Notice is hereby given for the above meeting to be held in the Den, Massey Community Hall, corner Don Buck Road and Redhills Road, Massey on Thursday 29th October 2015 at 8.00pm to:
1. Approve the 2014/15 Annual Financial Statements
2. elect 2015/2016 Year Officers
3. Attend to General Business
John G Riddell
Secretary
Aikido coming to Massey Community Hall
An Aikido club will be starting at the hall on the Monday after the September school holidays.
The group has been going since 1974 and is affiliated to Japan who grant the grading’s for black belts.
Aikido is an art that follows a principle of peaceful resolution opposed to a violent out come. Aikido is not sport based but training for everyday life. Aikido is an effective system to control aggression and is used by the Japanese Riot police, law enforcement agencies around the world and many people around the world that use Aikido to benefit their lives.
Craig Andrew, a Massey resident has been studying Aikido since 1990 and is the Chief Instructor for New Zealand with a club on the North Shore and Wellington. Craig holds the rank of 7th degree instructor and will be running the classes on Monday nights.
To find out more about Aikido click on www.aikidoyuishinkai.org.nz
KNZB elects new chair and board
Press Release
8 September 2015
Following their AGM on Friday in Christchurch, Keep New Zealand Beautiful is excited to announce the appointment of John Riddell as the new chairperson of the KNZB board.
Mr Riddell became involved in the Keep Beautiful movement in 2006 as the Deputy Chair of the Massey Community Board in Auckland. Since then he has served as the Chair of the Community Board, and more recently retained his involvement in the Keep Beautiful movement as the Boards representative on Keep Waitakere Beautiful.
“I believe the Keep Beautiful movement has much to offer New Zealand and should be the largest environmental programme in NZ. The concept is apolitical, and provides hundreds and thousands of people with their first taste of practical environmental protection in the form of litter control,” says Mr Riddell.
In addition to the appointment of Mr Riddell as Chair, the following board was announced at the AGM held in Christchurch:
CHAIRPERSON
John Riddell
DEPUTY-CHAIR
Nelson Wu
ZONE REPRESENTATIVES:
John Riddell Zone 1 / Upper North Island
TBC Zone 2 / Central North Island
Heather Clark Zone 3 / Lower North Island
Alexandra Davids Zone 4 / Upper South Island
Jan Tucker Zone 5 / Lower South Island
BUSINESS REPRESENTATIVES:
Nelson Wu Silkfern Co Sec
Keep New Zealand Beautiful would like to extend a warm thank you to Rose Hiha-Agnew, our out-going Chair, for her commitment and passion for the organization.
For further information on Keep New Zealand Beautiful or to speak to any of our Board members, please contact KNZB Marketing Manager, Jodie Marinkovich, on [email protected] or 022 35 66334.
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Interesting story
Early morning ticket blitz
You may have seen the media coverage yesterday about the 27 people who woke up last week to tickets from Auckland Transport for parking on the kerb after a 2am blitz along Apahai and Tautari streets in Orakei.
I know the area well. My son flats on Tautari Street (he didn’t receive a ticket, though several of his flatmates did). Both streets are very narrow and if residents park on the street, it would be impossible to get any vehicles or emergency services past the parked vehicles. Parking on the curb has happened for years – it’s common sense – not that it matters to the Council.
Auckland Transport has tried to defend its actions. Apparently vehicles obstructing pedestrians using the footpaths are a big problem at 2 in the morning.
Yesterday I joined RadioLIVE’s Ali Mau and Willie Jackson to discuss the Council’s approach (click here for audio on demand).
Do as Council says – not as they do
So you will see that it came as no surprise today to learn that even the Council’s employees are parking on the kerb in the same area – only they don’t get a ticket. This afternoon the Herald published a photograph taken by an eagle-eyed resident of one of the Council’s very own cars parked half-on the footpath during the middle day.
This isn’t the first time photographic evidence of hypocrisy has been ignored. Auckland Transport refused to ticket Len Brown when he was snapped parking over a cycle lane last month. It’s time we had a Council culture that served ratepayers, not lorded over them with this sort of arrogance.
We’re backing those who got the tickets – and have launched a petition calling on the Council to either abandon it’s hard-nosed approach and cancel the 27 tickets.Please take a moment to sign the petition by clicking here.
With your support we’ll continue to hold Council to account.
Community Response Plan
Community Response Plan
The Christchurch earthquakes and more recently Cyclone Pam have reminded all New Zealanders how vulnerable we are in the face of a natural disaster. In recent years Auckland has been affected by a number of civil defence emergencies, including flooding, tornadoes and tsunami threats generated by earthquakes in Chile and Japan.
Auckland Council Civil Defence has the responsibility to help our communities prepare for, manage and recover from a disaster. We are working with people locally across Auckland to develop Neighbourhood and Community Response Plans that identify potential hazards and help you prepare to be self-reliant in the days following an emergency.
Civil Defence is working with the Massey / West Harbour community to develop its Community Response Plan (CRP). The purpose of the plan is to build community resilience to emergencies and disasters. The plan will identify the hazards that may impact the area and outline how the community will respond and remain self-reliant for at least three days without any external assistance in the event of an emergency.
If you live in the Massey or Westgate area and have an interest in helping other people, or you are especially talented in the areas of welfare support, radio communications or you are a well networked member of the community, or if you just want to know more of what the community response plan is about …contact Roslyn Prictor, Civil Defence Emergency Management Advisor [email protected]