by Cimino | 25 May 2016 | Local board
The royal commissioners had recommended list members. List councillors, really; ten of Auckland’s 23 councillors, the Royal Commission on Auckland Governance proposed, were to be elected to supposedly represent the whole region, rather than a single ward. Some...
by Cimino | 4 May 2016 | Berger for the board, Local board, Regional parks
Garnering major help to connect this coast You read it there first, in a full-page spread in Junction Magazine, profiling ‘uber-human’ Tessa Berger, the 21-year-old chair of the Mahurangi Coastal Trail Trust. Anyone reading the glossy Matakana-based magazine’s...
by Cimino | 11 Sep 2015 | Dredging, Warkworth
Warkworth doesn’t boast of much of a town basin. The tidal Mahurangi River, topographically, terminates in a bit of a tight squeeze, compared with, for example, Whangārei. But what Warkworth lacks by way of a commodious tidehead, it makes up for with in its proximity...
by Mahurangi Action | 28 Feb 2014 | Regional governance
Formed in 1974 as Friends of the Mahurangi, Mahurangi Action Incorporated is a community interest group that, from its inception, has been primarily concerned with protection, enhancement and enjoyment of the outstanding natural landscape that is the Mahurangi...
by Mahu. Action et al | 28 Feb 2014 | Dredging, Warkworth
Mahurangi River Town Basins, Landings and Navigation Plan Submission on the proposed Auckland Unitary Plan Lodged today by: Mahurangi Action Incorporated Mahurangi River Restoration Trust The Jane Gifford Society, and the Warkworth Riverbank Enhancement Group The...
by Cimino | 13 Sep 2013 | Local board
Before the meeting began, one of the local board members offered up a prayer: that the meeting might close by 5 pm. Service as a local body representative is famously thankless work. The work has been doubly thankless for the inaugural Auckland region local...
