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Local board eyes Bays suburbs... p2
Issue 136 30, 2019 2024 Issue 1 –Issue 15– 115 – 15 2019 March 2019 Issue 1 March –August March
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Squash ace battles cancer... p14-15
Funeral director stars in Hall comedy... p22-23
Amaia developer refuses to light public path Developers of the Amaia apartment and hotel complex are refusing to install lighting on a public path and boardwalk at the coastal Esmonde Rd site. “They don’t think the lighting is particularly useful,” an Auckland Council officer told a dismayed Devonport-Takapuna Local
Board, which had requested lighting for the path. The developer had told council staff it did not consider pathway lighting was necessary because a seven-storey building nearby would provide passive surveillance of the path, the board heard at its August
meeting. It also did not wish to encourage people onto the site after dark. Board member Mel Powell said this was annoying to hear. “It’s dark at 6pm in winter, when people are coming home.” Lighting was also not just desirable for surveillance, To page 4
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Still got it! Westlake machine rolls on
Familiar feeling... Westlake’s ongoing dominance of North Harbour secondary schools rugby was celebrated by supporters and player Jacob Ludlow after the final at North Harbour Stadium last Sunday, two days after the school’s footballers continued their own title streak. Stories and photos, pages 6-12.
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