Paperboy December 21 2017

DEC 21
2017
JAN 24
2018
CULTURE
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URBANISM
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FOOD
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STYLE
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DEEP DIVE
Yu Mei’s latest bag collection takes
inspiration from the colours of
summer.
28
NEW GENERATION
Poet Hera Lindsay Bird on her new
work, her love for reality TV, and
her big cash prize.
30
KEY PLAYER
Urban designer Rachel de Lambert
COVER The Parnell Baths,
one of 20 things to do
wants Auckland to be a city
in Auckland for $20 or designed for people, not cars.
under. Photo by Petra
Leary (it was taken from
a drone). Read the full list
of fun stuff to do on p.24
and on paperboy.co.nz.
EDITOR Jeremy Hansen ASSOCIATE EDITOR Johanna Thornton

ART DIRECTOR Jessica Allen SENIOR DESIGNER Jodie Fay CULTURE 34
EDITOR India Hendrikse URBANISM EDITOR/SUB-EDITOR Vomle PINK DREAMS
Springford FOOD EDITOR Kate Richards CONTRIBUTING EDITORS
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4 MUSIC
Foo Fighters
They’ve won 11
Grammys and sold
more than 25 million
records, so we’re
betting this will sell-
out quickly. Catch the
rock legends perform
new material from
their latest album
Concrete and Gold.
2 FESTIVAL Mount Smart
Stadium, Sat 3 Feb,
Auckland International 2018
Buskers Festival
Auckland waterfront, Fri 26-Mon 29
Jan, 2018
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Anniversary
Weekend. From
Nadia Reid to
The East Pointers
(above), there’s
something for all
folk tastes. Kumeu
Showgrounds, 26-28
Coming Jan, 2018
soon
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feeling either dejected at not having
inished anything or stoked that I’ve
polished of something meaningful.
Generally, I’ll head into Britomart and meet
7 EXHIBITION yo-pro friends for after-work drinks. After
a substantial venting session we’ll scan the
internet for gigs and head to something.
Bug Lab Auckland Zoo, until late Aug 2018
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they do this?”, usually forgetting to enjoy the
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I’m doing my best to wingman the situation.
Post-concert we usually end up somewhere
jovial and trashy i.e. Danny Doolans.
204 Quay St, Viaduct
Fresh air Saturday, 2pm

I go for a run. It helps clear my head and
generally makes me feel better. I usually
run past John Key’s house, down to the
waterfront and along Tāmaki Drive.
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Everybody Eats Pop-Up ASB Classic

Aotea Square, Thu 25 Jan, 2018 ASB Tennis Centre, Mon 1-Sat 13 Jan, 2018
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Parnell
Connan Mockasin
Hollywood Cinema, Thu 8-Fri 9 Feb, 2018 Beat making Sunday, 11am
I head back to the studio to make some
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creative tin back up.
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WHAT I’M
READING
Rebecca Lal, writer
A waka festival, summer reads and a sweet giveaway. and editor for Auckland
Museum, shares her top reads.
I’m currently reading The Idiot by Elif

Batuman. Hilariously painful relationships,
awkwardness, miscommunication.
———
I couldn’t put down Donna Tartt’s The Secret
History, an indulgence when I should have
been studying for exams in the early 1990s. All
the intensity when you’ve just hit your 20s.
———
My fave series as a kid Enid Blyton all the
way: The Famous Five, The Magic Faraway
Tree (for which Blyton was recently described
as the Jimi Hendrix of writing), The Secret
Seven.
———
A politically challenging read The Road to
Hell by Elizabeth Stanley, which really made
me understand the systematic and institutional
abuse of children in state care in New Zealand.
My heart goes out to the people who bravely
told their stories in this book.
———
Book I’d recommend to a friend Jeanette
Winterson’s Why Be Happy When You Could
Be Normal?
———
Favourite authors Tim Winton, Michael
Ondaatje and Anne Michaels for knowing how
to thaw a grief-baked heart.
FESTIVAL
Tāmaki Herenga Waka Festival

Dive into the history of our city with the Tāmaki Herenga Waka Festival
Honour 7ÙDPDNL Makaurau’s rich 0ÙDRUL history and

contemporary culture over Auckland Anniversary Weekend
by celebrating the 19 mana whenua groups who are linked A TITANIC PRIZE
to the city. Across three days, waka-centred activities

Jack, I'm lying
such as paddling demos and getting out on the harbour Titanic Live takes the epic to new heights with a live
orchestra
in a waka can be enjoyed alongside live music, kapa
haka performances and a generous offering of kai. Fresh Celebrate the 20th anniversary of Titanic at
Titanic Live: a cinematic experience that
highlights for 2018 include a digital space offering games sees the Auckland Philharmonia Orchestra
and lessons in basic te reo 0ÙDRUL and daily waka parades play live alongside a screening of the classic.
Paperboy has a double pass to give away,
with commentary on waka history and culture. Viaduct worth $298. To enter, head to paperboy.co.nz
Events Centre and Viaduct Harbour, Sat 27-Mon 29 Jan, 2018 or to purchase tickets, ticketmaster.co.nz.
The Civic,Wed 24-Thu 25 Jan 2018
COMING UP The presence of queer and indigenous artists in the digital realm is explored in FAFSWAG’s performance piece Xhrome Xrysalis, 10 Feb 2018

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POP-UP GLOBE
SUMMER SEASON
CULTURE A Midsummer Night’s Dream is
joined by four new productions
of Shakespeare’s masterworks.
Julius Caesar
In a world where ambitious
politicians vie for the ultimate
prize, sometimes the only
way to stop your rival is
by revolution. But what is
the price of revolt? Shining a
mirror on dirty politics, Pop-up
Globe’s Pembroke’s Company bring you a
female-led, gender-reversed production of
the gripping tragedy, Julius Caesar.
From 11 Jan
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The Merchant of Venice
Friendship, forbidden love,
cunning disguises and
ancient enmity culminate
in a thrilling trial scene
in The Merchant of Venice.
Witness Pop-up Globe’s all-male
Buckingham’s Company take
on Shakespeare’s most controversial
comedy. From 12 Jan
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Macbeth
A haunting and timeless
tragedy that explores the
THEATRE darkest corners of the human
mindset in a world where the
A summer festival of Shakespeare supernatural is real and the
quickest way to the top is by
Pop-up Globe kicks of with A Midsummer Night’s Dream murder. Macbeth, presented by
Pop-up Globe’s Southampton’s Company
Fairies, fancy dress and buff tradies hooking up for a night of party pill-laced debauchery might sees darkness, chaos and conlict unfold.
sound like a typical romp on K’ Road, but a night at Pop-up Globe’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream From 8 Feb
———
is anything but typical. Shakespeare’s biggest cheerleader Dr Miles Gregory’s direction of the
The Comedy of Errors
Bard’s most famous comedy brings spectacular costuming, extraordinary acting talent and 0ÙDRUL- Presented by Pop-up Globe’s
inspired traditions to the 360-degree stage at New Zealand’s most popular playhouse: the world’s Southampton’s Company,
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in a wild romp. See chaotic
described by critics as “brilliantly funny” and a “bicultural dream full of comic energy” – kicks into
confusion and unlikely plot twists
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to Pop-up Globe while on hols this January. Pop-up Globe Theatre, Ellerslie, until 31 March, 2018 cannot be missed. From 22 Feb
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FUTURE OF
HOUSING
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Future projects and building up. of construction company
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housing evolution.
Sunderland Crescent is one of your housing
projects within the Hobsonville Point
Development. Can you tell us a bit about
it? Hobsonville Point is a whole lot of blocks
of diferent typologies making up a whole
community and Sunderland Crescent is one
of those blocks. In Hobsonville Point it’s all
focussed on medium-density living (example
pictured below) – you have some standalone
houses but very few. This is really, from our
point of view, a great example of where the city
needs to be going, in terms of moving towards
higher-density living. We can’t keep relying on
expanding further and further out and having
standalone houses. Support structures and
service structures are getting stretched and
that’s of course what the Unitary Plan is all about
– intensifying the city environs. So this is a really
great example of how to design and build well
for medium-density living.
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So we’ll start to see more and more of this type
of housing in Auckland? In my view, there’s
no doubt that we will. Auckland has to do this
because the ability to keep paying for sprawling
infrastructure [is unsustainable]. We still need
to do developments further out in the city but
we also need to intensify in the city environs –
not just the central city. That has two efects: it
COMING UP doesn’t put so much pressure on infrastructure
and it allows the city to intensify in terms of
transport and all those other sorts of things,
What’s ahead for Tāmaki Makaurau which is where the city needs to go to.
Public transport improvements and more ———
Does Jalcon have other similar developments
in future? We’re already working on Pine
It’s all go in the city with lots to look forward to in the new year. Work to improve
Harbour, building similar high-density terrace
Franklin Road (artist’s impression above left) has stopped while the Christmas lights type houses there. When we started this, going
are on but after Boxing Day, work will start up again and, early next year, a roundabout back say, four to ive years ago, Auckland
will be built at the intersection at Wellington Street, along with pedestrian crossings. was very reticent. We were also thinking, is
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moving and allow work to continue on the City Rail Link (CRL) tunnels underneath. If
about doing too much because we didn’t know
you’ve been around the construction area recently, you may have noticed the waka train how customers would really respond [but] the
image (above top) on the hoardings – the CRL trains won’t look like that (sadly); it’s a customer response has been really fantastic.
conceptual image by the CRL team that represents “the connection between traditional
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Auckland’s busiest bus routes when the Dominion Road bus lanes are made continuous
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Over summer is also a good time to explore Auckland Transport’s Life in the Bike Lane
guides, a handy collection of maps and videos to cycleway routes, from Matakana to
Westhaven (above right). More routes are to be added. Don’t forget to save the date
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COMING UP Try out an eBike at New Zealand’s irst eBike Expo, Sun 21 Jan, 2018, ASB Showgrounds, see ebikeexpo.co.nz for more information

Auckland forecast to get hotter
Extreme weather and ocean acidiication predicted
A recent report reveals Auckland’s climate

will get hotter over the next 100 years. If
global emissions continue on the current
Auckland Council keeps you up to date with local path, the number of hot days (days with
news and events at ourauckland.nz temperatures above 25°C) could quadruple
and average temperatures could increase by
up to 3.75°C by 2110. Drought and more
extreme bursts of rainfall are predicted, along
with rising sea levels. The ocean’s health
is also under threat: ocean temperatures
are increasing and ocean pH is decreasing,
making our waters more acidic.
Bug Lab Auckland Council, Auckland Transport,
at Auckland Zoo Watercare and Panuku Development
The blockbuster
Auckland commissioned the report from the
science exhibition
Bug Lab is on now National Institute of Water and Atmospheric
at Auckland Zoo – Research (NIWA) to model and analyse
its irst showing in $XFNODQGVSHFLÀFFOLPDWHSURMHFWLRQVWR
Auckland, and its provide detailed information for decision
last before it tours
making and to increase understanding of
overseas! Bug Lab
was developed risks, vulnerabilities and opportunities.
by New Zealand’s
world-famous
museum Te Papa,
with the Academy
Award-winning Weta
Workshop.
From 20 Dec,
Protect our kauri Auckland Zoo,

Motions Rd,
Waitākere Ranges tracks closed to protect kauri trees Western Springs
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the spread of kauri dieback disease. Auckland Council supports the

principles of the rÙD hui (a type of tapu and customary closure) placed In brief
over the area by local iwi Te Kawerau DÙ Maki, and recommends ———
alternative walking and tramping tracks in other parts of Auckland. Show us your art world’s most inspiring
Visit ourauckland.nz for a list of closed tracks, and alternative walking Auckland Council’s and innovative cities
public art collection tackling climate change.
tracks. If you do visit open areas of the :DLWÙD NHUH Ranges, or any kauri
includes more than Auckland Council’s
forest, remember to clean all soil off your footwear and other gear ‘Auckland Waste to
Christmas 400 artworks across
every time you enter or leave a forest. Clean your shoes and spray at Silo Park the region. If you’re Resources’ project was
them with disinfectant at every cleaning station, and stay on tracks and Your much-loved out and about this the clear winner with
off kauri roots. Visit kauridieback.co.nz for more information. urban playground, summer and you spot a strong evidence of
Silo Park, is back beautiful piece of art, transitioning our city
and starting the take a photo and tag it away from landill, and
season with four days with #PublicArtAKL on towards a greener way
Ebooks for the win of processing urban
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milestone was reached this month be Christmas without zero-waste world cities.
with the checkout of The Amazing hit four million checkouts from a visit from Santa! champion ———
Thu 21-Sun 24 Dec, Auckland has won
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eight libraries in the world to schools worldwide. which recognises the

TSB + Paperboy
Guarding
lives
Meet two surf lifeguards
looking out for swimmers this
summer at Bethells Beach.
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Over summer, as people hit the beaches to
cool off, it’s great to know surf lifeguards from
Surf Life Saving Clubs are on duty. Thanks to
a $5000 grant from TSB (which supports Surf
Life Saving New Zealand), the lifeguards at
the Bethells Beach Surf Life Saving Club are How will the grant from TSB help your Damian Strickett,
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imagine trying to qualify a large chunk of experience, and therefore safer beaches. programme.
people.” Here, we talk to a couple of the club’s
lifeguards about their roles and how the grant How would you describe Bethells? How will the grant the club has recently
will help them. ,ORYHLWWKHFRPPXQLW\RXWWKHUHLVVR received from TSB help? The grant will
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lifeguard, 17 Nothing beats a wild west coast beach. [people] who may not have gone on them if
they had to pay for them. These things also
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involved in the club?,MRLQHG is dangerous, but through this grant we’ve skills.
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my third season of lifeguarding. enables us to keep people safe. What’s the best part about being a surf
lifeguard? Getting out in the water and
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Swanning about and a bra maestro. ASK A RETAIL PRO
Brodie-Jean Hoare likes drama
and romance in everyday wear
Where do you work? I’m the location manager at
Oku light shade, Lonely Newmarket [6B Teed St].
$99.90, from
Citta. Do you have any stories to share from your
store? Lingerie itting gives a unique snapshot
into so many of life’s ‘moments’ for women
in New Zealand: we hear about irst dates, a
promotion at work, we see women’s scars, and
help people ind something new after hormonal
or weight changes. We see and hear it all! But we
keep those secrets on lock (sorry).
What’s your favourite piece in

store? I’m really excited about
our Lonely x Ophelia tee that will
Ara II large linen
be raising money for the Breast
cushion, $205,
Cancer Foundation, and it will be
from Tessuti.
wonderful to raise awareness about
the importance of early diagnosis of
breast cancer.
Is your own wardrobe full of Lonely pieces?

Oh my goodness yes! Queen hoarder here; I hate
to get rid of things, and I get quite sentimental
about the memories attached to an item of
clothing.
RD stool, $350, What’s the most important thing to consider

from Douglas when shopping for a bra? Comfort: no matter
and Bec. how pretty a bra is, you just won’t wear it if it digs
in or its poorly.
What’s an accessory that you’re

currently coveting? I am obsessed
with Georgia Jay’s new collection,
and in particular the Orla bag (right)
with the retro maple wood handles.
NEW RANGE How would you describe your personal style?

I’m kind of having a 1970s secretary moment,
Segment side but in general I look for unusual textures, earthy
That summer feeling table, $540, colours and nostalgic shapes.
A new resort collection from Yu Mei from Citta.
If you had loads of cash to spare,
what would you buy? I love 9k gold
Wellington-based leather goods brand Yu jewellery, so I wouldn’t mind a splurge
Mei has delivered again with its Resort ‘17 on some of Meadowlark’s range.
collection titled ‘La Piscine’. The collection Any fashion trends that you’re into?
I am enjoying how many big billowy sleeves
plays on the colours of summer, inspired and skirts there are around this summer. It’s
by paintings from David Hockney and Yves so lovely inding some drama and romance in
everyday wear.
Klein, public swimming pools and nudist
Whose style do you admire? Solange will
beaches. Oh yes please! Vi bag in Klein Blue, Seagrass belly basket forever have my heart. She dresses to express,
$279, fromYu Mei plaid, $49.99, from not to impress.
Shut the Front Door.
NEW & NOTABLE Raglan potter Tony Sly has a new store in Newmarket, stocking his colourful collection of sturdy ceramics and accessories, 18 Teed St
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SUMMER
SALE
IN STORE & ONLINE
KATESYLVESTER.COM
Eateries that don’t close for the holidays.
4 5 6 Got
to get
away
Just out of town
——
Waiheke Island Leigh Sawmill Cafe
January is prime time for catching Catch a gig and demolish a pizza
the ferry to Waiheke as pretty – Sawmill’s open seven days from
much everything will be open. We 27 December to 12 February, with
recommend The Oyster Inn (with a special Fleetwood Mac tribute
new executive chef Hayden Clark), on 14 January – tickets $20 from
Tantalus Estate, or Man O’ War for undertheradar.co.nz. 142 Pakiri Rd,
wine and petanque. Catch the ferry Leigh
from the downtown ferry terminal or
Half Moon Bay. fullers.co.nz The Riverhead
The oldest riverside tavern in the
The Refreshment Room country will be open through the
Bask in the sun on the deck with festive season. Go for the ribs, stay
a lat white and a piece of cake. for a refreshing (and sophisticated)
Closed stat days. 233 Scenic Drv, pink panther or traic light
Titirangi beverage. 68 Queen St, Riverhead
1
All-dayers
Summer dining ——
Ampersand
Here, it’s plates of casual comfort
It sometimes seems as if the city’s been food by Mikey Newlands (ex-Bracu),
evacuated during the holiday season. and cofee by Espresso Workshop.
Ampersand is closed stat days and will
Luckily, these restaurants are staying open. run a limited day/early evening service
7
between 26-31 Dec and 3-8 Jan. 228
Ōrākei Rd, Ōrākei
Central city and Ponsonby The ‘burbs
—— —— Ponsonby Central
Augustus 1947 Eatery Greenwoods Cafe The Pons Cench food market only
Dust of those oversized Karen Walker With fresh cocktails like The Lady This recently opened Epsom cafe closes on stat days, which is ideal if
specs – Augustus closes stat days but in Pink and a contemporary yet only closes for a week (25 Dec-1 Jan) you get caught short with surprise
is otherwise open for fancy French authentic Indian menu, 1947 could before getting back to grinding Cofee guests. Burger Burger, Dantes, Chop
food and wine in their sunny courtyard. be a nice change of pace from all the Supreme and serving their signature Chop, and all the others will be open
1-3 St Marys Bay Rd, Ponsonby cold ham and salad you’re likely to be vego – with the option to add meat – too. 136-146 Ponsonby Rd, Ponsonby
eating. 60 Federal St, central city lunches. 17 Pah Rd, Epsom
Azabu Mission Bay Pavilion
Azabu closes Christmas Day and Nourish Group Cheap Eats Spend a few lazy days trotting from
reopens for dinner earlier than most Treat yourself at Euro or The Culpeper Many of Metro’s Top 50 Cheap Eats the ice cream kiosk here to the beach
on 5 Jan, and for lunch again from 13 – they only shut on Christmas Day are open right through the silly and back again. Closed 25-29 Dec,
Jan. The Roji Bar is the perfect spot – while Jervois Steak House only season. Try somewhere diferent, like open 30-31 Dec then closed again until
for an afternoon bevvy. 26 Ponsonby closes 25-27 Dec and 1-2 Jan. See Southern Indian restaurant Jai Jalaram 6 Jan. 44 Tamaki Drv, Mission Bay
Rd, Ponsonby thenourishgroup.co.nz for locations Khaman. 39 Boundary Rd, Avondale
Hipgroup
Whether it’s Rosie, Amano, Ortolana,
City-side Takapuna Beach Cafe, Richmond Road
dining Cafe or their other outlets, Hipgroup
should have you covered. See
hipgroup.co.nz for locations
DAVID STRAIGHT
1. Augustus. 2. Azabu. 3. 1947.

4. Riverhead. 5. The Oyster Inn.
6. Leigh Sawmill. 7. Greenwoods Cafe.
2 3 8
8. Mission Bay Pavilion.
BOOK NOW Register your interest for Monique Fiso’s Hiakai hāngi pop-up at Blue Duck Station, Ruapehu, Jan-Feb 2018, tickets from hiakai.co.nz

Elephant Gin + Paperboy
Pasta
and
meatballs
SUNDOWNERS
FOR SUMMER
Elephant Gin combines a
great passion for gin with a
love of wildlife, donating 15
percent of bottle proceeds to
1 3 organisations which preserve
and protect African wildlife.
Complex and strikingly
Christmas Day smooth, Elephant Gin is
Don’t slave over a hot stove
—— a perfect choice for your
Picnic in Cornwall Park or on the beach summer sippers.
Drop into a summer farmers market or a boutique
grocery store – like Kohimarama’s Good Grocer,
4 5
which is only closed Christmas and Boxing Day – Sloe perfect
and throw together an impressive-looking picnic. Elephant Sloe Gin combines
237 Tāmaki Drv, Kohimarama its premium Dry Gin with
the classic lavour of fresh
Bracu sloe berries, adding a richly
Nestled among rolling hills and olive trees, rounded, lightly sweet and
picturesque Bracu is ofering Christmas Eve and fruity bouquet as well as a
Christmas Day meals this year. The former is a warm red colour to the spirit.
German feast ($99pp), the latter a four-course ———
degustation ($169pp). Bookings essential. 49 Main 50ml Elephant Sloe Gin
Rd, Bombay 125ml sparkling mineral water
6 Champagne 1-2 drops of orange bitters
Satya specials ———
In the spirit of tradition it would be wrong not to Pour Sloe Gin over ice, top
include Satya’s annual free Christmas meal, hosted NYE dinner with sparkling water and
between 12-2pm every year. Everything served will On the razzle dazzle for NYE? Pre-load with a inish with orange bitters.
be halal. Citywide, see satya.co.nz for locations substantial feed Serve with an orange twist
—— garnish.
Woodpecker Hill ———
There are likely to be menu specials and champagne
deals on 31 Dec. Keep an eye on social media for
those, but make your booking now. 196 Parnell Rd,
Parnell
Breakfast negroni
Baduzzi Elephant Strength Gin is
Ben Bayly is putting on a four-course set menu stronger and mightier than
($135pp, vego option available) for New Year’s Eve the original, amplifying the
with prosecco on arrival. There are two seating aroma and fragrance of the
times available – between 5.30-6.30pm, or from unique botanicals.
8.30pm. 10-26 Jellicoe St, Wynyard Quarter ———
15ml Elephant Strength Gin
Depot 15ml Campari
See in 2018 with oysters, sliders and ine wine at Al 15ml dry vermouth
Brown’s Depot. 86 Federal St, central city 30ml Sanpellegrino
Aranciata Rossa sparkling
blood orange
Saan
Start as you mean to go on (ie. not on a New Year One orange
diet) with a iery Thai feast at Saan. 160 Ponsonby ———
Rd, Ponsonby Combine gin, Campari and
vermouth in a large tumbler
Soul over a rock of ice. Stir to
Four- Spaces ill up fast for Soul’s annual New Year combine then top up with
course celebrations, and the restaurant can ofer only blood orange soda. Garnish
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dego 2 with an orange slice.

two-hour dining slots for each table. Luckily, you can
follow your meal with drinks and DJ sets from 5pm ———
1. Satya. 2. Bracu. 3. Baduzzi. 4. Soul. 5. Saan. until 2018. Party on down. 16-18 Lower Hobson St, www.elephant-gin.com
6. Woodpecker Hill. central city
DONATE THIS XMAS There is still time to donate non-perishable food items or gifts to The City Mission, Women’s Refuge, Salvation Army and many more

Jess’ Underground Kitchen + Paperboy
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Jess has a seasonal menu that changes
daily with paleo, gluten-free, dairy-free
and lighter homemade meal options. Full of
lavour and variety, they’re freshly made on
the day so you won’t be left weighing up the
same old dinner choices again. Get them
delivered to your door or pick up at the
Herne Bay or Remuera store.
———
FRESH FOOD
Meet Jess from Jess’ Underground Kitchen Bespoke catering

One healthy home-cooked meal a day What do guests remember most the day
after? How good the food was! Jess and her
Jess Daniell is a self-confessed foodie. She’d always loved team ofer a custom catering service that
will set your event apart from the rest. We’ll
entertaining but hadn’t ever thought about starting a food take some grilled ish sliders with a side of
business until a friend suggested that she start serving her whipped goat’s cheese, honeycomb and
thyme bruschetta, please!
home-cooked meals for busy colleagues during the week. ———
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‘Half
Pōhutukawa’
Get the Joshua’s Ice Cream

Black Doris Plum Sorbet
scoop AUT-trained chef and ice cream-maker Joshua Jones

wanted every scoop of this sorbet to taste like the most
perfectly ripe plums you can imagine. Made with the
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of summer’s best
dairy-free scoops
(with complementary
warm-weather colours
from Resene).
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COLOUR SPOTS RESENE
Resene
‘Spotlight’
Kohu Road
Mango Sorbet
The simplicity of Kohu Road’s mango sorbet is what

makes it great: made with only mango, water, sugar
and lemon, the tropical fruit really shines. We also love
the velvety texture – it’s easy to forget there’s no dairy.
kohuroad.co.nz

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Little Island Creamery ‘Cosmos’
Chocolate Raspberry
Tommy Holden and James

Crow’s coconut ice cream recipes
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pleasing as a result. Here, an
easy-scoop coconut base is simply
rippled with raspberry sauce
and generous dark chocolate
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‘Ipanema’
Wahiki
Coconut Matcha
A pure green tea taste is the drawcard for this vegan ice
cream, alongside its smooth texture. Not too sweet, but
still creamy, this ice cream is likely to appeal to both health
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Duck Island ‘Pink Lace’
Strawberry, Coconut and Kair Lime
We were sad to lose Sunday

scoops of Duck Island from
Flotsam and Jetsam but
thankfully, this Hamilton-based
creamery peddles their ice cream
tubs Auckland-wide. While the
vegan options are coconut-based,
they lack any overpowering nut
taste thanks to premium fruit
and aromatics being infused
before freezing. Here, sweet
strawberries are offset by a
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lime. duckislandicecream.co.nz
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‘Geronimo’
Oob Organic
Blueberry Sorbet
For Robert and Shannon Auton’s original blueberry

sorbet, Omaha and Chilean berries are smooshed with
sugar, water and lemon juice before being churned and
frozen. Allow to warm ever so slightly before eating for a
refreshing, slightly slushy texture. oob.organic

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Working with
the grain
The Orphans Kitchen crew team up
with a 22nd generation German baker
on a new venture in Point Chevalier.
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Daily Bread is a soon-to-open Point Chevalier bakery and

deli run by the team behind Orphans Kitchen. An old
art deco bank is becoming a destination championing a
slow approach to food, using age-old techniques for bread
baking, pickling, curing and smoking. Tom Hishon and
Josh Helm (from Orphans Kitchen) have joined Patrick
Welzenbach (who hails from a German baking dynasty
and brings a 600-year-old sourdough starter with him) on 1
the new venture; the trio see the shop as a return to a time
when people purchased groceries from different purveyors
instead of making a weekly trip to the supermarket. They’ll
sell sandwiches, pastries, pretzels and other baked goods,
as well as cured meats, cheeses, pickles and more.
1. Kūmara sourdough (top shelf), and sprouted lentil loaves

(middle) will be everyday ixtures on the menu. German stollen
(bottom) – a cake studded with dried fruit, nuts and spices – will
be a festive seasonal speciality.
———
2. Hishon likens the way the lid goes down on this 120-litre bread
mixer to the doors on a Lamborghini.
———
3. This Fortuna bun divider is a hand-me-down from Welzenbach’s
German grandfather. One large slab of dough (up to 4kg) goes into
the machine. The lid then comes down and the machine undulates.
The weight of the machine and motion it makes creates 30 identical
bread rolls from the larger original piece of dough.
———
4. The copper bowl under this pastry mixer, designed to whip
things like cream and egg whites, is roughly 100 years old and
belonged to Welzenbach’s great grandfather.
———
5. This is a retarder. It can prove, chill, and freeze dough as
required. It will be pre-programmed each evening for whatever is
inside so it will be ready to bake come morning time.
Daily Bread opens 10 Jan, 2018. 1210 Great North Rd, Pt Chevalier.

5

1
AG E NDA
20 things
to do for
under $20
Feeling the pinch? Here
are some ways to enjoy
Auckland on the cheap.
1. Swim and sunbathe amid the modernist glory
of Tibor Donner’s Parnell Baths. $6.40 for adults,
under 16s free. 25 Judges Bay Rd, Parnell
———
2. The best op-shops are in Glen Innes: the
Salvation Army Family Store (49 Mayfair Pl) and
Dove Shop (185 Apirana Ave) ofer great bargains.
Follow your shopping spree with some of the best
ish and chips in the city from Marsic Brothers (47
Mayfair Pl), another GI gem: $7 for two ish and a
scoop of chips.
———
3. Visit For The Love of Bees beehives in Myers or
Victoria Park and watch the workers do their thing.
Free.
———
4. Admire the art at the TSB Wallace Arts Centre
(donation encouraged) and the trees in Monte
Cecilia Park. Follow with cofee and cake (around
$10 per person) at Homestead cafe. Free entry to
the centre. 72 Hillsborough Rd, Hillsborough
Arty good
times and
coffee

PETRA LEARY
5
A million-
dollar
playground
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5. If you’ve got kids with you, let them burn of
steam in Whoa! Studios’ psychedelic playground,
while you drink cofee inside and pretend to be
child-free. Adults cost the price of a cofee, children
$10. 8-14 Henderson Valley Rd, Henderson
———
6. Slurp some noodles at Metro Top 50 Cheap Eat
Eden Noodles, which now has locations in both
Mount Eden (105 Dominion Rd) and Albany (14
Corinthian Drv). Recommended: the dry seafood
in special soup ($10), slobbery chicken ($13) and
a small serve of dumplings ($5) are perfect for
two to share.
7. Stock up on vegetables at the Avondale Markets,

and cook lunch for a friend. Free entry, vege
spending up to you. Every Sunday without exception,
5am-noon. 2 Ash St, Avondale
———
8. Visit Fo Guang Shan Temple and feel at peace.
Follow with lunch at the vegan-friendly cafe there.
A We recommend the laksa and barbecue wonton
vege-licious
market noodles. Free entry to temple, lunch approximately
$30 for two. 16 Stancombe Rd, Flat Bush

Chillin’ 14 14. Chill on the lawn in Silo Park (or on the beanbags
in in Britomart’s Takutai Square), and soak up some
Silo Park
rays and the summer event programmes. Free.
———
15. Share a doughnut (or some other baked treats)
and a yarn at Little and Friday. Doughnuts, $6 each.
11 McColl St, Newmarket or 43D Eversleigh Rd,
Belmont
———
16. Borrow a book from the Auckland Central City
Library and read it under the shade of the trees in
Albert Park. Free. 44-46 Lorne St, central city
16
11
Head into
nature
11. Head out to Muriwai and hike up to see the
gannets from the viewing platform. The last gannets
migrate in March or April. Free, except for gas to get
9. Go old-school and smash back a few cold Lion there. 428 Motutara Rd, Muriwai
Reds ($15.99 for a six-pack) while you watch the ———
Black Caps take on Pakistan from 6 January. 12. Explore colour and form at Auckland Art Gallery
12
——— Toi ō Tāmaki’s Colour is an Abstraction, curated by
10. Travel to Birkenhead by ferry and have dinner at Natasha Conland and Zara Stanhope, and featuring
a local restaurant. We like Yummy Korean BBQ. international artists. It runs until 29 April, 2018. Free. 17. Visit one of Auckland’s most impressive marine
Tip: they do a wicked bibim naengmyeon (spicy cold ——— reserves, Okakari Point (Goat Island). Don’t forget
noodles). Ferry, $4.60 each way with a HOP card 13. Cycle the paths of Waterview, including this to pack your snorkel, or do the easy Goat Island
from downtown; Bibim naengmyeon, $14. rainbow confection. Free if you have a bike. Start at Walkway. Free, apart from gas to get there. 160
23 Mokoia Rd, Birkenhead Alan Wood Reserve in Mount Albert. Goat Island Rd, Leigh
A cold
10 noodle 13 17
surprise

15 18. Hire a kayak or stand-up paddle
board from Mission Bay Watersports
and cruise around the bay. $15 for 30
minutes. At the city end of the beach
every weekend, 9am-5pm.
18
19
19. Go strawberry picking at Phil Greig Strawberry

Gardens in Kumeu: bonus points if you can eat more
in the ield than you take home with you. The strawb
season runs from 26 Dec until 6 Feb and the entry
fee includes your irst kilo of strawberries. $8.50 per
adult, under 12s free. 464 SH16, Kumeu
———
20. Enjoy a stroll through Western Springs Park and
linger in the beauty of the new Fukuoka Garden.
Just keep clear of the swans. Free. The Garden is
open 10am-6.30pm.
Mind the
swans!
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NZ’s next
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time of writing the above, snatch the crown of
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with it than to perform unspeakable acts upon literary festival I’ve been to. more reading in our festivals? Panels are
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New Zealand verse, winning Best First still pretty earnest. I think that’s kind of an the same things again and again and again.
Book Award for Poetry at the 2017 Ockham inescapable part of literary festivals. But it’s There’s only so much ground you can cover
New Zealand Book Awards and praise more casual. A lot of the writing that the in an hour.
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eyes and access to the internet. In August, I feel like we’re kind of missing that a little And there’s always someone who talks
she travelled to Scotland with Courtney bit in our literary culture over here sometimes. way more than everyone else. Yes. And
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the game, it’s so much part of his identity. pieces that were halfway there but I wanted
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dioramas of all the people in his spare time. now? Yeah, in Wellington I see him at various
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because I really like her and I’m a Green but I just don’t have the best taste in clothes. I’ve kind of been taking a break from that at
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that she was bullied out of politics when she’d That show feels as much about fashion as collection of poetry together. Even though
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about poverty. love reality TV but I couldn’t be on there proper attention span of a writer. That’s why
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URBANISM
Places for people

She’s played a central role in shaping public spaces all over
New Zealand. Now landscape architect and urban planner
Rachel de Lambert is dreaming big for Auckland – at the
new convention centre, Cornwall Park, Manukau City and
more. The city’s main problem? “We forgot in a planning
sense that cities should be primarily about people,” she says.
TEXT BIANCA ZANDER — PHOTOGRAPHY SAMUEL HARTNETT
Without fanfare or ego, Rachel de Lambert backside. And all its street frontages are not
has been a key player in some of Auckland’s the best in a pedestrian/public realm. We’ve
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over the last 30 years. She’s a partner JRLQJWREHELJURXWHVIRUYHKLFXODUWUDIÀF
at environmental planning and design
consultancy Boffa Miskell and knows a thing So you built a pedestrian laneway through
or two about this city. Despite an urban the middle and an air bridge linking it
environment littered with past mistakes, she’s to SkyCity? We are creating a place that
refreshingly upbeat about the city’s potential. Aucklanders will go because it’s got great
dumplings or coffee or a wine bar, and it
BIANCA ZANDER: Let’s start with that catches afternoon sunlight. We really want
enormous building beside TVNZ. What convention delegates to explore and spend
are some of the challenges in your role WKHLUPRQH\LQWKHFLW\QRWMXVWKDYHD retailer’s perception that a car park outside
as director of urban design on the New waterfront experience. Council’s concern the front door was the only way they’d get
Zealand International Convention Centre was that the air bridge would basically suck anybody to buy anything. Auckland is no
(NZICC), currently under construction? everybody off the street, and you wouldn’t different to many cities around the world, in
RACHEL DE LAMBERT: That’s one of the get all the pedestrians and the hubbub. We fact now we’re doing a lot better than many
hardest pieces of urban block in Auckland, had pedestrian modelling done to prove the FLWLHVLQUHWURÀWWLQJWKHFLW\EDFN,I\RXWKLQN
and the NZICC is a very different kind increase in pedestrians from the NZICC in about the process cities went through with
RIFRQYHQWLRQFHQWUH>WKHSURMHFWLVEHLQJ this part of the city will be about 2000 people people shifting out into the suburbs, they
designed by Warren & Mahoney in association or more. It’s going to add way more life and became places of work that hollowed out at
with Moller Architects and Woods Bagot with energy to the city than any detraction the air night. Even into the 1980s, Auckland city
LQSXWIURPGH/DPEHUW·VÀUP%RIID0LVNHOO@ bridge will have. was seen as a very unsafe place to be in the
It’s an urban city convention centre. Most evening.
centres are heroic in that they are on a river Why are we playing catch-up with this
or waterfront for postcard images and then whole concept of a designed city? You What then are the key opportunities for
they’ll have a massive great big backside that mean, how did it get so bad? We forgot in Auckland at this moment of growth and
nobody ever notices, where all the truck docks a planning sense that cities should primarily change? Auckland’s really hit that critical
DQGDOOWKHXJO\VWXIILV:HOOWKLVSURMHFWLV be about people. Our roads got too big. Where mass, with a real range of urban life. The
between Hobson, Nelson and Wellesley streets, we provide car parking was all about the Unitary Plan focusses on compact urban form
with TVNZ on the northern side. There is no convenience of the people shopping and the but also on growth, on expansion. How do we

Above left A rendering of the New Zealand International Convention Centre, designed by Warren & Mahoney in association with Moller Architects and Woods
Bagot, with input from de Lambert’s irm, Bofa Miskell. Above right Rachel de Lambert. Above A rendering of the Tāmaki regeneration in Glen Innes.
continue to intensify and have more density There’s practically no residential catchment mass and everybody knows about it but it’s
in the right places in the city, but also how around it. There’s been this perceived been 15 years in the making.
do we get some of those suburban centres to blighted poorer neighbourhood [with]
grow and intensify in a way that they feed off concentrations of state housing, but there Mega malls have a lot to answer for in
the public transport linkages and create really are great opportunities to bring back decent terms of emptying out suburban town
good communities? We need to get the right UHVLGHQWLDOLQWHQVLÀFDWLRQ7KH3XKLQXL centres. I am an anti-mall person. It’s an
mix of density and opportunity for work in Stream is a wonderful open space corridor unfortunate component of our culture.
those places as well, so we’re not just setting up between the regional Botanic Gardens We’ve created these monochromatic retail
more dormitory suburbs to feed the city, [but] and the city centre and then off out to the experiences that are malls – nobody lives there,
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people work closer to where they live. Good bones, but none of the critical mass life, you drive to them. It’s the American
and momentum. These things take time, PRGHO1HZ/\QQZDVWKHÀUVWPDOOLQ1HZ
You’ve created a public domain manual they’re incremental, require a lot of thought, Zealand. In early photos, it was exciting,
for Manukau City. Now there’s an unloved planning, then suddenly hit certain points you could think you were in America, and it
place. It was the motorway-based city centre where it feels like things just sort of happen. has been a real problem. It was a planning
in the south, and it’s never really taken off. Britomart, for example, now has that critical approach of the time to separate things out

Top left A view of the planned laneway between
Auckland’s International Convention Centre and
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rendering of the Tāmaki regeneration project.
probably, but any car parking we want to

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based social enterprise as part of the whole moment and, yes, there will still be cars, new station is really important. ●

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Saturated in colour and buzzing with life, The Halcyon marks

an ambitious expansion for the trio who founded (and still
own) Ponsonby Road Bistro. The good news? After decades
in a notoriously tough business, they still get on.
TEXT LEISHA JONES — PHOTOGRAPHY TODD EYRE
In late 2016, when Sarah Conway, Melissa Morrow and sunny-hued space. “I would have loved to have been able to
Blair Russell secured the lease on Jervois Road institution come somewhere like this.”
Andiamo, it felt like something of a homecoming. The Their collective history reads like a guidebook to some
three friends already own Ponsonby Road Bistro, and of Ponsonby’s best eateries. Back in 2001, Russell and
have established such an easy working relationship that restaurateur Mark Wallbank opened Rocco (Morrow
opening a second restaurant – an all-day bistro in Herne ZRUNHGRQWKHÁRRUDQG&RQZD\FDPHRQWRUXQWKH
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thing to do. “The day we actually got the keys and stepped Chow, Rocco is warmly remembered for being racy, rowdy
over the threshold I have to say I felt completely at home,” and serving robust portions of Spanish-leaning cuisine such
says Morrow. “I didn’t feel like Goldilocks or any kind as sardines, squid ink spaghetti and smoky paprika-laden
of interloper. I just felt completely and utterly like it was cazuela. “Everyone’s got very fond memories of Rocco,”
meant to be. It feels like we are in the right place.” says Conway. “I never thought I’d get misty-eyed about
The restaurant industry is notoriously tough, but this that kitchen because it was almost hellish, but when I think
trio have worked together long enough to make it look easy. DERXWLWQRZLWZDVDKLJKO\HIÀFLHQWVSDFHIRUWKHDPRXQW
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in London in the 1990s. He’s now married to Morrow’s Russell, Wallbank and Morrow then went on to open
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1999. Conway and Morrow have now called this hood preceded Ponsonby Road Bistro at the same site. Russell
home for years, but the couple always felt it lacked a says what they wanted Magnum to be and what it became
restaurant like the new one they’ve created. “It deserves were two different things. “We saw ourselves as being pretty
love, this place,” Conway explains as she looks around the casual, but it turned into a big booze barn. I’m all about
Opposite page The Halcyon’s interior, designed by Allana Owen. “We wanted something diferent and we wanted colour,” says Morrow.

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been simpler to tweak the concept of Andiamo, the previous restaurant on the site, but the trio went for something completely diferent.
food – I wanted to do restaurants and had no desire to When they took over the Andiamo lease, they liked the
be serving bourbon and coke.” After two years, Magnum ORFDWLRQDQGWKHVSDFHEXWZHUHDOVRGHWHUPLQHGWRSHUN
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CULTURE
Rising living costs are making it harder for Auckland schools

to attract and retain teachers. At Papakura’s Cosgrove
Primary School, these challenges are especially acute.
TEXT LIAM RATANA — PHOTOGRAPHY CHARLES BUENCONSEJO
Auckland is experiencing its worst shortage – she retired there. My dad was a secondary I used to teach. I can have more of an impact
of teachers since 1995. Many schools are teacher at Manurewa High. I grew up in on a child than an All Black could, yet some
VWUXJJOLQJWRÀOOYDFDQFLHVVRPHFODVVURRPV Manurewa before the stigma was attached of those dudes are earning 10 times more
have no teachers, and a growing number of to south Auckland. I hear it on the news and than me.
people appear to be leaving the profession, think, “well, I grew up there”.
or leaving Auckland to work as teachers What would make it easier for you as a
elsewhere. At Papakura’s Cosgrove Primary Did you ever consider going elsewhere? teacher? Class size for me is important.
School, principal Gustaaf Klein has the I like being in Auckland, so there was no You’re dealing with kids who haven’t been
unenviable task of ensuring every classroom desire to ever move out. fed, haven’t been clothed properly, or haven’t
has a teacher in it. With only about three had enough sleep. To put them in a class of
applications for every new vacancy, he is Why do you think there’s currently a around 30, you will have about seven or eight
KDYLQJGLIÀFXOW\FRPSHWLQJDJDLQVWKLJKHU shortage of teachers in Auckland? I think kids that will need a lot of extra time because
decile schools for good-quality teachers. some of it is the stigma of decile one. Decile of their circumstances. If I only had 22 kids
Paperboy went along to talk to the teachers at one schools are challenging, yes. But they can in here, I could do a hell of a lot more for
&RVJURYH3ULPDU\DQGÀQGRXWKRZWKH\·UH also be very rewarding. Decile 10 schools, those kids. John Hattie, who is an apparent
coping. they can be also very challenging and maybe expert on all of this, says that class sizes don’t
rewarding, I’m not sure. I know of teachers really make a difference. If you’re in a school
in decile nine and 10 schools who have to where the parents are paying big money and
Bruce Wiseman deal with complaints through lawyers because want their kids to learn, sure, class size might
Teaches Years Five and Six. He has taught for ive
children aren’t achieving. I’ve never had that not matter. But when you’re at a school like
years at Cosgrove School.
here, or at any of the other decile one schools this, if you put over 30 kids in a classroom,
Why did you choose to teach in Auckland? I’ve been at. Every school has its challenges; by the time you’ve sorted all of the issues
It was just something I liked the sound of, it’s how you meet that challenge. – behavioural, family, health – you’ve got
something I wanted to do. I come from bugger all teaching time left. Whereas, with
a family of teachers; both of my parents Are teachers valued enough in New a smaller class, I can chat one-on-one with
were teachers. My mum taught at Rosehill Zealand? Some are. I’m old enough now kids who have a problem. I can refer them
Intermediate [in Papakura] for a long time that I’m teaching the children of people that to the appropriate people.
Opposite page Bruce Wiseman: “I can have more of an impact on a child than an All Black could, yet some of those dudes are earning 10 times more than me.”

Above left Peter Rout chose to teach at Cosgrove because he likes the community. Above right Luanne Poihipi says the shortage is due to the cost of living.
Peter Rout Why do you think there’s a teacher they’ve told us that they’re not worried about
Associate Principal. 24 years at Cosgrove Primary. shortage in Auckland? I think [it’s because their child missing school because they’re just
of] the cost of housing, the living costs, also starting out. What they don’t realise is that
Why did you choose to teach here in VRPHRIWKHNLGVDQGWKHGLIÀFXOWLHVWKH\KDYH you’re of course trying to build a foundation
Auckland? My kids have gone through here. You also have to look at the training facilities for learning. We want to try and educate our
I like the community. I like the types of children – did they foresee a shortage coming? People
that come through. The fact that our kids learn talk about the pay. Teachers certainly work
to live in a multicultural society is so important. very hard, but the pay is only alright – you’re “If you’re not understanding
They understand different cultures. To me, certainly not going to become a millionaire
Cosgrove itself has changed. It used to be 60-70 overnight.
of different cultures and
percent European, that was only 20 years ago. people, there can be all
Now we’ve got 60 percent 0ÙDRUL, 20 percent Are teachers valued enough in New sorts of problems.”
Polynesian, and around 20 percent European. Zealand? I don’t know whether we as a
So you can see how the whole community has country value them much. I say that because
changed over time, and that is a neat thing. Our when I look at absences, I wonder if people parents about the importance of being at
kids are brought up learning to be able to relate really realise the effects that not attending school every day, even if things are going on
to a range of different cultures. If you’re not school can have. Something we’ve noticed is outside of the classroom. I believe that every
understanding of different cultures and people, WKHKLJKQXPEHURIDEVHQFHVRIRXUÀYH\HDU parent wants the best for their child. They
there can be all sorts of problems. olds. We’ve spoken to some of the parents and perhaps just don’t know how to achieve that.

GUSTAAF KLEIN
The principal of Papakura’s Cosgrove Primary School for the past
12 years wants honest living allowances for Auckland teachers
Luanne Poihipi to at least $5000-$10,000 as an honest
Teaches Years One and Two. Has taught for two Auckland living allowance. We’ve also
years at Cosgrove Primary. got a number of kids living in poverty.
We want them to learn, and education
Why did you choose to teach here in is also a way out of poverty. But we can
only get them to learn when they are
Auckland? I live locally and being in a local
here. We have a number of kids that are
school was very important for me. I wanted to away quite a lot. There’s also the social
not have to deal with the motorway. I didn’t side of things at home. That’s none of
really have a preference in terms of what our business, but it still needs to be dealt
school I taught at, but a lot of the schools out with by the government.
———
these ways are decile one so that’s where I am.
Do you think New Zealanders value
That’s what’s close. teachers enough?
No. It’s because of politics, plain and
simple. It’s a good vote winner to slam
“You get more money and teachers, or at least it used to be. In
looked after a lot better my time as a principal, I have always
found it easier to work under a Labour
[overseas] than you get government than under a National
looked after here.” government. There is a diference
working under those two. I think Labour
values teachers more. I’m not saying
Has it been diicult to ind good quality that there aren’t any holes in what they
Why do you think there’s a teacher
teachers? do too. But when you have Nikki Kaye
shortage in Auckland? I think it’s because Impossible. saying these mobile apps are going
people are moving out of Auckland, just ——— to reduce teacher workload, we as
because things are so expensive. I also wonder Why do you think that is? teachers laugh. Because it’s not. Because
if people are leaving the profession, they To start of, it’s the expense of living in they still have to do everything to get
Auckland. It’s not an easy task teaching that information. I had a teacher that
might be teaching elsewhere – I know a few
in a school like this. Even though we was here nine years ago after returning
people teaching overseas, teaching English in might ind some really great teachers, from overseas. She walked out after
Korea or whatever. You get more money and some of the kids are not exactly easy to six weeks. She said, “I can’t do this, the
looked after a lot better [overseas] than you teach. We’re not talking about the whole workload is horrendous.” We’re here to
get looked after here. lot of them, but we’re talking about a teach, not here to do paperwork.
higher percentage than you would ind ———
at, say, Remuera Primary School. [This Why do teachers seem to prefer to
What would make it easier for you as a is] because of their socio-economic work at higher decile schools?
teacher?%\GHÀQLWLRQZH·UHKHUHWRWHDFK backgrounds, and the efects of poverty. It’s easier. Any teacher that teaches
– not to babysit and manage behaviour. ——— well there, will teach well anywhere,
I understand we have to manage some So this school almost requires because you don’t have the behavioural
specialised staff? issues to the same degree. Decile ratings
behaviour, but the level of behaviour in a
We have a number of students coming are going – they were a determinant
decile one can be pretty horrendous in terms in below, if I can use the term, National of how much money a school had, and
of some of the stuff you have to deal with. Standards. Their oracy levels are that of unfortunately people began to use them
a three or four year old. That means we to judge what a school’s like. We’ve got
Are teachers valued enough in New have to accelerate their learning. So they some of the best teachers you could
have to learn more than a year’s [worth get, but that’s not seen because of the
Zealand? I don’t know. Part of me says
of knowledge] per year. That requires fact that we’re a decile one school.
no, because I don’t think people actually top-quality teachers. My concern with whatever is going to
understand how hard it is and what teachers ——— replace it is, are we going to get that
have to deal with and the workload. I thought What changes would you like to see in equity still? What sort of funding are
it was cruisy as. I thought, you get holidays the education sector? we going to get? How is it going to be
Lower class [size] ratios for lower socio- determined? It’s attracting good quality
and how hard is it really to teach kids? It
economic schools. There should be an teachers into south Auckland, that’s the
seemed like a dream cruisy job. But when you index which says that if you are teaching hard bit. We as principals have been
get here, you spend your holidays planning in a low-decile school, you get X number aware that there was a shortage coming
and if you want to go away on holiday, it’s of dollars more. Currently [teachers for a while, and nothing has been done.
more expensive. If a teacher makes a wrong at] hard to staf schools are given Of course, some teachers don’t want to
$1500 more a year. That’s a pittance in live in south Auckland because it’s got a
choice, the media treats it as though all
Auckland. I would say that needs to rise bit of a name, [but] it’s a false name.
teachers are like that.

Elise Thorpe
Teaches Year One and Two. Has worked for ive
years at Cosgrove Primary.
Why did you choose to teach in Auckland?

I live locally so I thought I’d give back to my
community and the area that I live in. My
family’s all here, so I guess there wasn’t much
thought of going elsewhere. Fortunately I was
able to buy a house before the madness began.
“We have to be a lot of

other things before we
can do the teaching.”
What has it been like being a teacher in

Auckland?,·YHIRXQGLWÀQH,QÀYHWR
years, I’ll probably move out of Auckland –
to be able to save. I can earn the same amount
of money teaching wherever I am, so that
LVGHÀQLWHO\VRPHWKLQJ,ZLOOORRNDWLQWKH Above Motu Asomua says people don’t see the amount of work teachers do.
future.
Do you think New Zealanders value Motu Asomua Do you think that teachers are valued
Teaches Years Three and Four. Has taught for 10
teachers enough? I think there’s a lot of enough by the majority of New
years at Cosgrove Primary.
pressure put on teachers to perform and get Zealanders? No. People don’t see the
children to where they need to be. Sometimes Why did you choose to teach in Auckland? amount of work we do. They don’t see the
I think the powers that be don’t realise that I was born here. I went to school down the effects of our workload on our families
there’s a whole lot of other factors that road from here. My family all lives here. In and friends. People think we’re just big
actually affect our day-to-day job. At a school fact, two of my sons have been through this babysitters, not realising what we have to do
like this, we’re not just a teacher. We have to school. RQDGDLO\EDVLV,ZDVDFWXDOO\ÀJXULQJLWRXW
be a lot of other things before we can do the the other day: on average, any of the children
teaching. They see National Standards as What has your experience been like in my class can spend more time with me
where kids should be, yet for a lot of our kids, teaching here in Auckland? Good. I like it. every week than they would with their own
it’s not that they have not progressed, it’s that My children are always nearby. I’m a local so it’s parents. That gives you some insight into
they started way down the ladder. really convenient for me to travel to work, too. what our jobs really entail.

Julie Swale
Teaches Year One and Two. Has worked for six years
at Cosgrove Primary.
Why did you choose to teach in Auckland?

My children moved and started university
here, so I’ve been here ever since.
Have you always taught? No, this is my

second career. I was a nurse before I was a
teacher. I’ve been teaching for about 14 or
15 years.
What has it been like being a teacher in

Auckland? It’s not an easy job. It’s always
had a certain amount of stress. I’ve always
taught in low-decile schools by choice,
because that’s where I think I can do the most
good. In terms of support, you can always
do with more support, always. You end up
making up your own strategies to work with
the children and get over their behavioural
Above Tamara Thornton-Butler says the shortage is because young teachers get turned of by the workload. issues. We’ve got to be part social worker, part
mum, part dad, part everything in terms of
family. We have to teach more than just their
Tamara Thornton-Butler and it throws them off teaching. It’s also ABCs. It’s teaching health. It’s teaching how
Relief Teacher. Has worked for seven years at
UHDOO\GLIÀFXOWWRUHHQWHUWKHSURIHVVLRQ$V to get along with one another, how to be a
Cosgrove Primary.
it stands, all teachers wanting to return must friend. Life skills, lots and lots of life skills.
Why did you choose to teach in Auckland? jump through numerous hoops as well as
I came here because of my husband’s work. paying a lot of money! Do you think New Zealanders value
teachers enough? It would be kind of nice if
Why do you think there’s currently Are teachers valued enough in New we got recognition for the specialist job that
a shortage of teachers in Auckland? Zealand? I’m not sure about teachers, but we do. I don’t think we’re recognised enough
Because young teachers don’t realise what education is valued in some pockets of society. for the hours we have to do. There’s some
the workload is like. They go to university crazy thought out there that we only work
and expect to be able to teach straight away. What changes need to be made? We need from 9am to 3pm. I will probably take an
They haven’t had enough interaction with more houses. Steps need to be made to hour or two worth of work home each night,
children, which is vital. They’re ill-prepared reduce the cost of living in Auckland. and I work one day of my weekends. ●

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AG E NDA
My Auckland
Janine Russell (aka J9) roams
from Mount Albert to Avondale
Markets, Silo Park and beyond. 4
1. It wouldn’t be My Auckland without a mention of my cat Mow

Mow (pronounced Mao Mao). Not long after I moved into my house,
she showed up in the garden, extremely skinny, very scared and
hungry. I started feeding her and now she shows her gratitude by
constantly death staring at me at every given opportunity. She wears 5
the pants in our relationship. The moves I pull to get out of my bed
each morning so as not to disturb her precious sleeping self would
impress even the most supple contortionists.
———
2. On a summer weekend, I like to get up early, pack my tiny
chillybin with snacks and beverages and head to Point Chev Beach
to ind a good spot before the rest of Auckland arrives.
———
3. This is me! *Waves* Hi!
———
4. It’s become a Sunday morning ritual to visit the Avondale Market
and stock up on veges. All you need is a friendly smile, a handful
of gold coins and maybe some patience for shuffling, as the aisles
can get quite busy. It’s worth wandering to see what else is on ofer;
stallholders have everything from carpet to pushbikes, lawnmowers,
bric-a-brac and watches. Pictured are bitter melons, which I haven’t
yet cooked with, but I have some recipes to try out now.
———
5. I love the annual Silo Park Cinema. We usually grab a ridiculously
oversized beanbag, a couple of blankets, and head down early to get
a good viewing spot. They’ve recently released their 2018 schedule –
nothing is going to stop me from attending the Labyrinth screening!
6
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6. A few years ago, I enrolled in a ceramics class, and I fell head over
heels in love with the process. So much so I lew to Greece to take
part in a nine-day intensive pottery course. Fast-forward a year of
saving and I inally own my own wheel. It’s not a very tidy hobby,
especially for a Virgo. This is the “before” photo – taken the day I
purchased my wheel, brought her home and set up my pottery nook!
———
7. A very lazy wander down the hill from my house lays the sprawling
Western Springs Stadium and Park. It’s home to many an event
including Auckland City Limits, which I have the pleasure of being
involved with.
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8. When I was younger and far more adventurous, I’d go on treasure
hunts to ind graiti all around Auckland. I’d take my ilm camera,
and create artwork with the developed photos. This particular mural
by Owen Dippie and Hipara August is near my gym in Morningside.
I love how our city has embraced street art, but I still think there’s
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