by Shirley Forde
It is a joke to those that live here as well as to the wider Auckland community. It is a village that has a garage – with no petrol; a pub – with no beer; a railway and roads but no public transport; electricity that often fails through overhead wires being attacked by wind and trees; no water reticulation and a village that is prone to flooding and all of this as part of the Auckland Super City. Yet, it is a place with a long and proud history from early Maori settlement, through the days of the pioneering settlers to the present, and still has a few monuments to the past.
Now is your chance to change that negative image.
Following a grant from the Super City Council, Residents and Ratepayers Association chairman Ralph Martin, and the KARRA committee is calling on everyone to participate in a survey that is calculated to gauge your views on everything from the Structure Plan through heritage, natural values and even on drainage.
Conducted by local landscape designers Geraldine Bayly and Renee Davies you are invited to attend a “drop in” on Sunday 19th February from 8:30 a.m. until 1:00 p.m. at the Kaukapakapa Hall on Market Day.
Please come and make your views heard and help make this a place we can all be proud of and happy to live in. If you can’t be there, pick up a form from the petrol-less garage shop.
Sunday, 19th February from 8:30 a.m. to l:00 p.m. at the Kaukapakapa Hall on Market Day – PUT A RING AROUND IT.
Now is your chance to change the face of your village from one that is the butt of many a joke about pubs with no beer and garages with no petrol.
Following a grant from the Super City Council and under the direction of KARRA local landscape architects Geraldine Bayly and Renee Davies will be at the Hall to hear your views and take note of your comments, so take the opportunity to be heard.
If you can’t be there, pick up one of the forms from the petrol-less garage shop.
