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YOUR LOCAL
OPINION NEWS
YOUR LOCAL NEWS neighbourly.co.nz/easterncourier Opinion
Transport solutions a long way off How to
contact us
A part of me died, knowing I neighbourly.co.nz/
The couldn’t share this personal
blow. The route of a bypass
easterncourier
Extra around Kumeu, talked about for Editorial inquiries:
Niall decades, may be known by July Go to our page on Neighbourly,
we were told, but construction sign in and use the drop down
Todd Niall could be 14 years or more contact menu to send us news tips,
todd.niall@stuff.co.nz
away. letters, what’s on or ask a question.
‘‘14 Years,’’ repeated a Advertising
OPINION: Most people at some despairing audience, in an echo Stuart Palmer 027 642 7471
time have nightmares related to trapped inside the barn. stuart.palmer@stuff.co.nz
their jobs – like the radio news Sayers declared his support Classifieds 0800 835 323 or
reader who hears the pips but for lobbyists seeking an aucklandclassifieds@stuff.co.nz
has no bulletin to read and tries extension of the commuter rail Address: Picton Centre,
to recite from memory. network, using decommissioned 120 Picton St, Howick;
I have just lived through a diesel units running between PO Box 76-400, Manukau.
journalist’s one, trapped in a Swanson and Huapai. Audited readership: 65,000
news story that can’t be told It’s a popular rallying cry in (Nielsen: Q4 2017-Q3 2018).
because it’s not big enough. the area, but as unlikely to be Delivered on Wednesdays to: Beachlands,
I live in Auckland’s rural Congestion on Auckland’s SH16 – part of the city’s northwestern traffic realised as a parting of the traffic Botany Downs, Bucklands Beach, Burswood,
nightmare. (File photo) Cockle Bay, Dannemora, East Tamaki, East
northwest, a once-idyllic TODD NIALL congestion to allow any of us to Tamaki Heights, Eastern Beach, Edgewater,
collection of lifestyle blocks, drive unhampered along the Farm Cove, Flat Bush, Golflands, Half Moon
vineyards and orchard Growth’’ – a name that carefully others encounter daily seem set highway. Bay, Highland Park, Howick, Huntington
remnants, which has in recent overlooks the significant past to grow. NZTA brought the That moment when Park, Maraetai, Mellons Bay, Northpark,
Ormiston, Pakuranga, Pakuranga Heights,
years undergone huge suburban and present growth. house down by declaring a nightmares suddenly end came Shamrock Park, Shelly Park, Somerville,
growth without roading or The journalist in me had to ‘‘safety’’ upgrade and widening when a squally rain shower Sunnyhills, Whitford and adjourning East
transport to match. remain silent, as several dozen of of the congested State Highway hammered so loudly on the tin Auckland suburbs.
The often walking-pace crawl my fellow residents scattered 16, ‘‘three-ish’’ years away, roof, we all had to go home.
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get stuck in it, and the nearby already booked. Sure, they were probably Multibillion-dollar transport
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rail line lies beyond the end of Auckland Transport pointed talking at cross-purposes, but projects or proposals that will
the suburban commuter out that an imminent upgrade, they implied trimming one guarantee headlines for years. FEEDBACK
network. years in the making, to a busy minute off a 5-kilometre highway Meanwhile, my fellow Local paper looking a little
That was not really the level crossing and highway drive that can take 20 minutes in northwesters and I will grind different? We’re giving readers
nightmare, the nightmare was a intersection was simply to the morning peak hours. through some of the region’s more of what they want and would
public meeting organised by deliver a planning requirement In starting to proudly list new worst congestion, anecdotally a love your feedback. Email us at
Helensville MP Chris Penk, at of a 2013 Government-declared bus services introduced to the factor in slowing local home telluswhatyouthink@stuff.co.nz
which transport officials and Special Housing Area area, ward councillor Greg sales.
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on the solutions. The outcome is a meagre, new service – the now journalist nightmare of a story
of the NZ Media Council. To find
The answers lie in contractual-obligation 2013 congestion-plagued 125X service, too small to tell.
out more or complain visit
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Pets still waiting for the bus
MANDY TE
People wanting to take their pets
on the bus will have to wait a little
longer.
It has been more than a year
since Auckland Council’s plan-
ning committee voted in support
of allowing pets to ride on public
transport.
Since then, councillors and pet Auckland Council’s
owners have heard very little planning committee
about letting their furry friends on voted in support of
buses and trains. allowing pets to ride on
public transport in
Auckland Transport media 2018.
adviser John Nottage said AT was MONIQUE FORD/STUFF
in talks with its bus and train
operators and updates would be
given in the coming months.
Councillor Cathy Casey
proposed the idea in April 2018,
supported by councillor Efeso Col-
lins.
Casey said dog owners had now
been ‘‘waiting a long time’’ for the
change to come into effect.
Pets were part of the family and
allowing them on public transport
would reduce the number of cars
on the road, she said.
She believed most dog owners
were responsible and pets could be
trusted on Auckland’s public
transport.
While any step forward was
positive, Casey was concerned Councillor Cathy Casey says letting pets use public transport would reduce the number of cars on Auckland roads. SUPPLIED
Auckland Transport would take a
‘‘conservative’’ approach similar the new rules were rolled out by negative incidences. safety risk, she said. ‘‘This has Transport rules, no animals are
to Wellington’s rules, which mid-July. ‘‘Pets aren’t on the loose and been a positive step and allowed on the city’s buses and
required all pets to be contained Eight months later, Greater they don’t interfere with other normalises public transport. trains, but dogs and small animals
while travelling. Wellington Regional Council commuters.’’ ‘‘We want public transport to in cages were allowed on most
‘‘Let’s make Auckland a dog- sustainable transport committee People with pets could also be be part of people’s everyday lives.’’ ferry services.
friendly city.’’ chairwoman Barbara Donaldson refused entry or asked to leave the About 102,954 dogs were regis- Disability assistance dogs –
In Wellington, pets were given said the trial had been going fine service if the bus was too crowded tered by Auckland Council in 2018. either working or in training – are
a ticket to ride in March 2018 and and there had been no reported or the animal was considered a Under current Auckland allowed on trains and buses.4 EASTERN COURIER, MAY 22, 2019 neighbourly.co.nz
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The grim truth of burglary is catches on all the downstairs
revealed in the Crime and Victims windows.
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There were around 312,000 is thriving.
burglaries in 2018, with 17.5 per I do not know what proportion
cent of households falling victim, of economic activity goes to
some repeatedly. combating dishonesty, but
One in eight adults experienced spending on policing, property
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to be burgled than renters (with important. while you are away, clear mail, installed locks on every window,
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Community cookbook NADIA LIM IN ASSOCIATION WITH MY FOOD BAG
Part and parcel: perfect lamb filos
Golden brown goodies are served up with
roasties and yoghurt on the side.
LAMB FILO PARCELS Each week
Nadia gives
Serves 4 you another
easy recipe for Prep filos:
Ready in 50 minutes your family and Place 1 sheet of filo on a bench
you’ll find all the with short edge closest to you.
ingredients in Lightly brush with butter/oil
Filling My Food Bag. and fold in half lengthways.
❚ 1 brown onion myfoodbag.co.nz Brush the folded sheet with
❚ 1 carrot butter/oil. Place half cup lamb
❚ 50g baby spinach mixture in the bottom corner of
❚ 1 clove garlic, minced To serve the filo and fold over to form a
❚ 200g pumpkin ❚ 1⁄4 cup yoghurt triangle at the bottom of the
❚ 500g lamb mince sheet. Fold up to form a further
❚ 1⁄2 teaspoon salt Prep filling: triangle, brush remaining sheet
❚ 4 teaspoons lamb spices (1 Preheat oven to 220C. Finely dice of pastry and continue folding
teaspoon garlic powder, 1 onion, grate carrot and roughly over until the whole sheet is
teaspoon ground cumin, 1 chop first measure of spinach. wrapped around filling.
teaspoon garam masala, 1 Continue with remaining sheets
teaspoon ground coriander) Cook filling: and filling.
❚ 1⁄2 cup beef stock Heat a little oil in a fry-pan on
medium-high heat. Cook onion, Cook filos:
Roasties carrot, garlic and pumpkin for Place filos on another lined oven
❚ 200g kūmara about five minutes, until tray and lightly brush with
❚ 2 carrots softened. Add lamb, salt and butter/oil. Bake for 8-10 minutes,
❚ 50g baby spinach lamb spices and cook a further spinach, season to taste and set carrots 2cm. Toss kūmara and until golden brown.
4-5 minutes, until browned. aside to cool for about five carrot on a lined oven tray with Serve lamb filos with roasties
Filos Add stock, bring to a simmer and minutes. a little oil, season and roast for and yoghurt on the side.
❚ 8-10 sheets filo pastry cook a further 4-5 minutes, until 25-30 minutes, until golden and
❚ 5 tablespoons melted butter or liquid is nearly gone. Prep & cook roasties: tender. Toss through second
olive oil Stir through first measure of Dice kūmara 3cm and dice measure of baby spinach. myfoodbag.co.nz
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19-PRO-InorgEC
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Backyard banter IN ASSOCIATION WITH NEIGHBOURLY AND ITS PARTNERS
Get creative for childcare solutions
babysitting club. Every family
Neighbourghly co-operation could help unit in the group could take all of
working parents, writes Erin Reilly. the kids for one day a week,
allowing the other parents to
OPINION: Last month I was work on those days.
shocked to read that the cost of Keeping it local will save you
childcare is now roughly the more time and money, too;
same as private school fees. connect with other families on
After a study carried out by Neighbourly is a NZ-owned your street or in your
IbisWorld showed a big rise in social media site creating neighbourhood on Neighbourly.
the cost of raising children, easy ways for neighbours Kindy is much cheaper than
Statistics NZ found that local to talk and connect. Join daycare but they don’t cater for
childcare costs had risen by us at neighbourly.co.nz or younger children, full days or
34 per cent in the nine years to download our new iPhone school holidays, which is
the end of 2017, more than twice and Android apps. problematic for parents who
as fast as a 15 per cent rise in work full-time.
general consumer prices during Holiday programmes are also
the same period. many families – for my family – expensive, which is another
Our three-year-old son goes to it’s a necessity. reason why working with your
daycare and he loves it – my When our son was much neighbours is a great option.
husband and I love it too. younger and we decided it was Figure out the best days each
Before he turned three and time for me to go back to work, family unit can take off during
his Government subsidy kicked we had great family support, the school holidays, then
in, we were paying $220 a week which made it financially entertain everyone’s kids for the
for two days until 2pm plus two feasible. day.
days until 5.30pm. (We actually But many families who don’t The cost of daycare can be a drain on many families. I love the Government
should have been paying more, have that same level of support subsidy, but I don’t love that it
but our daycare very generously have to decide if it’s worth going go back to work I’ll need to be families. The cost of living doesn’t kick in until a child
only billed us for four days until back to work, or if working will working more than I might have doesn’t look like it’s going down turns three.
2pm.) simply pay for the cost of otherwise in order to justify the any time soon, so parents need to Until the Government makes
When he turned three, $220 a childcare. expense of childcare – otherwise get creative with their childcare some changes on how New
week became $140 week (and I am pregnant with our there’s no point in going back to needs. Zealand parents can cope with
now we’re being billed for the second child and we no longer work at all. One idea could be to partner the costs of childcare, perhaps
hours he’s actually there). have that nearby family support, I personally love daycare. But up with other families in similar it’s time we all started getting a
Childcare isn’t cheap, but for which means when it’s time to financially it is a drain on many situations and start your own bit creative.
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THE EXPLAINER
Could you live in one of these?
ANUJA NADKARNI The houses range in price
from just under $80,000
Bunnings has quietly been for a two-bedroom kitset to
building flat-pack homes under about $130,000 for a four-
bedroom house.
its Clever Living brand that are
becoming increasingly popular
for first-home buyers, a builder
says.
Kapiti Coast builder Simon
Hinds said he had built 21 flat-
pack homes during the past 18
months, including baches and
first homes for people living on
the Kapiti Coast, Wellington and
Masterton.
Bunnings has sold 50 flat-pack
houses in the past year. Join the
The flat-pack homes can be conversation
designed and built off-site, then Either post a comment on
transported to the location or our Neighbourly page or
home delivered as a kitset and send us a letter to the
built on-site by a registered editor. Just go to our page
builder. on Neighbourly, then
Hinds said a 60-square-metre select letters under the
two-bedroom kitset cost $79,695, Contact menu.
while a 106sqm four-bedroom
home would cost $131,139.
Hinds said the houses had ‘‘We are working with Farmlands Co- communities, where we have long process after consents.
also been popular with the seen good demand.’’ Christchurch builder Richard
banks, as most customers paid operative strengthening our distribution He said the Clever Living Co Trent said he was receiving at
for the homes in four instal- into the rural communities, where we range helped lower the barrier least two inquiries a week.
ments; the deposit, one when the for those buyers struggling to get ‘‘While in most cases a buyer
house is ready, another when it’s have seen good demand.’’ into the housing market. will still have the land purchase
about to be delivered and the Toby Lawrance There are five templates, but cost, the entry price for the
final 10 per cent when the house Hinds said the most popular style actual build, coupled with the
was delivered. The houses are quiet approach with its Clever what our customers are asking was ‘‘the Angus’’, a three- pre-consent certification, makes
also insulated and have double Living flat-pack product because for and adapt our offer to suit bedroom, two-bathroom house this range highly attractive to a
glazing. it wanted to test the market and that,’’ Lawrance said. priced at about $226,000. variety of buyers.’’
Bunnings New Zealand understand where the demand We are working with Farm- Hinds said he was building A three-bedroom Clever
general manager Toby Lawrance was. lands Co-operative strengthening six at a time to be delivered on- Living house could be built in six
said the company had taken a ‘‘We will continue to focus on our distribution into the rural site, which would be a 10-week- to eight weeks, he said.
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OUR AUCKLAND
Hitting the million trees mark
green our city, help clean our
waterways and provide places of
shade and peace to be enjoyed by
our children and grandchildren
and generations to come.
These trees will help make
Auckland world class and now
and during Matariki we will be
planting a further 468,000 trees in
our final push to deliver a
million trees. We will require
many hands to complete this
enormous task and I encourage
Phil Goff everyone to get involved.
Our remaining Matariki
LIVE LOCAL, LOVE LOCAL public planting sessions are
WITH AUCKLAND COUNCIL taking place at Totara Park (Fri
14 and Sat 15 of June) and Metro
T
hree years ago I Park East in Silverdale (Sun 29
promised to plant one June).
million mainly native These events are about giving
trees and shrubs across Aucklanders the opportunity to
Auckland. It was an ambitious celebrate the tradition of
undertaking and many said it Matariki which is associated
couldn’t be done, but this year, closely with the harvest and the
we will not only hit the million Helping Hands: Auckland’s million tree planting has relied on volunteers across the city digging in trees. planting of the New Year’s Crop.
trees mark, we will exceed it by They are also a chance for
one hundred thousand. environment. So to deliver my been overwhelming. There is a Greek proverb that Aucklanders to be involved in
By achieving this we have million trees programme we We have partnered with says ‘‘A society grows great ensuring our native tree and
helped make our city a greener have turned to businesses, Department of Corrections when old men plant trees whose plant species thrive for centuries
and more pleasant place, service clubs, schools and other which has propagated hundreds shade they know they shall to come, bringing with them
lowered erosion and the silting- organisations ready to of thousands of plants; Trees that never sit in.’’ Each generation habitats for the survival and
up of our waterways and contribute their time and Count; nurseries and other needs to leave a legacy of a better recovery of our native bird life.
harbours, and absorbed and money, and we have enjoyed the organisations to propagate the environment for the next. Thank you to all those people
helped reduce carbon emissions support of thousands of million trees and shrubs. We This is the gift of a million and organisations who have
into the atmosphere. volunteers who have helped with have worked hard, across our trees. Our legacy to future made Million Trees a success.
Council spending is our planting. city, with residents, schools and generations of Aucklanders. We Our environment is better for it
constrained by our record The enthusiasm and energy of communities to ensure a million are putting in place the mighty and the future of Auckland
breaking investment in the council, local boards, and the trees and shrubs are in the Totaras and Kauris, as well as greener and more sustainable as
transport, housing and the private sector and schools has ground by October this year. Manuka and shrubs that will a result.
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negative overtones leading to group. people don’t necessarily want to men. This needs more attention drinking and drugs of any sort are
poor decisions. 2. The economic impact is huge. take on the pressures to perform by those in power, but also a good way to shorten your life, in
Life spans are increasing. The Despite KiwiSaver, many people what they would have willingly recognition by individuals so they most cases, quite dramatically.
Queen probably spends a lot more aren’t providing for enough cash undertaken in their more vibrant can take appropriate steps to Don’t want to live long - then go
time signing those centurion resources, after deciding to chuck years. The older age group is a avoid or mitigate this dependent for it.
birthday cards than she ever used the boss. National Superannuation valuable and much under-utilised phase. c) Consider Health or Trauma
to! certainly helps, but you won’t be resource. 6. We become less alike over Insurance, or instead of paying
Political responses to this are flying much or feeding your 4. It is no longer off to the time. The ‘average’ lifespan of a out those premiums, an
fragmented – 27 percent of Porsche. It costs a lot to keep knacker’s yard at three score and 65-year old is only useful for a alternative would be self-
potential voters are over 55, so older people alive and some of ten (70), provided we take proper quarter of their age group, but insurance ie build up a fighting
this is a major social issue. Do that may need to be borne by steps to manage our wellbeing. I how would you know which ones? fund.
politicians fail the longevity test? yourself, as the public health suspect some of our statistics are Many have no idea what their Adapted from article by
Perhaps once we are beyond 70 system becomes more skewed, because some people longevity may look like and why, Mylongevity.com.au.
we fall way down the priority list, overloaded, and health insurance don’t take personal control of let alone what you can do about it. Disclosure: Care has been taken
as seems to be the experience of needs a trunk load of money to both health and finances – the Blanket solutions (like to ensure that any information is
some in that ‘twilight’ period of keep up the premiums. Lack of ‘she’ll be right’ attitude is still out institutionalised aged care) lead to accurate. No liability is accepted
life. It’s a long twilight if you reach knowledge leads to a growing there. The opportunity for bad responses. Using average life for its use.
or surpass 100 years of age! helplessness and adds to the cost. personal control is under- spans for personal financial Enquiries are welcome.
Six perspectives It’s a national problem. emphasised, yet this one thing can planning also increases the risk of Experienced in lending, risk
1. Different age groups require 3. The behaviour of ‘older’ yield remarkable outcomes. poor longer-term decisions. advice and planning, Allistar
different responses to financial, people is often misunderstood. 5. Acknowledgement of gender Just like climate change, the Walker is a Registered Financial
health, aged care and end of life Recently a UK study suggested differences is poor. A large group longevity tsunami is rolling Adviser, Senior Fellow of Financial
issues. No one solution fits all. that 20 percent of older people of 85-year olds will have more relentlessly toward the political Services Institute of Australasia
Younger people don’t necessarily retain substantial mental capacity women, who as a group will have landscape. Time is running out. and director of IFL Associates
understand the thoughts and until they die, with a further 50 more dementia and be less What can you do? Limited.
physicality of older people and percent showing minor decline. healthy than the men. Ladies have a) Visit His full disclosure is available
older people can easily forget The old saying ‘the mind is willing, seen their men depart sooner, www.mylongevity.com.au and free on request or he can be
those same processes in younger but the body aint’, comes to mind. then alone they face their most www.stats.govt.nz/tools/how- contacted at 09 410 6023 or
people. Nearly 40 percent of New Decision making powers remain dependent phase, which tends to long-will-i-live to help you take enquiry@mortgagehelp.co.nz.
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