Auckland Stories (RNZ)
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Auckland Story for 22 May 2013 - Halfway Down
First it was just a road; twenty years ago it became a song, now its art. Composer Don McGlashan's song 'Dominion Road' has become the subject of a piece of guerrilla art, halfway down Dominion Road. Nobody's letting on 'who done it', but the handsome brass plaque was secretly installed in the pavement outside 788 Dominion Road proclaiming "You are standing halfway down Dominion Road". The organisation in charge of Auckland's footpaths, Auckland Transport, has agreed it can stay. David...
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Auckland Story for 15 May 2013 - Harbour Clean Up
An Auckland Trust that's collected 25 million pieces of litter from the city's harbour and the Hauraki Gulf in a decade has launched a new boat this week.
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Auckland Story for 8 May 2013 - Greenways cycling
A organisation which is pushing for more cycleways in Auckland says almost half of all Aucklanders own a bike but few use them because it's just too dangerous.
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Auckland Story for 1 May 2013 - future population growth
Auckland's population is predicted to reach two-and-a-half million people by 2043. Where will everyone live?
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Auckland Story for 24 April 2013 - Refugees as Survivors
Afghan interpreters who worked with New Zealand defence force there have just moved into the Mangere Refugee Resettlement Centre with their families. The refugee children are being swamped with clothing and toys collected by an organisation called Refugees as Survivors New Zealand. Before the refugees arrived David Steemson went out to centre to take a look.
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Auckland Story for 17 April 2013 - Sealink
One of Auckland's oldest ferry companies wants to bring back car ferries between the city's North Shore and downtown. Sealink also proposes dramatically expanding Auckland's passenger ferry network to reduce peak time congestion.
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Auckland Story for 10 April 2013 - Samoan Master Carving
A Samoan master carver is finishing his work on the last of five poles to be centre stage at a new South Auckland preschool. Each has been uniquely carved with traditional designs of five Pacific islands.
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Auckland Story for 3 April 2013 - St Stephens
A push to re-open the doors to the Anglican Maori boarding school of St Stephens is gaining traction.
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Auckland Story for 27 March 2013 - Drought at Tawharunui
Dozens of native trees are dying at Auckland's Tawharunui Regional Park as a result of the big dry. Endangered kiwi and pateke (the New Zealand brown teal) are succumbing too.
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Auckland Story for 20 March 2013 - Baird's Mainfreight...
In 1993 the South Auckland freight company Mainfreight became a benefactor of Otara school Baird's Road Primary. Since then the company's given $750,000 to the school and its now bumping up its annual pledge.
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Auckland Story for 13 March 2013 - Maori Suicide...
Suicide rates amongst Maori in New Zealand are one-and-a-half times higher than for non-Maori. In an attempt to spread the suicide prevention message to Maori across the whole country, a series of online, hour-long, interactive seminars is being held. David Steemson has been finding out a bit more.
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Auckland Story for 27 February 2013 - Young Film Makers
Young Aucklanders have a unique way to comment on a huge Auckland council blueprint that'll shape the city for the next thirty years. The council wants them to make a movie about its giant Unitary Plan...
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Auckland Story for 13 February 2013 - Reroofing Highwic...
Highwic House has just had its 150th birthday and it's getting a new Welsh slate roof.
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Auckland Story for 30 January 2013 - HMS Orpheus
Next week marks 150 years since the sinking of the British Royal Navy corvette HMS Orpheus at the entrance to Auckland's Manukau Harbour. The Whatipu Orpheus Commemoration Committee has organised a public ceremony and wreath casting at Whatipu Beach from 11 o'clock next Thursday. Among the speakers will be naval historian Michael Wynd. Lisa Thompson recently met up with him at Torpedo Bay Navy Museum in Devonport.
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Auckland Story for 19 December 2012 - Mandolin Orchestra
New Zealand's only fully fledged mandolin orchestra has been playing to the Christmas crowds this week raising funds for the Auckland City Mission down at the Britomart Railway Station. The Mandolinata Orchestra was started by a Dutch woman here 35 years ago. David Steemson went to one of their last rehearsals of the year.
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Auckland Story for 12 December 2012 - Waikumete Cemetery
Waikumete cemetery in West Auckland is expected to reach burial capacity by about 2018 and a cemetery and reserve management plan for the next 10 years has been put out by Auckland Council for discussion.
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Auckland Story for 5 December 2012 - Auckland City Mojo
Central Auckland's controversial new "shared spaces" where cars and pedestrians have to share the street, are putting more money in the tills of businesses.
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Auckland Story for 28 November 2012 - Tamaki Intermediate
Tamaki Intermediate School closes its doors for good next month after 55 years teaching the kids from the predominantly state housing area, nowadays nearly all Pacifica and Maori children. From term one next year, all seven contributing primary schools in the area will keep their eleven and twelve-years-old, until they're ready for high school.
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Auckland Story for 21 November 2012 - ManaiaKalani...
An on-line education programme developed to accelerate kids' learning in some of Auckland's poorest suburbs is claiming runaway success. The ManaiaKalani programme provides every child over nine with a laptop, and soon the whole area of Glen Innes, Point England and Panmure will be covered by free WiFi.
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Auckland Story for 14 November 2012 - Monte Cecilia Trust
For the past three decades the Monte Cecilia Trust in Auckland has been providing emergency housing to families in need. To mark this anniversary, the Trust returns to where it all began - the Pah Homestead, which was home to the Trust for its first twenty years.
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Auckland Story for 7 November 2012 - Youth reoffending...
A trial programme developed by police to help young teenagers deal with their fledgling drug and alcohol problems in East Auckland will hopefully be extended, particularly to the South.
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Auckland Story for 31 October 2012 - Botanical Jubilee 75
The Auckland Botanical Society is marking its 75th Jubilee, and to celebrate, a new book's been published called 'Auckland's Remarkable Urban Forest'.
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Auckland Story for 24 October 2012 - GEM Financial...
The Education Trust COMET says as many as 400,000 Aucklanders don't have good budgeting skills. It's developing what it calls a new financial literacy framework nicknamed "GEM", to help them.
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Auckland Story for 17 October 2012 - Percy Vos boatshed
One of the last remaining links to Auckland's historic wooden boat building industry is to get a new life. The old Percy Vos boatshed and slipway at the Wynyard Quarter will become the centre for classic yacht repairs.
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Auckland Story for 10 October 2012 - Dutch elm disease
Auckland's elm population is under threat once more, after 50 trees succumbed to the fast-spreading Dutch elm disease in the suburb of Whitford. While the disease faded from the headlines since its initial discovery in a central Auckland park in 1989, arborists say it remains a risk to all estimated 17,000 elm trees in Auckland and those throughout New Zealand. Lisa Thompson met up with two men who are helping to try and stop the disease spreading south of the Bombays.
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Auckland Story for 3 October 2012 - Maori Sign Language
A small group for the Deaf in South Auckland is developing sign language in Maori.
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Auckland Story for 26 September 2012 - John Logan...
It's 100 years since the death of Sir John Logan Campbell, considered to be one of the 'fathers' of Auckland. This year's Auckland Heritage Festival is highlighting his contribution.
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Auckland Story for 19 September 2012 - Youthtown
A non-profit organisation, Youthtown was formed in 1932 in Auckland with a focus on youth development through sport, arts, dance and technology. It has helped shape the lives of hundreds of thousands of young New Zealanders over the decades and as part of their "80 Years Young" celebrations, Youthtown is searching for its old boys and girls to be part of a new association - Youthtown Alumni.
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Auckland Story for 12 September 2012 - Eradicate Child...
There's a call for New Zealand business leaders to take action to reduce child poverty in this country. It comes from Pam Tregonning, the head of South Auckland's Middlemore Foundation for Health Innovation.
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Auckland Story for 5 September 2012 - Mosquito Flies...
One of the fastest planes of World War II will fly again this month in Auckland. She's a legendary wooden-framed Mosquito and she's taken eight years to restore.
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Auckland Story for 29 August 2012 - Healthy Lunches
Four enterprising young women from a Papatoetoe college plan to educate 800 South Auckland primary children on how to have a healthy lunch for less than two dollars.
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Auckland Story for 22 August 2012 - Highwic High Tea
One of Auckland's historic homes is getting $1.5 million revamp for its 150th birthday. To celebrate, David Steemson goes to high tea at Highwic.
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Auckland Story for 15 August 2012 - Symonds St Cemetery
Lisa Thompson took a tour through the Symonds Street Cemetery to get a better understanding of why we ought to be preserving this important link to our city's history.
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Auckland Story for 8 August 2012 - Hindi class first
Classes teaching the Hindi language are proving a hit for Auckland's Papatoetote High School. It's a New Zealand first for the school.
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Auckland Story for 1 August 2012 - Tawharanui 10 years...
One of the country's first societies to create a secure sanctuary for native fauna is ten years old. Auckland's Tawharanui Open Sanctuary Society first built a $600,000 predator-proof fence… now it's planting trees.
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Auckland Story for 25 July 2012 - Ferry Building 100
Auckland's waterfront Ferry Building is getting a face lift for its 100th birthday. The National Maritime Museum almost next door to it, is marking the anniversary with a digital exhibition.
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Auckland Story for 18 July 2012 - volcanos in Auckland
"Be Prepared". So say the boy scouts, and also a big group of scientists studying the likelihood of a volcano erupting in Auckland and its economic effect.
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Auckland Story for 11 July 2012 - Kiwi Boxers
Two Auckland women are set to make Olympic history next month when they step into the boxing ring to represent New Zealand. Lightweight Alexis Pritchard and flyweight Siona Fernandes will be the only Kiwi boxers heading to London, where women's boxing will make its Olympic debut.
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Auckland Story for 4 July 2012 - Matariki Planting
A truckload of hardy souls have spent a blustery soggy day in the Waitakere Ranges marking Matariki. Matariki, or the Maori New Year, is about new beginnings, and altogether the group planted 1500 trees in just four hours.
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Auckland Story for 27 June 2012 - Artillery band keeping...
One of the country's oldest brass bands has vowed to play on, even though the New Zealand Defence Force cuts its funding at the end of this week.
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Auckland Story for 20 June 2012 - Foodbank no food
A little South Auckland foodbank is desperate for more help with food, after losing one of its biggest suppliers. Barbara Stone and her husband started their Mercy Missions Foodbank twenty years ago, and help about 80-families a week.
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Auckland Story for 13 June 2012 - the Tepid Baths
After a two year period of redevelopment, Auckland Viaduct's Tepid Baths will be officially reopened with a public ceremony on 23 June 2012. The building's multi-million dollar facelift pays homage to its 98-year-old heritage, while bringing the facilities firmly up to date for the next generation of swimmers.
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Auckland Story for 6 June 2012 - Community Doctor
Some residents of Randwick Park in South Auckland used to walk kilometres to the doctor with their sick children because they had no car and no money for a bus. Now they say they're being very well served by their own community doctor Juliet Tay.
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Auckland Story for 30 May 2012 - Can you spare a blanket?
A South Auckland woman who's been on a tireless one-woman campaign to feed and clothe the homeless, for the last three decades, says they need warm blankets and sleeping bags right now, to get through the winter.
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Auckland Story for 23 May 2012 - Mt Eden
Mount Eden has been a popular tourist destination for years. Since Christmas a shuttle operated by Ngatiwhatua-o-Orakei has been giving some folks a helping hand up and along the way they also learn something about the history of the mountain.
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Auckland Story for 16 May 2012 - An Ocean of Books
Aucklander Jeff Evans has got almost 100,000 books delivered free to children at schools in the Pacific Islands.
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Auckland Story for 9 May 2012 - Trees: Cut them Down
There are forty two trees in the street, and the residents of Flatbush Road say they've gotta go. The Otara folk say they've been fighting for thirteen years to get the Pin Oaks cut down, but now there may be a glimmer of hope.
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Auckland Story for 2 May 2012 - Pacific Arts Summit
Lisa Thompson went to the South Auckland Pacific Arts Summit, which celebrates a broad spectrum of Pacific arts and culture. Over the month of May, the Summit will feature exhibitions, a live public mural project at the club rooms of the Otara Scorpions league team, workshops discussing Pacific architecture and dance fono which will draw various dance practitioners from around the country.
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Auckland Story for 18 April 2012 - oldest paper boy
Jim Halford must rate as one of the country's oldest newspaper delivery boys. At 75 he's just retired, after 26 years on his beat delivering up to 140 copies of South Auckland's Manukau Courier three times a week.
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Auckland Story for 11 April 2012 - Community Fruit...
Community Fruit Harvesting was started by Di Celliers on the North Shore of Auckland when she noticed fruit rotting on the ground in backyards in her community. So, with a group of friends as volunteers, she set out to pick fruit around her neighbourhood. A year later, the project has delivered over 2000 kg of fresh fruit and numerous jars of preserves and marmalades to groups such as Auckland's City Mission, ensuring others less fortunate can enjoy fresh fruit.
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Auckland Story for 4 April 2012 - Johnny Matteson
Auckland singer song-writer Johnny Matteson has spent two decades spreading positive messages about mental health through his music. After being diagnosed with manic depression in his teens, he earned himself a Health Science Degree, has worked as a "consumer speaker" for the Mental Health Foundation and taken music as therapy for the criminally insane. His music has appeared in two New Zealand films.
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Auckland Story for 28 March 2012 - Lesbian Elder Village
A group of Auckland lesbians are looking for angel investors to fund this country's first Lesbian Elder Village.
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Auckland Story for 21 March 2012 - First Passive House
A desire to live in an energy-efficient home free from damp, has pushed Philip Ivanier and his family to create an Australasian first. When completed, the Ivanier's Glendowie home will be the region's first certified passive house. Spoken Features producer Lisa Thompson visits the building site to meet Philip, who is now a trailblazer for a concept still relatively unfamiliar in New Zealand.
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Auckland Story for 14 March 2012 - Polish Museum
The survival stories of many Polish orphans brought to New Zealand after World War Two are depicted in a new exhibition of paintings at Auckland's Polish Museum.
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