by Cimino | 19 Aug 2011 | Visitor strategy
As visions go, it is less than galvanising. It presumably is not intended to form part of any promotional material for the area. Aside from being bland, the 58-word vision statement set out in the draft Pūhoi to Pakiri Region Visitor Strategy 2012–2017 could apply to...
by Cimino | 10 Aug 2011 | Visitor strategy
It would have made for a perfect Mahurangi Club topic. In the event, the next first-Monday-of-the-month clashed with the date chosen by Auckland Tourism, Events and Economic Development to hold a public meeting to present research to inform a Pakiri–Pūhoi visitor...
by Cimino | 10 Aug 2011 | Visitor strategy
The region was once called Mahurangi. Not the Mahurangi River—at the time of European settlement it was called Waihē. For Māori, Mahurangi was the fortified sea stack off Waiwera, and its immediate hinterland. For the want of pre-existing name for it, European...
by Cimino | 8 Aug 2011 | Local board
The Mahurangi Magazine agrees with the following priorities proposed in the draft Rodney Local Board Plan: General With one very specific exception, which is addressed in the next section, the Mahurangi Magazine generally supports the content of the draft Rodney Local...
by Cimino | 5 Aug 2011 | Cartoons, Local board
The draft Rodney Local Board Plan submission form begins with: I agree with the following priorities proposed in the draft local board plan: The difficulty is that, in the draft plan, seven priorities are listed. The first listed, for example, is: Priority One: Build...
by Cimino | 1 Aug 2011 | Local board
It’s not that it’s a bad plan. That notwithstanding, most comments on the draft local board plan will be negative simply because it is human nature for folk to react strongly to things they disagree with. So it could be argued that by asking citizens to state the...
