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Takapuna sand levels at 25-year low... p2
Issue 92 –15October 14, 2022 Issue 1 –Issue 2019 March 2019 Issue 1 March – 115– 15 March 2019
Council plants ‘wrong tree in wrong place’... p7
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Reduced speed limits confirmed... p10
Changing of the guard as voters opt for shakeup
Half of the Devonport-Takapuna Local Board have been swept from their seats, with voters delivering a mandate for change to the now dominant A Fresh Approach ticket. Its leader and returning board member, Toni van Tonder, was the second highest pollling candidate and is set to chair the six-person board. She brings in three new
faces with her: Terence Harpur, Melissa Powell and Peter Allen. Veteran politician George Wood topped the poll, recognising both his high-profile and a city-wide swing to centre-right candidates. This saw Gavin Busch elected in sixth place, joining Wood under the Community and Residents banner, with its third candi-
date, Mike Single, close behind. Heart of the Shore, with board chair Ruth Jackson, were dumped after a tetchy term. Van Tonder said she wanted a more collaborative approach around the board table this term and had reached out to Wood, despite their having some policy differences. To page 4 and 5
Lapping it up: Northern views hold sway in election
New brooms... The winning A Fresh Approach team of (left to right) Melissa Powell, Terence Harpur, Toni van Tonder and Peter Allen – pictured on the jetty at Lake Pupuke – have secured four of six seats on the Devonport-Takapuna Local Board. They hail from a broad geographic spread of the area.
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