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Watercare calls deal ‘win-win’ Your
local
contact
TODD NIALL arrangement. James Baker
‘‘If a decision is made by the james.baker@stuff.co.nz
Auckland Council has given its government in those two years
subsidiary Watercare the green to going to a different structure CONTACT US
light to take over running than Watercare has with Wai-
networks in neighbouring Wai- kato, we can terminate and OFFICE:
kato District. move out,’’ he said. 09 237 0400
Watercare will run the dis- Watercare is already active
ADDRESS:
trict council’s water, sewerage in the Waikato, taking water
217 King St, PO Box 14, Pukekohe
and stormwater systems on a from the Waikato River
trial for two years. A further through a pipeline feeding
EDITORIAL:
30-year contract was possible. greater Auckland.
Natalie Polley, 027 886 3942,
‘‘It’s a win-win. Waikato It had a water and
natalie.polley@stuff.co.nz; James
residents win and we should wastewater treatment plant in
Baker, james.baker@stuff.co.nz, 027
win, but we will test it in the Tuakau, and provided services
296 8241
test drive over the next two in Tuakau and Pōkeno before
years,’’ Watercare’s chief Franklin was separated in the
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executive Raveen Jaduram told Auckland super-city amalga-
Auckland councillors on mation. Print: Charlotte Durham,
Tuesday. Although council-owned, charlotte.durham@stuff.co.nz,
Councillors unanimously Watercare had its own board of 027 204 2965
backed the expansion plan directors, and its semi- Online: Jodie Snooks,
after being told it was worth $20 independence was enshrined in j.snooks@stuff.co.nz,
million annually. legislation which reformed 027 602 2764
Waikato District Council Auckland local government in
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expected to save $28 million 2010.
Call 0800 835 323,
over a decade from having the Watercare’s wastewater treatment plant in Mangere, Auckland. Auckland councillors were
waikatoclassifieds@stuff.co.nz,
country’s biggest water com- mostly concerned, as they pre-
kim.solleder@stuff.co.nz,
pany manage its operation. pared to vote, on whether the
09 237 0400
The rural district south of ‘‘There have been droughts dard they would like it to be.’’ deal could upset the council’s
Auckland’s Franklin ward where we haven’t had The two-year contract would finely-balanced budget, where FAMILY NOTICES:
boundary extended south restrictions, and yet there have let Watercare assess the Wai- little headroom existed for debt Email familynotices@stuff.co.nz or
around Hamilton, but excluded been in Waikato,’’ Jaduram kato operation and its assets. to rise further. call 0800 287 322
the city itself. said. If that ran smoothly, a Jaduram assured council-
Jaduram said the new deal ‘‘They (Waikato) pay more 30-year deal would have lors that while the deal might MISSED DELIVERY
would provide extra revenue for their services because they Watercare effectively take over involve debt in the second fixmydelivery.co.nz or call 0800
for the Auckland Council- don’t have scale. operations and maintain the phase, that would be 339 100.
owned company and the Wai- ‘‘They are unable to upgrade network, billing customers outweighed by the revenue that
kato would benefit. their wastewater treatment directly. flowing into the Auckland NZ MEDIA COUNCIL
‘‘We have a higher level of plants, so the effluent into the Jaduram said the govern- Council coffers. This paper adheres to the principles
security of supply in Auckland. river probably isn’t of the stan- ment was closely watching the of the New Zealand Media Council.
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Fire victim’s
empty bar seat
NATALIE POLLEY
An empty glass and two bottles
of Stella now sit untouched at the
table in Lone Star Pukekohe
where Peter Vile used to sit up to
four times a week.
The bar’s ‘‘best ever cus-
tomer’’ will never get to drink
his favourite beverage again – he
died on Monday, after a fire in
his home above a commercial
building in Pukekohe’s Crosbie
Rd, southern Auckland.
Vile, 56, worked at Vernon
and Vazey Truck Parts Limited – Peter Vile of Pukekohe died in a fire
also on Crosbie Rd. He was a on Monday. SUPPLIED
motorbike enthusiast and Kayla Glas at the table Peter Vile used to sit at in his favourite bar, Lone Star Pukekohe. NATALIE POLLEY / STUFF
worked there around three years staff member, Kayla Glas, said
as a yard dismantler. Vile was without a doubt their
He died after receiving severe top customer. ‘‘On Sunday nights he would
burns to at least 60 per cent of his ‘‘He was in here three or four spend two hours with the staff
body, in a fire that engulfed the times a week – every Sunday and before he would go home. He was
truck rental shop where he lived. Monday. the most valuable customer.
The top floor of the two-storey ‘‘All of the staff loved him ‘‘When we won a business
building was ‘‘well involved in from the first time he came in. award, he cut out the clipping in
flames’’ by the time firefighters He just made everyone want to the Franklin County News and
arrived on scene, just before talk to him; even the guests and took it to work. He was so proud
7am. kitchen staff that don’t normally of us. The staff looked after him,
He was critically injured and come out of the kitchen.’’ but he looked after the staff.
taken to hospital but died soon Kayla said staff would even ‘‘He was family.’’
after. sit and have dinner with Vile Fire and police investigators
The owners of Lone Star during their breaks. are still working to determine
Pukekohe, Alofa Glas and Jason ‘‘They are all emotional. It’s a the cause of the fire.
Goodall, said Vile was their best big loss for us – he made the bar
customer and the staff were all what it is. He would always
mourning his loss. laugh, it was always a good time
A plaque has been created in when he was here.’’ The table at Lone Star Pukekohe – in
his honour and his usual table is Alofa said it had been a very memory of Peter Vile.
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POLICE
‘Aggressive’ wasp
Cash found and handed in numbers skyrocket
to Pukekohe police station
RIPU BHATIA ‘‘They are serious primary pro-
duction pests; attacking grazing
Wasp populations are rising livestock and workers, causing
across Auckland and threatening forestry operations to stop, and
to cause significant environmental robbing beehives of honey in the
SENIOR SERGEANT STEPHEN and economic harm, experts say. apiculture industry,’’ she said.
RICHARDS Auckland Council biosecurity ‘‘They prey on a range of
advisor Emma Edney-Browne said invertebrates, including native
This week we want to celebrate data indicated the ‘‘aggressive species. Predation of many invert-
more honesty on our com- pests’’ had a growing presence in ebrate species can be so high that
munity. the region. the probability of individuals
On May 18 we had a sum of ‘‘Insect numbers often fluctuate surviving a season can be close to
money handed into the police annually and seasonally but there zero.’’
station at Pukekohe. has definitely been a notable The Wasp Tactical Group was
Firstly I want to say thank increase in reports of wasps over formed in 2013 as a network of
you to the honest person who recent years,’’ she said. ‘‘In 2018 we scientists and stakeholders who
handed the money in. had 290 service orders relating to were concerned about wasps.
It is fantastic to know that wasps, so far this year we’ve had Lester said the group was
we have honest people in our 349 service orders raised.’’ focused on creating strategies to
community who know how to Victoria University biological lower wasp densities.
do the right thing. sciences lecturer Dr Phil Lester ‘‘The most effective method we
The money was dropped at said when wasps were in high have for wasp control is Vespex.
the Bed Bath and Beyond store abundance, they became very It’s a bait that wasps find really
at about 3pm in the afternoon efficient predators. attractive, containing a toxic
of May 18 by one of their ‘‘They’ll raid beehives, kill the pesticide that kills them off.’’
customers. Pukekohe building sites are still being targeted by burglars. SUPPLIED workers, steal the honey and eat Lester said the group was cur-
The only issue we have is the larvae,’’ he said. ‘‘Right now is rently in the process of trialling a
that the person paid by cash a difficult time to be a bee keeper. wide range of different methods of
and so we have no way of con- station to collect the money we have in Franklin we just They’ll lose a lot of hives which wasp control.
tacting the person who dropped they lost. ask that you keep your eyes has massive economic conse- ‘‘We’d like something a bit
the money. We have a CCTV image from peeled and call us if you see quences.’’ more sustainable and to be less
The way that the cash was the store of the person who anything suspicious. A Department of Conservation reliant on pesticide.’’
set up suggests that it was to go dropped it so we will be able to Don’t be fooled by high study in 2015 said the direct effects Edney-Brown said Auckland
toward some bills and so I identify them when they come visibility vests and the way of wasps were estimated to cost Council was working with other
would imagine that the money in to see us. people look. New Zealand $75 million per parties and experts on research
needs to get back to its rightful We will only return it to the If it is a strange time to be on annum or $772 million from 2015 to and development of improved
owner as soon as possible. person in the photograph as we a building site or seems out of 2050. wasp control tools.
If you are reading this and it definitely know it was dropped place, call Police on 111 Most of that was due to wasps’ ‘‘These tools may come in the
is you that dropped the money by that person. immediately. impact on bees and the flow-on form of new and improved baits or
or perhaps you know who the On another note, burglary We would rather know effects to farming. biocontrol agents; parasites that
person is because they told you on building sites continue to be about it and have the chance to Edney-Brown said wasps attack wasps and provide long-
about it, please get hold of them an issue for us in the Counties speak to people on a site at the demonstrated aggressive behav- term management of wasp popu-
and let them know. Manukau South area. time than not. iour and posed a risk to native lations,’’ she said.
They can come to the police With the amount of growth species and production.
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Defibrillator shortage concerns
MANDY TE
Life-saving defibrillators are in
short supply for people in poor
and rural areas, says an
expert calling for urgent
action.
It was ‘‘imperative’’
more defibrillators were
installed in deprived areas
to increase survival
chances for New Zealand’s
most vulnerable people, Pro-
fessor Bridget Dicker said.
Dicker, St John head of
clinical audit and research and
adjunct professor at AUT, led a
new study published in medical
journal Resuscitation.
She said people living in the A St John medical director says
country’s most deprived areas teaching people how to do CPR can
were twice as likely as others to greatly increase survival chances
have a cardiac arrest – and during a cardiac arrest. 123RF
defibrillators were also limited
in rural areas.
Automated external could enter easily, such as
defibrillators or AEDs are port- sport grounds, supermarkets
able medical devices which and schools.
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having a cardiac arrest. its branches and its staff were
‘‘AEDs are really easy to use. AED-trained.
If you can use a cellphone you Dicker’s research examined
can use a defibrillator,’’ Dicker relationships between socio-
told Stuff. economic deprivation data,
The devices can be found in defibrillator locations and St A professor says it is imperative more AEDs are in the country’s most deprived areas. EMELYN MCHARDY/STUFF
supermarkets, malls and clubs John location data for ‘‘out of
but currently, it was up to com- hospital’’ cardiac arrests. factors such as deprivation, Dr Tony Smith, St John people how to use them and do
munities to tackle issues Compared to Pākehā com- diabetes and smoking, she said. medical director, said survival CPR, we can significantly
around unequal access to munities, Pacific Islanders and A British study in 2017 found rates could double when people increase the chance of survival
defibrillators, Dicker said. Māori had higher incidences of AED use dramatically stepped in quickly with CPR for the thousands of people per
She suggested communities cardiac arrests out of hospital, increased a person’s chances of and a defibrillator. year who suffer a cardiac
fundraised for AEDs and Dicker said. surviving an out-of-hospital ‘‘By placing AEDs in the arrest,’’ Smith said.
installed them in places people This was linked to risk cardiac arrest. community, and teaching
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THE EXPLAINER
Children with nowhere to call home
AMANDA SAXTON
By the numbers
More than 1300 children were
■ More than 1300 children were
counted as sleeping in temporary
counted as sleeping in temporary
accommodation on one night in
accommodation on one night in
Auckland last year, according to
Auckland last year.
figures released by the council.
■ At least 3674 people were found
That number was almost a third of
to be without shelter or in
the city’s homeless population –
temporary accommodation across
which included those in temporary
the Auckland region that night.
accommodation – surveyed during
the point-in-time Homeless Count
in September last year.
Housing First Auckland’s
programme manager Fiona Auckland, ‘‘You get all sorts, 15-year-olds, even he said. ‘‘But I also see the older
Hamilton said living in temporary about 43 per ones trying to protect them from
accommodation was ‘‘still cent of those younger, out there. Each story is that life, encouraging them to go
homelessness and being homeless living different, but it’s usually due to unrest home to their families and avoid
as a child is a risk factor for being without drugs.’’
homeless as an adult’’. shelter and 40 at home – something goes wrong and Those in temporary
Social workers on the ground per cent of they run away.’’ accommodation included 1027
said the results underestimated the people in Owen Pomana
people in Ministry of Social
amount of under-18-year-olds temporary Development emergency housing.
sleeping rough. accommodation on Single parents, under-18-year-olds,
The council’s report noted just September 17 were Māori. who ministers to homeless people Māori and Pasifika people were
one child found either sleeping in a In total, volunteers and across Auckland, said he believed over-represented.
car or a public space, but the Government data showed at least there were ‘‘at least 300 rough Auckland Mayor Phil Goff said
Salvation Army’s John Maeva said 3674 people to be without shelter or sleepers in the central city alone’’. the council and Housing First had
he knew of six youths sleeping in temporary accommodation He agreed with Maeva that more housed 964 people over the past 22
under bridges in the west across the Auckland region that youths slept rough than the count Join the conversation months, but noted there was ‘‘still
Auckland suburb of New Lynn at night. The report said 800 people suggested. much to be done’’.
Either post a comment on our
the time. were considered to be ‘‘living ‘‘You get all sorts, 15-year-olds, ‘‘I therefore welcome the
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Auckland Council and the without shelter’’. That number was even younger, out there,’’ Pomana Government’s commitment . . . to
letter to the editor. Just go to our
Housing First Auckland Collective gleaned through a ‘‘validation said. invest $200 million over the next
page on Neighbourly, then select
ran the count, which found Māori, exercise’’ based on an actual count ‘‘Each story is different, but it’s four years to expand the Housing
letters under the Contact menu.
ex-prisoners and lesbian, gay, of 336 people. Of those, 53 per cent usually due to unrest at home – First programme.’’
bisexual, transgender and intersex were sleeping rough and and 47 per something goes wrong and they Housing First is a collective of
(LGBTI) people were over- cent in cars. More were counted in run away.’’ accepting community. That, and six organisations and described
represented among the homeless. central Auckland than anywhere Maeva said runaway teens often the drugs that tended to itself as having an ‘‘internationally
While Māori make up 11 per cent of else. wound up joining groups of older accompany such groups, could recognised, evidence-based
the general population in Social worker Owen Pomana, homeless people, thus finding an encourage the youngsters to linger, approach to ending homelessness’’.
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School uniform loans up by 80%
JOSEPHINE FRANKS
More than $6.8 million was given
‘‘Most of our clients
out in school uniform loans this don’t have
year, but families are still strug- disposable income
gling with back to school costs.
In the first two months of to start with. Where
2019, 23,950 hardship grants for are they expected
school uniforms were paid out
by the Ministry of Social Devel- to pull that money
opment (MSD). from to be able to
The money granted was up 80
per cent on the previous two get those
years, when just over $3.8m was uniforms?’’
distributed. Robyn Parkes, Te Korowai Trust
Last year, 14,288 families
received funds, a slight dip on
the 14,667 who got help in 2017. can also push up the price of
This year’s jump was down to some garments.
MSD making it easier for people That’s why a polo, dress shirt
to access loans over the phone, or pinafore can cost $20 more
the Ministry’s Kay Read said. than another garment that looks
MSD granted school costs the same to the naked eye.
over the phone for the first time President of the Auckland
this year rather than requiring Primary Principals’ Association
people to come into a service cen- Craig Holt said as a parent and
tre. principal he’d seen the cost of
The money given out has to school uniforms could be ‘‘hefty’’
be repaid. A new school uniform can set parents back hundreds of dollars. DAVID WALKER/STUFF for families.
How this is done depends on Not having the correct uni-
an individual’s circumstances – She’d like to see non- ‘‘Where are they expected to was $80 alone. You look at that, form at the start of term could
but budgeting for the loan repay- recoverable school uniform pull that money from to be able that’s getting close to half that mean some children were kept
ments can be a struggle for some grants offered by the govern- to get those uniforms?’’ amount gone.’’ home from school.
families, according to Te ment for people who really The biggest cost she saw was Schools needed to take some The move from MSD to make
Korowai Trust. needed it, the same way a dental college uniforms, which could of the responsibility for cutting loans more accessible to families
‘‘It might be only a couple of grant was available for people on cost hundreds of dollars. uniform costs, she said. could help remove this barrier to
dollars a week, but a couple of a low income. The average school uniform A Stuff investigation at the education, he said.
dollars a week is still something The advice to families was payment given out by MSD in beginning of this year found the Uniform was only one barrier
my clients don’t have,’’ the man- often just to save, but she said 2019 was $279.50. mark-up on school uniform to education, he said, and BYOD
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MELANIE EARLEY The interchange is
intended to give
A $60 million upgrade to the travellers a
Puhinui Rail Station Inter- 10-minute bus
connection to the
change in south Auckland is airport.
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between the airport and CBD.
Transport Minister Phil
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would begin on the new rail sta-
tion interchange in October.
It would give Aucklanders
with access to the rail network a
fast and convenient 10-minute
bus connection to Auckland
International Airport, they said.
To begin with, it would be a
bus service, but in time Twyford
said it would become part of a
rapid transit route, connecting to
Manukau and Botany with a
dedicated busway or possibly
light rail.
Goff said the project would
allow for congestion-free travel
to the airport for people across
Auckland.
‘‘It will be welcomed by
workers and visitors to the city – thing world-class. to have a public transport sys- ‘‘It was pretty good, I think construction. Goff said it would
the impressive new station will ‘‘The station will be a safe tem that can accommodate that. we’ve got the message through to open before the APEC leaders
mark out the south-western gate- place that’s well lit with CCTV ‘‘This is something I’ve Phil Goff and Phil Twyford that meeting in the city in 2021.
way to the city, and provide a and we’re delighted we’ve been wanted since I became mayor there is definitely an appetite for Travel times from Puhinui
modern, safe and weather able to get this.’’ and creating this service is a no- a train to the airport rather than Station to Auckland Airport
protected environment to allow The Puhinui interchange brainer to me – every person a very slow bus to a plane. would be 10 minutes in priority
people easily and conveniently to project would join the ranks of who gets on a bus or train is one ‘‘Goff was telling us that a lanes, 22 minutes to Manukau
transition between road and rail those at Ōtāhuhu, Panmure and less person on our roads causing train would cost him far too and 46 minutes to Britomart Sta-
services.’’ Manukau, and help to create a congestion.’’ much and we advised him that tion.
Once the construction of the 21st-century public transport Jon Reeves, national coordi- there has actually been no study Seventy-five per cent of the
station was complete Goff, system for Auckland, Goff said. nator of the Public Transport whatsoever from Auckland cost – $45 million – would be
believed it would be ‘‘pretty ‘‘If you create a convenient Users Association (PTUA), was council from a train line from covered by the Government,
impressive to look at’’. and reliable public transport sys- among four people who attended Puhinui to the airport so how with the remainder coming from
‘‘We’re taking these grotty old tem, people will use it. By 2028 the announcement of the project could he say that?’’ Auckland Council and the
buildings and changing them, we’re going to have two million to call for a direct rail link to the The project is planned to be proceeds of the regional fuel
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Parenting WITH AUTHOR AND MOTHER OF FOUR BOYS MARY-ANNE SCOTT
My son was upset after seeing me choke
Q: I was at a barbecue a few Witnessing a place that could help them most –
weeks ago and I think I parent in distress a crowded room. So, looking for
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same time and a piece of meat frightened, plate instead of letting it clatter
confused and
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it all and he’s been upset, boys and written three novels for
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nightmares and is upset too. remarkably resilient and your the need arises. Perhaps you we all need to learn how to save psychologist.
He would have felt completely son may be able to process this could lead by example and do a lives. I read that the irrational To send Mary-anne a question
helpless, frightened and and move on, but if he continues first-aid course yourself. fear of causing a scene or public email life.style@stuff.co.nz with
confused. But it’s happened and with nightmares and acting up Choking on food is far too spectacle may cause people in Dear Mary-anne in the subject
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Fieldays ticketing goes electronic
GERALD PIDDOCK where we an introduce those
sorts of products.’’
Fieldays has gone high tech with This year’s theme is
its ticketing by ditching its old ‘‘cultivating value’’’ which
paper-based system in favour of focused on ways agriculture can
electronic identification. add value to its products. Also
People can buy tickets online back are regular exhibits such as
for this year’s event at Mystery the innovations awards, the edu-
Creek on June 12-15 where it is cation hub, the kitchen theatre,
issued electronically to their logging, fencing and the tractor
cellphone or to the Fieldays app. pull.
Fieldays chief executive Peter Most of the economic
Nation said their old system had indicators were looking
passed its use-by date. extremely positive for the agri-
‘‘The beauty of our ticket sys- culture sector across the board
tem is you become a real person and some banks were predicting
when you buy the ticket and its a $7/kg milksolids payout for
applicable to you and not a piece Fonterra when it announces its
of paper, and we can find you in opening forecast for the 2019-20
the system and re-issue it if we season at the end of this month.
have to.’’ ‘‘The industry is quite buoy-
The tickets can also be ant and interest rates are low
printed off, but if people lost that and I think you will see strong
printed copy staff can still locate sales and there will be the oppor-
them in their database tunity to look at new techno-
Punters also have the option logies.’’
of getting a rubber wristband fit- Last year’s Fieldays
ted with RFID technology. After generated $492 million in sales
registering themselves, people revenue and saw 130,866 people
can then get exhibitors to scan come through its gates over four
the band if they are interested in days.
purchasing a product from their Farmers will also come to get
site. Those details are then regis- There will be 1565 sites sites at this year’s Fieldays, which begins on June 12. CHRISTEL YARDLEY/STUFF a break from the farm as well as
tered with the exhibitor for them to acquire the latest knowledge,
to follow up. particularly with the Govern-
‘‘Business people have a busi- year’s 1460 thanks to ‘‘jiggling registered to attend, 11 of which tive meat and dairy companies ment bringing in new legislation
ness card, personal people don’t, and pushing’’, which allowed had registered sites including come to Fieldays once they such as the Zero Carbon Bill.
so in this case it will be like a them to find more space. Australia, China, Germany became commercially estab- ‘‘Fieldays has always been
business card, they’ll be able to Some of the sites were already South Korea, Ireland, Israel, lished. about knowledge and learning.
give their details and job done.’’ fully formed with some close to Spain, the Netherlands and the ‘‘We are keen to introduce The Zero Carbon Act was only
The information is hosted on getting their branding up. United States. that concept. We know there are released a couple of weeks ago
an encrypted server to keep it ‘‘I know I say it every year but There was also new companies that have commer- and I think next year I think you
safe. we’re pretty tapped out. That’s a exhibitors from the forestry and cialised the product and we have will find there is a big focus on
This year’s Fieldays will have big number,’’ Nation said. horticulture industries. He was started to think about this year sustainability and water.’’
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CONVERSATIONS
Cannabis – a one-way love affair
READER REPORT
JACOB HEATHERINGTON
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toke, I remember smiling –
constantly smiling for what I used to think pot
would have been several hours. I
would later joke to friends that it was a wonder drug
was ‘‘love at first sight’’. . . . I know better
What I don’t remember was
when the occasional joint with now. Cannabis is a
mates while watching Super harmful drug. That
Troopers together turned into me
begging those same friends to harm, however, is
drive me to a tinny house in the only exacerbated
middle of the night. When hot-
boxing a car with the boys by its legal status.
turned into me scraping the
gunk out of my pipe and packing
it right back in again to smoke. A
lot of those friends don’t talk to
me any more. In fact, I don’t 15? Simple. Drug dealers don’t
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cancer’’ and it was all just a its legal status. Rights Commission pointed out drug-related offences I would me, and seriously concerned
conspiracy by Big Pharma. I As a Pākehā, my run-ins with that Māori are three times as argue this alone should be about the harm that cannabis
know better now. police always ended with them likely to be arrested than non- enough for a massive overhaul of can cause, especially to
Cannabis is a harmful drug. confiscating my bud and a slap Māori for cannabis-related our drug laws. teenagers and young adults, then
There is no conspiracy. It has on the wrist. I say as a Pākehā offences (that’s taking into If you need another reason, you need to be voting yes in the
serious effects on the developing because I know this can be a consideration equivalent usage). though, just think about this. upcoming referendum.
mind, which more teenagers very different experience for Given that 53 per cent of our Why was I able to source ■ Stuff Nation: To share your
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CONVERSATIONS
NCEA focus on reading, changes positive
OPINION: Will the overhaul of NCEA announced by the Government, which includes more focus on exams over internal assessments and greater
priority on literacy and numeracy help our kids succeed? An MP from each side of the house gives their views
learning and support co-ordinators in skills that they should have learnt at school.
In the schools.
Like many other MPs, I have spoken to
In the The scale of the problem as highlighted by
these organisations should certainly be
red and received emails from teachers who blue cause for concern. We know that lower
describe what their jobs are like. Their days levels of literacy are linked to a range of
corner are non-stop, frenetic, involve keeping
corner social issues and disadvantages including
Priyanca Radhakrishnan several balls in the air at once. And the pay Stuart Smith unemployment and poor health.
List MP, Labour doesn’t reflect that. Having run a women’s Kaikoura MP, National This is not because of the performance of
refuge in a former life, on minimum wage, I schools in economically disadvantaged
I T
t is often said that education is the get it. he expectation that all young communities. A study of NCEA and Univer-
passport to the future. Everyone should Those who work in the education sector people will emerge from New sity Entrance results for 400,000 people has
have access to an excellent education have been asking for sustainable working Zealand’s school system with a found schools in these communities are per-
that equips them to succeed – not just conditions for a long time now. firm, lifelong grasp on literacy and forming as well as those in wealthy areas.
those who can afford it. This includes more time to teach and numeracy can and absolutely should be Changes to the NCEA system are a good
The Government recently announced a better support for children with additional higher. start in providing a better learning outcome
raft of changes aimed at strengthening the learning needs. That there is a real need for our for future generations. It’s important to
NCEA qualification as well as making it The situation didn’t get this bad education system to cut out many of the ensure these changes take some of NCEA’s
more accessible and relevant to students. overnight and, sadly, it can’t be fixed in one complications around NCEA, and instead flexibility in favour of less but bigger
Secondary school students will no longer go, when at the same time there are a lot of drill down to reading, writing and maths, standards that equip young people with the
have to pay the $76.70 NCEA fees or the $30 other equally important issues to fix. has been a message conveyed loud and clear essential knowledge and concepts from
fee for each scholarship exam subject. However, the coalition government is by our country’s employers and tertiary each subject area.
The Government will continue to fund committed to improving these conditions – providers for some time. National has supported the view that
the NCEA online programme so that both to improve the wellbeing of our Last year, the Industry Training there are too many standards, creating
students can choose to sit their exams using teachers and teaching staff and to ensure Federation, Business NZ, English Language large workloads for teachers and students
a computer. There will also be a stronger that our children get the best education Partners, the NZ Council of Trade Unions, and jeopardising course coherence. We also
focus on literacy and numeracy to make the possible. and Literacy Aotearoa called, as a group, for support the changes to scrap NCEA and
qualification more robust. More than 145,000 households will government support and prioritisation of scholarship fees, as this will reduce barriers
This will ensure that every student who benefit from secondary school students no adult literacy needs. to NCEA and see more young people have
achieves NCEA can receive their longer having to pay fees for NCEA and Their report, ‘‘Stepping Up to Better their qualifications recognised.
qualification. The changes also mean that scholarship exams. The Government Working Lives’’, stated over a million New Schools have made clear the importance
teachers will get more time to teach and estimates that around 168,000 secondary Zealanders of working age don’t have the of retaining NCEA level 1, so under the
students more time to learn. students will be better off with this change. literacy or numeracy skills to participate overhaul, this will remain an option for
Budget 2018 was the biggest increase in Students shouldn’t have to pay to sit their fully in work, education and everyday life. schools. Returning our focus to the core
investment in education in a decade. NCEA exams. And now, thanks to this This was reflected in risks, errors and base skills of numeracy and literacy will
It included more funding for te reo Maori government, they won’t have to. accidents in the workplace, contributing to ultimately make a huge difference to the
initiatives in schools, funding for new low productivity. It was also reflected in the lives of New Zealand’s young people by
education and employment initiatives cost to businesses as they instigate ensuring they have the essential knowledge
targeting rangatahi and new funding for 600 programmes to educate their workers on needed to be successful in society.
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A year on from the inception of a distance running programme at ACG Strathallan in Karaka the results are evident.
“A personal highlight for me has been having a Girls 4x400m Relay team compete at College Sport Auckland Athletics Championships,”
explained the school’s professional running coach and Drury local James Kuegler.
“In years gone by, I might have been laughed at for suggesting we could field a competitive team. But the girls finished 5th, and we have
the potential to do even better in future. We’re only getting stronger.”
The school is now punching above its weight in track and field, with two ACG Strathallan athletes – Daniel Tilsley and George
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In cross country, a number of runners will progress to inter-school championships this term, following strong performances at ACG
Strathallan’s whole-school cross country earlier this month.
And James also highlights the success of ACG Strathallan
runner Siobhan Balle who took a clean sweep of last year’s
road race titles, including a win in the New Zealand U15
Girls Road Race.
James, a competitive runner who uses his background as a
doctor of Chiropractic to inform his practice, says the aim of
the programme at ACG Strathallan has always been to create
a culture of running at the school.
“I want to create a fun environment where students can
develop a love of movement and exercise in order to improve
their health and wellness. Some of the students are focused
primarily on running, others are mixing running with winter team
sports.
“Since the beginning of last year, I have enjoyed seeing the
shift in the sporting culture within the school.”
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