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Takapuna, Milford, Castor Bay, Forrest Hill and Sunnynook ELIVERED FORTNIGHTLY AN INDEPENDENT VOICE Issue 1 – 15 March 2019
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Amaia wins approval for major expansion... p3
AN INDEPENDENT VOICE Issue 1 – 15 March 2019 Takapuna landmark needs Westlake Boys footballers expensive repairs... p5 win ‘quadruple’... p13
Summer of dredging looms for Rangitoto channel Beachgoers will be in for a less picturesque view of Rangitoto this summer, while the channel is dredged to allow bigger freight ships into the country. The Rangitoto Channel is being deepened from a minimum depth of 12.5 metres at low tide to 14 metres.
Work is scheduled to begin before the end of the year and is tide and weather dependent. It could take up to 12 months. Ports of Auckland head of communications Julie Wagener told the Observer ships using the channel can today carry 5000 20-foot containers, but shipping lines want to start
bringing in vessels with 6000 to 7000 containers in the next two to three years. In the future, Auckland will have to accommodate new ‘Panamax’ ships – a description related to size limits for ships travelling through the Panama Canal – that can carTo page 3 ry around 12,000
Young organisers hammer a Thor point
Likely lads... Nathan Montgomery dressed as Elmo and Theo Powell as Thor at Sunnynook Park before the start of the month-long Sunnynook “marathon” the local schoolboys have volunteered to keep going for the community. Story, page 7.
SIMON WATTS GET NORTH SHORE Authorised by Simon Watts MP, 1 Earnoch Ave, Takapuna