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Heterosexual carnivorous taxpayer An exciting week in the Bay of Plenty.

the dog on Friday. There was a bit of time available on Thursday, should any last-minute vital commitments pop up. Such as getting a perm. It didn’t start out that I wonder if John Key’s diary is that full. He might way. My extensive elecbe the Prime Minister and have to choose his lantronic calendar noted, in guage carefully when describing the particular fashion order of national impor- attributes of others, but I bet he doesn’t have to deal tance, that I was expected with the wrath of a frustrated Labrador if, by some to put out the recycling terrible malfunction in Microsoft Outlook, the dog on Wednesday and flea flea treatment ends up a week late. John Ansell visited to talk about racism in New Zealand and some protesters turned up to tell him they are quite happy with the racism we have here and that he should go away.

The episode reinforced (not that it was necessary) that I am extremely pleased to be a heterosexual carnivorous taxpayer, as I have seen the homosexual, vegetarian beneficiaries, and they are an angry and confused bunch.

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TURN TO PAGE 10 unless you’re sure your metabolism can handle it. In the meantime, here’s some other news from the week which might be a calming influence.

Eclipsed by anonymity

This week we witnessed a rare eclipse of the sun by the moon. It’s not the only thing eclipsed. It seems a lot of local voters are in the dark when it comes to knowing the

Fashion dilemma

My greatest concern about attending this important meeting, while the future of race relations in this country hangs in the balance, was deciding what to wear. My black outfit was in the wash, so I decided I should wear the white outfit. But somehow, it just didn’t feel right. I’m not sure the pointy hat with the eye holes cut in it would get through the low front doors of the hotel. So I decided not to go. Which turned out to be a good decision, as the protesting didn’t turn out to be particularly dramatic and it was a good night on television.

Bleating masses

The RR column from last week elicited a large amount of bleating from a small amount of complainers. Basically, from a lot of long-winded name calling, we have deduced that: A. They don’t want to be called gay. B. They do want to be called gay. C. No one else wants to be called gay. Not even Gay. (See the letter from Gaye in this edition) www.heartland.co.nz Ph: 07 578 3212

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people who make decisions for them. About a year ago, our newsroom canvassed random people on the street to see how many good folk on the streets of the Bay recognised our local councillors. We suspected that many of the faces making important decisions on your behalf were not connecting well with the community. We were shocked to discover that, apart from a few recognising the mayor, hardly anyone knew the rest of the crew.

Hard questions

This week we asked the same questions. The answers were similar. It seems our city councillors haven’t made much impression on the locals! A few picked out the mayor and one chap did well to find Mitt Romney in the line-up. Check out a few clips from our street poll, on SunLive.

Parting thought

Finally, a parting thought from Wally: Viagra is now available in powder form to put into your tea, it does not enhance your performance but it stops your biscuits from going soft. IMPORTANT STUFF: All material is copyright and may not be reproduced without written permission of the publishers. Opinions expressed are not necessarily those of the publishers. The Weekend Sun takes every effort to ensure the accuracy of all published information however will not be liable in any way for errors or omissions or the subsequent use of information published. Important days this month: 20th, Transgender Day of Remembrance; 21st, World Hello Day. You’re too late for World Kindness Day. It was on the 13th. World Coming Out Day was on October 11, so you’ll have to wait for next year.

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Stagnation by casualisation The practice of replacing permanent jobs with casual workers is being blamed for Tauranga’s stalled population growth and poor regional economic performance. Former Waterfront Workers’ Union delegate Jim Gibson says while casual workers can be earning good money, it doesn’t satisfy the banks’ lending criteria. “A casual worker cannot borrow money for a mortgage and he cannot borrow money for hire purchase, because he cannot declare an income,” says Jim. “So even though you have a lot of money coming in with an hourly rate of $24 an hour – some

of it’s $18 – the money is good, the hours are long – but when they walk out the gate after a 12 hour shift, they haven’t got a job until someone picks up the phone and gives them one. “How do you survive raising a family like this, you really have to wonder.” There are currently about 800 people employed at the Port of Tauranga and about 92 per cent of them are casual workers. Before the restructuring there were 731 watersiders permanently employed by the Waterfront Industry Commission, down to 545 permanent employees in 1989. “Go back to the ’70s, ’80s, this place was bursting at the seams,” says Jim.

“As a result of our earning capital on the wharf, every business in this area boomed.” Today the banks in the Bay of Plenty are still full of money, but nobody can get to it because they are not permanently employed. “The banks are bulging at the seams with money and no-one can borrow it, and that’s the reason. I could be wrong, but I’ve been giving this a lot of thought for a long time. Our economy is stagnant and the reason it is stagnant is casualisation.” Regional GDP figures per capita, produced by Business and Economic Research Ltd, show the Bay of Plenty is third from the bottom when compared with the 15 other regions. By Andrew Campbell

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Vehicle ownership nuances fail to register Ever wanted to own a Cadillac, a Bentley or a Rolls Royce? How about a Ferrari or a Porsche? Turns out, unless you have loads of dough, you can’t. But don’t fret autoenthusiasts – after a few clicks you can be officially associated with them – on paper at least. This is what Bay of Plenty man Paul Knights found out when he received a rather strange letter from the New Zealand Transport Agency on October 27, which he believed informed

him that his car ‘Sylvia’ belonged to someone else. “As I had made no effort to sell it and it will probably be our main mode of transport until it rusts to death, I was a little perplexed. It seems anyone can go online and change the registered owner of the car.” The letter, in part, read: “We recently received notification that your vehicle has been sold or disposed of. The motor vehicle register has been updated to confirm that you are no longer registered in respect to this vehicle.

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“If this is correct then no other action is required by you. However, if you have recently purchased this vehicle you may have received this letter because the seller was not prompt in notifying us of the sale. If you completed your notice of acquisition promptly please disregard the letter as no further action is required by you. Are you still in possession of this vehicle and believe the registered person has been changed in error please contact us as soon as possible…” NZTA spokesman Andy Knackstedt says the purpose of the Motor Vehicle Register is to identify the person lawfully entitled to possession of a vehicle for the purpose of enforcing the law and for collecting vehicle registration fees and charges from that person. That includes anything from prosecuting a parking ticket to tracing a driver at the time that a hit-and-run offence takes place. “There is a widespread and longstanding misconception that the MVR confers title to a vehicle in the same way that the Land Register does. This is not the case,” says Andy. “The MVR merely records a person’s claim on registration forms to be lawfully entitled to possession of the vehicle. This is a different concept to legal ownership and is why, for example, a leased vehicle is registered in the

Paul Knights with his beloved Honda ‘Sylvia’. name of the person who has leased the vehicle, and not the leasing company that has title to the vehicle. True legal ownership can only be proved from sale and purchase agreements and so forth.” Andy says both the buyer and seller must notify NZTA independently of each other when a vehicle changes hands. When notice is received from the buyer and not the seller, NZTA sends a letter to the last registered person letting them know that another person has notified of their acquisition of the vehicle. “This letter also acts as an alert to the last registered person and provides them with an opportu-

nity to let the NZTA know if they have not sold the vehicle and if a false or erroneous acquisition notice has been made.” Paul received such a letter, but believes more controls need to be put in place. “After speaking to three nice ladies at the NZTA I managed to get my car transferred back into my name. This is a flaw in the system that needs addressing. “Perhaps we could password our car with NZTA. Another PIN number is just what I need to make my head explode. “If a little old lady gets this in the post, she’ll have a heart attack.” By Ben Guild

More reasons to get a parking ticket Parking wardens in central Tauranga will be soon exercising the new ticketing powers that came into effect on November 1.

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“At the moment we are trying to get some publicity out there so people are aware of it,” says city parking team leader Kevin Nally. “So we are not actually policing it at the moment. But once the publicity around it comes in, we will be doing so.” Called ‘the no return rule’, it means that once time has lapsed on a city car park, drivers must now leave the space and not return to another within 50 metres, within 30 minutes. “What we are trying to do is deal with people who park cars in time zones and like to leave them there

all day and swap around cars, and generally just move from one space to another,” says Kevin. “That kind of defeats the purpose of what parking officers are there to do, which is create turnover of traffic. So this rule basically means that in a two-hour zone they need to move from there and reposition somewhere else at least 50 metres away, and not come back within 30 minutes.” The ticket will be a $12 over-parking ticket. The new parking rules are to support central city retailers, says city council transportation manager Martin Parkes. “There has been a concern for a while that people were just shifting their cars around within blocks of parking spaces,” says Martin. “That takes up spaces that shoppers and visitors can’t use, so bringing in this rule, where you have to move away from that parking block and park elsewhere, will free up parking spaces that shoppers and businesses can use.” By Andrew Campbell

Apology for allegations Western Bay of Plenty Police are apologising for any distress caused by the publication of CCTV images of two women in connection with an alleged theft from the Habitat for Humanity store on 2nd Avenue in September. Media published the images in October at the request of police, who sought to identify the two women. The women came forward as a result, and after further enquiries no evidence was found to substantiate the allegation of theft. Western Bay of Plenty area commander Inspector Clifford Paxton wishes to apologise for any distress the publication of the images caused these women, their whanau, hāpu and iwi.

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Keeping burger traffic turning Tauranga City Council is considering Fifth Avenue traffic options after being approached this week by delegations from both Tauranga Primary School and Fifth Avenue residents concerned about the impact of Burger King traffic. Fifth Avenue divides the two parts of Tauranga Primary School – the junior school’s five to seven year olds on the south side, and the rest of the school including the library, swimming pool an administration, on the northern side. More than 800 pupils cross Fifth Avenue each day according to recent counts recorded by the

school, with peaks in the morning, at lunch time and in the afternoon. The school is concerned at the impact the increased traffic from Burger King will have on pupils, particularly at lunchtimes. Traffic will enter Burger King on Cameron Road via Sixth Avenue and exit into Fifth Avenue. Burger King itself is sympathetic to the school’s concerns, but a sign and a painted arrow cannot legally prevent traffic exiting Burger King into Fifth Avenue from turning right and driving towards Devonport Road. “You see five and six year olds standing at the crossing, they hesitate, and when they decide to go, they go,” says the school’s board of trustees deputy chair-

man, Kevin Allum. “They are very small and haven’t got the best traffic awareness.” The school did approach the city council some years back about closing the road into a cul de sac for residents, says principal Jenny McNicol. But it didn’t go any further. The school wants the traffic exiting Burger King to be forced back onto Cameron Road. Any traffic heading back into town will then be able to U-turn at Sixth Avenue. Mayor Stuart Crosby says the council will get back to the school after obtaining a staff report on the options available. The Powerpoint presentation was presented to council by Kevin, Jenny and deputy principal Fiona Hawes.

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Blake Park for cup The opportunity for Tauranga to host ICC Cricket World Cup games in 2015 is accelerating development plans for the Blake Park Cricket oval. All the jewel needs for the world cup is the proper setting - $2.6 million for lighting, an electronic scoreboard and broadcast centre. “This park is considered one of the best playing surfaces, if not the best in New Zealand,” says Bay of Plenty Cricket Trust trustee Jon Mayson. “It’s so good that a lot of the provincial cricket teams come here and practice and use it as a training ground.” The specific requirements for the cricket world cup have been made known only in the last couple of months, putting the pressure on the Bay of Plenty Cricket Trust which must raise the money by the end of December. The 2015 ICC cricket world cup is to being jointly hosted by New Zealand and Australia, with world cap games being held in both countries. The lighting and broadcast facilities are essential for televising night games for Indian audiences. The Bay Cricket Trust is already working on putting the oval in its proper setting with construction of the pavilion expected to begin next autumn with the aid of TECT funding. The trust has resource consent for the lighting towers, but didn’t expect to have to install and pay for them for some years yet. “We can have it all in place for about $3 million, which is peanuts when compared with the $300 million the government is spending in Christchurch,” says Trust member Jon Mayson. “That has got to be a bloody good deal for New Zealand.”

Briefly ... Missing couple: lost track of days

A couple reported missing after visiting relatives in the Bay of Plenty a week ago have come forward. Police issued a statement yesterday asking for information on the couple, who hadn’t been sighted since visiting a home in Whakatane on Sunday, November 4. Te Arawa Karaitiana, 20, and Carli Pugh, 27, were last seen when they left Carli’s grandfather’s Whakatane home. Following the media coverage of the ‘missing’ couple, the pair came forward and told police they lost track of the days. They were located in Whakatane late Tuesday afternoon.

Guilty verdict for JJ murder

Auckland man Joel Loffley has been found guilty of the murder of former Tauranga toddler JJ Lawrence. The guilty verdict was delivered in the High Court at Auckland today following a lengthy trial. JJ - James Joseph Ruhe Lawrence – died from severe injuries in his Orakei home in November last year. Joel Loffley, 29, was on trial for murder in the High Court in Auckland after being arrested and charged with the two-year-old’s death. He has denied killing JJ.

Persil: Guns, cannabis, 21 arrests

Hundreds of cannabis plants and a number of firearms have been seized by police and 21 people are facing charges as a result of the latest drug operation in the Waikato. Police have completed the latest phase of Operation Persil - a region wide dishonesty and violence focused initiative. Senior Sergeant Freda Grace says Operation Persil is a preventative based campaign that has resulted in over 400 arrests since its inception four years ago.

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Police: Calling all narks Bay of Plenty police are calling for people with information about parties which have the potential to get out of hand. Bay of Plenty District police communication manager Kim Perks says police across the district are increasingly being called to out-of-control house parties fuelled by excessive drinking. Kim says officers regularly come across youths wandering the streets at weekends looking for parties, and the proliferation of social media means that gate-crashing of parties has become more common. In New Zealand approximately one third of all police recorded offences are committed after the offender has consumed alcohol. “We’re not out to stop people from having a good time or to stop people from having a social drink,” says prevention manager inspector Scott Fraser. “The issue is excessive drinking that is leading to poor decisions, like fighting and driving drunk. Youths in particular are leaving themselves vulnerable to becoming victims of crime because they are allowing alcohol to inhibit their perception of a safe environment. “More often than not the situation has escalated to disorder before we are called and valuable resources that could be better utilised protecting our communities and helping victims of crime are being tied up. Prevention is key to breaking this cycle. Party hosts need to be taking greater responsibility and we all need to get better at looking out for family, friends and neighbours, as well as ourselves.” Kim says summer will feature education and enforcement operations focused on alcohol harm across the district. By Ben Guild

Tips: • Avoid any mention on social media sites that you are holding a party. Social media and bulk text messaging are two common reasons for large numbers of unwanted guests arriving at parties and causing problems. • Ensure that there is adult supervision and a plan in place in the event of gate-crashers or disorder. • Only invite people you know will be sensible and not cause trouble. • Be a responsible host and provide plenty of snacks or food and non-alcoholic drinks. • Arrange for friends to stay over or have a means of getting them home safely. • Be a good neighbour and let them know of your party intentions. • If drinking is becoming excessive or starting to get out of hand, call the police before it escalates. • Keep an eye on your guests, especially those who are drinking. Do what you can to prevent excessive alcohol consumption and make their welfare a priority. If you are going to a party or a night out: • Plan your transport in advance. Make sure there is a sober driver or you have arrangements and money for alternative transport such as buses, taxis or dial-a-driver. • Avoid walking home alone.

• If the host is happy to let you stay over, consider this option. • If you are not driving, still try to have a non-alcoholic drink or a glass of water with every alcoholic one to stop you getting too thirsty or too drunk. • If you are with a group of people, look out for one another. • Never lose sight of your drink. Although drinkspiking is rare, it can happen. If you lose sight of your drink at any time, throw what is left away and get a fresh one. • Never accept a drink that is handed to you by a stranger. It is important to remember that there are a number of liquor bans in the district and consuming alcohol in those areas has consequences. • Breaching liquor bans can lead to fines of up to $20,000. • If you are found consuming alcohol in a liquor ban area, the police can confiscate all of the alcohol and search you and your vehicle. • Anyone under 18 years of age found drinking in a public place can be issued with a Liquor Infringement Notice which carries an instant $200 fine. • Adults breaching a ban face prosecution. • Anyone convicted of using a fake ID or someone else’s ID faces a $2000 fine.

DHB slammed over patient suicide The death of a 48-year-old man who fell through the cracks in Bay of Plenty District Health Board’s internal communications and committed suicide is being blamed on the DHB. The Health and Disability Commissioner’s report demands apologies from the man’s psychiatrist to his former partner, and from the DHB itself. The commissioner faults the dead man’s psychiatrist, Community Mental Health, and Psychiatric Acute Community Team mem-

bers’ handling of the case in a four month period leading up to the man’s death in 2010. The DHB didn’t comply with national mental health sector standards or the organisational standards of discharge planning. It failed to take appropriate steps to discuss the man’s discharge with his former partner, and failed to further assess the man when his increased risk factors for self-harm were known and identified. It failed to provide continuity of care. Of most concern was a failure of co-ordination between the psychiatrist, the PACT team and the failure to notify staff of the first

point of contact. The dead man was a known mental health patient. He was diagnosed in 2006 with bipolar affective disorder, personality disorder with mixed features, and cyclothymic disorder. He had been a community mental health patient from 2007 until 2009. It took two referrals from the man’s GP to get the man a psychiatric outpatient reassessment by the psychiatrist. It was unable to be completed and another appointment was arranged a month later when the psychiatrist returned from leave, but the man was dead by then.

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Mike’s NY marathon memory TV3 frontman Mike McRoberts was invited to Tauranga to finish off this year’s Garden and Art Festival with a compelling speech about his globetrotting adventures and life as an award-winning journalist. Fresh off the plane from New York, where he was covering the United States elections, Mike drove straight from Auckland to Tauranga for the exclusive Long Lunch at the Tauranga Club last week. The 60 Minutes presenter initially set off to the Big Apple on a personal mission to run the 42.2km New York marathon. On behalf of the Achilles Foundation, which helps disabled athletes get to big events like the NY Marathon, Mike was to run in support of blind athlete Mike Lloyd, who has already run five marathons in his lifetime. The TV3 News reporter and his friend Mike were two of the estimated 47, 500 runners due to run the marathon on Sunday November 4, (Monday NZT), which was cancelled in the aftermath of superstorm Sandy – the storm that hit the East Coast just days before the scheduled event. In its place, Mike was sent to the Republican challenger Mitt Romney headquarters in Boston, where the News presenter Mike McRoberts spoke in party suffered a similar upsetting Tauranga last week. Photo by Daniel Hines. result.

Council cuts Tauranga City Council staff members were told this week that 45 full-time jobs are to go in the restructuring process being undertaken under the auspices of interim CEO Leigh Auton. In addition a further 30 jobs will be discontinued when the document scanning project is competed in 2014. Mayor Stuart Crosby says the internal restructuring is part of a number of cost-cutting exercises the council is undertaking. These include cutting money out of the budgets over the past few years, a review of council-owned organisations and sharing more services with neighbouring local authorities. “Myself and the elected members are pretty focused on resetting this organisation for the future, not the past,” says Stuart. The proposed job losses are still subject to consultation and employment law processes. Net savings are expected to be in the order of $2.8 million.

City property values flat Static Tauranga property values are unlikely to bring any rates relief, warn city council staff. Because the majority of values in the triennial revaluation are relatively flat, the impact on the distribution of rates will be minimal. Residential land values in the city have generally decreased during the last three years while capital values remain flat. For most residential areas, the average capital value movement is less than three per cent. Residential land values have decreased by six per cent on average, with a range between a zero and ten per cent decrease. The valuers that undertook the legally required revaluation for rating purposes noted the impact leaky homes issues have had across the whole city. Dwellings with monolithic cladding associated with leaky home issues are selling on average five per cent lower than other dwellings of a similar era. In Mount Maunganui, apartments have dropped in value by as much as 15 per cent, compared with a drop of seven per cent for other apartments across the city. The new values will be used to calculate rates during the next three years. Mayor Stuart Crosby says the revaluation figures paint a positive picture of a property market that has remained “pretty stable”. He says the valuation is for rating purposes only and is not a market value. To obtain that, people need a registered valuer. New valuation notices are being sent out this week. Information about the revaluation and how to object are on Tauranga City Council’s website. Objections close on 11 January 2013. Landmass Technology will respond to all objections before 1 July 2013, when the new values will first be used for rating purposes. By Andrew Campbell

A total of 9000 supporters were expected to attend the Mitt Romney party with 500 media, but Mike says the roles were reversed with more media than supporters in the crowd. “It was very, very quiet. It was a bit like being in a really bad wedding reception.” Mike says the American electoral system is a ‘safe democracy’ with high voter turnout of 80 per cent. He says the biggest distinction between American and New Zealand election is the scope and scale

of election advertising, with parties spending millions, and in some cases up to a billion dollars, on multi-media advertisements in hopes of pushing the swing states their way. “It’s a crazy electoral system. It’s not really our personality.” “(There was) some of the most alluring commercials you have ever seen. It was a real experience. I didn’t come away empty handed. “We are actually pretty well off here in our MP system.” By Zoe Hunter

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Melva Cummins loves to dance. That on its own is nothing amazing. But factor in her age, multiple performances on national television, and her hit YouTube video, and things become more impressive. But the 84-year-old from Otumoetai is prepping to perform for the last time in two weeks. Melva will dance with 600 performers from the Bay at Rhythmz Dance Co’s annual event ‘Born to Dance’ at Bethlehem College on November 24-25. “I think it’ll be my last. I was 82 years old when I first started and I’m 84 now.” Melva caught the country’s attention after she was filmed dancing at the Stretch Festival in Perth last year and the video became a hit on YouTube. Since then she has appeared on TVNZ’s Good Morning and TV3’s Campbell Live. She says she couldn’t refuse when the dance company asked her to join them. “I don’t know what all the fuss is about. It’s not the

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Man in court, accused of shootings A Tauranga man charged with two attempted murders following two separate shootings in Tauranga and Hamilton this year has had his case adjourned until later this month.

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Bowled over striking gold Retired Papamoa firefighter Dennis Warner has a secret weapon when he competes in the biennial World Firefighter Games – his wife Ruth. The pair has just returned from their ninth competition, coming back from Sydney with five golds between them, one of their best tallies ever. “We are not experts, I can tell you that,” says Dennis, 73, explaining they both have far from perfect scores. Asked what’s behind their success, he says it is definitely not exhaustive practice – they only play once a week in a casual league. While Dennis won two golds for the pairs and fours competition with Ruth, his 14th-place in the singles was eclipsed by Ruth’s first placing in the women’s singles. Over the years the couple have competed at games around the globe – including in England, France, Hong Kong, Korea, Canada, Australia and in Christchurch, making many friends along the way. “The firefighter games are very social – we’ve meet lots of people from all over the world. In fact we’ve got a Swedish firefighter we met through the games coming to visit us soon. We’ve had lots of visitors from all over the world.” The former Papamoa volunteer brigade chief and Ruth were among a small contingent competing from the Western Bay, including Brent Sanford who played golf, his wife Dianne who won two golds in table tennis, and Malcolm Langdon who won silver in the teams ten pin bowling.

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Bending over backwards Will Holder be able to bear it? Summer hasn’t come soon enough for teenaged international gymnast Samara Maxwell – and her overworked physiotherapist is loving the downtime the off-season brings as well.

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The 15-year-old from Otumoetai College is fresh from her third Promising gymnast consecutive national title, Samara Maxwell. although success at the with the talented sportswoman top level comes at a price, with the needing treatment for knee, hip, Year 11 student beating a weary shoulder and Achilles strains at path to her physio’s door during the competition season. varying stages of the season. Samara has returned from the “My physio’s probably enjoying national championships in Blenthe break right now more than I heim, where she won the national am. Because the sport is so high title for step 10, which is one level impact it puts a lot of strain on below the junior international your joints, really loading them up and leading to injuries.” grade. She swept step nine last year

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Time to get on the ball for netball Netball Bay of Plenty Summer Camps will again be run in Mount Maunganui at Harbourside Netball this year, with Centre Pass Summer Camp for years 8-10 and Advanced Summer Camp for years 10-13. These camps are designed to give players a better idea of what is required when playing representative netball and also to equip players with skills to become better players. Players undertaking drills at the 2012 Summer Camp.

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Spaying campaign not astray Organisers of a campaign to combat hundreds of stray cats in the Tauranga area say they have been inundated with requests for help from the public. Animal Resuce and Rehabilitation Centre Wildlife Trust director Dr Liza Schneider says the Spay the Stray campaign has helped to highlight the severity of the problem. “We know of at least 400 cats out there in the Tauranga area that are strays and most are capable of breeding, which is a huge concern since breeding season is upon us,” says Liza. “With the help of our team of vet and vet nurse volunteers we have

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Catch a feed and leave the rest for next time The Bay of Plenty coastal area is an aquatic playground with an important marine industry, but are we looking after it? Do we appreciate what we have and what is our long term plan to enhance and preserve a precious resource? Last week a concerned group of recreational and sporting fishermen called Legasea met to discuss their concerns with locals and industry leaders. Their message is simple – the need to conserve fish for future generations. I grew up fishing with Mike Beeching in Whakatane. Mike is now 80 but still fishes off his small commercial boat “Heather” with its trusty British diesel engine. I spent many a day out there with him and his sons growing up and it reinforced my love affair with the ocean. When I left school I spent a couple of weeks on a purse seiner out of Tauranga, the skipper was Colin Major.

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Hairini link project progresses NZTA has taken the next step towards completing the new Hairini Link/Welcome Bay underpass by lodging a Notice of Requirement with Tauranga City Council to designate the land required for construction. By Ben Guild

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The Bay of few assessors By Ben Guild

Accident Compensation Corporation has finally released some details on assessments of Bay of Plenty people it contracts out to specialists all over the country. Unfortunately, the scheme’s record keepers are unable to distinguish between a provider travelling to a specific region to complete an assessment and a client travelling outside of a region to meet with an assessor. What the data does show, however, is the total number of assessments carried out on Bay people in

the 2011/12 financial year and the number of assessments of Bay people conducted by assessors who do not live in the region.

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Of the 1265 Bay people assessed, 502 – or about 40 per cent – were seen by 53 practitioners who reside elsewhere. Of those, 127 – about 25 per cent - were seen for vocational independence medical assessments, while just 54 – about 14 per cent – of the remaining 767 people seen by 82 Bay-based assessors had their ability to work 35 hours or more a week evaluated.

ACC was first accused of paying medical experts to provide assessments which can be used to justify cutting claimant’s compensation in early-September, when a segment on TV3’s show 60 Minutes included comments from an ACC insider that the corporation used specialists who “had a higher incidence of writing reports to exit claimants”. The insider said specialists who don’t provide the desired findings are either ‘guided’ by ACC to provide the preferred assessments, or not used at all. The report included details on how specialists, many from small towns, were being

flown around the country by ACC to perform assessments in other regions. In one case, a Christchurch doctor was paid $1.2-1.4 million during a two year period in which they assessed between 1200-1600 clients around the country. Figures reported in June show the corporation had cut the number of long term claimants receiving weekly compensation by 3644, or 25 per cent, to 10,773 in the three years since June 2009.

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Despite having almost two months to find the relevant information, ACC apparently has no reasonable way of distinguishing between a provider travelling to a specific region to complete an assessment and a client travelling outside of a region to complete an assessment. Government services advisor Hugh McIlraith says creating the data would require a manual search of individual claim files, meaning ACC is able to decline to provide the information requested by The Weekend Sun through an Official Information Act request. Hugh says all of the services represented in the statistics are available in the Bay, but cited delays in gaining appointments, a lack of available sufficiently qualified providers and providers previously having seen clients as reasons for the outsourcing. The most prolific of these outside providers performed 129 assessments in the financial year, consisting of 14 impairment assessments, 43 initial medical assessments and 72 vocational independence assessments. The next four most regularly used outside providers performed 94, 82, 41 and 22 assessments of all kinds respectively. The 60 Minute programme also included claims patients were assessed multiple times by different assessors, with ACC more likely to act on reports stating patients were able to work. But Hugh defended ACC’s protocols, saying the order of assessments, the length of time between assessments, rehabilitation, the stability of symptoms, the area of speciality of an assessor, the information provided by assessors and the quality of reports, as well as the rationale given by specialists as to why their opinion is different than in previous reports, were all factors in clients being assessed by a number of practitioners. Yet at the beginning of September ACC had lost nearly 50 per cent of cases that had gone to independent review this year.

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Upon reviewing the data, some of the figures provided by ACC don’t add up. It says the top three assessors from outside the region performed 72, 65 and 49 vocational independence medical assessments respectively – a total of 186.

Total assessments of BOP people = 1265 Vocational independence medical assessment = 181 Initial medical assessment = 565 Impairment assessment = 295 Medical review case = 224 Assessors = 82 But the second chart says there were a total of 127 such assessments by assessors from outside the Bay. The Weekend Sun is awaiting a response from ACC to explain this discrepancy. A spokesperson for the corporation says that request will be processed under the Official Information Act, meaning we will likely have the answer in another four weeks’ time.

Total assessments of BOP people = 502 Vocational independence medical assessment = 127 Initial medical assessment = 225 Impairment assessment = 23 Medical review case = 127 Assessors = 53

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Tauranga going all ‘buddy-buddy’ Buddy Day, on November 16, is a community event where adults adopt a full-size cardboard child for the day that has been created by school children. The hope is that people seeing the cut-outs will help to create conversation on the issue. The event is organised by national child advocacy organisation Child Matters, which is based in Hamilton, where Buddy Day originated in 2011.

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This year more communities are getting behind the event, including Tauranga’s in-home early childcare provider, Footsteps, which has been holding events where preschool children decorate, dress, name and create life stories for 100 mini ‘buddies’. Footsteps operations director Marina Jury says all of Footsteps’ 50 early childhood teachers and support staff complete Child Matters’ child protection training and work very closely with the organisation to support such an important event. “It takes a community to look after a child and we want to encourage people to have those conversations, and if they are worried, to do something about it,” says Marina. “Buddy Day shows children that adults are here to care for them and love them.”

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Buddy Day event manager Janine Evans says it was pleasing to see the number of substantiated cases of child abuse decline during the past year, but New Zealand mustn’t lose sight of the fact there are still a significant number of children experiencing abuse and neglect. “When every adult takes responsibility for keeping our children safe, our society has the potential to make a real difference in the lives of all children and families affected by abuse.” People can follow Buddy Day on Facebook and at www.buddyday.org.nz By Ben Guild

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Small change makes big difference Bay of Plenty residents have proven small change can make a big difference raising more than $10,000 during October. Last month Z Energy customers were given the opportunity to donate their loose change to the Homes of Hope Small Change – Big Difference Campaign and together raised a total of $10,167.10. All eight Bay of Plenty Z Energy stores including Z Omokoroa, Z Bethlehem, Z 11th Ave, Z 15th Ave, Z Hewletts Road, Z Central Parade, Z Palm Beach and Z Te Puke participated in the campaign. In partnership with Government and other community agencies Homes of Hope offers an environment safe for children who are abused in the home. Homes of Hope CEO Hilary Price says she is thrilled with the community’s support in the project. “It’s a wonderful encouragement. This sort of thing gives us the encouragement to keep on going.” Some of the homes are 10 years old and Hilary says the money will be used to refresh the tools and clothes and support extramural activities for the children. “The community has answered the call to do something practical and simple but making a huge difference.” Homes of Hope joined a partnership with Z Energy about two years ago and Hilary says the companies

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Making the Bay aware Western Bay of Plenty Mental Health Trust is a non-profit, Tauranga-based organisation whose management and staff support people who have a family member experiencing mental unwellness or addiction. The organisation has been proudly supporting families and whanau in the Tauranga area from Waihi Beach in the north to Maketu in the south for the past 19 years. The service is free and confidential; its supports family and whanau from age 18 upward. It also has support groups with an educational component, as well as social groups. Beginning in January this year, the trust has a COPMIA contract to support children, adolescents and youth from aged six to 17 years old, who have a parent with mental unwellness or addiction. It runs educational programmes, provides one-to-one support and focuses on having lots of fun. Trust member Brian Thomas says there

are many benefits to receiving support, including education about loved ones’ unwellness, learning to manage things in a different way through having a better understanding of mental unwellness and addictions, advocacy on people’s behalf and support to make a plan to assist in managing in the future. Feedback the trust receives includes: “I only wish I had known about your organisation earlier.” “You helped me to stop sliding down that slippery slope.” “You people are wonderful.” “I have learned so much and feel so much more able to cope.” “It is comforting to know you are always there for us.” “There are so many families struggling to cope on their own because they don’t know you exist.” The organisation welcomes referrals from hospital and community services, community and individuals – phone 07 577 1457 between 8am and 4pm Monday to Friday.

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The Industry Training Organisation Graduation

Celebrating the trades After at least three years of hard graft it is time for many of the Western Bay’s latest graduating apprenticeships to pat themselves on the back. Tradespeople who have completed their apprenticeship in We want to see as the past many take part as year are possible and celebrate urged to register for their success. the event immediately – or they will miss the chance to celebrate their achievement in public at Tuesday’s Baycourt graduation ceremony. Council event organiser Penny Mitropoulos says the fifth Tauranga event looks set to be at least as successful as last year – but urges anyone who had been thinking about registering to do so, saying Monday is the final day to register. “We want to see as many take part as possible and celebrate their success.” The ceremony has been organised by Tauranga Rotary club members since its inception and supported by Tauranga City Council. Tauranga Rotary club member Vanessa Dodunski, who has helped organise the event since it was first held, is also urging all graduates to register for the event after seeing the joy that graduates and their families got from the public recognition of their achievement. “Last year there was one guy who was very hesitant to go up, his mother almost had to drag him up on stage – but you should have seen him later. He was so proud. Just by chance he also won the raffle and walked afterwards with a huge smile having had a fantastic time.” Special guest and Tauranga business owner Dwarne Farley will speak at the event about his experience as a top multisport athlete and maintaining a positive outlook. Finger food will also be provided. Family, friends and employers are encouraged to share this special time with graduates at the event on Tuesday at 5:30 pm. The event is sponsored by the Rotary Club of Tauranga, Job Finders, Page Macrae and BCITO. Details: www.mayorstaskforceforjobs.co.nz or call Penny on 577 7112. By Hamish Carter

Tauranga MP Simon Bridges congratulates graduates at last year’s event.

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Tauranga mayor heaps praise on trades Recognising the hard work of apprentices has always been important to Tauranga Mayor Stuart Crosby. An electrician by trade, Stuart has thrown the council’s support behind the Industry Training Organisation’s annual Tauranga graduation ceremony since the first event was held five years ago. Stuart says the graduation function, being held at Baycourt this Tuesday (November 20) recognises the important contribution tradespeople make in the Western Bay economy and says demand for good tradespeople will increase with population growth. “I have a passion for the trades and celebrating their success after three or four years of hard work.” While the trades are no longer seen as the poor cousin to a university education, Stuart says it is important to recognise the hard work involved with a public graduation ceremony. Stuart thanked Rotary for its leadership organising the event and says the council is committed to continuing to support the annual

“A lot of them have already celebration. The celebration is for received their national certifitradespeople who completed their cates in a very low-key way, but apprenticeship by September with this public graduation with the on-the-job training and involves Mayor and Simon Bridges is about graduates from a wide range of saying the community values all industry training organisations and sectors. The area manager for BCITO (Building and Construction Industry Training Organisation) Tony Love is an ardent supporter of the graduation event and has been encouraging Page Macrae apprentice coordinator Grant everyone eligible Holland and third year apprentice James to take part in the Williams look over training materials. function. their work and everything they’ve “It’s a big deal – for a lot of them done.” it’s the first qualification they’ve Tony says the hard work of completed and it’s up there with completing a trade qualification a university qualification. Some paid off many times over for both of them have put four years into the graduates and the region with it and it’s great to have it publicly a boost to the economy and greater recognised.” career opportunities. Tony says higher family numbers “In the construction industry attending this year shows the comwhich is starting to take off again munity is taking the event to heart – particularly with everything in and liked the public recognition Canterbury – having the qualificait offered.

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Estuary managers come out to play Waikaraka Estuary Managers have been in a state of near hibernation since the mechanical removal of mangroves from the Waikaraka Estuary, but that’s no excuse for not having an occasional social gathering.

Besides, the group’s constitution states it must have an annual general meeting. So, a talk by Andrew Dallas entitled, “Our far south – a trip with Gareth Morgan to Antarctica and the Subantarctic Islands” and a meeting will be held at 22 Lindoch Avenue on Saturday, November 17 at 4pm. The AGM will be followed by a

barbecue. Food and non-alcoholic drinks will be provided. Anyone interested in the estuary or Andrew’s talk is welcome to attend. Parking will be available in By Ben Guild Lindoch Avenue.

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All 34 amateur racers have now taken a mini-stock for a spin or two around the Blokart track, in preparation for the big race at Baypark on December 1. Speed and skill might make a winner on the night – but for now, it’s a mental game. “They’re all having a bit of fun with each other,” says Baypark project manager Leona Smith. “There’s a whole lot of banter going on. “I’ve heard a couple of the principals talking about smashing into each other… they’re definitely not allowed to hit each other.” While some of the high achievers are taking the training in their stride, others are coming down with a case of pre-race jitters. “One of the females is a bit nervous. She was thinking of pulling out, so I told her ‘just do it for your kids’.” Leona says they’re rapt with how the event is progressing. All 34 principals now have sponsors and are scheduled to take place half way through the night’s proceedings.

Bruce Jepson (Principal, Te Akau Ki) tries to steal steering wheel off Brendan Clarkin (Principal, Pyes Pa School). “The most important thing now is to get people along to show their support for the principals. It’s going to be an awesome night.” The event will also feature sprint cars, saloons, super saloons, stock cars and mini-stocks. Gates open at 5pm for a 6.30pm start. “It’s important people know this is a normal race night, and the principals’ race is extra entertainment. The principals’ are getting all the practice they can.” says Leona. Students from each of the participating schools will be at the entrances, vying for viewers’ tickets – with Baypark promising to donate $0.50 to the school for each ticket the students collect.There is also a best- dressed fan award and a ‘Best Banner’ competition – with the most creative and eye-catching support banner earning its school a $4000 prize.

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Principals’ playground banter Craig Haggo is confident he’ll smoke the competition at the Sunlive Principals’ Challenge. The Pongakawa School principal was interviewed with Tauranga Primary School’s racer Doug Maguire on More FM this week. The two men bantered like school kids – each confident they will outrace the other on December 1. “Oh look, he obviously doesn’t understand about Pongakawa School, we’re not there to come second,” says Craig. “You won’t need any rear vision mirrors because you’ll be watching me disappear in front.” But Doug, who is filling in for principal Jenny McNicol, held his own during the interview. “She just knew the best man for the job could do it.” Both men say their students are getting right into the event and are dedicated to oroa Omok tor ra te li b O

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Sea lettuce clean-up time again

Last week the first sea lettuce clean-up for the season was carried out at Kulim Park in Tauranga. Approximately 40 cubic metres of sea lettuce was cleared. While Kulim Park is the first public area where substantial accumulation has been a problem, at this time of the year the growth of sea lettuce is rapid and the situation at any beach can change from being clear of sea lettuce one day to having huge build ups two or three days later. An example of this is what appears to have been a large dump of sea lettuce on Main Beach Mount Maunganui the previous weekend - much of which had been picked up again on a following high tide and carried away. Bay of Plenty Regional Council is keeping a close eye on all of the usual build up spots

(Ongare Point, Kauri Point, Pahoia, Fergusson Park, Memorial Park, Tye Park, Rotary Park, Maungatapu foreshore and others) and our contractor is ready to act at fairly short notice. The council also is continuing to experiment with sea lettuce treatment. Our clean-up contractor is doing a trial with a screw press, to see whether we can reduce the volume and weight of sea lettuce to reduce cartage costs. There is also an orchard and home garden mulching trial using sea lettuce, starting on an avocado and kiwifruit orchard in Te Puna Unfortunately, we expect to have quite a bit of sea lettuce around this year. Please phone the regional council, 0800 884 883, if you find a nuisance build-up in your favourite public space. If you have any views on this or any other issue, please email me: neesj@xtra.co.nz or phone me, 07 579 5150. Or you can check out my website: www.janenees.co.nz

Avocado picker extends reach Judy McNamara demonstrates the telescopic avocado fruit picker, which has a swivel head that can either hold or drop fruit.

Avocados are not always the easiest fruit to pick without mechanical means, but Judy and Kevin McNamara of Katikati have found the answer for small orchard or backyard trees. It’s an extension-picking pole with a 3m reach, which has proved to be the perfect tool for thinning and picking hard-to-reach avocados. The couple’s 50-tree orchard is too small for an elevated work platform, so they searched for a safe and convenient way to pick fruit. “Two years ago I read about the avocado fruit picker in a Tree Crop Association newsletter. The device has a swivel head that can either hold or drop fruit and I tracked down the importers in Auckland,’’ said Judy. So impressed were she and Kevin that they became the Bay of Plenty agents and have sold the pickers to orchardists

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Creating harmony in your life Life is simpler when you plow around the stump. ANON It can be difficult to make the decision to ignore something that is irritating or upsetting, and you may find yourself embroiled in conflict before you can fully think the situation through. When you give time to reflect on which battles you want

Barbara McClure is upset the tree behind her Mornington Dell home is being felled. be all that big, surely they could move it, even just a few metres. “They’ll move a whole highway to accommodate a taniwha, but they won’t save some beautiful trees.” Barbara moved to the Bay six years ago and says So when she received a letter in the mail explaining the tree is one of the main reasons she purchased the the tree would be cut down to make way for a new house. driveway, she was devastated. “It really is a wonderful feature. “It’s just shear vandalism as far as I’m concerned.” “Every October, the leaves start coming out, and I’ve The tree is one of a number being cut down to watched every day. make way for a driveway being constructed as part “There are not many huge trees in Papamoa, they’re of New Zealand Transport Agency’s Tauranga Eastern real landmarks.” Link project. She says the decision is one in a long line of cutSince finding out, Barbara has been liaising with throat decisions affecting the region. NZTA and Papamoa Progressive Association, which “There’s so many trees being torn down in the name say there is nothing she can do. of progress, and often unnecessarily so.” By Corrie Taylor “My main concern is the vandalism. A driveway can’t

For elderly woman Barbara McClure the tree outside her Papamoa home is much more than a tree.

Butt out common litter Deadly to the ecosystem and unsightly on the beaches, cigarette butts are the most common litter on earth.

is common as they understandably distance themselves from any form of approval or promotion of the habit. Education is the key – discuss this issue with friendly smokers you know. Butts need to be disposed of responsibly and that With smokers banished to the outdoors, the remnants may mean walking to a bin or perhaps putting them of their cigarettes are frequently flicked off the edge of the footpath. Twice this year I have witnessed a smoker back into an empty carton until a bin is found. To do By Mig McMillan otherwise is bad – for us and fish. discard their butt into a roadside drain. In both cases it was inappropriate for me to say anything. One man was standing outside a funeral parlour and looked so bereft – I just could not mention the damage to the oceans microbiology. The other guy would have in no way shape or form been at all receptive. I had to lurk about and then pick them up later. Cigarette butts are lethal. Filters are made not from cotton or paper, but rather cellulose acetate, a plastic that is very slow to degrade. The chemicals caught by the filter are the most toxic part of the cigarette; each butt can poison 70 litres of ocean water. This is a litter issue rather than a smoking issue. No-one wants to swim in a stew of butts or eat fish living in poisoned water, yet these consequences are sometimes not considered or overlooked in the rush of the moment. Councils are loath to provide ash trays at bus stops and other gathering places where smoking

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Hands-on experience grows skills People who choose to study massage at Bay of Plenty Polytechnic can be working for themselves in just 17 weeks.

Enrolments are now open for the February intake of the Certificate in Relaxation Massage. The 17-week, full-time course teaches students a range of different massage techniques including relaxation massage, hot stone massage, zone therapy, Indian head massage and on-site chair massage. Students also learn anatomy, physiology and the knowledge and understanding to make them safe practitioners. Tutor Pip Charlton says while there is a variety of job opportunities, including the option to become self-employed, an increasing number of graduates are using it as a stepping stone into higher learning for courses such as nursing, beauty therapy, midwifery and sport and recreation. “We’ve had people go onto work in tourist and health spas, health centres and hauora,” says Pip. “There is no restriction, but the emphasis is very much about relaxation and stress management – not about pain and rehabilitation.” Pip says the course is

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Pam and Brian Hawkins travelled to Auckland’s Starship Hospital this week to donate old-fashioned handmade teddy bears.

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Pam has been making teddy bears since 2006 and can make two a day. “I would have made thousands in that time,” she says. Pam started making the toys for Starship and Kidney Kids, and gets donations of new wool from Tauranga City Sunrise Lions, Local Women’s Institute, Local Rural Women and Mount Maunganui Lionesses. “People have suggested that I sell them, but I think it is nice to give them away. I do it because I want to.” “I change the colours all the time. The pattern is in my head and I know how many stiches there are.” Children are given the bears when they leave the hospital, and Pam says she and Brian are treated like VIPs when they visit to drop them off. Pam says she has crocheted miles upon miles of wool, and is always after new, clean balls of it to work with. Anyone keen on donating wool to Pam’s cause should email photos@thesun.co.nz

Children take to stage Months of rehearsals come to a head for five Te Puke children next week, when they take to the stage in the production of ‘Only an Orphan Girl’. The school-age children, which include three 10-year-olds who play triplets, a 13-year-old hero and 15-year-old damsel in distress, are among the cast performing under the show’s director Di Leach. The melodrama, which is being put on as part of Te Puke Repertory’s 60th anniversary year celebrations, was first directed for the amateur theatre group by Di’s stepfather, Spence Fry. Di says the show promises to be a lot of fun, with audience participation of “booing and cheering required, plus singing good old-fashioned songs with the chorus”. “It’s just what the doctor ordered in these tough times.” The show runs at Litt Park Theatre from November 21-Dec 1. For tickets contact Di at dandbleach@xtra.co.nz or call 027 478 9066. By Hamish Carter

Scarecrow competition has plenty of heart From butchers to posh gardeners, war veterans to glamorous ladies and shoe-lovers, Greerton’s shops got into the spirit of the Garden and Art Festival last week with scarecrows made by local students. Greerton Village Mainstreet manager Victoria Thomas was “amazed” by the quality of the scarecrows in the inaugural scarecrow competition and was keen for the retailers group to make it a regular event.

“They were honestly unreal – for Greerton Furnishings they had to make a posh lady gardener scarecrow, she looked awesome and Merivale School did a great war veteran scarecrow for the RSA. They were all so good.” Schools were given a brief by the sponsoring business that displayed the scarecrow, with the competition decided by a public vote. The winner was Greenpark School’s Room 24’s ‘Shoe lady’

scarecrow with its arms full of shopping bags and shoes boxes, which was created for ‘2 Shoes’. Class teacher Jo Harvey says the children loved the project and had gone as far as looking at the school’s garden to get ideas for making an effective scarecrow. She says a scarecrow for the garden could be next on the list. Victoria says the event was a great way of getting schools involved with the business community and was pleased with

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There is no better time than now to pick up a new water-based activity with November water month for Sport Bay of Plenty’s Play in the Bay promotion. Sport BOP recreation advisor Nicki Scott says there are a handful of water-based activities on offer over the next week offering people of all ages and abilities a chance to try their at different events or com. All swimmers are welcome to compete in the Tauranga Amateur Swimming Club Tauranga residents get back into sailing with the help of Elements Watersports and modern dinghies. Carnival at Memorial Pool on Saturday (8.30am-1pm).There are spot prizes, raffles, ribbons and a sausage sizzle on offer. The event is open to those aged five or over. Details Jill Fuller 027 4727907. If you have always wanted to learn to sail you can get a taster with Elements Watersports on Sunday. The introduction is suitable for anyone from 8-80

years and will be held off Kulim Park from 11am-3pm. For details contact Peter on 0800 486 729 (adults $10, children $5). Children aged 4-12 can have a fun time on an obstacle course, which incorporates a large bouncy castle, climbing cargo nets and much more on Sunday (from 9.55am) finishing off with a swim at the Bay of Plenty Polytechnic’s

Windermere aquatic centre. For details call 571 0190 ext 6707 (charges from $9) Pick up the month’s calendar from a library or download from www.sportbop.co.nz/playinthebay For more details contact Nicki on 07 578 0016 ext 829 or nickis@sportbop.co.nz By Hamish Carter

Vitamin C: collagen builder Most households will have vitamin C in their medicine cupboards.

webbing that gives structure to blood vessels. A low level of vitamin C is disastrous for those with circulatory disease and is often the cause of premature skin aging. The recommended daily intake (RDI) for Vitamin C is the body’s great genvitamin C is a ridiculously low 60mg. This eral purpose antioxidant. It is the may prevent scurvy but is totally inadequate foot soldiers that help the elite special for optimum health. Collagen can only be antioxidant forces to function properly. properly formed with plenty of vitamin C. Like all antioxidants, vitamin C is able The result is strong yet supple blood vessels to switch between its oxidised form, that allow unhindered blood flow, causing where it loses an electron; to its reduced less stress to heart muscle and the smooth form, where it gains an electron. muscle that lines our blood vessels and with John Arts glands. Critical role Vitamin C’s ability to share electrons maintains the This ability to add and lose electrons makes vitamin stability of other antioxidants, especially our in-built C play a critical role in the body. Its main role is to antioxidant enzymes. Insufficient vitamin C not only help the formation and structure of collagen. This is a protein widely distributed in connective tissue. Col- removes one vital cell protector, it also disables these lagen is extremely important in forming the collagen enzymes which are arguably the most important defences against free radical damage.

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Food: the cause and the cure A seminar promising to help people grow younger, clean their systems and lose weight for good is coming to Tauranga later this month. Health 2000 is hosting the seminar, led by health and longevity expert Jason Shon Bennet, at Club Mount Maunganui on Monday, November 26. “The cause and the cure of your problems are the same: food,” says Jason. “The modern diet is poison, there is no other way to say it. We are literally eating ourselves to death.” Seminar attenders will discover the power of food and the direct link between what they eat and how good they feel, as well as how fast they age, how well they sleep and what their disease-risk is.

“Learn how you can reach your ideal weight and peak health for good.” Born premature to a mother suffering toxaemia, Jason suffered asthma, constipation, bad skin,

allergies, hayfever and fatigue, alongside regular colds, flu, bugs and sickness that would have him in bed for weeks or months every year. He was on up to 16 shots of Ventolin daily, regular steroid injections and Intal preventers. In 1989, Jason chose to rebuild his health the natural way and shortly after, at the age of 26, threw away his puffer. Now a health mentor and researcher, Jason is an expert on how food affects lifestyle diseases such as cancers, heart disease, asthma, allergies, arthritis, osteoporosis, and digestive disorders such as IBS, diverticulitis, constipation, cognitive decline and more. Jason Shon Bennett no longer suffers To watch Jason speaking on from asthma after rebuilding his health, go to www.jasonshonhealth the natural way. bennett.com

Growing a Mo for all men It might look like a bit of a joke, but the team at Grace Hospital are encouraging everyone to think about the serious side behind Movember – prostate cancer.

Grace Hospital staff get into the spirit of Movember. Hospital clinical and operations manager Janet Keys says the annual fundraiser for prostrate cancer was a lot of fun, with a lot of men volunteering “or coerced” into growing moustaches. She says the campaign is a key way to raise awareness about both prostate cancer and

depression and encourage men to take care of themselves. “It’s an important message, and if you can’t grow your own mo or are not involved you should support others – like our team of motivated staff and consultants.” Janet says prostate cancer is the most frequently diagnosed cancer in New Zealand, with about 3000 men diagnosed annually, and is encouraging people to help raise funds for prostate cancer research and to encourage men to access health services early. To assist men in dealing with prostate cancer, Grace Hospital has launched a website to provide information about resources and treatment available in the Bay of Plenty at www.gpcc.co.nz To donate to Grace Prostrate Cancer Team’s team go to www.nz.movember.com/ team/625121 or you might find some others you want to support.

Healthy prostate tips To cut the chance of developing prostate cancer – one of the biggest male killers - all men should have annual check-ups from the age of 50. About three in 10 men in their 50s are estimated to have the start of prostate cancer, growing to about seven in 10 for those aged over 80. With the cancer developing slowly it is critical for younger men to have regular check-ups to diagnose any issues early to prevent it becoming a major problem. Research has also shown certain food groups will lower prostate cancer risks. Top of the list are regular brassicas, lots of tomato and boosting soy, fish and flaxseed in your diet. The Hutchinson Cancer Research Center in Seattle has found men who eat three servings per week of cruciferous vegetables (broccoli, cabbage and cauliflower) reduce their risk by 41 per cent. Research has also found those who eat tomato products at least twice a week cut their risk by 25 per cent. Other research has found benefits from a daily tablespoon of ground flaxseed, increased soy in the diet, more fruit and vegetables (particularly red-coloured), less fat, fish twice a week and selenium rich foods.

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Undercover Cody SunSmart app Exciting developments are in stall to celebrate the Cancer Society’s SunSmart mascot Undercover Cody’s tenth birthday this month. Kids will soon be swiping, tapping and sharing SunSmart creations on a fun and educational app promoting the slip, slop, slap and wrap message.

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says using the app and website will teach children to become responsible for their own SunSmart behaviour. “Increasingly, children are becoming aware of fashion and they are high users of technology. “The Cancer Society is keen to embrace new trends and offer leading edge resources so that children, parents and teachers will enjoy learning the vital SunSmart messages.” 7410 UCC App Teaser art WSun.ai

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for the outdoors, the high UV index, the hole in the ozone layer and the latitude (geographic location) of New Zealand on Earth. This means that if you are of European descent and live in New Zealand, you are at very high risk of developing a skin cancer. We have heard of the “slip, slop, slap” So what can I do to prevent skin cancer? theme of sun protection and sometimes In addition to sun protection measures, it that message can too easily fade into is important to have your skin checked. A the background. The fact is we have the skin check by a dermatologist is more than Dr Eugene Tan. highest incidence of skin cancer in the just looking. It involves a full history of world. We alarmingly outnumber the skin cancer risk, skin care advice, addressrest of the world by a factor of 50 - 100 times! This ing spots of concern and a systematic exam of all incidence is rising and so are the deaths from skin body parts with particular attention to sun-exposed cancer. sites. Whilst we cannot undo the damage from sun So why have we got the highest incidence? This exposure in the past, early detection is your best is a combination of five key factors – our fair skin protection. By Dr Eugene Tan, MBChB, FRACP type (Celtic/Northern European ancestry), our love

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Greerton crime in focus Greerton Village Mainstreet manager Victoria Thomas (pictured by a new camera at the corner of Greerton Rd and Chadwick St) says there’s nowhere to hide in Greerton following the installation of two surveillance cameras. Photo by Tracy Hardy.

Greerton crime and motoring is under focus with the installation of two monitored video cameras in the area. The cameras, at the corner of Cameron and Chadwick and at Chadwick and Greerton, will be monitored by Tauranga City Council staff, along with about 35 other crime prevention cameras in Tauranga and the Mount. Council environmental compliance manager John Payne says the Cameron Rd camera is primarily installed to monitor motorists, but will be used overnight to keep an eye on crime in the area. He says the crime prevention cameras are monitored from 8pm-4am, with staff alerting police to any suspicious behaviour. “Every night they are calling the police with something – they notice breaches of liquor bans, vandalism, break-ins, all sorts of things.” The Cameron Rd camera was paid for by the council but would not cover the dedicated crime prevention camera. The $7500 cost was covered by a grant from NZCT (New Zealand Community Trust).

John says the powerful cameras could be directed from the control room, with the powerful zoom allowing the Cameron Rd camera to monitor activity as far away as Barkes Corner. He says the Greerton Rd corner was chosen as a good location to monitor Chadwick Rd activity, because of its distance from the other camera. Greerton Village Mainstreet manager Victoria Thomas welcomed the cameras, saying they will help keep a lid on any issues in the area and will replace the cameras Mainstreet installed on Greerton Furnishings and Crockford buildings in 2010. The old cameras may be shifted to monitor other pockets, such as behind the buildings, which were not covered by the new cameras. “From what I can understand crime in Greerton has definitely reduced, particularly as far as graffiti is concerned, but we wanted something that was instant, monitorable and with really good picture clarity, so if anything goes down it can be dealt with straight away.” The older cameras were not monitored (footage was saved to hard drive) and had a poorer image resolution By Hamish Carter than the new cameras.

Greerton Village Christmas Variety Show 2012 Greerton Village in Tauranga will be full of the spirit of Christmas during the next month, with two events designed to attract families, showcase local talent and build up stores and funds for the food bank. The annual Christmas Variety Show on November 30 will be a family bonanza, with musical talent from

New Zealand entertainer Jackie Clarke will attend the Christmas Variety Show. local school choirs and bands, bouncy castles and loads of candy floss. Santa will be there too, with a sack full of lollies. The show starts around 6pm in the Greerton Village Square, and features popular New Zealand’s entertainer Jackie Clarke and local band Less is More. “It’s free entry, but we are asking everyone to bring a non-perishable food item to donate to the Tauranga Food Bank this Christmas,” says Greerton Mainstreet manager Victoria Thomas. “It will be a great night out for families with lots of Christmas shopping opportunities as well.” Two weeks later those who have left their Christmas shopping until the last minute will be rapt to know they can find special gifts at the Greerton Village Twilight Shopping and Markets on December 13. Along with the bargains there will be carols by candlelight from 6pm, and great food and entertainment from the local cafes and pubs in the village. “Best of all the parking is free.”

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Kids course fun for all Ready, set, bounce! This year’s Kids Grinder, hosted by Bay of Plenty Polytechnic, promises fun and laughs for everyone involved – especially the kids. With a new two-lap course this Sunday, kids between the ages of four and 12 years can navigate their way through challenges such as two inflatable bouncy castles, a sack race, gauntlets, tyres, a maze, ladders and hurdles. Organiser Keith Martin says the event always attracts a crowd. “It’s really just about kids having fun. “We do have prizes for first, second and third, but it’s mainly about coming along, having a go and having fun.” Keith says the annual event is designed to get the polytechnic involved with the community. “We want to let people know about

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what we do and where we are, but it’s mostly just to be involved with the community and run a fun event for the kids.” Due to the cost of hiring the equipment, there is an entry fee. Entry for a team of five costs $35, while individual entry costs $12.50. The kids are timed as they make their way through the course, with the choice to complete one or two laps – but don’t worry parents, you’re allowed to run the course alongside your child. After the race, a small prize-giving will take place at the polytechnic’s Aquatic Centre. “The kids can swim for free and we’ll have a bombing competition in the pool,” says Keith. “We try and make it nice and relaxed, but in a safe environment, and let the kids have a good time.” By Corrie Taylor

Greenpark School dancing up a storm Hip hop, choral singing, cheerleading, gym sports, highland dance and musical theatre will be among items pupils perform at Greenpark School’s upcoming art showcase. Arts lead teacher Lynne Mossop says the event was a chance for parents and pupils to see some of the wide range of performances different groups had been involved with over the year. “It’s been a great year for performances at the school with a lot going on, so this is an opportunity to recognise the work a lot of pupils and teachers have put in.” Lynne says specialist dance teacher Rochelle Rhind and music teacher Jean Morris were putting in a lot of time organising the event, which involves performances

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The basil plants are finally responding, asparagus and strawberries are getting cheaper, and nearly everyone is planting tomatoes and tending their gardens. This year my garden has thrown me a few surprises with the usual pumpkin and self-seeded tomatoes and even the odd sunflower popping up right next to the

seedlings you actually did plant. The seeds for these random plants have lain dormant during the colder months and have now decided it’s time to grow.

Seed germination is itself an art form and balance between warmth, moisture, and light (or lack of it), plus a general knowledge of germination times. Some people have green thumbs, others just convince themselves they are plant killers. After more than a year of planting seeds twice a week I have learned that Mother Nature is a true wonder. The regeneration of some micro greens after decapitation is a miracle.

Yet I still have people that want everything to regrow when they are considering purchasing a living micro green planter. The planters contain five different micro greens with approximately 80-150 individual potential seedlings and, if used as a seed bank, could populate most family gardens twice over. What a great idea, and you can eat them while they’re young, enjoying the intense flavours and soaking up all those fresh healthy antioxidants. So this week I have an easy recipe for cooking with micro greens which I usually recommend sprinkled on any food like a seasoning.

Filo bundle of asparagus, smoked salmon and micro greens Makes six portions Ingredients 1 bunch of asparagus 6 sheets filo pastry Small tub of cream cheese 6 slices smoked salmon Handful of fresh micro greens Salt and pepper Melted butter

On top of this put two or three stalks of asparagus then carefully roll into a neat package ready for the oven.

Bake at 180 degrees Celsius for about five minutes and serve with fresh lemon wedges.

Method Snap the asparagus off where it becomes woody. Blanch in boiling salted water for one minute. Drain then season. On a folded sheet of filo pastry which has been brushed with melted butter lie one strip of smoked salmon. Smear with a small amount of cream cheese. Then sprinkle over micro greens – mustard streaks, coriander chives and rocket work well for this.

Tavern fishing for entries A Christmas fishing competition is returning Based at Te Puna Tavern, the Te Puna Big Fish 2012 to Te Puna this year after a five year hiatus. will attract avid fishers from all over the Bay of Plenty keen on catching snapper, kingfish, trevally and kahawai. Those who catch a snapper longer than 32cm will go into the draw to win a top-of-the-line Viking fishing kayak, while there’ll also be prizes for largest fish overall and first, second and third closest to the average weight of each species. Lines and fishing rods will be permitted, though nets and spear fishing will not be allowed. Rules are available on request and will be circulated before the competition starts. Entry, by ringing Te Puna Tavern, costs $20 or $10 for children under 16 years of age. The total prize pool is worth approximately $8000. The competition briefing will be held at 7pm on December 26, with the event proper running from December 27-29. By Ben Guild

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Cookie o’clock for dyslexia Tertiary students will be hitting the streets of Tauranga this week to tempt Christmas shoppers into purchasing a tasty treat.

Cookie Time is launching its annual Christmas Cookie Bucket campaign this week, with $200,000 of the nationwide profits going to support the Dyslexia Foundation.

Each year Cookie Time sellers make their way around Tauranga businesses selling buckets full of the popular New Zealand-owned cookies. This year former Tauranga Girls’ College students Maddi Brown and Brittany Walker are taking on the challenge, hoping to raise a few extra dollars for their studies at Otago University. Each $15 bucket contains 85 tiny

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tasty cookies in three different flavours – chocolate chip, apricot chocolate chip and white chocolate and cranberry. This year Maddi says the Australian-owned Ma Higgins is selling its cookies in buckets, putting a bit of pressure on the long-fancied Kiwi snack. “They are our main competition – and they’re owned by Australians.” Cookie Time was created 29 years ago and the cookies are still produced in Templeton in the South Island. A portion of the profits from this year’s campaign will go to the Cookie Time Charitable Trust, while a further $200,000 will go towards dyslexia. Brittany says as well as being able to enjoy the cookies people get a practical and handy multi-purpose bucket. “The buckets are great to keep pegs in. So many people have memories about the buckets – it reminds

them of Christmas and family.” Anyone who purchases three buckets or more also receives a free dDub - a Kiwi roots band – CD. To order cookies or to invite Maddi and Brittany to your business phone 0800 XCOOKIE. By Phillipa Yalden

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The rise and fall of food prices Food prices fell 0.6 per cent in October, reflecting seasonally lower prices for vegetables, according to the latest figures from Statistics New Zealand. “Lower food prices in October mainly reflected cheaper vegetables,” says prices manager Chris Pike. “Tomato, lettuce, capsicum, and broccoli prices all fell, as they usually do at this time of year.” Out of the five food sub-groups, two contributed to the fall in the food index (FPI): fruit and vegetables, which were down 5.5 per cent, and restaurant meals and ready-to-eat food, which was down 0.5 per cent. Chris says the key individual fall in October came from seasonally lower prices for tomatoes, down 32 per cent. Prices were also lower for lettuce, down 27 per cent, chocolate biscuits, down 10 per cent, and capsicum, down 26 per cent. However, Chris says prices were higher for soft drinks, carrots, plain biscuits, sweets, pumpkin and potatoes. Carrot prices were up 29 per cent and

usually rise at this time of year, says Chris. For the year to October 2012, food prices increased 0.3 per cent. This follows five consecutive annual decreases. Four of the five food sub-groups made upward contributions to the FPI for the year to October 2012?: fruit and vegetables (up 8.4 per cent), restaurant meals and ready-to-eat food (up 0.8 per cent), meat, poultry, and fish (up 0.8 per cent), and non-alcoholic beverages (up 0.1 per cent). These increases were countered by a 2.7 per cent fall in grocery food prices. The key annual increases were tomatoes (up 61 per cent, from $5.15 to $8.29 per kilogram) and kumara (up 93 per cent). Higher prices were also recorded for avocados, pumpkin, soft drinks, and chicken pieces. The key annual decreases were fresh milk (down 9.5 per cent) and butter (down 28 per cent). The FPI measures the rate of price change of food and food services purchased by households. Statistics NZ visits shops across New Zealand to collect prices for the FPI and check package sizes.

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Pike River 101 Community board eyes Northern Ward The lesson of Pike River is that laissez faire economics and business investment will not protect health and safety. The promotion by the current government of resource By Ian McLean, exploitation at any cost, includspokesperson for the ing emasculating our flagship Green Party environmental protection legislation (the RMA), is of deep concern. The lessons of Pike River are not being learned. The serfs are tetchy in Canterbury due to a refusal by government to return their democratically elected Regional Council. This issue is not about the heavyhanded management of the earthquake response, but about delivering a public resource (water) to private enterprise (farming). Deep water mining, oil and gas exploration are being promoted. On land, exploration rights are being awarded for enormous tracts, including protected conservation lands. All present serious environmental risks for which rigorous mitigation may not be possible. More and better regulation is part of the answer. But most important is a vision that puts a healthy environment first.

I was very pleased to hear that the Katikati Community Board will be looking at ways that Katikati, Waihi Beach and possibly Waihi can work together and develop the new Northern Ward. The whole Northern harbour area has always had great potential as a tourist area but has been ignored in planning. I heard of this idea at the time the railway tunnel went through the Kaimais. When I arrived in Katikati a few years ago I was pleased to hear the-then deputy mayor was still trying to encourage the people in the area to start thinking of Katikati as a destination and not just a coffee stop between Tauranga and Auckland. A couple of weeks ago I wrote that the only organisation trying to promote a Northern Harbour sub-region focus was the Tauranga Harbour Recreation Forum. If the community board

and the forum working together are supported, all the small towns in the ward will be supported and everyone will benefit without losing their identities. Waihi Beach will not be an isolated holiday resort, the rail trail will reach right through to Katikati, Tuapiro will be developed as a multirecreation centre and Tanner’s Point residents won’t have to install their card-access traffic barrier to keep outsiders from using their boat ramp. Matakana will have a better direction for its development of a genuine whole–of-island plan. Of course, the community board will have to be reinforced with an upgraded management structure with delegated responsibility for finding local solutions for the local area. We must do all we can to support the board if we are going to take part in our sub-region’s economic future. If the council tries to invent its own version in isolation the idea will not work. It is not time to be defending

Harbour key for regional council in 2013 The Bay of Plenty Regional Council has responsibility to look after the land and water resources of the Bay. The regions area is 21,836km2 comprising 12,253km2 of land and 9,583km2 of coastal marine area. The region is prone to natural hazards such as flooding and erosion and like all regions in NZ is under significant pressure to clean up all waterways .This includes the harbours estuaries, rivers, streams and lakes. Along with the Rotorua Lakes and major harbours we have five large estuaries and eight major rivers .The Government has set high standards for fresh water management and water quality and allocation of quantity will feature high on government and council agendas over the next few years The council operates various programmes aimed at managing these natural resources. One of those programmes is Sustainable Land Use. The programme has a strong focus

on removing stock access from lakes, harbours, estuaries, rivers and streams and works closely with landowners on a variety of land management practices such as riparian management plans, fertiliser use, nutrient management and erosion control. Actual activities include afforestation planting, alternative water supply, coastal protection planting, gully erosion, pest control, protection fencing, steam bank works, wetland biodiversity planting, and much more. The council also operates biodiversity programmes and again works with landowners to look for options to enhance the regions biodiversity whilst assisting landowners with land management options that works for them and the region. However in a recent report to council it was acknowledged that there is still much to be done to make people aware of the issues and what the Regional Council can do to help - particularly landowners in helping them with erosion and sediment control. This is particularly so in the Tauranga Harbour Catchment as here

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there is diverse land ownership and community. We will be looking to focus in on how we can work more effectively with landowners, especially as we move to have a significant “all of Harbour focus” over the next few years. Tauranga Harbour and all that flows into it will be a key priority for the council in 2013. Please contact me at paulathompson@xtra.co.nz to discuss any Regional Council matter.

our little patches. The way we are going at the moment will have to change. It is time to support each other and bring the whole area back to life. The community board has picked this idea up again and we must keep it going for benefit of all the residents of the Northern Harbour. It can’t come soon enough.

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Facts of the battle Maori elite creaming it Many readers may wonder what happened at the Battle of Rangiaowhia which has caused such debate in The Sun. A couple of correspondents feel that the facts should not get in the way of a good story and are highly offended when it is suggested that they should have to provide evidence to support their claims. Rangiaowhia is near Te Awamutu and was a supply village, supplying food to the Kingite garrisons. Standard war practice is cut off supplies to to the enemy. General Cameron outflanked the Kingites’ heavy defences at Paterangi and Rangiatea and attacked Rangiaowhia on the morning of 21 February 1864. The maoris recovering from the astonishment of the attack took cover in the raupo huts and opened fire on the cavalrymen. The Forest Rangers under the command of Captain Von Tempsky found the the Catholic church crammed with armed maoris, who showed a white flag and so were pressed no more. The English church was filled with maoris with some shooting through the windows. When they found the walls weren’t bulletproof they escaped through the swamps. The action then centred round a whare the floor of which had been excavated down to form a rifle pit. An effort was made to storm the whare resulting in the deaths of Sergeant McHale who was dragged inside, Colonel Nixon was shot through the lungs and mortally wounded and Trooper

Alexander shot through the throat. The whare was now on fire, probably ignited by powder flash and burning wadding. The flames drove several combatants from the whare, some still firing their weapons and one trying to surrender, who were shot. The smoking ruins of the whare contained the charred bodies of Sergeant McHale and seven maori. Casualties of the battle are recorded as Maori: 12 killed including including chiefs Hoani and Ihaia and two daughters of Kereopa Te Rau. European: 3 killed and 2 mortally wounded. 30 prisoners, some wounded, were also taken. This was a battle hard fought by both sides and certainly not the massacre 144 maori as claimed by one correspondent. References; The New Zealand Wars by James Cowan Volume 1 Landscapes of Conflict by Nigel Prickett. The Penguin History of NZ by Michael King NZ Book of Events. Consulting Editors include Dr Ranganui Walker.

Richard Prince, Welcome Bay.

Ethnicity anomalies People are making very valid points about Waitangi claimants with slight maori bloodlines but providing no formula on how to address this anomaly. Well here’s a way, it’s called the Ethnicity Equalisation Scheme (EES). For openers, let’s look at the quixotic definition of maori in S.2 Maori Affairs Act 1974 which most sensible people consider to be ludicrous. If claimants are going to use any level of Maori heritage for Waitangi claims then a scheme is required to have authenticated documents to ensure whakapapas, Birth Certificates, Driver’s Licences and Passports, etc. all showing the degree of ethnicity attributed to claimants and this must be the minimum legal requirement prior to obtaining any handouts

from Waitangi claims. It follows when looking at a tribe/iwi of say 2,000 ‘members’ it needs supporting documentation and evidence for every iwi member (available for public inspection) and then the ethnicity of the whole tribe must be averaged out. If perceived grievance claims are for some reason successful and assessed at say $32 million, then if the average maori ethnicity of the tribe is 1/8th then the payment out would be $4 million and $28 million would be withheld along the lines of the ‘contributory negligence doctrine’ to the extent of 7/8th representing the ethnicity percentage other than maori and funds returned to the NZ taxpayer via the Government. R Paterson, Matapihi.

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Mr John Ansell is addressing meetings around the country about the Maori elite creaming it from the taxpayer. It all started in 1950 when Sid Holland, National Prime minister, got rid of the upper house of parliament. This was there to prevent the ruling party from passing bad legislation. Since then, parties have passed a raft of bad legislation and very little good. This has been to the detriment of the country. Mr Ansell has quoted the Swiss system of government which allows the people to share power through referenda. Our politicians have no desire to relinquish power in any shape or form, and will fight tooth and nail to maintain the status quo. Until the welfare of the country is put before political expediency, we will not see any change for the better. I do not think I will live to see this, even though it is is sorely needed. Cedric Sutherland, Otumoetai.

Treaty’s original purpose The Maori party is looking at putting a bill through parliament which will get the support from Labour, Green and Mana parties allowing MP’s to pledge to uphold the Treaty of Waitangi at the swearing in ceremony. The treaty was the initial means of getting the majority of the chiefs (540) to give up their territories to Queen Victoria so Queen Victoria could form a legal Government under British Sovereignty. Queen Victoria and her Heirs then became our head of State from then on. The Minister must swear their alliance to the Head of State, not a document that did what it was intended to do in 1840. Ian Brougham, Wanganui.

Written pieces conflict Those who praise Mr Bidois’ article stating we are all New Zealanders are equal should remember that he has a habit of writing pieces that conflict profoundly with one another. On alternate weeks he has also asserted that Maori are deserving of special privilege and rights and defended the ‘Treaty Settlement’ scams of recent decades. It is not possible to reconcile these views. Either he has multiple personalities that espouse racist or non racist views depending on which hat he is wearing on the day, or he is indulging in the technique common over the last few decades of making soothing noises on one hand while the other works hard behind the scenes to engineer and create ever greater injustices. His defence of Ngai Tahu ignores the fact that their settlement, like all of the last 30 years was achieved through quasi legal fraud. The resources involved have been stolen from the universal ownership of all citizens that includes other Maori. Whether these resources have been well or ill used is irrelevant. There can be no justice until they and all the others are returned to universal ownership and compensation paid to the remainder of us for the theft. Mike Kuipers von Lande, Mt. Maunganui.

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Question of privilege Rectifying an obvious injustice Whilst I wouldn’t argue with Peter Dey’s claim that discrimination (I assume he means “negative discrimination”) is a bad thing in our society, his attempted defence of Maori privilege is flawed. His argument, as I understand it, runs as follows: if you are privileged, then you are better off than others; Maori are not better off than others; therefore, they are not privileged. So far, so good; but the craftiness of his case rests in his selective definition of privilege - for not only can it mean holding an advantage over others (that is, being better off than they), but also having access to rights that others can’t enjoy. Maori have such rights, guaranteed by statute: it’s called the Maori electoral option. (Exclusive scholarships and selective university entrance criteria are amongst others). Such ethno-racial differentiation is an affront to egalitarian democracy (but it’s fine if you don’t believe that all human beings deserve to be treated with equal consideration). The principal problem with positive discrimination (sometimes called “affirmative action”) in favour of Maori lies in its failure to acknowledge the philosophical principle of “distributive

justice” which states that the ethically proper distribution of goods ought to be based on need, rather than on race, colour, creed, or any other arbitrary criterion. The fact is that Maori (however one chooses to define them) are a mixed group: they include the rich and poor; healthy and sick; talented and dull - and to lump them together for the purposes of resource deployment may be politically or fiscally expedient, but it is also morally repugnant. For sure, as a notional social group they may well be disadvantaged both socially and economically, but this reality doesn’t justify the creation of deliberate inequity. The motives may be right, but the method is wrong. Mr Dey emphasises what he regards as the paltry cost of selective government spending on Maori, but this claim is again subject to the objections that I’ve just raised. Anyway, I believe that a civilised society is defined by its observance of universal ethical principles (as opposed to, in New Zealand’s case, the “principles of the Treaty”, which are political in nature), rather than in dollar terms. Dr Graham Cliff, Katikati.

Threat to democratic system Grateful thanks to Brian, the editor of The Weekend Sun, for his generosity in giving space to our letters, and Muriel Newman’s article regarding the huge, very real threat soon to be presented to our democratic system of government. Maori appear to be the only ones being “informed”, by the funding of Margaret Mutu to travel with her chosen associates around the country, ostensibly to prepare them for the hoped-for constitutional change, but with her extreme, uncontrolled, hostile and inflammatory views, it seems just a bad joke. The rest of us are kept in the dark, deliber-

ately, unless we take the trouble to research things. But already too many serious anomalies exist, demonstrating clearly to the alert, the insidious corrosion of our democratic system. Even in these preparatory stages. When was it ever right for a small minority, as here, (always referring to the more radical Maori, not the moderates) to seek to impose their sub-

versive views, Maori lore and practice, to control the rest of the population virtually by decree of an entrenched archaic treaty, no longer serving the original purpose. Particularly when their real agenda is not necessarily the published one. All this with the implied sanction of parliament. We know the story. And the only possible way forward must be one giving equal rights to all, or the freedom to challenge when deemed necessary, plus freedom of speech. As was allowed those protesters at the meeting on Monday night, and of which they took ample advantage. D. Holm, Tauranga.

under looms and redundant and thrown out before they were 20. The message is learn from your own history with an open mind before you judge others. Perhaps then you can move on, and allow the Maori people to do the same. Remember that evil flourishes when good people say nothing. Peaceful coexistence is the only way forward. Robin Bell, Omanawa.

I’m not going to get into a tit for tat row with Mary Brookes and her supporters. I feel the need to respond to C. Thompson, hopefully just this once. If I offended Mary I apologise. I merely set out to correct her propensity for false statements. Regardless of what is right and what is wrong her continual attacks on the attempt by successive governments to rectify an obvious injustice is worth confronting. In the process harm is being done to race relations in New Zealand. This serves no one; it is a complete waste of time and energy. The message is, if you can’t take it, don’t dish it out. We are all the product of a mixed society. We are all susceptible to the distortions of history and the usual discrepancies of personal opinion. Written history gathered decades after the battles of 1860 are no more reliable than the verbal accounts they are based on. Of course people will cling to what they believe; they are entitled to do so. However my concern is if you do not question history, you are bound to repeat it. You clearly believe that the troops and the administration sent to NZ by the British crown were sent here to stop a few Maori doing battle. Oh! And by the way chaps just pop in to India and save the Indian people from themselves. After all we’ve just rescued the North American Indians and given them a nice little reservation to live on and we are in the process of sorting out the Africans and so on. I make no apology for my cynicism the ‘greedy imperialistic British forces’ were just that. Not so much the soldiers but certainly those who commissioned them. The empire builders came to New Zealand for the same reason they invaded all of the above and more. It is the way things were. Profit, gain and strategic value. The very sad irony is whilst doing all that the same administration were allowing enslavement and forced labour of thousands of their own people in the cotton mills of Lancashire. Children from the age of six forced to work sixteen hours a day. Crippled from crawling

Proceeds of iwi claims Ref the article “Settling Claim Debate” Weekend Sun November 9. I fully agree with Colin Bidois that Ngai Tahu have made excellent use of their settlement proceeds as it has been getting right down to the grass roots of the iwi for some time now. Why? Because Ngai Tahu leaders have been well educated and have excellent business experience and sense. However Ngai Tahu are quoted all the time as the iwi that has done really well with their claim proceeds. Why are none of the others doing so well? A number of iwi have had plenty of time to get themselves organised like Ngai Tahu. When the question is asked “What are they doing with the claim monies ?” there are two answers that crop up all the time! “It has nothing to do with you”. Well it has, as it is our tax money that is being paid out, and 2. “We are using it to plan for the future”. Fair enough but the grass roots Maori need assistance right now as well as in the future. Colin Bidois appears to have a common sense and middle of the road view of the whole treaty settlement situation. Roger Bailey, Papamoa.

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Smoke and mirrors Gaye but not happy TCAL revaluation Tauranga City Aquatics accounts to 30/6/2012 say that buildings and improvements increased in value by $3.9m. It is specialised assets that annually generates large losses and a lot of expense, how could it have increased in “value”? The Local Government Act requires TCC to put aside cash equal to the depreciation annually, so TCC puts aside cash for TCAL annually and then spends it on TCAL to pay for large costs but these don’t all show in TCAL’s costs. It is a asset replacement sinking fund that TCAL never puts money into and never has to pay back. TCAL’s audited accounts do not show how much money has been put in, what has been spent or what is left. End result, TCAL’s expenses and debt are shown to be a lot less than they really are by millions annually.

The ratepayers are paying the money in either from increased rates or more debt, we just don’t know how much. What we are told is that in 12 months to 30/6/2012 TCAL owed $4.8m more to TCC, in addition $4.574m was paid towards the running costs (from rates, called “income” and not a loan?). To date ratepayers have borrowed $27.6m to pay for shares and loans to 30/6/2012 and for seven years paid around $4.5m pa for running costs. If someone else pays the bills then a revaluation appears is just smoke and mirrors! I Stevenson, Tauranga.

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I open the ‘Weekend Sun’ at Rogers Rabbits page each week to have my Friday chuckle. On 9 November I discovered the subject was close to my heart. I’m so annoyed that my name has been stolen. Once upon a time the name Gay meant one was happy, bright and cheerful. As a child often people would remark to my parents that my name suited my personality. More recently I’ve had to re-word the way I introduce myself, for instance; instead of getting up at a meeting and saying. ‘Hello, I’m Gaye’ I rephrase it to ‘Hello, my name’s Gaye’ I actually added the ‘e’ on the end when it was claimed by our friends. I wonder how many people who dance the ‘Gay Gordons’ are Gay and if you pick up the book ‘Little Women’ on the first page is written ‘My girls are a happy and gay lot.’ Cleaning out cupboards the other day I came across a dog -eared list of name suggestions for children. These are listed with their meanings and I found four that actually meant gay. They are Eleanor: Ellen: Fedora: Lucinda: Why couldn’t one of those become the title for our friends, or one of the other adjectives? I don’t know anyone named ‘Cheerful’ I know a few people one might call ‘Bright’ and only one dwarf named ‘Happy’. Gaye Hemsley Katikati.

Lovely name ‘sabotaged’ When will homosexuals and lesbians stop being so precious and paranoid? They sabotaged a lovely female Christian name to use or describe themselves much to the detriment of people with said name. Colour is colour for anyone to use as they wish and not have the undertones you seem to put it. Are they so insecure with their lifestyle that they continually find fault with everything or is it just headline seeking? I say ‘Get a life’ and let the rest of the world get on happily with theirs. The majority of people are not the least bit interested in what you say or do. V Carter, Te Puke.

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Council organisational review under way Elected members had a briefing on the CEO’s proposed reorganisation of how council services are provided. Implicit in the proposal are cost savings and a reconfigured service organisation deemed to be a more efficient method of how things get done. It’s all a draft at the moment, pending consultation with staff members who may have relevant contributions to make covering items that may not have been thought of. The elected council has for a long time sought a review of the organisation in these uncertain financial times to ensure ratepayers are getting a best-value service for their rates dollar. This is the sole responsibility of the CEO (how the organisation is run) and interim CEO Leigh Auton, assisted by specialist outside consultants, will formulate any changes finally decided on alongside the new yet-to– be-appointed CEO. Leigh is not an applicant for this position so the new CEO can start with a clean slate. From where I sit this review is long overdue and for many years I have expressed concerns at what I perceive to be lots of ‘fat in the system’. The ‘fat’ being your rates dollars plus council getting involved in provision of nice to have services – such as the now-defunct Waterfront Museum project that cost ratepayers around $1 million in preparatory planning. So now we’ve got most elected members feet on the ground, (or approaching a landing) and we’re aiming for leaner organisation focused on provision of the same or similar level of service with minimal–to-nil rates increases for the next five years at least.

Slow news week

It must have been a slow news week and the Bay Times ran a photo of Murray Guy ‘saving’ pohutukawa trees on Marine Parade at the Mount. At least someone had a sense of humour, as the caption started with “unlikely opposition” - no doubt a veiled reference to Murray’s action a few years ago where a constituent was having trouble with a tree so Murray wrote out a note granting “permission” to cut it down, which happened! Oh dear! Anyway, Murray’s reported noble effort in this case had already been resolved by staff the day before the story hit the street. Two trees had already been removed, nine will remain and, if in the future there is a need to remove more, replacement pohutukawa have been planted much further back from the roadway.

Expensive questions

Two LAGOIMA requests (Local Government Official Information Act) for elected members expenses have been received from the NZ Herald and former CEO and now regional councillor Paula Thompson. Here are the relevant details. It seems a little illogical for costs associated with an elected member’s role being listed as personal expenses. Planning councillors have to attend seminars for instance to keep up to date as part of their

function and the mayor spends time in Wellington and Auckland as part of his role. In fact if he didn’t he could be accused of not doing his job. It will be interesting to see what take is made by the media and other interested parties. Next year is an election year…! – and the silly season. At full council we heard very reasoned concerns from Tauranga Primary School about possible traffic flows down Fifth Avenue consequent to a new Burger King being built on Cameron Road between Fifth and Sixth Avenue. Next day (there was) an equally balanced and reasoned petition from local residents. I was very impressed with both presentations and, it appeared, so were my colleagues. Burger King and council staff will attempt to work out a solution. It’s great when all affected parties decide to try and work through together. Hopefully it will result in a win-win for everyone.

advising on the use of chemicals by council around the city, four additional chemicals were approved, seven were declined or removed. A Tree Management sub-committee was formed to hear applications for tree matters. Lucky appointees were Tony Christiansen chair, Bill Grainger deputy

How do you rate?

By the time you read this you should have received your new property rating valuation. A couple of popular urban myths need to be laid to rest. It is a RATING valuation and not necessarily what your property would fetch on the market. And an altered valuation either up or down does not necessarily mean an equal alteration on your rates. Council needs to collect $X in general rates each year and the valuation is the mechanism devised to decide what your share of that will be. By the way, in my view, it’s a nonsense system for ascertaining your share of the general rate as the valuation has no relevance to your ability to pay. At least income tax is a percentage of your income. The draft policy “Temporary Commercial Activities on Reserves” is out for consultation. Our wish is for reserves to have catering provided in an orderly manner – and we’re not looking for extra fees either! All vendors are already licensed and fee’d so there will be restricted allocated parking and it will be first-up best-dressed. Downtown CBD parking problems are simmering away with lots of anonymous opinions. Some downtown retailers are their own worst enemy, as constant reference to both real and perceived problems can be a self-fulfilling prophecy. Most times there are around 530 spare parks available downtown, albeit not outside the shop you want to go to and some are in the parking buildings, which Tauranga residents seem to avoid. Yes, council’s parking policies need tweaking and this is being done regularly. Just two examples of the other side of the parking coin (pun intended). Rival retailers parking outside their competitor’s premises – yes, that happens. I have seen an organisation where every two hours people traipse out of the building to shift their cars in a musical chairs variation in a two-hour free parking zone. This denies some 10-20 car parks to shoppers during the day. Thanks to the Toxic Agrichemicals Advisory Forum (TAAF), a voluntary group working with council staff

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chair, Larry Baldock, Terry Molloy and Murray Guy. I wish them all the best in their endeavours. This week’s mindbender from, of all people, Ronald Regan. “Socialism only works in two places, heaven, where they don’t need it, and hell, where they already have it.”

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Friday 16 November

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tion by Graham Crow, Timo Rannali, Richard Smith, Doreen McNeill & more at Creative Tauranga, 112 Willow St, Tauranga until Nov 27. National Party Cocktail Function With guest, Dr the Rt Hon Lockwood Smith MP at Maungatapu School, from 5.30pm. Don’t miss the chance to meet Lockwood Smith before he takes up his new post in the UK. To secure your ticket at just $20 ph 576 9527

Saturday 17 November

Art in the Park Coronation Park, Mt Maunganui 8.30am – 5pm weather permitting. Tauranga Society of Artists offer for sale a variety of art to suit all tastes. Balmorals Marching Team Welcome ladies to join this awesome sport for fun, friendship & travel. 20-60 age group. Anita 571 4096 a/hs or 0210 257 6094 Beauty for Ashes Womens interdenonational seminar. Sat Nov 24 at Otumoetai Baptist, Tauranga 3.45am - 3.30pm. $15 donation. No childcare. www.beautyforashesministriesnz.org Bonanza Book Sale Nov 24 GBC Activities Centre cnr Oropi & Chadwick Rds 9.30am – 12pm. Second hand books, jigsaws & DVD’s. Cash sales only. Proceeds to Life-Link Community Trust. BOP Christian Singles Born again, church going, friendship group who meet fortnightly socially. Pauline 575 5556 or bopchristiansingles@gmail.com Car Boot Sale At Greerton School 7 – 11.30am. Cost $5 per single site or $10 for double site. Weather permitting. All welcome. Shirley 577 1116 or 0274 146 040 Christmas Dance Party Dec 8, Greerton Hall 7.30pm - late. $7pp. BYO drinks & nibbles. All welcome. Sonia, Supreme Dance Centre 543 2377 or 027 322 1786. Email: sonia@supremedancecentre.co.nz Church Fair St John’s Anglican Church, 94 Bureta Rd, Otumoetai 8am. Crafts, baking, plants, homeware, books etc. Harbour City Lions Booksale Nov 24 - 25 at Bethlehem Town Centre, beside Smiths City 8am - 4pm. Hoe Aroha Waka Ama Club Nov 24 ‘Have-a-go Day” as part of Sport BOP’s Play in the Bay water month. If you would like to have a go at Waka Ama come down & join us at pilot Bay 10am - 12pm. Gear provided, just wear suitable clothing for exercising. Haupiua Muru 021 047 7563. Weather call made on Facebook page at 8am on the day. www.facebook/hoearoha Katikati Tramping Club Tramp to South Hapuakohe Range. Maungakawa in the Matahuru Valley. Moderate tramp 5-6hrs. Possible car swap. 8am start. Gail 07 863 4543 Kelvin Crombie Historian Meeting NZ launching of his book “El Alamein, halt-

News, reviews and opinionated raving on the music scene. ing a possible Holocaust in the Middle East.” Nov 24 at Holy Trinity Tauranga 7pm. Supper & koha. Free admission. All welcome. dotfin45@clear.net.nz Let’s Dance Tonight Sequence dancing at Te Puke Memorial Hall 7.30-11pm. Good music by Celeste & Simon. Great company, light supper. Members $7. Te Puke Scottish Soc. Gordon 572 0060 Messianic Weekly Meetings The Way meet in the Kingfisher Room, Arataki Community Centre, Zambuk Way, Mt Maunganui 10am. All welcome. 570 1438 Paengaroa Market/Breakfast Paengaroa Community Hall. Gates open 7.30am. Breakfast from 8am. $5 car trunk, $10 car & trailer. Breakfast from $2 - $8.50. Royal High Tea Nov 24 held by Kiwicoast Lions Te Puke at Pioneer Room, Memorial Hall, Te Puke. Tickets $20 from Gift-rapt Te Puke. 2 sittings 10.30am & 2.30pm. Proceeds supporting our community. Also Royal Memorabilia Display & Christmas market 10am – 4pm. Wonderful goodies for sale – free entry. Tauranga Civic Choir Jubilee Concert, Handel’s Messiah at Holy Trinity Church 7.30pm. Jenny Coventry 574 6366 Tauranga Farmers Market Tauranga Primary School cnr 5th Ave & Cameron Rd every Sat 7.45am - 12pm. Fresh & artisian produced food. Trixie 552 5278 or www.taurangafarmersmarket.co.nz Tauranga Stamp Fair Nov 24 at Methodist Church Hall, 100 13th Ave, Tauranga 9.30am start. Come & get some bargains.

Tauranga Synchronised Swimming Club

If you’re a good swimmer but getting bored with swimming lengths, come for a free trial lesson at Synchro, Baywave first Sat each month 9-10am. Pool entry fee applies. Angela 552 5416 Tauranga Woodcrafters Guild Every third Sat at club rooms, Yatton St, Greerton 1pm. Visitors & interested people welcome. Geoff 579 3637 Trustpower Santa Parade Dec 1 11am. Free to enter. 4 categories: Community/ non profit, education, business/commercial & sports/social clubs. $3,500 worth of cash prizes. Go to www.mountmaunganui.org. nz now for an entry form & further details. Numbers are limited so be quick!

Welcome Bay Baden Powell Centre

(Scout Hall & Guide Hall) 30 year anniversary celebrations at 39 Welcome Bay Road (cnr Hammond St & Welcome Bay Rd) 1-3.30pm. Open afternoon showcasing the users of the hall & the activities they offer. Formalities start 2pm with afternoon tea provided. All past & present hall users welcome to come along. RSVP Debbie 027 245 4939

Sunday 18 November

Bay Bible Fellowship Welcome Bay Primary School Hall, Welcome Bay Rd 10am.

Reviews of DVDs, old and new, as well as other bits and bobs. Speaker: Tom Griffiths from 1st Peter 1:312. All welcome. Gerald 021 938 618 Bay Blokart Club Friendly club sailing at Baypark track every Sunday & race days on second Sun of month, Thursday twilight meetings now on. Racing from 6pm. Use second entrance 400m down Truman Lane. All welcome. Club 027 391 8300 or Peter 0274 721 322 Bethlehem Lions Market Bethlehem town centre, first & third Sundays 8am 12pm. Sites from $10. Bookings essential. For information email: bethlehemmarket@lionsclubs.org.nz Bible Seminars Sundays at Greerton Senior Citizen’s Hall, Maitland St, Greerton 1.45pm. Title: “Joseph - from prisoner to prince.” Interactive, Q&A. Refreshments provided. All welcome. Vic 543 0504 Czech & Slovak Club Inc School for bilingual children with Czech/Slovak background every Sun at Arataki Community Centre 10am - 12pm. New members welcome. Facebook csclubtauranga Learning Spiritual Laws Sunday’s at Plunket, 59 Otumoetai Rd, Tauranga 10-11am. $5 donation, children free. Remember & celebrate who you are! Maketu Community Market Maketu Village Reserve every 3rd & 5th Sun of month 8am – 1pm. Variety of stalls including fresh veges, baking, plants, bric-a-brac, books & more. Maureen 533 2340

Mount Mainstreet Farmers Market

Every Sun in Phoenix car park 9am - 1pm. Fresh fruit & veges, breads, cheese, oils, plants & more. All home grown & home made. Downtown the Mount open 7 days. 575 9911 mountmaunganui.org.nz Narcotics Anonymous Every Sunday at Hamner Clinic 1235 Cameron Rd, Greerton, Tauranga (behind Tyremaster) & every Fri at Arataki Community Centre, Zambuk Way, Mt Maunganui. Both 7pm. 0800 628 632

Original Ride on Mower Race Day

Presented by Omokoroa No 1 School at Emeny Rd, Plummers Point 10am - 3pm. Watch the full on mower racing. Also includes bouncy castle, helicopter rides, quick fire raffles, pony rides & more. Entertainment for all the family. Petanque Every Sun, Tues & Thurs at Cliff Rd 12.45pm. Boules available, tuition given. 1st 3 visits free. Neita 572 3768 Radio Controlled Model Yachts Meet Sun 1.30pm & Thurs 5.30pm at pond behind 24 Montego Drive, Papamoa to race Electron class yachts. Graham 572 5419 Singles Mix & Mingle 50+ coffee afternoon at Zaggers Cafe, Chapel St 2.30pm. Mix & mingle with other like-minded singles in a relaxed atmosphere. Gayle 027 439 3267 Sunday Open Roll-Up Tauranga Bowling Club at Domain, Cameron Rd 1pm onwards. Stay as long as you like. Play

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Tauranga Prayer & Healing Fest

Christian prayer for anything. Informal, relaxed, music at Queen Elizabeth Youth Centre Gym, cnr 11th Ave & Devonport Rd 2-5pm. Email: prayerandhealingfest@ gmail.com Tauranga Spiritual Society Senior Citizen’s Hall, 14 Norris St. Guest speaker: Debbie Nehoff, innerwise healing. Doors open 6.30pm for 7pm start. Entry $5, members $3. All welcome. Tauranga Rudolf Steiner School Advent Fair And open day at R364 Welcome Bay Road, Tauranga 10am – 3pm. Gold coin donation entry. Fun activities for children. Buy Christmas presents from a variety of stalls with handmade crafts & toys, produce, plants & books. Wholesome food & all day live entertainment. The open day provides the opportunity to meet teachers. The Sociables Males/Females 30’s/40’s. 022 012 0376

Monday 19 November

Body & Soul Fun Fitness For over 50’s,

social events & guest speakers. Mon & Fri, Greerton Hall Cameron Rd. Tues Wesley Church Hall, 13th Ave. Weds Memorial Hall, 11th Ave. All classes 9.1510.15am. First class free. All welcome. Dianne 576 5031 Qualified Instructor/ Cardiac Care leader. Concert Mount Senior Citizen’s, 345 Maunganui Rd 1.30pm. Entertainer: Doug Cook, followed by afternoon tea. $3 door charge. All Rest Homes welcome. Fitness League Tone & align your body, increase flexibility & stamina. First class free. Mon at Omokoroa Settlers Hall, Omokoroa Rd & Tues at St John’s Anglican Hall, Seddon St, Waihi. Both 9.30am. Dorothy 549 3378 How to Improve our Local Streets & Communities How can we support connections & improve our local streets & communities? Meet for a discussion at Creative Tauranga 7.15pm. Find out more about Neighbours Day Aotearoa & Earth Hour in March 2013 & get creative about what we could all do. Gold coin donation appreciated. Refreshments provided. All welcome. RSVP Emma 578 6664 or email: emma@envirohub.org.nz Meditation Free classes Mon 10am & Weds 7.30pm. Find peace, spiritual awareness & the meaning of your life. David 576 9764 Nappy Lady Workshop Papamoa Library 6.30-8.30pm. 0800 868 726 or www. TheNappyLady.co.nz Pacific Probus Mt Maunganui Monthly meeting 3rd Mon of month at Club Mt Maunganui, 45 Kawaka St. Make new friends, hear interesting speakers. Diane 575 7192

50’s forwards, & injury or illness rehabilitation. Mon & Weds, 14 Norris St, Tauranga Senior Citizens Club, behind Pak n Save. Tues at St Mary’s Church Hall, Girven Rd. All 9 - 10.30am. Taken by Heart Foundation phase 3 cardiac instructor. First class free. Jennifer 571 1411 Relationships Aotearoa Mon - Parenting Through Separation, free course for separating parents, Tga 10am - 12pm. ManMade - self esteem course for men 6.30-8.30pm. Positively Me 4 Women - self esteem course for women 12.302.30pm. Blended Families, course for parents in combined household 6.30-8.30pm. Tues - Parenting Through Separation 7-9pm. Positively Me for Women 12.302.30pm. Hot Monogamy - for people in a committed relationship – waiting list applies. ManMade 6.30-8.30pm. Parenting through Separation Katikati 9-11am. Weds - Parenting for Success, parenting your 2-12yr olds 7-9pm. Sex, Drugs & Homework, parenting your teens 6.308.30pm. Parenting through Separation, Papamoa 10am - 12pm. Thurs - Positively Me 4 women 6.30-8.30pm. Living without Pornography – waiting list applies. Weekend Course - Relationship Secrets, for couples, waiting list applies. 576 8392 Sequence Dance Class Modern sequence dance tuition & revision every Mon St John’s Church Hall, 94 Bureta Rd, Otumoetai 1-3pm. $3pp. Gordon 573 4333 Social Sports Programme Every Mon 9.30am - 12pm. Badminton, table tennis, carpet bowls. $5pp. A great opportunity to socialise & keep fit. Call the team to make sure what sports are on each week 0800 229 727 extn 6000 St Columba Indoor Bowling Club Club night, St Columba Hall, 502 Otumoetai Rd. Names in by 7.15pm. New bowlers welcome. Jenny 576 3584 Taoist Tai Chi Te Puke Te Puke Memorial Hall Mon & Tues 9.30am, Tues 5.30pm, Thurs 6pm. Joff 573 6020

Toughlove Parent Support Group

Parents, do you need a loving solution to family problems? Every Mon 7pm. 543 3194 Volunteer Western BOP Time to spare? Be a volunteer. An hour or two, one day or more we have something for you. From administration, sport, disability support, youth mentor to fundraising. Open Mon Thurs at office on 17th Ave. 571 3714 YMCA - ALFS (Active lifestyle for seniors). Smooth Movers class Mon 8.45-9.45am & 10-11am at Matua Community Hall, Levers Rd. Also 9-9.55am & 10-10.55am at Arataki Hall, Zambuk Way (off Grenada St). Tues 9.15-10.15am & 10.30-11.30am at Papamoa Community Centre, Gravatt Rd. Weds 9.15-10.15am Welcome Bay Hall, Welcome Bay Rd. Thurs 8.459.45am at Otumoetai Action Centre,

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Tuesday 20 November

AAPNZ Tauranga Meet at Up Market,

Bethlehem Town Centre 5-7.15pm. Joining the Wonder Women Christmas Trail held at Bethlehem Town Centre. RSVP denise@lyon-oneale.co.nz by Nov 17. Anxiety Support Group Junction office, 4 Roys Rd, Greerton 1-2pm. 579 9890 Genesis - Women’s Group Every Tues during school term at Papamoa Surf Club, Papamoa Domain. 10am morning tea. This week: Food, glorious food, with Brian & Amanda Martin. New members welcome. Jennifer, Salvation Army 578 4264 Greerton Community Playgroup Every Tues at Greerton Bible Church 9am 12pm. Cost $3, morning tea provided. Pam 578 6971 Inachord Chorus Ladies 4 part harmony every Tues at Bethlehem Community Church, 183 Moffat Rd 6.45pm. Enjoy singing & meet new friends. Shona 0272 801 004 or Sabine 577 0455 (day). ITO Graduation If you have recently completed a National Certificate qualification with an ITO you are invited to attend a graduation ceremony. Contact Penny Mitropoulos for info 577 7112 or penny.mitropoulos@tauranga.govt.nz Katikati Mah Jong Every Tues at Resource Centre, Beach Rd, Katikati 1-4pm. Encourages hard hands, restricts easy hands. 549 5954 Mount Morning Badminton Every Tues at Mount Sports Centre, Blake Park 9am - 12pm. Social, competitive, all ages, beginners welcome. Racquets available. Visitors $5 per session, first day free. Students $2. Season closes today. Margaret 575 9792 Papamoa Support Group Coffee & chat for people with an experience of mental illness at Papamoa Community Centre, (Papamoa Library) 15 Gravatt Rd, Papamoa 10am – 12pm. 579 9890 Remembrance Services Nov 20 at Hillsdene Chapel, 143 13th Ave, Tauranga 7pm. Nov 21 at Mount Harbour Chapel, 416 Maunganui Rd, Mt Maunganui 7pm.

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Tauranga Social & Leisure Club. St John’s Anglican Church Hall, 94 Bureta Rd, Otumoetai. Tues 7-9.30pm, second Tues of month 3-5.30pm. Visitors welcome. John 578 9716 Sit & Stay Fit Every Tues at Wesley Church Hall, 13th Ave 11-11.50am. Fun seated exercise, social events & occasional guest speakers. First class free. Wheel chair access. Dianne Body +Soul Fitness 576 5031 Tauranga Acoustic Music Club Trust Bar, Bureta Rd 7.30pm. Friendly jam sessions or open concert 4th Tues & 2nd Sun. Sing, play or just listen. Paul 579 2346 or www.tamc.org.nz

Tauranga Central Ladies Probus

Third Tues of month at Daniels in the Park 9.45am. Visitors & new members welcome. Jean 544 6516

Tauranga Continuing Education Group

Historic Village, 17th Ave, every third Tues of month. Lectures start 10am. Charge of $3 is made to cover expenses. Please fill in a registration form at your first meeting. Speaker: Prof Bradford Morse, Dean, School of Law University of Waikato “Indigenous rights.” Tauranga Orchid Society Monthly meeting at Wesley Church Hall, 13th Ave 7.30pm. Speaker: Helen McDonald - her visit to the Eric Young Orchid Foundation in Jersey. Visitors welcome. Natalie 543 0847 Tauranga Scrabble Club Tauranga Bridge Club, Ngatai Rd 9am. 3 games $2.50. New players welcome. 544 8372 Tauranga Toastmasters Tga Lyceum Club 1st Tues 7.15-8.45pm. Exterminate the butterflies, confidence building, improving public speaking & leadership skills. Alan 544 5989 Toastmasters Excel Club Learn to be a competent speaker & get your message across. Meetings held on 2nd, 4th & 5th Tues of the month at Arataki Community Centre, Zambuk Way (off Grenada St) Mt Maunganui 6.15pm. New members welcome. Tess 575 6610

Tumble Time Free - play indoors in

our fun kids playgrounds Tues 9.30am - 12pm. Cost $3.50 for first child & $2.50 for other siblings. Children must be supervised by parent or caregiver. Trampolines, moonhoppers, scooters, balls, balancing, gymnastic equipment & more. 0800 Baypark (229 727) extn 6000 or email Robyn tgaprog@clmnz.co.nz YMCA Sit n Fit Class Tues at Papamoa Community Centre, Gravatt Rd, Papamoa 11.30am - 12.30pm. Weds at Greenwood Park Village, Welcome Bay Rd 11am - 12pm. Social exercise seated to music. All welcome. 578 9272

Wednesday 21 November

Badminton Mt Maunganui Summer social club night Weds at Mount Sports Centre, Maunganui Rd 7-9pm. Cost $8 per night. All past & new players welcome. Janice 575 2438 or 027 201 0529 Baywide Community Law Service

Drop in clinic every Weds at 63 Willow St 5-6.30pm. No appointment necessary, 571 6812. Free legal assistance. Every Tues morning at Te Puke Clinic. For appointment 573 5614. Every Thurs morning at Katikati Clinic. For appointment 549 0399 Bipolar Support Group Junction office, 4 Roys Rd, Greerton 1-2pm. 579 9890

Fernlands Spa Water Exercise Class

Weds 10.45-11.45am. Held rain or shine, but not during school holidays. New participants planning to attend, Jennifer 571 1411 Free Parent Education Toughlove - a loving solution to family problems. Arataki Community Centre 7pm. 543 3194 Global Hearts Exercise Group Weds 2pm & Fri 11am. Provides group activities combined with health education that encourages members to live a healthy & active lifestyle. Classes run by certified Phase 3 cardiac rehabilitator. Vikki 575 0470 or 0272 800 388 Golf Give it a go Weds evenings at Te Puke Golf Club. Jenny 027 228 8336 Kayak Fishing Evening Nov 28 at Tauranga Sport Fishing Club 7pm. Open to anyone interested. Tim Taylor 027 668 9904 Mount Healing & Spiritual Centre Fellowship at Omanu Bowling Club, Golf Rd, Mount 7.30pnm. Guest speaker: Dr Alistair Bourne - demonstration of healing systems. Door charge $3. All welcome. Janet 027 264 0226 “Only an Orphan Girl” Presented by Te Puke Repertory. Good old fashioned theatre with audience participation. Nov 21 – Dec 1 7.30pm. Matinee Nov 25 2.30pm. Tickets at Paper Plus Te Puke. 573 8346 Otumoetai Toy Box Toy Library 94 Bureta Rd. Open Weds 6.30-8.30pm, Thurs & Fri 9.30-11.30am. A number of membership options available. 576 9923 or 027 857 7452 Papamoa Book Group Papamoa Library 10am. Topic: India. $2 donation, refreshments provided. All welcome. Papamoa Garden Circle Meet in Aihe & Marko Rooms, Papamoa Community Centre 11am for annual rose show & Christmas luncheon. Roses to be entered before 11am. Members a plate please. Alison 572 3601 Petanque Group Every Weds at Kulim Park 9.30am. Friendly & informal. No fees. Tom 544 1225

Salvation Army Meeting

For all women every Weds at Salvation Army, cnr Cameron Rd & 5th Ave, Tauranga. 10am morning tea, 10.30am meeting. This week: Visit to the Blueberry Farm. New members welcome. Jennifer 578 4264 Scottish Country Dancing Weds at Senior Citizens Hall, Maunganui Rd. Fri at Papamoa Primary School Hall, Dickson Rd. Both 7.30pm. 573 5055 Table Tennis Tauranga Memorial Hall, QEYC. Weds 12.30-3pm, 6.30-9pm. Fri 6.30-9pm. Social or competitive. All welcome. www.sportsground.co.nz/tabletennistauranga or Caroline 543 0702 Toastmasters - City Early Start Improve communication, leadership & teamwork skills. Join the motivated & enthusiastic group every Weds at Classic Flyers Avgas Cafe 6.45-8.15am. Email: LaniDTM@ kol.co.nz or 571 1545. Website: http:// cityearlystart.toastmastersclubs.org

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Leadership skills, speaking skills. Weds at St George’s Church Hall cnr Cameron Rd & Church St 7.15pm. All welcome. Alan 544 5989 Volunteer Western BOP Need volunteers? If you are a charitable or non profit group we can help. We do initial interviews & refer suitable applicants. Become a member & receive regular consultation & newsletters. Office at 17th Ave open Mon - Thurs. 571 3714 Walking Group Age Concern walking group meet at Sulphur Point, off Merrilies Rd 10am. All welcome. 578 2631 Welcome Bay Craft Group Every Weds at the Lighthouse Church 1-3pm. All welcome. Yoga Every Weds at Otumoetai Clubrooms at Fergusson Park (end of Tilby Drive) 9.30-10.45am. Beginners welcome. Wear loose clothing & bring a mate. First lesson free, following classes $8. Email: Stella at taurangayoga@gmail.com

Thursday 22 November

Bay Salsa Salsa on the Strand. Intro class 8pm followed by social dancing. Thurs upstairs at Za Bar Pizzeria. No partner required. $2 entry (members free). All welcome. www.baysalsa.co.nz Bolivia Tauranga Every Thurs at Bridge Club, Cherrywood 12.50pm. Tuition, cards, tea/coffee. Toby 543 5358 Citizens Advice Bureau Every Thurs at Arataki Community Centre 11am - 2pm. Free service for everyone. Don’t know? Ask us! No appointment necessary. Community Bible Study International

Join us at 14th Ave Gospel Centre until Nov 29 10am - 12pm for a non denominational in depth study of Isaiah. Joan 576 9065 Fitness League Safe, effective, low impact exercise to music using the Bagot Stack technique, designed for females. All ages & abilities, first class free, every Thurs Central Baptist Church Hall, cnr 13th Ave & Cameron Rd 9.30am & Weds at Katikati Memorial Hall 10am. Pam 549 4799 or 021 117 170

Go4It Fundamental Skills Programme

Thurs & Sat - 2 sessions to choose from: 9.30am - 10.15pm. 10.30am - 11.15pm. Eight sessions per term - $50. Casuals $10 per session. For info 0800 Baypark (229 727) ext 6000 or email: Robyn tgaprog@clmnz.co.nz Kickstart Soccer Every Thurs 9-9.45am. Cost $7 per session. 0800 Baypark (229 727) extn 6000 or email Robyn tgaprog@clmnz.co.nz

Life by Design - Principle’s for Living

Learn tools for everyday living; right here, right now. Understand the spiritual laws for health & wellbeing. No charge. 571 5188 Meditation Group Listen to a recorded teaching given by Kelsang Kyobpa & discuss how to practice this teaching. The group is organised by like-minded people interested in improving their understanding & practice of meditation & Buddhism. Monthly group on Thurs (starts Nov 29) 7-8.30pm. Gold coin donation. All welcome. Diane 577 1484 dianeestellehowell@yahoo.co.nz www. meditateintauranga.org More than Craft Friendly creative group every Thurs. Greerton Bible Church, Chadwick Rd 9.30-11.30am. Great crafts. $3 per morning. Creche for tiny tots. Ruth 576 0955 Mums Morning Soccer Every Thurs at TECT Arena 10am - 12pm. Cost $5 per game. Child supervision while you play for $2 per child. Interested participants can enter a full team or enter as an individual & be put into a team. Text 027 467 7051 or call TECT Arena 0800 229 727 extn 6000

Orange City Square & Round Dance Club Thurs final

club night Christmas dance. Frontiersmen’s Hall 7.30pm. 543 1063

Relaxation & Support

Group For all women affected by cancer. Meet every Thurs at 56 Christopher St, Tauranga 1pm (parking at Citizens Club, 13th Ave). Gold coin donation. All welcome. Katy 571 3346 or email: katy@ breastcancerbop.org.nz Continued...

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The ever popular guide to ‘What’s On’ in the Bay.

Rock & Roll Social Dancers Every Thurs at Senior Citizens Hall, 14 Norris St, Tauranga 7.309.30pm. Entry $3pp. All welcome. Peter 544 5556

Tauranga Heart Support Group Phase 3 rehab exer-

cise, social events & guest speakers for those with or at risk of heart disease. Every Thurs at City Church Hall, Otumoetai Rd/Sherwood St 9.30-10.45am. All welcome.

Dianne 576 5031 Qualified instructor/Cardiac Care leader.

Tauranga Library Friends

Greerton meeting, Zest Café, Chadwick Rd, Greerton 10am. Speaker: Lois Rout “The mobile library before the bus.” $3 donation. Refreshments available. All welcome.

Tauranga Storytellers’ Group Meet last Thurs of every month. Claire 577 7220

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Friday 23 November

Alcoholics Anonymous Open meeting every Fri at Hamner Clinic, 1235 Cameron Rd, Greerton (behind Tyremaster) 7.30pm. 0800 229 6757 for more meetings or assistance. Arataki Art Group Every Fri at Arataki Community Centre 9am - 12pm. Potential artists welcome to drop in for cuppa & chat to see what we do during those hours. Brookfield Primary School Summer-Fest Twilight Gala Dec 14

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Meet last Fri of each month at St Enoch’s Church, 16th Ave, Tauranga 1.30-3.30pm. Lyn 579 3575 Mums Morning Netball Every Fri at TECT Arena 10am - 12pm. $5 per game. Child supervision provided while you play for $2 per child. Interested participants can enter a full team or enter as an individual to be put into a team. Text 027 467 7051 or call TECT Arena 0800 229 727 extn 6000 Transcendental Meditation Group meditation every Friday at 12th Ave venue 12pm. Email Stephen: blissbiz@wave.co.nz or 544 8778 website www.blissbusiness.co.nz

White Ribbon Tug of War And motorcycle display at Fraser Cove Shopping Centre 5.30pm. National White Ribbon motorbike riders & men’s tug of war competition. Family carnival includes samba drummers, fire engine, children’s activities & more. Mandy 027 234 6867

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in the Sydenham Botanic Park next door to Brookfield School, 20 Miller Rd 5.30-8.30pm. Great food including Hangi (limited numbers, book at school office one week prior to event or take your chances on the night), candyfloss etc. Slide, chair ‘o’ plane, merry go round etc. Games, face painting, spot prizes. Raffle with $700 first prize total value. Tickets from school office or outside Brookfield New World Nov 26 - 30 Free Immigration Clinic Every Fri - legal advice & information on immigration issues. For appointment, Baywide Community Law 571 6812 Gay/Bi Mens Support Group Do you need a trusting person to talk

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group. Tauranga Lawn Tennis Club, Cameron Rd opp Court House every Thurs 9am. Twilight Market Every Thurs at Bethlehem Town Centre 4-8pm.

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Let me say right now: this is strong stuff - violent, nasty, intermittently very perverse – and certainly not suitable for sensitive types. But it’s also compulsively watchable and often jaw-dropping in its transgressions. McConaughey strides through the whole thing with massive cool, adding another fine turn to his impressive comeback in The Lincoln Lawyer, while Thomas Haden Church (as Chris’s father) plays deadpan dumb and Gershon – as the father’s new wife - revels in trashy excess. I have heard Killer Joe described as black comedy. The ending, plunging over the top, would seem to confirm this. But it’s hard to tell. It’s certainly black enough; whether it’s a comedy is up for debate.

Safe looks just like another low-rent Jason Statham action flick. Here’s the plot précis from IMDB: “Mei, a young girl whose memory holds a priceless numerical code, finds herself pursued by the Triads, the Russian mob and corrupt NYC cops. Coming to her aid is an ex-cage fighter whose life was destroyed by the gangsters on Mei’s trail.” Sounds like complete crap, right? But for some reason – perhaps direction from Boaz Yakin – this really works as a good, hard, violent thriller. The plot, insane though it is, keeps moving around and Jase is at his solid best. Good work. Using as its source pretty much the best book about the 2008 American presidential election (as good and readable book as you could hope for about American politics), Game Change narrows the focus to omit the Obama/Biden ticket and concentrates solely on the choice of and subsequent fallout from John McCain’s pick of vice-presidential nominee Sarah Palin. It’s fascinating, honestly and accurately told (Palin poo-poos it but many others have offered confirmation). Julianne Moore is a great Palin, Ed Harris is McCain and Woody Harrelson his campaign manager who made (and subsequently regretted) the decision. See it and be amazed (and scared). Todd Solondz’ films are generally considered edgy suburban comedies, so edgy sometimes that actual laughter feels uncomfortable. Dark Horse starts at a wedding where the two people not dancing, socially inept disaster zones Abe and Miranda (Jordan Gelber, Selma Blair) meet and begin an excruciatingly awkward courtship. He is neurotic, overconfident, collects toys and lives with his parents (Christopher Walken and Mia Farrow); she is heavily medicated. Starting in fairly naturalistic territory, the film takes an increasingly dreamlike trajectory, abandoning coherence in favour of something stranger and more unpredictable. It may frustrate people not sympathetic to the director’s peculiar universe. In Retreat a couple (Cillian Murphy, Thandie Newton) hoping to put a tragedy behind them take up residence on a remote Scottish island. Rebuilding their relationship proves tricky, however, what with an exploded generator and the surprise arrival of a shipwrecked soldier (Jamie Bell). He brings news that Europe is in the grip of a deadly airborne virus. But is he telling the truth? Boarded up in the stone cottage things between the trio become increasingly tense. The actors are in fine form but ultimately the scope of the story remains fairly limited.

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Tauranga tunes as pure as the driven snow The Tauranga music scene is a fragile thing, spluttering along intermittently, wherein most of the practitioners are driven by their love of music. I’m not saying that the Bay’s musicians aren’t interested in “commercial” success. Just that anyone who’s been in the game for a while realises the sheer unlikeliness of sudden stardom happening in Tauranga. This means that if you’re doing it here – as opposed to, say, packing up and moving to London – then you’re probably doing it for the music, not strictly financial considerations. There is an upside to this, and it’s one that I find really appealing. It means that there is a certain purity to Tauranga music. Albums here may be constrained by the financial requirements of paying for a studio but they are not second-guessed by a record company, forced into a particular style by an unwanted producer, or reworked to try and make them “more commercial” for radio. On that last point, Julia Deans tells a cautionary tale of how, when Fur Patrol were recording, the members desperately wanted to get more radio play, so they invited various radio reps into the studio to advise what the songs needed to make them more “radio-friendly”. They were told none of their efforts would work unless they overdubbed a lot more guitars and other stuff. The band hated the idea and decided to just go with what it had, commercial radio be damned. The subsequent album yielded “Lydia”, one of New Zealand’s biggest-selling singles. Marion Arts, singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist and all-round musical stalwart, has been following her own muse for decades, seemingly taking whichever musical direction most appeals to her imagination, often several simultaneously. She has just released her latest album, My Ukulele And I. But allow me to suggest that one could make a case for Marion having a more canny relationship with musical trends than she would ever admit, though not mainstream ones.

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Consider the – somewhat flimsy I must confess – evidence: when big band swing surprisingly hit the charts about 15 years back in the form of the Cherry-Poppin’ Daddies, Marion had exactly the same sort of band, a big swing outfit called The Glamorous Mrs B (it was good too!). When Lord of The Rings was in production and the talk of the country Marion released her Songs of the Rings album. With gypsy jazz in its recent ascendancy Marion and husband Robbie Laven formed Bonjour Swing (even travelling to the annual Django Reinhardt festival in France for “research”). Now, as ukuleles infest every corner of the civilised world, it’s time for a ukulele album. Coincidence? Hmmm...

Marion Arts – My Ukulele And I

Marion has released a slew of albums in different genres, from classical guitar instrumentals to pop, stately folk and, most recently, gypsy jazz with Bonjour Swing. My Ukulele And I, recorded lo-fi and live at home, finds her solely in the company of three different ukuleles (which I guess means a really small one and two not-quite–as-small ones) and nods happily to most of her musical directions. It’s a whole bunch of fun. Things kick off with a sweet instrumental, “Still” -one of Marion’s and immediately identifiable as such, mixing, as it does, classical lines with the odd bluesy bend and phrase. From there we get a mixture of styles. There are well-chosen jazz songs, from the wonderful “T’Ain’t No Sin” (with its terrific chorus of “T’Ain’t no sin to take off your skin and dance around in your bones”) to Bessie Smith’s “Send Me To The ‘Lectric

(M) contains offensive language Academy Award nominee Frank Langella (Frost/Nixon) stars in this near-future comedy about a retired cat burglar who reluctantly receives a nursing robot from his son, programmed to improve his physical and mental health. “Curmudgeonly old Frank lives by himself. His routine involves daily visits to his local library, where he has a twinkle in his eye for the librarian (Susan Sarandon). His grown children (Liv Tyler and James Marsden) are concerned about their father’s well-being and buy him a caretaker robot. Initially resistant to the idea, Frank soon appreciates the benefits of robotic support – like nutritious meals and a clean house – and eventually begins to treat his robot like a true companion. With his robot’s assistance, Frank’s passion for his old, unlawful profession is reignited, for better or worse... a story

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nies. I never thought I’d play a ukulele album for pleasure but Marion has converted me. All uke players (and other lovers of Marion’s voice and music) should have this. You can get it from www.marionarts.co.nz Review by: Winston Watusi

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THE 17th ITALIAN FILM FESTIVAL 2012

WELCOME TO THE SOUTH (M) * Fri: 6:00. 18 YEARS LATER (M) * Sat: 1:45. THE FIRST ASSIGNMENT (M) * Sat: 4:00.

ROBOT & FRANK (M) Contains Offensive Language

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Fri: 12:30, 4:35, 6:30. Sat & Sun: 12:30, 4:35, 6:30. Mon to Wed: 12:30, 4:35, 6:30.

The Sessions (M) Contains sex scenes, nudity & sexual refferences

Fri: 10:45, 2:20, 8:30. Sat & Sun: 10:45, 2:20, 8:30. Mon to Wed: 10:45, 2:20, 8:30. (PG) Violence, Coarse Lang. & Sex Ref.

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HOW FAR IS HEAVEN (M) Contains offensive language

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New Zealand Army Band to visit Tauranga Tauranga brass talent Joe Thomas will join the world famous New Zealand Army Band as it makes a stop in Tauranga this month. The New Zealand Army Band will perform in Tauranga on November 24.

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16th Avenue Theatre puckering up Saving the Salon on Sixteenth. Girl power’s the theme and lipstick’s the dream in the latest offering from the team at 16th Avenue Theatre. Directed by long-serving Tauranga Repertory stalwart Julie Lankshear, Lipstick Dreams is a light-hearted look at the lives of four very different women, each with their own dreams and disappointments. Written by Helen

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O’Connor and Simon Hopkinson, this great play was a natural choice for Julie to make. “It’s a feel-good story about women triumphing,” says Julie. “And I’ve got a fantastic cast, who are really working fabulously together.” The play is set in the Blue Heaven Ladies Hairdressing Salon, in a small country town somewhere in Australia. When the bank no longer considers the salon a viable concern, Jo and her team of plucky girls enter a talent quest at the local Chinese restaurant in the hope that ‘if they win’ the publicity would start bringing the customers back. Is this the break they need to save Blue Heaven? Best come along and

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The Hometown Heroes concert will take place on November 21 at 7.30pm at Tauranga Boys’ College. Bandmaster staff sergeant Phillip Johnston says it has been many years since the band has performed a concert like this in Tauranga “We are delighted to be returning to the area.” Private Joe Thomas grew up in Tauranga where he attended TBC and was deputy student director of arts and leader of the prestigious school big band. Since studying both a Bachelor of Music and a post-graduate Diploma in Performance Trombone at the NZ School of Music in Wellington, Joe has led trombone sections for the NZSO National Youth Orchestra, the award-winning

find out for yourself. “It’s a great play that has a wide appeal, and we had a range of ages in the cast. This means a great cast dynamic, and everyone is working extremely well together. “We’ve also got some great Motown music being performed, which people will know and love. “People who come along are going to have a fantastic and fun time,” says Julie. Lipstick Dreams is on at 16th Avenue Theatre from November 28 to December 15, with tickets available from Baycourt and at the door. This must-see play, full of laughter, tears, fun and songs, will have you dancing in the aisles.

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Eye-opening historic book launches Historian Kelvin Crombie is launching his new book in Tauranga on Saturday, November 24 at 7pm at Holy Trinity Tauranga.

‘El Alamein halting a possible Holocaust in the Middle East’ opens eyes to the motivations behind the battles at which many fathers, uncles, brothers and grandparents fought and died in, in the deserts of Egypt and Israel.

The head of the Desert Rats, Kelvin, and Lord Vicount Montgomerie.

Living in Israel for 25 years, Kelvin researched the events of the Battle of Beer Sheva, in which ANZAC horsemen conquered the high points of the city and enabled the British to ultimately take Jerusalem from the Ottoman Empire in 1917. In World War Two, the NZ second division of Expeditionary Forces played a major role in winning the battle of El Alamein, led by Field Marshall Viscount Montgomery. This victory defeated the plans of the German death squad despatched from Berlin to commit genocide in the Middle East and take the Suez Canal. Kelvin tracked down a Bible which the Jewish leadership of Israel had given to General Montgomery after the victory at El Alamein. The citation inside read: “Field Marshall Viscount Montgomery, the gallant leader of the victorious British forces by whose hand God has placed salvation in Zion in the days of El Alamein.” Kelvin placed the historic Bible in a museum he established at Christ Church in Jerusalem’s Old City, and used it when lecturing Israeli groups about non-Jewish involvement in the restoration of Israel. Most of those gallant soldiers at El Alamein and Beer Sheva were non-Jews.

Got a problem with a health service? Age Concern is running its last seminar in to resolving a concern that otherwise could escalate into a formal complaint. To register for the seminar, the ‘Approaching Senior Years’ series phone Age Concern, 07 578 2631. on November 20. By Angela Scott, Five excellent speakers will present information and answer questions on community and hospital services for older people. The seminars are designed to help people make informed decisions about their health and enable them to plan for the future. Support for carers will be another topic explored at the seminar. Many family and friends provide an unpaid caring role covering a wide range of tasks. What are their options? What subsidised help is available and how can community organisations help and are there reliable trained carers we can pay to do the tasks we can’t manage? At the seminar many of these agencies will have display tables and will be able to supply information on their services and how to access information sites. A panel of speakers representing hospital and community consumer services will cover the topic of complaints and answer questions. Knowing who to ask early on is often the key

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Transport yourself to a brave new world Mozart’s Don Giovanni Overture will open BOP Symphonia’s Brave New World concert at 2pm on Sunday, December 2 at Baycourt; a concert to delight the senses and stir the musical emotions. As the New World Symphony, Grieg’s piano concerto was written while the composer was away from his homeland in Norway, enjoying the warmer

climate of Denmark. Nevertheless, Norwegian influences are said to have shaped this popular concerto. As a curious aside, this concerto was the first piano concerto ever recorded, back in 1909, somehow reduced to a mere six minutes. Dvorak’s New World stands as one of the great symphonies of all time and was written while the composer lived in New York for a number of years. Dvorak felt that an American compositional style was in the process

of emerging, although looking back, we should wonder whether Dvorak’s very own music may not have influenced later icons of American music such as Bernstein, Copland and Barber. Concert promoter Marlene Stewart says the Baycourt audience will be thrilled to welcome back acclaimed 21-year-old pianist Jason Bae who has been engaged by the symphonia’s new music director, Justus Rozemond, to perform both symphonies. “Jason’s achievements, performances and awards since 2003 are mind-blowing, even though he began lessons at the age of five.” After presenting recitals in New York, Aspen, Sydney,

Melbourne, Brisbane and Wellington during the last couple of months, Jason presented his debut recital at the Auckland Town Hall Concert Chamber in September. The concert was a sell-out. Justus and 55 symphonia musicians – including eight student musicians – invite you to a memorable Sunday afternoon, the last symphonia concert of the year. “In the words of that wonderful song ‘Wouldn’t it be luverly...’ if Tauranga turned out to give Jason what he deserves – the ‘Sold Out’ sign up at Baycourt. Music lovers and piano students, don’t miss this one only performance.”

Jason Bae will play the piano at both events.

Volunteers needed for Christmas appeal Want to give something back this Christmas? Waipuna Hospice is looking for volunteers to help run its annual Remembrance Tree appeal starting later this month. Each year the Tauranga charity can be seen around the city, helping people remember loved ones and raising money for Hospice. Beginning November 26, trees will be displayed at the Warehouse Fraser Cove, Pak’n Save Tauranga, ANZ National Bank Katikati and BNZ Te Puke.

For a $2 donation people can write a message to a loved one, which will be placed with a colourful bauble on the tree. Early next year, the messages will be blessed during a remembrance service and buried beneath the tree at Waipuna Hospice. “This has become a meaningful tradition for many people across the Bay,” says Waipuna Hospice spokesperson Ingrid Hennessey. Ingrid says the success of the appeal depends on volunteers and there are still spaces available at various sites. The role involves taking donations and assisting the public with placing the bauble on the tree. “Volunteers are encouraged to invite a friend to keep them company and take the chance to interact with our community in a slightly different way.” For those who work during the day but still want to help out, Bayfair sites will operate during evenings and weekends, therefore there are plenty of opportunities to suit everyone’s schedule, says Ingrid. For more information contact Jolande by phone 576 5935 or by email on jdestreel@vodafone.co.nz By Corrie Taylor

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Joy on the jetty While recently photographing the wedding of my friends Steve and Linda I was asked to shoot these exuberant youngsters on the lakeside jetty. We put our heads together and came up with this little plan. I didn’t have any trouble

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Chasing and biting the yellow ball is my favourite pastime. Well, at least of the pastimes I’m allowed to have. Chasing the yellow ball actually ranks third behind: 1. Sneaking upstairs to the boss’s waterbed for an afternoon nap; and 2. Getting Ady on the other end of Uncle’s sock and seeing if we can stretch it long enough for it to turn into pantyhose. So when the boss gets the yellow ball out, it’s time for major excitement in our house.

However, lately he’s been getting quite a lot of amusement from switching the yellow ball for a lemon. Now I don’t know how many of you out there in Sun land are in the habit of chasing and biting lemons. Not many, if any. But let me assure you, chasing a ball flat stick and biting into it, then finding it’s a lemon, is cause for serious concern. These yellow balls bite back! So while I’m growling and yelping, with my face contorted and the acidic juice driving me nuts,

the boss is howling and chortling in childlike amusement. Once was funny. I’ll give him that. But do we have to make fun of the dog with a lemon every day? The dog always gets the last laugh, however. I want to be around when he gets into bed tonight and finds a half-chewed lemon on his pillow. Suck on that. Meanwhile, summer is here and the newshounds have been getting out there with our best buddies. Here’s a beachy pic of sexy Lexi, who might be little and cute but is a mongrel when it comes to chasing sticks in the surf. Till then, beware the rolling lemons. Catch you next week. -Flo.

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LIGHTHOUSE CLINIC PSYCHOLOGY specializes in Anxiety - Depression - Stress Sexual Abuse - Eating Disorders - Addictions - Relationships Reg Psychologists Ph 07 578 5445 www.lighthouseclinic.co.nz LOSE WEIGHT feel great! Join a ‘New Look’ clinic in your area. Healthy eating with real food. Ph Bernice now 576 4848 NATURAL NEW ZEALAND Health Products. Something for everyone. NZ Registered Natural Therapies and Natural Medicine Practitioners. Opposite BP Te Puke. Ph 573 5533 www.naturaltherapiesnz.com and www.kiwikitz.com PEDICURES PEDICURES PEDICURES Getting ready for summer, sandal & jandal time. Home visits $35. I offer divine foot spa soak, cut & shape, cuticle tidy up, foot massage, remove dead skin, nail polish. Ph Janet 544 1968 or 027 544 1968

healthy lifestyle

WORK FROM HOME opportunity Earn an ongoing reliable residual income Ph Betty now on 544 1678

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holiday accommodation

OHOPE BEACH from December, Studio unit $550 p/w. 2 bedroom unit sleeps 8 $1000 p/w. Ph 021 058 3249 or email stevebronne@hotmail.com

house sitter

PROFESSIONAL HOUSE MINDER available. Do you want peace of mind that your treasured home is in trustworthy hands while you are away on holiday. Excellent references. Available now. Ph Cathie 022 162 8301

lifestyle coaching

CAREER RESTRUCTURING? Creating opportunity from Change. Ph Chris at Balanced Success Coaching 027 548 2548 chris@balancedsuccess.co.nz www.balancedsuccess.co.nz

trades & services

A1 AIRCONDITIONAL & Electrical for all your electrical needs. Low rates, great service. Ph 027 547 3831 or 543 0062 BUILDER LICENSED CBA member 35 years experience available for additions alterations and maintenance. Ph Brian 576 1671 BUILDERS - Murray Pedersen licensed builder with his experienced team will undertake additions renovations also reclads. We can arrange plans & consents. Ph 575 7870 ELECTRICIAN A professional and affordable registered electrician. New builds alterations repairs. Ph Steve 578 0555 or 027 848 6042

livestock

GORSE SPRAYING Do you have a gorse problem? Ph today for a free quote for all gorse control. Ph Scott 027 462 4769

mobility

GUTTERING CLEAN and repairs moss removal. Experienced Certiﬁed Roofer. Free quotes. Ph Peter now 542 4291 or 0274 367 740

AC PETFOODS collect injured & unwanted cows & horses. Ph 0800 369 6269 MOBILITY SCOOTERS wheelchairs walkers & more. Visit or showroom 29 Burrows St, Tauranga Ph 578 1213. MES ‘Supporting you independence’ STAIRLIFTS – Make life easy with a stairlift enjoy the home you love by installing an Acorn Stairlift. Call us now TOLL FREE 0800 782 475 or www.acornstairlifts.co.nz

HANDYMAN BUILDING and section maintenance decks fencing pergolas painting water blasting odd jobs. Free quotes Ph Rossco 027 270 3313 or 544 5911 INSECT SCREENS Measure. Make. Mend. Contact Rob at Magic Seal 543 4940

trades & services

LAWN MOWING all areas ride on available. Husband & Wife team, free quote. Ph 027 205 5654 LAWN MOWING covering Katikati through to Bethlehem Otumoetai areas. Experienced Contractor. Friendly reliable service ph Chris 027 200 8578 or a/h 549 4006 LAWN MOWING garden tidy, etc. Call me for a quote & let me keep your lawns tidy. Experienced operator. Ph Mark 021 220 3111

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ROOF REPAIRS metal or onduline gutters & down pipes clean or replacement chimney repairs. Certiﬁed Roofer over 30yrs experience Free quote. Ph Peter 542 4291 or 0274 367 740 SCAFFOLDING prompt free quotes, friendly service, DIY or full erect & dismantle services. Safe, certiﬁed, cost effective. Safeplank Scaffolding 021 680 555.

PAINTER / A1 DECORATOR available. All interior & exterior work. Prompt, reliable, excellent references. Ph Paul 576 4793 or 027 689 6252

S T U M P I N AT O R STUMP Grinding free quotes & prompt service. Narrow machine to access rear yards. Ph 576 4245 or 022 076 4245

PAINTER / DECORATOR Interior & Exterior, quality workmanship friendly services. Over 20 years specialising in residential and more. Quality paint at trade prices. For your best advice in all areas. Ph Shane Mount/Tauranga Decorators 07 544 6495 or 021 575 307

TAURANGA TANDEM SKYDIVING Best Buzz in the Bay, Gift Vouchers. Ph 576 7990

ROOFING & SPOUTING Metal fascia, gutter and rainwater systems. Long run corrugate. Maintenance, repairs or replacement. Free no obligation quotes. PROFIX 027 496 5375 proﬁxltd@xtra.co.nz ROOFING new roofs re-roofs spouting & repairs. Free quotes. Ph Chris 027 276 6348 or 572 3237

TILER QUALIFIED TILER references available free quotes all types of work done from kitchen splashbacks to full tiled bathrooms. Contact Nelson 021 609 289 TREE SHRUB and hedges Trimming topping removal rubbish removal satisfaction guaranteed free quote. Ph Steve Hockly 571 5958

trailer repairs

IS YOUR trailer in need of repairs? Failed a warrant? Car & boat trailers, horse ﬂoats, transporters. I do it all, from small trailer repairs to major re-dos. Call me to come have a look, free quotes, pickups and drop offs! Ph Dave 027 325 9896 a/h 07 575 3178

transport

DRIVING MISS DAISY relief for busy families let us take care of the transportation of your parents to appointments or outings. Safe, friendly, reliable service. Ph Jackie from Driving Miss Daisy 552 6614

travel & tours

A HOLIDAY or day-out. Every week. Small Group Tours. Door to Door Hinterland Tours Ph Kae & Rick 07 575 8118 ARE YOU looking for a day out or maybe a tour? Ph us for a copy of our weekly travel calendar. Outings include shows shopping markets luncheons mystery tours, scenic drives industry tours and even overnight tours. Ph Zealandier Tours 07 575 6425 admin@zealandiertours.com AUCKLAND SHOPPING SPREE Saturday, 8 December 2012. Shop to your heart’s content with Bayline! Ph 07 578 3113 $55 per person – Group discounts available BAYLINE COACHES Day trips, away trips or sight seeing & tours! Call for a free quote today Ph 578 3113 CHRISTMAS LIGHTS TRAIL Thursday, 13 December 2012. Join Bayline on this merry night out! Ph 07 578 3113 Kids & family prices available

travel & tours

ROTORUA ATTRACTIONS & sightseeing Discounts for Tauranga Locals! Tours to Rainbow Springs - Big Splash, Te Puia, Government Gardens, Skyline Luge, Polynesian Spa. www.bestdealtours.com 22nd, 23rd, 28th Nov. Ph 578 7251 SCOTTSDALE SENIOR TOURS fully escorted owner/operated since 1978. Ph free for colour brochure today 0800 664 414. Also see www.scottsdaletours.co.nz

wanted to buy

ANTIQUES, BANKNOTES, collectables, coins, china, military items, stamps, scrap gold & jewellery. Lic dealer. Ph 575 9928 Brian pays top prices ANTIQUES, COINS, medals, china, glass, Kiwiana, Australiana, militaria, toys, anything old and interesting. 021 392913 or 07 549 0139 mark.holwerda@vodafone.co.nz KIWIFRUIT 3M STRAINERS wanted for making a retaining wall, approximately x20 posts. Ph Scott 027 462 4769

work wanted

FIT HEALTHY European male 69, looking for part time work (no commission selling). Please ph Eric 577 1988

CURTISY TOURS Travel Club Day Trips, Katikati $55, Te Awamutu $60, Mamaku Rail Cruising $95 (include all venues, morning tea, lunch) Away Trips, 3 Days Coromandel $495, Wanganui Christmas Away and much more Ph 543 9205

rentals

GREERTON large 1 bedroom flat $200 p/w. Ph 579 0119 or 021 552 554

CLOTHING SALE

$2 for a large bag. Men’s, Women’s & Children’s clothes available. From 9am – 10:30am, 1st & 3rd Thursday of each month. Last sale 6th December. Turning Point Trust @ The Historic Village, 17th Ave. Ph 07 578 6934

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Commons Ave, Sat 8am. Items include, beanie babies, outboard motor, bed, books, clothes, tv/ video car stereo JVC etc.

PAPAMOA

22 Parewaitai Court, Sat, 8am - midday. Household items, downsizing. 11 Santa Barbara Drive, Sat, 8am. All sorts & all good condition. 5 Torbin Place, Sat, 9am. 2 households combined. Excellent assortment of furniture, beds, household & kitchen items.

PILLANS POINT

4 Goods Rd, Sat, 8am - 11am Near new F&P fridge freezer, 5year old F&P washing machine, kitchen wear & other smaller household appliances & miscellaneous items.

TAURANGA

93c Grace Road, Sat 8 -12pm. $10 a box $5 ﬁll a bag. Furniture, clothing, shoes & freebies! Some Rythmz Dance tickets available to buy for Nov 24, will swap for Nov 25.

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The wonderful powers of Jesus In Matthew’s account of the life of Jesus he records in chapter 20:29-34 an account of when Jesus was leaving the town of Jericho and a large crowd followed him. This was not unusual but, on this day, two blind men were sitting by the roadside, and when they heard that Jesus was going by, they shouted, “Lord, Son of David, have mercy on us!” When this happened the crowd became stirred up. The people got cross with the men and told them in no uncertain terms to be quiet and not bother Jesus. After all, they were only blind beggars. This had no effect on the men and they shouted all the louder, “Lord, Son of David, Jesus, have mercy on us!”

The wonderful thing was that, while the crowd had no time for them, Jesus did. He stopped and called them. “What do you want me to do for you?” he asked. “Lord, we want our sight,” the men replied. The bible says Jesus had compassion on them and touched their eyes. Immediately they received their sight and followed him. There are two wonders in this account. One is the miracle power of Jesus, in that men who were blind can now see and the other is that when others had no time for the men Jesus had compassion for them, and stopped and spoke to them. Today we serve the same Jesus, who has compassion on anyone needing help. If you have a need today you can confidently come to Jesus and know that he will hear and answer your call. Stephen Tyrrell Pastor South City Baptist Church, Tauranga

The danger of different gospels In Galatians 1:6-9, Paul warns about those who preach a ‘different gospel’. He doesn’t leave the Galatian Church to decide by way of personal opinion or by personal interpretation what a different gospel looks like. He says that any gospel that is different from the gospel you received from me (Paul) is a false gospel! We know from Scripture that Paul preached the same gospel (good news) that the other disciples preached and which Jesus Himself preached. So, for the Galatian believers, their personal experience of the teachings of Paul was the standard or the authority by which they were to test what was the true gospel and what was false. Today, we have God’s Word, the Holy Scriptures, which ‘live and abide forever’, which teach us what gospel Jesus, the disciples and Paul preached. God’s Word is the standard and the authority for recognising the true gospel from the false. It is not a matter of opinion or interpretation because God’s Word from Genesis to Revelation is consistent in presenting God’s plan of redemption. What is seen in the sacrifices, ordinances and feasts in the Old

Covenant pre-figures or points towards the fulfilment of God’s plan of redemption in Christ and is seen in the gospel preached in the New Covenant. The true gospel which Paul declares in Romans 1:16 is “the power of God for salvation to everyone who believes” produces true converts, who will be part of the true Church that will be the remnant Bride of Christ. False gospels produce false converts, who will fill false churches, which will become the counterfeit One World Church and the false bride. The true gospel firstly addresses the issue of mankind’s sin (self-seeking rebellion). The true gospel addresses the consequences of man’s sin. The true gospel presents Jesus as the One who came to save us and to redeem us from our sins – not from our troubles, not from our sickness, not to give us our best lives now, not to give us self-esteem. The true gospel demands repentance as the only doorway to salvation in Christ. For more on this important matter, go to http://www.jesusfirst.org.nz/ MP3Files/WhichJesusWhichSpiritWhichGospel.mp3. See you on Sunday! By Peter Whitcombe, Jesus First Church

Christian church and Israel explained I was interested and challenged by the recent article on the church page entitled: “The Christian Church and Israel.” I would like to present a few facts: God does not save nations but only individuals. See John 3:16 “Whoever believes” includes Jews and gentiles alike. If he did have a favourite nation it would surely not be the nation that rejected Jesus and finally caused Him to be crucified.

The prophecies of Jeremiah and Ezekiel have nothing to do with the return of Israel and the establishment of the modern state of Israel. The prophecies were written at the time when the people of Israel were in captivity in Babylon: 605 – 530 B.C. Jeremiah wrote about 600 – 580 B.C. Ezekiel about 590 – 570 B.C. They wrote about the return from captivity in Babylon back to Jerusalem round 500 B.C. Pastor John Veld, Te Puke.

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Speedway bus spectacular The cars were fast and loud and so was the overhead entertainment at Baypark Speedway’s annual fireworks display earlier this month.

% 50 Ross Osborne from team Mercedes hits the ball while teammate Arthur Jordan looks on.

Coastguard operations manager Simon Barker enjoys a drink at the tournament.

Beer tantalises taste buds Craft beer lovers descended on Farmer Auto Village on Friday for Liquorland’s second celebration of micro-brewed ales, pilsners, ciders and stouts.

Mike Neilson from Tuatara pours Dave Decke an APA beer.

Golfing in the sunshine Tauranga Volunteer Coastguard’s golf day at Omanu Golf Club was a hit last Friday, with a full field, including the odd burglar, basking in beautiful sunshine all afternoon.

Kelly Fulton, 13, Brodie Hunter, 11, and Dayne Gear, 12, had a night not to forget with car racing and fireworks thanks to Baypark Speedway, Bethlehem Coachlines and SunLive.

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Liquorland CEO Rod Gibson and Tauranga Liquorland owner Lisa Parker enjoying the food on offer at the festival.

Jim and Gary MacIlwee learn about the malts used by director Ben Middlemiss, and sales and marketing manager Tim Middlemiss, in their craft beer.

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