inc.)
Dated: 29 October 2025
Off and running… competitors stream out of Devonport
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New Zealand’s media continues to undergo massive change with job losses in all sectors.
The common reasons for the media cutbacks and closures are declining advertising revenues and rising costs. Newspapers across the country have faced print bill increases of 56 per cent over the last five years.* (Our print bill has gone up $6000 per month during this time.)
At the same time, New Zealand companies are spending millions of dollars on Google and Facebook advertising. This money goes offshore, with massive impacts on New Zealand journalism and jobs. Journalist numbers in New Zealand have dropped from 4000 to 1700 in the past 20 years.*
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Football stalwart devoted to North Shore United
Bill Lissington, a life member of North Shore United Football Club and a long-time manager of its premier and reserve sides, has died aged 64.
Lissington (pictured) spent his early years living in the South Pacific, in Western Samoa and Tonga, where his father John held management jobs.
For his intermediate schooling he was sent back to Palmerston North, and later boarded at Palmerston North Boys’ High School for three years before his parents returned to New Zealand and the North Shore. He went to Takapuna Grammar for his final two years of school.
The Lissington family became wellknown in Devonport: John ran Esquire Menswear in Victoria Rd, with Bill helping out behind the counter after school and on the weekends. Mum Anna Lissington worked at Paul Titchener’s stationery shop for many years and later at its successor, Haywards Paper Power in Victoria Rd, until she retired.
Alongside his family, football – and specifically North Shore United – became Lissington’s overriding passion. He followed the progress of his son Harry through the grades and into North Shore United’s first team, for which he has played more than 100 games.
Lissington was team manager for the club’s senior men’s teams for much of the past 10 years.
A highlight was the team winning the Northern Men’s premier league in 2019.
Lissington had a career in finance and asset management, most recently working for Bayleys’ Real Estate investment sales
team, and he combined his sales and finance skills expertly in seeking key club sponsors to raise the money for North Shore’s high-performance programme.
Long-time North Shore United club chair Steve Browning said meetings with Bill Lissington always involved the “three F’s: football, funding and family.”
Browning recalled that Lissington was a master salesman known for his attention to detail. For instance for premier home games he would put out cones in the carpark to make sure there was a place for sponsors’ vehicles.
In 2022 Lissington was made a life member of North Shore United Football Club, where his funeral was held late last month.
Lissington suffered a brain aneurysm while supporting the club’s U19 team at Western Springs on 11 October and died in hospital two days later. He had been looking forward to the birth of a grandchild in December.
North Shore’s under-19 team travelled to Napier for a tournament over Labour Weekend and dedicated their matches to the club stalwart.
• Lissington is survived by his parents John and Anna Lissington, children Harry and Madeline, grandchildren Marcus and Kaysen, brother Andrew and sister Julia.
THE NAVY COMMUNITY NEWSLETTER
MANAWANUI DIVE
Lieutenant Christian Lloyd, Officer in Charge of the diving contingent in Samoa in the aftermath of the sinking of HMNZS Manawanui, will receive a Chief of Defence Force commendation.
Within 24 hours of Manawanui sinking Lieutenant Lloyd and his dive team were on a C130 Hercules to Samoa. Within 48 hours they were in the water.
Lieutentant Lloyd established a forward operating post near the wreck site and a safety framework for his team. Manawanui had sunk in a very difficult location, 30 metres down on a reef with a heavy swell.
His commendation cites his outstanding leadership, dedication
TEAM LEADER RECEIVES AWARD
and courage, noting the hazardous nature of investigating a recently sunken vessel, with parts of the ship collapsing internally.
“This is probably some of the most dangerous and challenging types of diving you can do. Everyone had to be switched on, the moment you got on the dive boat.”
The team conducted assessments of the wreck over five weeks, conducting diving operations every day.
“It was challenging, exciting and a lot of pressure. I take my hat off to my team – the divers, the logisticians, the engineers. They worked so hard to achieve the intent of what the New Zealand Defence Force needed.”
Devonport Naval Base security reminder – for the safety of the community, please take care and remain outside the 60-metre perimeter of the Naval Base at all times. This includes when swimming, diving, kayaking, fishing and sailing.
Path to nowhere looks set to go somewhere – eventually
Ngataringa Road’s footpath to nowhere outside the William Sanders retirement village is slowly going somewhere.
Auckland Council is considering design plans that would mean people no longer need to cross grass to get to the bus stop near the village entrance.
“When the design plans are approved, the physical works are estimated to take three weeks to complete, subject to weather conditions,” said council’s manager, environment monitoring, Robert Laulala. He did not specify any time when work might be done.
The footpath in front of the village on either side of the bus stop is not continuous, making smooth access awkward, especially for people with mobility issues. The seemingly illogical situation was raised during the local body election campaign, when candidate Scott Macarthur – now a member of the local board – said he would push to get it rectified.
But work to resolve the matter has been under way for some time.
Village owner Ryman Healthcare was required to pay for a new footpath as part of its consent conditions for the village construction. By agreement with council, much of the work was completed, but due
to council concerns that the proposed footpath intersected with the roots of several protected trees, three sections were left in grass while a plan was worked on.
A Ryman spokesperson said that through its engineering consultant, it had provided council with another updated design following several discussions over the past couple of years. “The aim is to complete the footpath whilst ensuring we maintain protection of the trees along the village side of Ngataringa Road.”
Ryman said a consultant on behalf of Auckland Transport (AT) had recently come back to it with further queries, which its consultant was responding to. “Hopefully this is the final adjustment required to enable approval so that the works can be undertaken.”
For the council, Laulala said the footpath sections initially built were those outside the protected tree areas.
“For the remaining areas, further design approval and consultation have been necessary to ensure alignment with planning requirements.” For the past 18 months there had been ongoing collaboration between AT and Ryman, he said. “The presence of protected trees has generated design complexities.”
Mind the gap… the breaks in the footpath mean pedestrians wanting to reach the bus stop have to cross the grass
Harmony Hall roof nearly finished after fundraising by seniors
The Harmony Hall re-roofing project is nearing completion, even though lifting the lid on the building revealed a few extra issues.
Devonport Senior Citizens Association president John Davy told the Flagstaff pleasing progress had been made, with work likely tracking just a little over its budget of around $134,800, although final invoices were yet to land.
The association’s well-used hall on Wynyard St urgently needed work to make it water-tight, with the project paid for by a community fundraising campaign, reserves and through securing grants.
Davy said the hall’s roof was replaced in two sections, with the first side done under wraps by the end of October, before roofers switched to working on the other end-to-end half, which he hoped would be unveiled by mid-November.
Removing old roofing iron revealed the need to restore two steel girders, and this had been completed.
Wide flashing between the hall and the apartments on its southern side had also been reinforced.
But much of the work needed was done inside the hall, where “the whole wall was wet”, said Davy of its northern side. A panel of reinforced glass that ran the internal length of the building was removed and wall repanelling done. Under the roof, reframing was needed, along with insulation and fresh ply for the ceiling.
Improved spouting and flashing on the troublesome wall would deal with overflows.
Stormwater upgrades are part of the project, with Davy saying this involved pipes running beneath the building from the back to the front, then connecting to the street system.
Once the work wrapped up, the association’s next task would be internal repainting and a general spruce-up to improve the look of the interior.
“There’s talk of putting in wheelchair [accessible] toilets, subject to funding,” Davy added.
After all the efforts, hall users were keen to celebrate with a musical night, he said. “We will have a bash of some sort before the end of the year.”
Arts Briefs
Evening with author
Songwriters vie for prize
The annual Depot songwriting competition attracted 78 entries. On Monday organisers began short-listing for final judging. The winner, to announced later this month, gets two days recording time at Depot Sound.
Author Olivia Spooner will be talking about her newest novel The American Boys on 10 November, 7pm at Devonport Library.
Lights, sound, sets – theatre’s man working behind
For 35 years, Scott Thomas has been a vital man behind the scenes at Company Theatre. In more than 40 productions, the Bayswater resident has variously done lighting, sound and set design.
For Company’s latest play, The Cemetery Club – opening this weekend at the Rose Centre in Belmont – his handiwork is again an essential asset allowing actors to shine. “It’s a storytelling environment,” says Thomas (right) of creating clever sets.
Throw in his work on Belmont Primary School productions and on musical theatre shows at venues ranging from the PumpHouse in Takapuna to the Civic in Auckland city and the retired electrical engineer can claim many thousands of hours enabling others to be seen and heard to best advantage.
Thomas is not one to blow his own trumpet, saying that what keeps him involved is “just being with the people and working together”.
The Cemetery Club director Kathy Gent is more effusive. “I just love working with him because we’re on the same wavelength, wanting perfection,” she says. From long hours getting sound cues right, to beautifully lit shows through the many years they have worked together, she adds: “He just gets on with it and has a dry sense of humour.”
Although still trim and spry at age 80, Thomas has in recent times handed over main sound and lighting duties, having decided clambering up ladders is no longer for him. Instead of being stuck in a sound and lighting box during shows, he now has the luxury of watching as the audience does, able to run a critical eye over how his sets backdrop the on-stage action.
For The Cemetery Club, he is quick to credit cast member and ceramicist Julie Hollis and her creative husband Peter for fashioning the headstones that stand on half of the stage he built. The other half is a room design he constructed and painted. The simple split stage device is used to good effect, with lighting and an old iron gate helping differentiate the settings.
Exacting eye... Scott Thomas sets up another realistic room on stage
In the play, set in New York, Julie Hollis and fellow actors Catherine Maunsell and Lynn Webster play three widows who meet regularly at their husbands’ graves before two of them decide to cut loose from their grief, to comedic effect.
Hollis explains how the gravestones were carved from polystyrene, with texture and paint added and then engravings done in Hebrew.
Company Theatre sponsor Dil’s Funeral Services chipped into assist in their production.
Gent’s view is that the title of the play, which also features Reg Williams and Lauren Brenner, might sound depressing from its title, but its story is anything but. “It’s about relishing life and middle age and moving on,” she says, all underpinned by themes of
friendship and loyalty.
The same could be said about the always “dependable” Thomas, who Gent says has stepped in to bail out both the Rose Centre and Company Theatre when technical glitches struck. Living nearby, he was able to rush down and save one evening by restoring power after the house lights went down just before a production was due to start.
His interest in theatre was sparked early, with Shakespeare shows on the riverbank in Christchurch. At the time, the boy from Wairoa in Hawke’s Bay was attending Christ’s College. When he took up an electrician’s apprenticeship in Rotorua he again dabbled in theatre, using his trade skills backstage.
Further qualifications and work intervened, including a stint in Sweden on electrical commissioning projects.
In the 1970s and 1980s, while living in Wellington and Waikanae, he got back into theatre, including helping found the Coasters group and serving a term as president of Kapiti Players.
But it was a move to Auckland, settling in his wife’s home suburb of Bayswater in 1985, that built his long association with North Shore Music Theatre, and then Company, before its Rose Centre base was built. Until the mid-1990s, it operated out of the old St Michael’s Church on Bayswater Rd.
The couple took on their own renovation project overlooking Ngataringa Bay. He chuckles as he recalls the old state house they bought when the tenants were away. “The people who were in there always smoked –there was a lot of ‘fragrance’ and pot plants in the bath,” he says.
Plenty of sugar soap on the lounge ceiling helped transform it into the Thomas family home, with son Daniel and daughter Nicki both going through Belmont Primary and Intermediate and Takapuna Grammar School – a path now being followed by his grandchildren, who all live nearby.
Among them are two sporting standouts: Mischa Thomas, a hot contender for a Winter Olympics spot in half-pipe skiing, and her cousin Connor Brady, a rising decathlete.
Thomas retired from paid work 15 years ago. One of his main roles was at Lion Breweries managing fitouts nationwide, followed by consultancy for Beca Carter, including setting up a brewery in China. He and a mate then joined together, picking up Lion work the company had outsourced.
His main theatre interest, fitted around work demands, was initially in lighting, but he developed his sound and video skills and also ended up stage-managing some big musical theatre shows, which he says tend to be more complicated than drama productions.
His first Company show was Babes in the Wood in 1990, with another milestone being A Chorus Line, the first musical at the Bruce
61a Victoria Road, Devonport
the scenes
Mason Centre in Takapuna after it opened in the mid-1990s.
He was back there again last year with North Shore Music Theatre, for Matilda the Musical. In between, there have been shows at the Civic and Sky City, including 42nd Street, Cats, Mary Poppins, Saigon, Hairspray and Wicked
Due to its atmosphere, the Civic is a favourite venue, but for its conviviality and convenient location the Rose Centre reigns.
For Company, Gent reminds Thomas of a complicated two-storey set he made for Fawlty Towers in 2012 and “sunflower lighting” for Calendar Girls the year before.
“It was quite a nice effect, letters would come down and then dissolve to nothing,” he explains modestly, describing how he used two projectors to depict a deluge of mail falling from the sky and being sent to the show’s unlikely pinups.
Set construction is done off-site, often re-using standard flats. Then over a weekend Thomas and other volunteers set up on stage, doing painting and decorating.
The methodical operator likes a deadline, saying: “One of the big things about theatre compared with building projects – a lot of those tend to get extended; in theatre you don’t have that choice.”
• The Cemetery Club is on from 8-22 November, including two matinees. Book at companytheatre.co.nz
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Good Fortune (M)
Pike River (M)
Prime Minister (M)
Saint-Ex (M)
Springsteen: Deliver Me From Nowhere (M)
Mr. Burton (M)
A Little Something Extra (M)
Black Phone 2 (R16)
Roofman (M)
SPECIAL EVENTS & NEW RELEASES
First Thursdays: Kobi A Life Work (E) 103min 6 Nov
KinoFest German Film Festival (Continues) 1-9 Nov Nuremberg - Remembrance Day Advance Screening 11 Nov
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Making new memories... Cemetery Club cast members at rehearsal are (from left): Catherine Maunsell, who plays Lucille; Julie Collis (Ida); and Lynn Webster (Doris). Collis and husband Peter created the set’s headstones.
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