Massey Birdwood Settlers

Representing Massey Residents and Ratepayers

Massey Birdwood Settlers Association

The Massey & Birdwood Settlers Association always welcomes new members.

As a resident and ratepayer group we represent the views of the community to the local Council and Government, ensuring adequate resources are spent in the community that will benefit the whole community.

We have been doing this since 1925.

90th Annual General Meeting – Massey Birdwood Settlers Association Inc

By

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

By

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

By

Press Release

8 September 2015

John Riddell points out the gum diggers on the mural at the launch of Paint NZ BeautifulFollowing 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.

– ENDS –

Interesting story

By

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

Council employee caught outSo 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.

Len_Brown.jpgThis 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.