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Are birds the culprits? For the second summer in a row there is an Unsafe to Swim sign in place in the stream which flows into the sea at the southern end of Waipu Cove Beach. The warm water in this shallow stream was and, despite the sign, remains a popular play area for children. The sign informs the public that the source of the contamination is birds. That birds are the culprits here is surprising as the stream is washed out twice daily by the tide, its headwaters are in the bush clad hills of the eastern slopes of the Brynderwyn ranges, which are not known for their abundant bird life. Seagulls are, of course, present at Waipu Cove but ducks are not in evidence there. John Ballinger, Programmer Manager of Environmental Monitoring with the Northland Regional Council, said it could take only a few birds to contaminate a stream. He said that birds have been found to be the contaminators of many fresh water streams in Northland and that similar signs are in place at a number of recreational swimming sites in the region. In response to a request from members of the public, monitoring of the water quality in the Waipu Cove stream was carried out on a weekly basis by the Northland Regional Council over the two summers 2009/2010 and 2010/2011. In total, over this time there were 11 instances when the E.coli levels were found to exceed safe for swimming guideline limits. Faecal source tracking on samples from the stream was Continued on page 3.

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Page 4, ..Letters . Page 5..Swim club wins trophy for fifth year Page 6...Pictures from the Ruakaka Primary School gala Page 7....Motorcyclist seriously injured in SH1/Shoemaker Rd. collision. Page 8...NIWA scientist Andrew Forsythe on the potential and pitfalls of fish farming. Page 9...Police News. Page 10......Bream Bay College page Page 11.. Twin sisters named head girls for 2013 at Bream Bay College.. Page 12.. Sports results. Page 13.. New book re-tells the Waipu story in pictures . Page 14...Ships due at Marsden Point Page 15.. Pud the Ruakaka Town Centre cat Page 15... What's On in Bream Bay Page 16 & 17 ...Trades and Services Pages 18 & 19 ....Classified advertising. .

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Wishing for a rousing school hymn I have a recurring nightmare that I am back 40 years and a high school student once again. When I attend Bream Bay College prize - giving ceremonies I am reminded about why this prospect is so horrifying. Being subjected to stultifying boredom for hours on end is, I believe, a form of torture. I went along towards the end of this year’s Bream Bay College senior prize -giving. I came through the side door and sat at the back of the hall amongst all the poor junior students who had already been sitting there for three hours. The kids, understandably, were getting pretty fidgety. The teacher standing at the door had a box full of cellphones she had confiscated. A boy seated in front of me had his head down reading a book. Afterwards I asked him how many pages he had read and he told me 220. He should be given an enterprise award. Despite parents and grandparents of some of the senior students being present the hall wasn’t full. Many students beg their parents to let them stay home to avoid this event. They develop coughs and colds overnight or sore backs and can’t possibly stay seated on those hard school hall benches for three hours at a stretch. The ones whose loyalty to Bream Bay College brings them to school on that day are not rewarded with much consideration. Some boys had timed Principal Wayne Buckland’s speech and told me it went on for 18 minutes. When awards are announced the names and achievements of all the candidates are read out and all these students walk across the stage. As the same students are often up for multiple awards this gets very repetitive. I sat there wishing for a rousing school hymn as we all used to sing in my schooldays. I am the worst singer in the world but I can still remember how good it was to stand up and join in with that mass of voices reverberating around the school hall and what a

welcome break it was to the terrible tedium of school assembles and prize-giving ceremonies. Students I spoke to said they had enjoyed the talk and the humour of guest speaker Liam Rooney, an ex student of the college, who now works as a valuer. I noticed outside the hall, once we had all been released into the sunshine, Liam had his cellphone out and was frantically answering text messages. Here was a young man with places to go and people to meet. I wondered if he had ever been one of those fidgety juniors seated at the back of the Bream Bay College auditorium. lyn Mari

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Are birds the culprits? Continued from page 1.

The permanent sign alongside the stream at the southern end of Waipu Cove.

carried out over both summers but only two samples recorded positive results; one of these in 2009/2010 indicating contamination by wildfowl and a second in 2010/2011 returned a week indicator that the source of the problem was a dog. The NRC report at the end of the 2010/2011 monitoring programme advised that “Little can be done to improve water quality at sites where contamination has been shown to come from wild animals and so it is unlikely that these sites will ever be suitable for recreational use.” However, with just one indicator of contamination by wildfowl, the Waipu Cove stream does not fall into this category. The NRC’s Recreational Swimming Water Quality in Northland Summer 2010 – 11 report, in fact, recommended that the Waipu Cove stream remain in the monitoring programme so that more data can be collected on water quality at this site. Last year the Northland Regional Council cut its water monitoring programme and no further tests were carried out on the stream last summer. Instead the Whangarei District Council was advised by the NRC that a permanent unsafe to swim sign be erected at Waipu Cove alongside the stream. This sign has been removed a number of times by a disgruntled local person. Linde Judd, Chairwoman of the Waipu Cove Reserve Board, said that as Waipu Cove is an extremely popular bathing beach, the reserve board would be requesting that the NRC carry out further monitoring on the stream.

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First fairy tern nest Fairy terns are nesting again on the Waipu sandspit. Greg Stump who was out checking and rebaiting predator traps on Monday morning 19 November said he was dived bombed by a pair of New Zealand’s rarest bird species, a sure sign that they have a nest to protect. Last summer two fairy tern chicks fledged from the sandspit. For the Photo by Katrina Hansen previous three breeding seasons all attempted fairy tern nests had been destroyed, mostly by cats. Last year’s success has been attributed to the efforts of a team of volunteers who maintain dozens of predator traps along the entire length of the sandspit. Only eight breed pairs and around 40 individual NZ fairy tern remain. The Waipu and Mangawhai sandspits are the most important of their remaining breeding sites. The next three months while the eggs are incubated by the parent birds and while the chicks learn to fly will be critical.

Lots more Surf Life Saving events in Bream Bay this summer Bream Bay will host a number of big surf life Saving competitions this summer. The New Zealand IRB Championships will be held there from 22 - 24 March with over 300 crews expected to take part. On January 4 th elite althletes from Queensland, New South Wales and the Northern Region of New Zealand will compete in the Trans Tasman Tri Series. On 12 January the Northern Region Junior Surf Club competition will be held at Waipu Cove and on Saturda and Sunday the 16 and 17 February the Ruakaka Surf Club will host the Northern Regional Senior Surf Life Saving competiton

Announcing: WaipuTube.com Jette de Jong is inviting contributions to WaipuTube.com a new channel she has set up on YouTube that is all about Waipu and surrounding districts. She imagines these could include interviews with interesting people, of the Circool Circus kids in action, of skateboarders doing tricks, of Waipu events and of favourite local places. Anyone who wants to post something should email Jette: [email protected] and tell her what their video is about. If it fits the bill she will tell you how to go about posting it on WaipuTube. Jette says WaipuTube is a community project, designed to be fun for everyone and to put Waipu on the YouTube map. The project is not intended to be profit - making but if it does end up making money, profits will be redistributed within the local community.

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The victorious Bream Bay Swimming Club relay team.

The Bream Bay team of 20 relay swimmers took the Waitangi Lion’s Trophy for the fifth straight year, after a mammoth struggle with the Nga Papahu team at the Bay of Islands Swimming Club Green Acres Carnival held at the end of October. The Lion’s Trophy Medley relay tests a swimming club’s depth of talent – clubs have to muster four swimmers in five age groups, from under 10 to over 16 to each swim a length of a different stroke – backstroke, breaststroke, butterfly and freestyle. Of the eleven Northland swimming clubs represented at the carnival, only three could muster a team to compete in the relay – Bay of Islands, Bream Bay and Nga Papahu. A “best of the rest” team of swimmers from other Northland clubs also competed as an exhibition team. Bream Bay’s youngest swimmers led the race for the first 50m, but Nga Papahu overtook and from then increased their lead to about 12m at the 200m mark. Bream Bay inched their way forward until David Platt, swimmer number 17 and the first of the seniors, levelled with Nga Papahu. Marco Rodrigue kept Bream Bay level in the next leg and Alex Birchall proved too strong, giving anchor man Elijah Purnell an easy final 25 metres. The noise from the crowd during the event steadily increased as the race progressed and during the last six or seven lengths was deafening, and Bream Bay took the win less than three seconds ahead of Nga Papahu. Bay of Islands were third, 14 seconds later, with the exhibition team coming home in fourth place. Bream Bay’s under ten team will be in the same age group next season so they will get the team off to a greater start. Coach Richard Dunkerton believes the whole team will have to step up and perform better if the Club is to make it six in a row. To see a video of the race, check out the club’s facebook page. Swimmers who achieved three or more new best times for the day were, Jessica Carswell, Trey Heiwari, Paul Linton, Elle Swanson, Abby Wright, Tiahorangi Morgan-Edmonds and his older brother Turanga

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Pictures from the Ruakaka Primary Gala Held on Saturday 17 November

Lenny Ridings, aged five, enjoyed floating around the school swimming pool inside a giant plastic ball.

Jessica Smythe, aged 14, leads Sugalea the pony while Kayla Steart, aged 5, has a ride.

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The deadline for all copy is 4pm on Wednesday 28 November Deane Sands , aged seven, had his face painted as Batman and asked Dallas the clown to make him a balloon sword.

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Motorcyclist seriously injured in Shoemaker Rd./SH1 collision Ruakaka South Sewer Extension Work is progressing well on the $9.4 million Ruakaka South Sewer Scheme Extension, designed to protect the environment and improve public health in the area. The system will pump wastewater from 470 individual properties to the Ruakaka Waste Water Treatment Plant, which will be upgraded to handle the increased volume of wastewater.

Testing of the new street reticulation has been completed. The reinstatement of footpaths and berms will commence shortly. Only a few of the 168 domestic tanks have yet to be installed on private properties. The new Campground Pump Station is being commissioned.The connecting of the new tanks to the property’s existing private drainage has now commenced and is expected to be completed by Christmas this year. Once this community has been connected it will represent 1/3 of the scheme being operational.

A motorcyclist was flown to Whangarei Hospital by helicopter on Thursday morning 15 November after a collision with a car at the corner of Shoemaker Rd. and State Highway One. The motorbike, travelling along the highway, hit a car pulling out of Shoemaker Road west at around 11am. St John Ambulance staff worked for half an hour to stabilise the man’s condition before he was transferred to the helicopter and flown to Whangarei Hospital. The motorcyclist remained in a critical condition in hospital when this issue went to print.

Bream Bay College students will clean up the beach Bream Bay College students will be carrying out a clean up on Ruakaka beach next week. On Tuesday 27 November 160 students will pick up rubbish on the beach. They will work in two groups one group starting at the Ruakaka racecourse and move north towards Marsden Point. The second group will start at the Ruakaka surf club and move southwards towards Uretiti. The students will work with members of the Bream Bay Coastal Care Trust and the Northland branch of the Ornithological Society. The Ornithological Society carries out monthly surveys along the whole length of Bream Bay recording any dead birds that are found there. Long time society member Audrey Williams explained that most sandy shores around the New Zealand coastline are surveyed in this way, as are beaches in South America and South Africa. “Walking the beach is part of a birders’ life,” said Audrey. “Sometimes you come across a banded bird which is quite exciting as you can find out where it came from. Sometimes you find nothing.” “When we get what we call a wreck - lots of dead birds on the beach, we look at what the causes might be. Whether there is a lack of fish.” If anyone finds a banded bird, dead on the beach and is interested to find out where this bird came from he or she can phone the society’s regional representative with the details on the band. The phone number to call is 438 5737.

Tartan in the Park The Tartan in the Park competition will be held once again at the Waipu Highland Games on 1st January 2013 Prizes will be handed out for the best tartan outfits in categories for men, women, boys girls and toddlers. Organiser Katrine McLean said, “The idea of the competition is to demonstrate that tartan can be a contemporary fashion fabric.” Entrants should bring their outfits along on the day and call in at the McLean Clan tent to be included in the show which will start at 1pm.

The drilling crew have re-established to complete the rest of the reticulation along Marsden Point Rd in the southerly direction. The installation of Boundary Kits and Domestic Pump Stations will commence next week. 3 Notification letters for site visits have been sent to Area 2 & 3. We are getting a steady response; please send your details into the Fulton Hogan Site Office so your property can be scheduled for an appointment. Installation of street reticulation will commence over the next few weeks followed by the installation of Boundary Kits and Domestic Pump Stations. Site visit information was also sent out in Area 5 (Camellia Ave and Marsh Street); once received; please send your details into the Fulton Hogan Site Office so your property can be scheduled for an appointment. Area 4 notices will be delivered shortly. Installation of street reticulation is expected to commence early December. If you see any area where we can improve the safety for both our teams and the general public, please contact Jody at the Site Office on 0800 Rua-Sewer or 0800 782-73937.

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