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By Robert JohnsonLife is a lot easier for a Churton Park family, thanks to a huge

community effort and a new four-legged addition to the family.The Isaac’s welcomed Mahe—a black Labrador assistance

dog—to the family just six weeks ago to help 7-year-old James, who has autism.

The family decided last year they would begin fundraising for an assistance dog, which costs around $20,000, and sent emails to family and friends in New Zealand and overseas as well as setting up a Facebook and fundraise online page.

Michelle Isaac, James’ mother, says the response was fantastic.Continued on page 2.

Pictured: Michelle Isaac and her autistic son James play with James' new assistance dog, Mahe.

Four legged friend arrives in time for Christmas

Continued from page 1.By Robert Johnson

“It just went bananas. So many people from the community in John-sonville and Churton Park started donating and leaving messages of support. Within just fi ve weeks we had fundraised the $20,000 needed to get Mahe.”

She says Mahe has completely changed the family dynamic with regards to what they can do.

“Most people wouldn’t realise the restrictions we had previously. We would avoid things like picnics and going to the zoo as it was a real chal-lenge to keep a close watch on James all the time,” she says.

“With Mahe, James has increased safety when we go out and sits there really patiently. It’s like Mahe has a neutral force on him. I also have free-hands to do things a little easier.”

Since Mahe has joined the family, James has enjoyed trips to the super-market, walking to school and a trip

to the zoo—things that were almost impossible just a few months ago.

Mahe’s job as an assistance dog in-volves him wearing a harness, which has a lead for Michelle to hold onto and a clip for James which connects to a belt he wears.

Mahe has also been trained to resist force so he can keep James safe when they are out and about.

Local business have also helped the cause, with Hill Science donat-ing a large amount of dog food and the Animal Medical Centre in Johnsonville providing free check-ups for Mahe.

“The support has been in-credible. We were just about in tears every night seeing people’s donations and mes-sages,” says Michelle. “With Mahe, we can be more active as a family and enjoy things like our Christmas holiday.”

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Mahe’s job as an assistance dog in-volves him wearing a harness, which has a lead for Michelle to hold onto and a clip for James which connects

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Local business have also helped the cause, with Hill Science donat-ing a large amount of dog food and the Animal Medical Centre in Johnsonville providing free check-ups for Mahe.

“The support has been in-credible. We were just about in tears every night seeing people’s donations and mes-sages,” says Michelle. “With Mahe, we can be more active as a family and enjoy things like our Christmas holiday.”

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By Dave CramptonIf you have ever paid for

coupon parking time you do not use, or have been stuck in a city meeting while the meter is ticking over, things are looking up if you have a smartphone.

A paper ticket is not required, and there is no need for coins or a card - all you need is your smartphone installed with an app.

Two weeks ago the Welling-ton City Council partnered with local company phone2park and launched a free smartphone app after signing an agreement with Parking Solutions, who own phone2park, to provide mobile phones services in 2011.

To use phone2park, motorists

will need to provide a mobile number and car registration details, and activate their ac-count by making an internet banking or credit card deposit.

Alan Geddie, the manag-ing director of Parking Solu-tions, says motorists are sent a barcode to display on their car’s windscreen, so parking wardens will know when to issue tickets if the parking time has expired.

About 50 a week are down-loading the app, with just two getting tickets for not display-ing a barcode.

“Most people have smart-phones - and current users can just switch over to the app.”

Mr Geddie says the app is

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“It’s easier to use, it’s quicker to use, and it’s cheaper to use – it’s cheaper for us and cheaper for the customer.”

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Katrina Shanks, National List MP based in Ohariu, announced on Tuesday that she will not be returning to Parliament in 2014.

“I have decided to take up other op-portunities in 2014 and have accepted the role as chief executive of the Funeral Directors Association of New Zealand,” Katrina Shanks said.

“The funeral services sector is facing change – legislative, demographic, and societal, and the association and its members need to be in front of this change. I look forward to the opportuni-ties and challenges the sector has to face.

“I wish the National Party all the best in the 2014 election and consider it to have been a privilege to have served as a Member of Parliament in a John Key-led Government.

“I am looking forward to my new role and spending more time being closer to my young family.”

Nearly ten years of war against weeds in a gully near Otari-Wilton’s Bush has resulted in a national conservation award thanks to the work of two locals.

Wilbur and Liz Dovey are members of the Otari Wil-ton’s Bush Trust and have coordinated the volunteers who work in the gully for the past six years.

Their work has just been recognised with a New Zealand Plant Conserva-tion Network Award after Otari Wilton’s Bush Man-ager Rewi Elliot nominated them for it.

“Planting is the glam-orous part of restoration work—it is by no means the end of the task.”

For nearly ten years, the City Council, Greater Wel-lington Regional Coun-cil and the trust cleared and replanted the 20 hectare gully in a part-nership known as Project Kaiwharawhara.

Once the weeds were cleared, more than 20,000 native seedlings were planted.

Despite the project be-ing scaled back in 2007, Wilbur and Liz, along with their team, continued the battle against weeds, clear-ing areas around young plants, filling gaps and controlling gorse, broom and blackberry.

Wilbur says the group gathers for work on the fi rst

Saturday of each month, with up to 14 volunteers offering a helping hand.

“They’re mostly retired but range in age from 16 up to their late 70s. We have a lot of fun.”

Wilbur Dovey, (wearing cream jersey) who with his wife Liz (not in picture) lead an Otari Wilton's Bush plant restoration group keeping the Kaiwharawhara Stream gully clear of weeds as part of a restoration project. PHOTO CREDIT MARK COOTE

By Robert JohnsonConcerns around the safety

of Raroa Station have been raised by a concerned local who noticed rust on the handrail connectors at the busy station.

The man, who lives in Johnsonville but does not wish to be named, says he noticed the rust a while ago when he went for his normal walk past the station.

“I saw the rust on the bits that connect the handrail and fence on the bridge. You can see where they have galva-nised it but when you tap it with your fi nger it crumbles straight through,” he says.

“It doesn’t look too safe to me at the moment.”

A Greater Wellington Regional Council spokes-woman says they have been aware of the corrosion since October last year when an engineer’s assessment identi-fi ed it as a moderate defect

and recommended that work be carried out within one to three years.

“The structures at stations are inspected every year and if anything is of concern, we arrange for a fuller investiga-tion.”

She also says while the pictures of the rust, supplied by the Independent Herald, look alarming and leave no doubt the posts need to be repaired, it does not pose an immediate risk to the handrail.

“We are currently tender-ing for repair work to the Raroa Station Bridge, in-cluding the handrail you’ve photographed. The work will be done within the next six months.”

This planned work comes just weeks after the Re-gional Council’s decision to close the Kaiwharawhara Station due to rust on the over bridge.

Get your singing voice ready

This Sunday, Johnsonville’s fi rst Carols by Candlelight event will be held at Onslow College’s bottom fi eld.

The event will begin at 6:30pm with a variety of stalls and activities to en-tertain people until the carols begin at 8pm—glowsticks will be provided to those who want them or have not brought along their own candles.

The event is free and should be fi nished by around 9:30pm.

Donating this Christmas

Countdown supermarkets in Wel-lington have launched a Food Rescue Appeal with the Salvation Army, calling for food donations to help feed 17,000 families in need this Christmas.

Throughout December, food items can be placed in specially-marked Food Rescue trolleys at Countdown stores in the region.

Stores will feature ‘Donate this prod-uct’ signs in store to highlight those items most needed by the Salvation Army as well as dressed-up trolleys to encourage donations.

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A handrail connector at the Raroa Rail Bridge which has rusted right through.

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By Robert JohnsonAround 50 children at Raroa

Intermediate have given children in Fiji some special Christmas gifts to look forward to this year.

Students from two classrooms at the school created their own books, including self-written stories and their own illustra-tions which will be sent to an Early Childhood Education Centre in Suva.

Raroa Intermediate teacher Connie Williams says the pro-ject tied in well with the Term three enquiry - doing something meaningful in the global com-munity.

“Save the Children’s New Zealand Programmes Manager Mercy Jumo spent a morning with the students and it quickly became apparent that children

in Fiji are not as privileged as many of us and don’t have the same learning resources. It was at that point in time we decided we would create picture books for the centre in Suva.”

Connie says the students re-searched the people, culture and places in Fiji as part of the project to ensure the children receiving the books could relate to the stories.

Student Tia Nelson says it took “a couple of days” to write her story, Cynthia’s fi rst rainbow, and another week to draw the pictures.

Lokyee Szeto says seeing the project come together was the best part.

“Knowing that kids in Fiji are going to read it is cool. I learned a lot about Fiji too, I even gave

the main character a Fijian name.”

Save the Children Chief Ex-ecutive Heather Hayden says seeing this kind of giving from such a young age is very special.

“It is quite fi tting that today (Friday) is International Volun-teer Day. New Zealand is such an open-hearted nation and seeing the children get involved at this age is wonderful. Who knows what the stories will inspire in those kids in Fiji? They could be giving a book to a future leader of the country.”

The students also drafted let-ters to local businesses to ask for their support with postage to Fiji, with Jamie Williams of the Williams Pub Company offering to pay the full amount for postage.

A special gift for Fiji

By Robert JohnsonPeople doing their shopping at the

Johnsonville Shopping Centre this month can save themselves some time and support youth development at the same time.

From tomorrow, for a gold coin donation, shoppers can have their Christmas gifts wrapped by workers from local youth charity Chal-lenge2000.

The organisation, who celebrated it’s 25th anniversary last weekend, will put the funds raised back into their youth development agency, Challenge 2000 worker John Gre-vatt says.

“We work with youth and their families in the Greater Welling-ton region and put on holiday programmes, camps and sports groups.”

DNZ Property Fund Retail Asset Manager Gerard Earl says the deci-sion to give the wrapping duties to Challenge 2000 was a great way to give back to the community.

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“It’s a fantastic time of year to give back and it’s nice to support an agency that has been in the community for so long and is widely valued.”

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Pictured: DNZ Property Fund's Retail Asset Manager Gerard Earl with Challenge 2000 workers Anna Hoskins, Jeff rey Reuelu and John Grevatt, who will be off ering their wrapping skills this Christmas.

Students from Raroa Intermediate in Johnsonville show off the books they created to send to an early childhood education centre in Fiji.

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By Dave CramptonAbout 220 Tawa College Year

10 students traded their pens and calculators for safety glasses, weed- eaters and water blasters to do some community service last week.

Groups of students went to 59 different homes around Tawa to give them a spruce up.

It was compulsory service; the only way to get out of it was to pull a sickie.

“We didn’t want to do it, but it helps the community,” Jerry Henry-Finch says.

Hiren Mani, who gave the weed-eater a good thrashing, thought the experience would be pretty boring, but appreciated the op-portunity to help those in need.

“It’s pretty fun – it’s better than

sitting around at home doing nothing,” he says.

Teachers were on hand to pro-vide guidance and encourage-ment, with some teachers seen weeding and water blasting while their students stood and watched.

Maths teacher Malcolm Brad-shaw says it was good to see the students in a non-classroom setting, even if some students required more encouragement than others to get their hands dirty or wet.

“Some kids get right into it but others stand off and do as little as they can,” Mr Bradshaw said.

Graham Ellett, who lives not far from Tawa College, says he found out about the community service opportunity through a letterbox drop two years ago. He

responded, got a bit of work done and was rung this year.

Last week he got his car cleaned, some weeding done and sections of his house water blasted.

He says the students worked well.

“I`m most impressed, they did a really good job, they got stuck in. It’s really handy.”

Co-ordinating teacher Alex Geary said it was the sixth year that Year 10 student had done community work and this year most of the planned work got done.

“The kids worked really hard, I was really happy with it overall.”

He said many of the students had not done too much manual labouring. “It was quite a good learning experience for them”.

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By Dave CramptonThe Johnsonville Christmas Pa-

rade may have been cancelled this year, but the weather was better on Thursday morning for Johnsonville Plunket’s Christmas party.

The free event was held at the Johnsonville Community Centre, and had a DJ with a lighting rig playing everything from Michael Jackson to children’s songs such as ‘Heads, Shoulders, Knees and Toes’, sung to the tune of the tradi-tional folksong ‘There’s a Tavern in the Town’.

Admittedly, it was the caregivers

who did most of the dancing. The littlies were happy running

around playing with balloons – as well as getting their faces painted and fi lling their mouths with food.

Some caregivers have been at-tending multiple Christmas parties with children for some years. Eugene Dickson-Brown says they get better each year and are good demonstrations of community spirit.

“I just like the way the commu-nity gets together - there’s always someone you know,” she says.

The DJ, Carl Johnstone, took half

a day off work to volunteer his time through his association with the local BNZ, a Plunket sponsor.

“It was great, there should be more of these – and adults love it,” he says.

Santa also showed up much to the children’s delight.

Johnsonville Plunket’s president, Jodine Lee, says the parties have been going for at least eight years and are a great success - and this year’s one was no exception.

“I thought it was awesome. Kids got up and danced – they just love music,” she says.

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Pictured above: Plunket's Christmas party had everything, from music to face-painting.

Pictured right: DJ Carl Johnstone, from Johnsonville, provides the music at Plunket’s Christmas Party.

The lower fi eld at Alex Moore Park will be out of action for sport and training this summer while a new synthetic grass surface is laid.

The Wellington City Council is spending around $2.3 mil-lion on the upgrade, which also includes car parking and paths. The Charles Plimmer Bequest has contributed $380,000 to-wards the landscaping.

Councillor Paul Eagle, Chair of the Council’s Community, Sport and Recreation Com-mittee, says the project will provide the catalyst for a strong and resilient future for the many local sporting codes.

“The new surface is great news - those playing sport will now have a total of seven sports fi elds in the city to play on that boast artifi cial turf," he says.

The work also includes a car park on Broderick Road, training lights and new seat-

ing. A pathway around the other the fi elds will allow for recreation and easy access and will include planting, seating and stairs.

Deputy Mayor Justin Lester, a Johnsonville resident who regularly plays football at the park, says the installation of the artifi cial turf will revolu-tionise sport in the Wellington region, meaning sportspeople can get to play all year round, in all weathers.

"It is the fi rst to be the rolled out in the northern suburbs and it’s important that we see equal access to the turfs across the city."

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• safe and peaceful surroundings

• an easy to maintain home, so you can

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• an active and independent lifestyle

• preferential access into Huntleigh Home.

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Karori

Next open home: Thursday 12th December, 10am-11am

We look forward to seeing you there!

For more information call us on (04) 4394949

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Question: What has been the best Christmas present you’ve received?

readers have their say... Find out the WORD on the Street.

Jan TaylorKhandallahWhen I was younger and studying I got two cubes of bath salts from my brother. It was quite funny as he had to send it by post to Dunedin.

J RyanPetoneEvery gift is happily received. It doesn’t matter what you get, it’s all about the love of the giver.

Kirk Beyer JohnsonvilleTime with family. It’s great because it lasts longer than any present.

Jan Pike JohnsonvilleMy grandson who was born on December 23. He’s about to turn two and was a great little present.

Jen Coleman PlimmertonVouchers from my children to help out with chores etc during the day.

James CurrieNelson

Socks and undies. Being a student it’s a pretty good gift to get.

James Currie J RyanJ RyanKhandallahJan TaylorKhandallah Plimmerton

Jen Coleman JohnsonvilleJan Pike Johnsonville Johnsonville

Kirk Beyer Johnsonville

Christmas is well and truly in the air at Enliven’s Huntleigh Home in Karori.

Residents have been getting crafty and decorating the home ready for the festivities.

Many of the residents have hand painted their own Christmas decoration to add to the tree, and other have painted

festive pictures for the walls.“The home is looking wonderful,”

says Recreation Offi cer, Gwen Esler. “All of the decorations are up, and the residents are looking forward to the Christmas celebrations.

Celebrating important events is a key part of the Enliven Positive Ageing

philosophy, which works to ensure that people feel engaged, valued and happy.

To fi nd out more about the services available at Huntleigh Home, call the home directly on (04) 464 2020, or email [email protected]

Decking the halls at Huntleigh Home

LEFT: Resident Rosemary decorates the Huntleigh Home tree.

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9Wednesday December 11 2013OUT & ABOUT

Pictured right: Sharing a four-year-olds Festive Season giggle: (Lt to Rt) - Olivia Leighton, Ella Turner, teacher and 'elf-for-the-day', Alex Craven, Scarlett Inder and Mackenzie Pevreal >>

Abbey Kemp (3) Santa, Kate Howard (4), the Christmas Fairy (and ex Khandallah Kindergarten pupil), Katie Kemp and Phoebe Kemp (2) enjoy their treats from Santa's sack

By Rachel BinningKhandallah Park provided

a wonderful backdrop to the annual Khandallah Kinder-garten Christmas in the Park that was organised by the Kindergarten committee.

Colourful picnic family rugs covered in an array of food on the grass showed that summer is indeed on the way.

Parents, teachers and chil-dren alike had a wonderful time together.

The sing-along performanc-es by the children, as well as a surprise visit by Santa and his fairy, were highlights for everyone.

Asked what message of goodwill Khandallah Kin-dergarten wanted to give to Independent Herald readers, they said – “we wish everyone a Merry Christmas and a safe and relaxing summer break”.

Sharing a special moment: Kate Howard (4) collects her Christmas treat from Santa

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Celebrating the FESTIVE season This year's Tawa Christmas Parade is primed and ready to go this Saturday with a number of fl oats waiting in anticipation.The parade will commence at 2pm from Oxford Street, where it will continue on to Main Road, through the shopping centre and on to Surrey Street.Traffi c will be diverted through Tawa, Duncan and McLennan Streets during the parade until around 2:45pm

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12 Wednesday December 11 2013 OUT & ABOUT

By Rachel BinningThe weather did not

dampen the resolve to raise funds for Save the Children at the annual fundraising event held at the British High Commission last Saturday, where over $17,000 was raised.

All things British were out on display - performances by the Morris Dancers, the Duke of Wellington, live music, beautiful old and new British cars as well as everyone's favourite, no mat-ter what nationality, Santa and his helper.

Save the Children CEO Heather Hayden explained

that funds raised from this event would help towards services for children effected by the Philippines Typhoon Haiyan Emergency.

With the festive season approaching, it is a good time to remind ourselves how fortunate we are in New Zealand and to think what a massive effort it will be to get the people effected by such a huge catastrophe to regain some sense of normality that they had prior to the typhoon.

To help by donating ei-ther call 0800 167 168 or go to savethechildren.org.nz

A royal Christmas fundraiser

Sue Clothier (Wellington President of Save the Children), MC for the day, Murray Potts holding his delighted grandson, Levi Hall (11 months), and Heather Hayden (CEO of Save the Children New Zealand)

Inspirational high grace: Emily Gare (15) of the Wellington Circus Trust prepares to entertain the crowd. PHOTOS SUPPLIED BY BELLA PHOTOGRAPHY

Even the 'nobles' were there: His Grace the Duke of Wellington (aka Anthony Catford) and his lovely companion, Lucy Dickworth, add a bit of regalness to the proceedings at the British High Commission.

Good traditional British entertainment: The Morris Dancers of Wellington - the ladies being known as 'White Rose' and the gentlemen being known as 'Bedlam Gentlemen'

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By Dave CramptonOhariu MP Peter Dunne says he was

improperly pressured to resign as a minister after refusing to release e-mails to the Henry Inquiry earlier this year - and is seeking reinstatement.

On December 3, Parliament's Privileges Committee reported back on its investiga-tion, fi nding that the Henry Inquiry had no formal powers to demand private information of Mr Dunne.

Mr Dunne resigned after refusing to release e-mails between him and Fairfax journalist Andrea Vance prior to an article Ms Vance wrote about the main fi ndings of the Kitteridge report which revealed potentially illegal spying by the GCSB.

The e-mails were extracted by the Parliamentary Service with the intention of fi ltering out Mr Dunne’s emails if his approval was not secured.

Instead, Mr Dunne’s e-mails were given to the inquiry, and he resigned – or as he says, “punished for doing the right thing”.

“The pressure which led me to resign as a Minister, for failing to comply with the Inquiry’s improper demands, was both unfortunate and a hurried over-reaction,”

Dunne welcomes Privileges fi ndings

The new fi ve kilometre walking and cycling track linking Tawa and Porirua is in its fi nal stages of development and should be fi nished by March next year.

The shared path, called Tawa Valley Pathway- Ara Tawa, provides an off-road route between Kenepuru Railway Station and Willowbank Park at the south end of Tawa.

Mayor Celia Wade-Brown says the Tawa shared path is the fi rst of Wellington’s strategic routes to be developed.

“This project is a terrifi c example of the Tawa community coming to Council with an idea, which we developed under our 2008 cycling policy and boosted with the increase in funding in 2010. The shared path’s completion will encourage more people to walk and cycle in their neighbourhoods.”

Councillor Andy Foster, who chairs the council’s transport and urban development committee, is pleased to see the $4.2 mil-lion project nearing completion.

“It is great to see people using and enjoy-

ing the completed parts of the pathway and new connections. This is the fi rst major walking and cycling path in Wellington and will have lasting transport, health and safety benefi ts for the Tawa community.”

He says the pathway is two-thirds com-plete with work on the fi nal stretch from Redwood Station south under way.

Porirua City Council are set to follow suit with plans to link their existing streamside walkway-cycleway into the northern end of Ara Tawa, opening up further connec-tions to the north.

The pathway, which was developed in partnership with the local community’s Tawa Porirua Stream Walkway Commit-tee, follows the Porirua Stream through Tawa and provides links across the valley to local schools, recreational areas and the shopping centre.

The path between Redwood Station and Willowbank Park should be completed before Christmas, while a new bridge to cross the stream in Willowbank Park should be completed in March.

Mr Dunne says.“I was told to comply with something

and now I am told I shouldn’t have had to. On the basis of the Privileges Com-mittee’s fi ndings it is now clear that I was entirely within my rights to decline access to my emails.”

Mr Dunne is now seeking reinstatement as a minister.

“If this was an employment issue, I`d have a strong case for reinstatement – but that’s for the Prime Minister to resolve.”

He also says the Henry Inquiry showed a complete indifference to protecting personal privacy.

“It carried out its work with the fi nesse of a bull in a china shop, so I am naturally delighted that the Privileges Committee has held it and the Parliamentary Service to account for their manifest failings.”

The Inquiry was set up by Prime Minis-ter John Key after a privileges complaint laid with Parliament’s Speaker by Green party co-leader Dr Russel Norman.

Tawa pathway nears completion

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shared walkway by Redwood Station. The

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Dear editor,Pooh Bear (AA Milne) with grey

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His modern equivalent threw riverstones across Middleton Road on Saturday afternoon, December 7, causing problems for motorists, cyclists and also the people with the wide berm across the road.

Where/ when do these people learn about citizenship and caring for others?

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Reported offences in the past week involved only 3 of the 8 suburbs we cover.

There were two burglaries in Johnsonville.

In Cortina Avenue, a broken glass panel in the back door allowed the burglar to reach in and unlock the door.

A messy search was made inside the house and a quantity of elec-tronic and sports equipment as well as food and alcohol were taken.

The other occurred in Tarawera Road where a weedeater and a lawnmower were taken from a locked shed.

Items of clothing were taken from the house. It is understood that some of the stolen items have been located.

All other reported offences relate to vehicles.

A Mazda Demio parked over-night in Moorefi eld Road had the front driver’s side window smashed and a dent made in a front door panel.

A Ford hatchback parked over-night in Monowai Road suffered a smashed rear passenger window but no entry gained.

In Churton Park, a white Mazda parked in Claverton Grove was stolen It was later located in the Tawatawa Reserve carpark.

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It was later discovered that the tyres of a car parked on the prop-erty had been defl ated.

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19Wednesday December 11 2013SPORT

By Robert JohnsonThe Christmas break will be so much

sweeter for Raroa Intermediate’s boy’s cricket team now that they have the words ‘national champions’ next to their names.

The team emerged victorious at last week’s New Zealand Intermediate Schools Cricket Competition held in Palmerston North.

The T20 tournament, held over three days, included six teams, each representing a different region following regional play-offs earlier in the year.

Raroa won three out of their four round-robin games, only losing to Tauranga, and took the winner’s trophy thanks to a superior run-rate over Canterbury side Heaton Normal Intermediate.

Coach Shane Lavery says it was cool to take top honours and bring the trophy back to the school as they did in 2010.

“I think we had a really good all-round team, everyone made a contribution in some form.”

Raroa did it the hard way in their fi nal match of the tournament against Heaton, who were unbeaten at that point, and looked set to fi nish that way after Raroa posted just 79 runs.

However, a strong bowling and fi elding effort from Raroa left Heaton needing fi ve runs off the fi nal ball.

That proved to be too much, with the bats-man getting out and sparking celebrations from Raroa.

Captain Sam Donaldson says the team was “stoked” to win the title and have the opportunity to play at a high-level tournament.

“It was a great experience and a great chance for our team to step up to the competition. We haven’t won in a long time so it’s pretty cool to say we have won a national title.”

Donaldson credits all-rounder Devan Vishvaka for his consistent bowling and batting throughout the tournament, fi nish-ing as Raroa’s top run scorer and their player of the tournament.

Lavery, who has coached Raroa cricket for eight years, hopes the win will put fi re in the belly for future teams.

“It’s awesome to have a bit of success to fi re-up the young ones coming into the side and give them a goal to aspire to. We try to outdo ourselves every year and make the most of it when we do. It’s well deserved.”

Raroa hits national competition for six

By Robert JohnsonLast weekend did not bode well for

the local cricket clubs, with both John-sonville and Onslow suffering heavy defeats.

Johnsonville Cricket Club has a hard task in Eastern Suburbs, who are the team to beat this season having won 10 of the last 12 Wellington cricket seasons.

Johnsonville did not hang around for long in the first innings after being dismissed for 92, with just two batsmen making it into double fi gures.

Eastern Suburbs bowler Lance Dry had yet another impressive outing with the ball, taking four wickets for just 15 runs off six overs.

Easts made easy work of the target, reaching 93 just one wicket down after 21 overs.

Batters Ben Orton and Lauchie Johns both fi nished not-out on scores of 27 and 26 respectively.

Johnsonville Cricket Club captain Rick Mudgway says the team was comprehensively outplayed by Eastern Suburbs but hoped the team learned

from the experience.“The outclassed us quite frankly but

a positive note was our overseas player, Roscoe Thattil, who arrived at 7am on Friday morning and batted and bowled really well. He should be a valuable asset to our side.”

Onslow Cricket Club was also on the wrong end of a hiding, bowled out by Wellington Collegians for just 72 in their chase for 142.

Onslow’s scorecard was almost identi-cal to Johnsonville’s, with just two bats-men again making it to double fi gures after Collegian’s bowler Tobias Wevers snared a fi ve-wicket-bag.

Taylor Pentecost saved Onslow a little bit of face with four wickets for 12 runs off seven overs but the result was never in doubt.

This weekend proves to be an exciting outing, with Onslow and Johnsonville coming together for a local derby.

Both sides will be determined to get their season back on track and claim bragging rights in the area leading into Christmas.

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