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by Vicki Thomson The Matauranga

alternative school b~ilding which is owned by the Cahtolic Education Board is about to be sold.

But parents who run the Aro Street primary school say the owners have not yet notified them of the impending sale.

One of the parents, Mr Ian Robinson, said they found out about the sale from a prospective purchaser and the estate agent confirmed this when they contacted him later.

"We think it's pretty slack," he said.

He said the parents did not know why the building was being sold.

Parents are now looking

' 'Old lady''

for another venue for the school , preferably in the Aro Valley area, but as yet they have had no luck.

They had been told the property was being auctioned in September and a meeting of parents was being held to make contingency plans.

The Property Manager of the Catholic Education Board, Mr Alisdair MacDonald, confirmed that the building was about to be sold.

He said the Board was negotiating a private sale which was very likely to go through and that there would probably be no auction in September.

He said the Board wanted a private sale because they preferred tbe building to go to a "body with a certain kinship to Christian belief" .

Mr MacDonald said . he could not name the prospect­ive buyers because the sale was still not definite.

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-i l by Samson . Sa~as~ni " l l "They came in with im1rngrat1on men l

. approached her as she was l their dogs and' torches, cleaning one of the hotel l l hunting us like animals ." rooms. She was asked her l l Recalling a 1976 dawn name, then told to l l raid, Falemai Lesa, the Mt. accompany them to be l

Cook woman at the centre of "locked up". [ l the recent Privy Council " When I was locked up in l l decision on Samoan over- the cell , they took my l l stayers, told Messenger of the passport from me, " she said. l i. humiliation she suffered "To this day -I have not got l[ [ trying to remain in this my passport."

Th_ese two pupils seem oblivious to their school's imminent closure. photo by Inez deLan:ibert

before they may mtegrate into the state system.

l country. Following her arrest she l l "About six in the morning was again told to appear in l l they came in, searching court. This was the beginning l

through the house," she said. of a series of appearances l After that raid Falemai was before the courts. l l arrested and told to appear in "Each time I went to court l He said the par.ents

running Matauranga School would be given one month's notice when the sale was definite. , "It (the building) is surplus to our requirements. We are in need of money to do maintenance on our schools," he said.

Catholic schools must meet a specified building standard ,

There are presently only 12 pupils at Matauranga School and Mr Robinson said a large house would be suitable for them.

The alternative school started up in the early 1960's. They have been renting the present building from the Catholic Education Board

l court on charges of overstay- they remanded me for three l ing. months," she said.

l The 36-year-old decided She was unsure of the l l she would not return to reason behind her remands l l Samoa and so appealed but just left it to her l l

against her deportation Newtown lawyer, George l sentence. Rosenberg.

l That was in Auckland in She laughed as s~r. said l l 1976. that only a few days before l l A year earlier she' had come the case was to be taken to

to New Zealand from her England, she and 16 others l ,------------- , l island home of Savaii on a had the charge~ of overstay- l for 10 years.

gets prize paint job ·,Severi year saga

l work permit. Staying with _ing against them dropped . l l two brothers in Auckland her · Falemai says that when the l • first job was working in a decision to take her case to l . Griffins factory. the Privy Council was made l l "I_n. the ~hole time I have her lawyers had not actually l l been m this country I have sought New Zealand citizen- l by Tim Scott

Give young people a chance to brighten up the town.

That's the call from Newtown resident, Mr Peter TeO. Gordon, \¥ho won the recent "Paint the Town" contest.

The City Council-run contest was designed to encourage Wellington householders to enhance their residences with colour­ful paint schemes.

Mr Gordon, whose 26 Stoke Street house won the $500 first prize, worked with Blaise Orsman and Jeff Carr. Jeff, a young painter, designed the paint scheme.

"There must be a lot of young people with talents in the community", says Mr Gordon. "Give them a chance to have a go at decorating some of the old houses in the area."

"There's a lot of council property that could be used, I'm sure it would be cheaper than the usual decorating cost."

It took 10 months to complete painting his house. · The house was burnt down

to the wood and then oil paints were used.

The colours for the scheme were specially chosen to suit the house's image.

"It's a tall, high house and when you look up at it you see the sky so we decided the basic colour would be blue", explains Mr Gordon.

«we have always thought_

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by Anna Friis It could be "two

weeks or two years" before the City Council

' makes any progress on its controversial housing scheme in Epuni Street.

Why? Because they still don't own the land.

Seven-years debate over the future of the Central Park Hospital site has left no clear solution to the question of ownership.

Aro Valley Community Council member Ms Angela Sears said it now appeared that more than four government agencies were involved in the negotiations.

A city council spokesman said he had no idea when negotiations would be

_ completed other than to say it photo by Gregor Campbell could be "two weeks or two

-years".

The winning house at 26 Stoke Street.

of the house as being female, 'the old lady of Newtown'," said Mr Gordon. "The colours we picked were in a

. sense her petticoats." So the house has been

decorated in white, lavender, grey, black and shades of · blue.

Mr Gordon has been living in Newtown for four years anct 1s very 1mpressea ·Wun the houses he has seen.

"Newtown has the neatest , best houses," he says. "They're very solid, lots of

leadlight and stained glass The Mayor, Sir Michael and cast iron down pipes." Fowler, however, appears

"I really like the way it's more than confident that the developing. There's· some land will eventually be very good restoration work purcha~ed by the council. going on. Quite a few people Ms Sears said that in are renovating." response to a letter sent to

Having completed the house's exterior Mr Gordon plans to spend the next few years renovating the rest of the sixteen-room house. Future improvements include a windbreak, roof work and an extension to catch the sun.

him by members of the Aro community outlining their criticisms and serious reservations about the proposed housing scheme; Sir Michael "tersely" replied that -he thought the plans were "lovely" and "sure to go ahead".

l always been working," she ship for her but if the l says proudly. outcome has helped other

l Shifting to Wellington in Samoans "then it was worth l l 1978, Falemai found work at it". l l. the Royal Oak Hotel. It was The Privy Council decision l l

whil~ working there \n the states that all Samoans born l evenmg that she expenenced before 1949 were British

l further humiliation. subjects and therefore New l l She explained how "two Zealand citizens. l ~ ............ ~ .................................. ~ .............. ~ .............. ~~~

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Medics say bad health habits a killer , by Simon Kikoy

Unique college youth rally

Alcohol, cigarettes, bad diet, depression they're all lurking out there trying to kill us.

And health organisations are concerned that we don't k.now it.

At a seminar held at the Wellington Clinical School in Newtown last month voluntary and professional health workers from all over New Zealand met to discuss health education .

Opening the seminar, Her Excellency Lady Beattie said it was the first time the health problems of young New Zealanders had been discuss.:d.

Road accidents and suicide were responsible for the deaths of the vast majority of young New Zealanders, she said .

A specialist in community health from Auckland University, Dr Robert

The first is to detect those in the community who had a high risk of falling · victim to ill health .

The second, and more profitable, is to educate the whole community in simple steps they could take to protect their health, such as wearing seat belts.

Other speakers said bad habits were picked up in youth that could kill you later in life.

Smoking is a good example of this. ·

It was estimated 20 percent of all deaths in New Zealand were directly caused by cigarettes.

The head of the National Heart Foundation, Dr David· Hay, called for an increased tax on tobacco and other speakers expressed' concern that much of the sponsorship for sport in New Zealand was supplied by cigarette companies.

chairman of the Alcohol and Liquor Advisory Committee, Sir Leonard Thornton, outlined a plan to bring alcohol education into the schools.

An Education Department officer responsible for health education in schools, Ms Helen Shaw, said the syllabus had last been updated in the 1940s.

The Government gave approval last year for a revision of health education in schools, she said.

The Johnson · Report on health education was intended to do this, but the Minister of Education had said there would be no changes as a result of the report.

This was expected to happen to the section of the report dealing with sex education, but not the others.

A new syllabus for health education will come out early next year.

The Health Department was increasingly coming to the view that health

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Alcohol and bad diet were also seen as problems and the

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by Samson Samasoni

• Pending a decision by Government it is proposed to establish a health education advisory group combining official and voluntary agencies to co-ordinate health education policies and programmes.

• That all appropriate tertiary institutions and the Department of Health be asked to provide specific health education curricula for , health education personnel, nurses, social workers and others concerned with the health of the community.

e That an approach be made to philanthropic trusts for financial aid for teaching, trammg and resources materials.

• That this meeting accepts the participation of the family is essential to the success of health education.

A committee of seven was appointed to put the seminar's view forward to the Government.

Some of the people present were worried the committee might be seen as a formal body representing all voluntary health

"Bringing together secondary school students from all over New Zealand does sound fmpossible but it's going to be done," says Wellington East Girls College seventh former Lydia Mabbet.

Wellington High School, Wellington College and Wellington East Girls College are all involved in a Youth Rally to be held in Wanganui from September 1-8.

Lydia, secretary for the Wellington organising committee told Messenger that over 1,000 students from all over the country are to attend this unique event.

''The idea arose from an urban and rural college outing in Auckland, the two schools began discussing the differences the schools had," Lydia says.

"We've just put that type of outing on to a larger scale," she explained .

Positive During the week long rally

workshops will be run with the emphasis placed on the positive aspects of college life and the different things students could encounter while in school and once they leave.

Topics such as unemployment, flatting, cross cultural communica­tions and life skills development.

The organising committee is also trying to develop a feeling of youth involvement in the community.

At the moment the committee is trying to raise funds to subsidise the $40 charge placed on each person going. The rally is open to.all secondary school students, parents and teachers.

Although the response from colleges throughout New Zealand has been quite pleasing, Lydia says there has been some difficulties in the Wellington area. ·

"Two girls from St Mary's College were in the organising committee but they were told by their principal they were not to be involved in the youth rally," says Lydia.

Principal of fue college Sister Margaret refused to comment on the reasons for her decision. ·

Lydia says it is ironical because that kind of attitude being forced upon young people is what the rally is trying to deal with and overcome.

organisations in the country, but one member of the committee, Sir Randal Elliott, chancellor of the Order of St John, said the group was ad hoc and represented no body.

The committee will report back in nin'e months to all the organisations who attended the seminar .

Search for youth worker by Sharon Brettkelly

Chinese market day

The Wellington Chinese Sport and Culture Centre holds its annual fund­ra1smg Chinese Market day on Saturday, August 21.

It will be in the Turners and Growers Building in Tory Street, from 10am till 4pm.

A wide variety of goods will be on sale, including hot ready-to-eat Chinese foods, Chinese grocery items such as rice and soya sauce, rare delicacies such as shark's fin and bird's nest, imported

' kitchen ware; fruit and vegetables and some white elephant items.

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Newtown €ommunity Workers are searching for a detached youth worker to cope with the ongoing youth problem in the area.

The community workers are a group of representatives from the Pacific Island Church, Anglican Ministers, and volunteers in the community.

Spokesperson for the group, a community worker employed by the council, Janice Calvert, sees the ongoing need for a person to work not only with young people in youth groups but detached youth on the streets.

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The group has discussed it with Internal Affairs and has a very detailed application form.

It has taken about sh months to get to this stage of ap1..ilying to Internal Affairs. Once the right person is chosen Internal Affairs ~ould yet turn down the proposal.

The department pays detached youth workers so they must approve of the recommendation.

"A person would be fully employed to work very closely with the kids on issues like teen pregnancy, unem­ployment, housing, alcohol, drugs and crime," said Janice.

The person would focus on one or more of these issues, and encourage them in recreation and developing skills.

Many young people in New town are employed by the council on Pre Employment schemes around the city. Janice said there is no work scheme in Newtown.

But there aren't always jobs available afterwards .

Janice said mostly young people are applying for the job. People who are experienced with youth, maybe with a similar background as those they work with but are mature and secure in themselves and able to help.

"The person has to relate to the kids' parents, churches, schools, Government departments, and police," said Janice.

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Nursery .rhyme time

Nursery rt,yme characters and a paper mache pig are the star attractions in the Newtown Community Theatre's production of "Caught in the Act". '

The play, by Leslie Pearce, centres around the traditional Knave of Hearts theft of tarts but has been written to include numerous other nursery rhyme char_acters,

The cast is made up of over 20 children ranging in age from six to twelve.

"Every child gets a role to play within their own understanding," said Mrs Rosalie Carey, the director.

Rehearsals began with speech tuition, mrs Carey has taught speech and drama to both adults and children, for many years and this has been a major emphasis in preparing for "Caught in the Act".

"I didn't feel I could get much of a play together, with children who'd had no training at all," she said .

Organising twenty children is quite a feat but has not presented too many problems, with the help of Hylda Barry, Alex Haitcheson, Colleen Sumby and Marilyn Thomas.

Mrs Carey said the mothers also are showing a tremendous interest and had even taken part in the speech exercises.

The children rehearse twice · a week-and are slowly gaining confidence. Mrs Carey said that once they had been given their scripts, enthusiasm soared and the whole thing started to move, "Paradoxically, although I was one of the first to work on creative drama with children, we're using a scripted play. The children loved getting their scripts and felt they were really part of the theatre."

There are very few opportunities for children to be involved in theatre,

by Vicki Mathison

The Knave of Hearts in Newtown Com~unity Theatre's production of "Caught in the Act'·'.

especially such young children, said Mrs Carey. The Community Centre notified the schools about the play and the response was tremendous,

Rosalie Carey has been involved in theatre most of her life, both in teaching and performing, in New Zealand and in London. She is at present working on a solo performance, written and acted by herself. This is to be performed privately to raise

money for various organisa­tions, and at the Hamilton Arts Festival in October,

"Caught in the Act" will be on at the Newtown Community Theatre from August 25 to 28. Mrs Carey predicts the play will be ideal for children.

"Children enjoy seeiog other children on stage and are very uncritical. They expect high standards from adults, but with children just to see them is fun."

Asb·estos now being removed

Work has started on removing a potential health hazard from rooms at Wellington Polytech­nic.

The $60,000 programme involves removing or encap­sulating asbestos sprayed on ceilings in some rooms in block four.

The Post Office recently finished similar work on 112 of its buildings, removing and encapsulating sprayed asbestos. They will spend $6.5 million over the next five years removing the same material from the head office building in Waterloo Quay,

"Messenger" could not discover how many Government buildings were sprayed with the substance, but a spokesman for the Education Dept said the department had taken steps to deal with it in all its buildings, However he couldn't say how many buildings were affected.

by Ian Wishart "Messenger" reported last

year that at th·e polytechnic some students could be working in potentially unhealthy classrooms.

Following last year's article the department finally agreed to deal with the problem of asbestos fibres dropping from the ceilings of some classrooms. It. encapsulated two rooms and will take out the ceilings of two others at Christmas because they're in such bad condition,

Encapsulation involves spraying a substance on the ceiling to "glue" loose asbestos particles to the ceiling. It is generally thought to be effective for dealing with sprayed asbestos.

The other two rooms will have the work done at Christ­mas because special showers have to be built for men working on the asbestos.

The polytechnic's assistant principal, Mr Vic Norris, says

three-quarters of the $60,00<, cost will be used on stripping the two rooms.

"We don't see the four rooms as the end of the story, we see it as a foot in the

door" ... "an acceptance by the Department of Education that there is a potential for a health hazard here.'

There are 15 to 20 other rooms in the polytechnic with sprayed asbestos ceilings. Mr Norris says the department: will analyse the results o their efforts on the fou rooms before doing anythin to other rooms.

Mr Norris doesn't know why the department suddenly agreed to fix the ceilings, but he believes it could have been the threat of industrial action by the Association of Teacher in Technical Institutes which forced the department to speed up action on the asbestos.

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Opinions differ over extension by Manorma Ram

Wellington's motorway motorway will go under these extension is definitely streets and continue under going through say the the extension of Willis and Ministry of Works and the Abel Smith Streets. At Cuba City Council, but others Street it rises over a planned strongly disagree. pedestrian tunnel and

The Motorway Action continues above Taranaki Group, an umbrella Street, coming down to organisation for a number of below Tory and Sussex groups opposed to the Streets. It then rises over the extension, claim that the Dufferin Street-Basin likelihood of the plan going Reserve intersection and through diminishes with finishes at the Mt Victoria every passing year. Tunnel. _

Members of the group The Motorway Action include Action for Group is concerned about the Environment, Inner City residences which will be Ministry, Wellington cyclists demolished if the scheme and pedestrians' groups, . goes ahead, claiming that the Friends of the Earth and environmental and social various residents consequences of putting a associations . motorway through the centre

The Action group was of some of Wellington's formed , as a concerned oldest and most interesting response to the Burrell suburbs will be horrific. Report, which was They have consistently

- commissioned by the City maintained that any benefits Council in 1980 to assess the to be gained by the extension feasibility of different , are outweighed by the social motorway proposals. and economic costs. j

That report came down in In 1980 when the Burrell

will cost. The Burrell Report

estimated that construction would start in 1981 and end in 1988, but so far no work has begun on it.

Mr Willberg· says this is because of a lack of sufficient funds. "The National Roads Board is paying for a lot of the construction and all their cash is tied up in the Ngauranga overbridge. It ' seems unlikely therefore that work on the extension will begin until Ngauranga is completed, possibly in two to three years,'' he says .

The Motorway Action Group cite the cost as one of the major reasons why they believe the project is doomed.

Spokesperson Angela Sears says that the whole nature of the funding has changed.

favour of a "composite" Report came out it estimated extension, one which would that the cost of the incorporate the best features construction would be more of other schemes. than $11 million. This was

Ms Sears says that under the Urban Transport Act of 1980 the Government will now only pay for 60-70% of the construction. The balance will have to be raised by the Wellington region as a whole, and Motorway Action feels that the scheme will be tossed out because others in the

A model of the proposed motorway extension - aitics say the extension won't solve the traffic problems.

Motorway Design Engineer without costing a second for the Ministry of Works tunnel which the Action Geoff Willberg, says the group claims would be actual route of the motorway needed to cope with all the was decided on many years extra traffic that would result ago, but reappraised recently from any extension. to see whether enough land Design Engineer Geoff had been set aside for it. Willberg says that currently

As the s.cheme now stands, .:onstruction costs are rising the extension will begin at the at around 15-200Jo annually, intersection of Vivian and and that the longer the Ghuznee Streets. The project is delayed the more it

region won't be willing to disadvantaged by the subsidise it. motorway plan. She says they

The group also believes were told that their property that regional priority for the · would be required for motorway has dropped and demolition, and consequently the Ngauranga interchange the value of their homes has and the Upper Hutt bypass dropped. have superseded it. Now some have been told

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They claim that through that their property is no their contacts they are aware longer needed, and the that people in the highest: Motorway Action Group is policy making areas regard seeking reparation for those the scheme as nonsensical. householders who were told it

Ms Sears, an urbafl was pointless to do any but planning specialist and tutor minimal maintenance. at Wellington Polytechnic, Angela Sears disparages says she also has personal what she calls the reasons for believing that the "Motorway Mythology". motorway won't be built. "There are many who believe

She rents a house which is that the motorway will solve owned by the Ministry of the traffic problem," she Works, and when she moved says. "It's nonsense because in she was told that it was the route that's proposed was coming down in six months designed as a solution to a to make way for a motorway. 1968 traffic problem, and

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That was 16 years ago. traffic patterns are no longer Since then Angela Sears the same.''

says that the Ministry of The Motorway Action ' Works has refused to allow Group have what they ! her to hold a long lease or consider to be a feasible l buy the house, telling her that alternative to the plan.

it is earmarked for They believe that if Willis ; demolition. Street ana Victoria Street are : Although she has averted made one way north and ' this possibility by having the south respectively, and then

house declared an historic Ghuznee Street was pushed property, the experience has up to Cambridge Terrace and

: left her cynical about the Vivian Street became one extension ever going through. way, givi~g an east-west

Ms Sears claims that many route, this would help traffic ._ ______________ ...._ people have been flow .

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The group says this would give people fast one way routes to Brooklyn, the Mt Victoria Tunnel, Oriental Bay and Cambridge Terrace.

They claim it would also save millions of dollars.

Whether their scepticism about the extension ever coming to fruition is true remains to be seen.

East shine ill defeat

by Samson Samasoni

The national Jaycees debating regional semi­final was contested recently by Wellington East Girls college and the Lower Hutt private girls college Sacred Heart.

Wellington East took the affirmative on · the well debated subject that the knocker should be on the outside of the door. · Adjudicator Jaya Wilson,

a member of the Victoria U~versity debating team said the affirmative definition on the topic had com~ too late and this was the main reason for their loss.

She added, however that individually each speaker was

of an excellent standard. Seventh former Michelle

Taylor, first speaker for the East team described 'knockers' as "nattering neandertals of negativism," and was then followed by some smart speeches from the rest of the team, Phillipa Sellens and Lydia Mabbett, both of the seventh form.

Teacher for the debating team Mr Stoop was humble in defeat and says he agreed with the adjucicators' decision.

He was unsure of how many colleges were involved in the competition but says he was very pleased with the effort his own college had shown. ·

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New concept in I Socred ready to fight early · election

child care by Bob Irvine

It's Te Wiki O Te Reo Maori - Maori language week - and an open day atTapu te Ranga marae in Houghton Bay. There are manuhiri - visitors -everywhere.

Ilona Tahere, supervisor at te kohanga - the day care centre on the hill overlooking the meeting house - is arranging a table piled .high with sandwiches, a baby on her hip. Marilyn Thomas, her parental helper, is filling jugs of cordial in the kitchen. The sound of the waiatas of welcome from below tells the women they have a few minutes before the rush starts.

Integral Te kohanga opened in

June, originally for the children of workers on the marae . Now seven children from the area, maori and pakeha, attend daily from eight .to five - at a cost of $20 a week to "just" cover the bills.

Children are encouraged to feel an integral part of the community on the marae . Both Maori and English are spoken and everyone takes their mid-day meal in the dining room below.

"There is a really good feeling here," say, Ilona, "men and women coming and going ... not too much of the one thing."

"The ratio of adults to children is just phenomenal," adds Marilvn.

Strange · tamariki children - are wandering in now, attracted by the play equipment.

Marilyn, herself pakeha, is fulfilling a childhood dream to learn Maori; by

correspondence and with help from Ilona. Her son Benny now counts his coloured bricks in two languages.

"I would like Benny to be bi-lingual," she says. "I think it's a beautiful language. it would be an awful shame if it were lost.,,

Bilingual Unlike the kohanga reo

concept of Pukeatua kokiri centre in Wainuiomata, Ilona does not insist on speaking Maori exclusively.

"Children ,hould learn both languages. There is no way you can do without the English," she says. The earlier the better. The children pick up vocabulary tar easier at two years than at four, she says.

Now the manuhiri arrive in force, mostly women with tamariki in tow or in arms. The adults greet each other with the hongi -the touching of noses,

Danny, Benny and Lana shoot it out at the Tapu te Ranga marae. The marae incorporates a child

care centre.

Tamariki swarm over the lawn and play equipment. Inside parents pick their way around the tloor littered with trucks and blocks and small bodies puzzling over jigsaws.

Success Maori Affairs organised

the hui and people have travelled from all over Wellington, Porirua and Wainuiomata. There are weaving and language classes for the adults and Ilona is giving lessons in toymaking - balls, birds and snakes, all fashioi1ed from tlax.

Judging by the crowd the hui is a success. Ilona looks slightly harrassed - ,b man,· people. Suddenly everyone is interested in te kohanga; two cultures blending in a relaxed communal atmosphere. An undemonstrative mixture of tenderness, respect for the young .. . and aroha.

Everyone wants to see how it works. It's going to be a long day.

Can I have your autograph? This is the question Social Credit Political League members will be asking people in the Island Bay electorate during the next few months.

by Brent Edwards . Mrs Frame said the

elector.ate was also planning for the 1984 election, although if there was an early one the party would be quite ready for it.

The electorate is organised as one branch and the members meet once a month in Newtown. While attendance has been quite good for a non-election year the branch is looking to build up membership before the next election.

also some local functions planned to raise funds as well.

Social Credit's deal with the Government over the Clyde dam issue has not provoked much reaction among members locally .

"We are not calling for Bruce · Beetham's resignation," Mrs Frame said.

Because Social Credit has no separate group for its young members, Mrs Frame

Social Credit is compiling a nationwide petition calling for proportional· represent­ation to be introduced. Although the petition is nationwide, each electorate will gather as many signatures as possible before combining them in a national total. '

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more direct 'input from young people. In the. electorate older members had to listen to the views of younger people rather than pushing Mrs Christine Frame, said the

idea was for the electorate to get more signatures than the ~cc cc cc cc cc cc c"! them into an isolated group sitting Member of Parlia- Fund-raising is also · a ment's majority. There were major activity of the branch, many party members although there was a involved in the collection of reasonable financial surplus signatures. from last year. Much of the

9nce the petition has been fund-raising in Island Bay is compiled Mr Gary Knapp, concerned with supporting Social Credit MP for East · such things as national raffles Coast Bays, will present it to organised by Social Credit as Parliament. a whole. However, there are

of their own . Island Bay is not

considered as one of Social Credit's strongest chances, but the local organisation still take electioneering seriously.

"Island Bay is a Labour stronghold," Mrs Frame said. "But you cannot say it will be Labour next year."

From stuffed . toys to stained glass

by Jake Olsen

Say "stained glass" to most people and they think of churches.

But the Crystal Palace Stained-glass shop in Upper Cuba St makes lampshades and terrariums, not church windows.

Owner Alan Skates, has only been working in stained­glass for two of his 39 years.

Before that he worked at a variety of jobs.

Alan hails from Southall in London where he finished his secondary education at 15 and started work in a local body office.

A change of direction took him to window dressing, more formally "professional window display artistry", as pieces of paper from a year of night school and an interior design course at Brixton show. · Ten years ago Alan came to New Zealand working first at DIC then Farmers and finally becoming a freelance

Another change took him to the Jervois Quay Craft Village, now rubble.

He started stuffing toys but a vacancy in stained-glass was begging to be filled.

His work with stained-glass is a full-time job.

Hours of precision glass­cutting, lead soldering (monitored by Department of Health because of the risk), as well as marketing ...

"Doing it all the time" is Alan's way of mastering the craft and ·he now says it's what he can see himself doing for a good many years to come.

· So far floral. bay window panes for a house revamp have been liis biggest project.

But lamps of varying shades are his staple earners, selling for around $75. They reflect many hours of work.

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ornerstone for ommunity

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Everything from pasta cooking demonstrations, ~ing-a-longs, and cane classes to health and hot lunch-time meals are available in Berhampore as part of a programme planned for the community.

lt .all happens at Cornerstone, which has been part of Berhampore since May 1979 when it was set up as a drop-in centre.

The centre was provided by the Baptist Church, which had earlier in 1979 sold its Adelaide Road church building because of lack of membership.

A founding i'nember, Mrs Jenny Mcintosh, said: "We needed to provide a place for

.the people to come to.'' She is now chairwoman of

its organising committee. "We try and carry on with

people from within the community and we plan various programmes according to their needs," she said.

Berhampore is an old area and there are many ·City Council flats . Most of those living in them are pensioners or low income earners .

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As a drop-in centre, Cornerstone also helps young people in need.

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Pastoral worker Bruce has only worked at Cornerstone since February this year. It is his job to plan the Centre's programmes.

" l enjoy it. It' s good to create but we're always alert to what the people actually want," he said.

A variety of activities are provided for the community.

Recently a pasta cooking demonstration was held. Sing-a-longs are- held on Thursday afternoons for elderly residents and, on August 11, a concert was staged by the Wellington Commercial School of Music.

Every Tuesday there is a cane class, a visit by the district nurse and a hot lunch­time meal for $1.

Bruce feels there has been sufficient feedback from the community to make the centre worthwhile both now and in the future.

"As the economic situation gets worse this place is going to be needed mor!!,'' said Bruce.

The name Cornerstone originates from the bible, I Peter 2:6: "For it stands written: I lay in Zion a choice

· corner-stone of great worth. The man who has faith in it will not be put to shame."

Christianity is not mentioned to visitors.

"We don't try to push our Christian beliefs on people unless they seek it themselves. The spiritual base of the Cornerstone is a witness in itself," said Jenny.

Cornerstone will remain in Berhampore for a long time yet, he said.

"I think we've been here long enough for the community to know we can be trusted . If anyone needs something we're here,'' said Jenny.

rea · trade by Jake Olsen

More and more people are buying Trade Aid tea, according to Diane Henare of the Trade Aid shop in Cuba Street.

And as part of a promotion to boost sales a network of local tea agents has been organised.

In the southern part of Wellington agents are: Diane Henare - Island Bay 837-364; Patsy Wooles - Island Bay 836-331; Noela Crawford - Newtown 894-699.

The aim is to take over one percent of the New Zealand tea market within the next year.

The Wellington shop relies on voluntary workers and is one of 25 outlets that offer an alternative marketing organisation.

Cottage industry products and commodities are received from more than 100 producing groups in the Pacific, Asia, Africa, Central and South America.

Enjoying themselves at the function are, (left to right), the Italian ambassador, Mr Giorgio De Andreis, MP for Island Bay (Lab), Mr Frank O'Flynn and Garibaldi Oub president Mr Vmce Criscillo.

photo courtesy of Stephen Young

Garibaldi Club marks centenary A club by the name of

Garibaldi sounds like a military organisation, but fighting was far from the minds of the Wellington Italian community as they celebrated the centenary of their social club, the Club Garibaldi, earlier this month.

According to the rather sketchy documentation of the club's beginning, it was started in 1882 by about 20 of Wellington's immigrant Italians.

It is named after Giuseppe Garibaldi, the military leader whose small army of guerilla fighters defeated the King of Naples' larger forces, resulting in the uniting of Italy in 1860. In naming the club after this man, the Italian community fostered a feeling of unity among themselves that is still strong today.

As well as conversing in their own language and enjoying their own ·food and wine, they play cards, table tennis, and indoor bowls, for which they have won many titles.

The aims of the club have changed little over the years. The inner city clubrooms are a place where members can go during weekends and relax in a purely Italian atmosphere, their own environment.

Club membership is open to men only, and the club has about 150 financial members.

The women of the community, · however, are welcome to all club events (except the annual meeting), and the fact that they can not become paid-up members is only because it would be unheard of for a woman to have to pay for herself.

This is part of the "Italian way" that permeates the lives of many of the immigrants. Their children are brought up often speaking Italian at home, where mostly Italian food is eaten.

Support and contfnuance of this "way" is another important facet of the club. But the community is not parochial as the number of Italians in all trades and professions throughout Kiwi society, and the number of Italian-New Zealand marriages show.

Women also played a busy part in many of the club's annual picnics, balls, parties, but sadly these activities are less frequent now as attendance is falling.

"The younger ones have other things to do, and the older ones are dying off," says club president Vince Criscillo. "Garibaldi Club Balls used to be the best in town, but now we can't hold them any more, not even for the public. People are too busy doing other things to bother with the social side of life."

L'ease a little by Alison McCulloch

For five dollars a year anyone can lease a bit of Wellington.

Behind the Ewart Hospital near the top of Mein Street in Newtown there are 39 small plots of land available for lease by the public.

At only five dollars a year, with water laid on, the 6m by 12m (20' by 40 ') allotments are the perfect solution to a flat dweller's desire for a gargen.

A City Council parks and recreation /department spokesperson said the allotments have been

Initially the demand outstripped the supply but it died down and now there are eight plots not taken.

They are quite secluded and there's never been much trouble with vegetable thieves.

The plots look a bit weedy and overgrown at the moment. A few struggling red cabbages, some red hot ,-iokers and lots of unidentifi­jable _weeds.

by Inez deLambert

Italians certainly do know how to enjoy themselves, if the centenary celebrations are anything to go by .

The dine and dance held at the Majestic Cabaret on August I was attended by close on 500 people, and the tickets sold out within a week of going on sale.

As well as entertainers hired specially for the do, there· were several of the club's own. The Southern Coasters, a group of Italian college students from Island Bay (hence the group's name) played some of the evening's classic rock and roll numbers.

Ballet dancer Marina Mersi and a friend performed the Tarantella, a dance originally supposed to wo_rk otl the poison or a tarantula bite, to the appreciative audience.

Well-known entertainer and entrepreneur Silvio Famularo held the evening together with his jokes, singing, patter and even poetry!

With the help of the Asti Spumante and post World Cup fever, the celebrations lasted until well after 1pm.

And after this what? While Club attendance may have dropped slightly over the years, Vince Ctfacillo is confident that the young ones will keep up their traditions and support the club, maybe even for another century! r .......... ~~~ /New groups ! l Bx Anna Friis I l 'Two new groups l lcatering for mothers and l lchildren have been formed l l in the Aro Valley.

l A mothers' support group l 1and a children's drama group l tare meeting regularly in the l l Communitv Hall. l l Mothers of new babies as t well as women new to the l l area get together once a week l l for a chat session. l. l The drama group, run by

l Ms Robyn Herrick, gives the l children the opportunity for l l creative drama once a week. l

Third World shops are moving to adopt the name Trade Aid - a non-profit making importing organis­ation. ,available for four years .

Anyone interested can contact the city council, but make sure there is some genuine keenness there, as it's a bit of a climb up to the gardens.

The Mt G>ok Messenger is published by the Wellington Polytechnic journalism course and printed by -Kers­lake and Billens, Levin.

Mount Cook Messenger, Page 6 , August

Bowling alley dilly-dally

by Kerre Woodham

The Mount Victoria Residents' Association is considering · appealing against the City Council's decision to approve plans for a bowling alley in Pirie Street.

At the council's July meeting, the bowling alley plans ·were passed - subject to certain conditions.

They were the provision of four extra off-street car­parks, the installation of soundprootmg and any exterior advertising must first be approved -by the City Planner.

The secretary of the assoc1at10n, Mrs Christine Ross, said that at the next meeting of residents, a decision would be made on whether or not to appeal to the Planning Tribunal.

Mrs Ross said complaints had been received from a number of residents who live near the building where the alley is to be built.

She said their main concern is the noise factor, but they are also worried about problems caused by parking.

Mr Bill bay, one of the three men behind the bowling venture, said an appeal to the

tri'bunal would .set back building plans but otherwise the alley would be finished in three months.

"They've ·got their right to appeal; it's democratic," he said.

The main reason for choosing the Prestige Building as the location for the alley was the site's proximity to town and the fact it is in a good residential suburb.

Mr Day said although the three previous attempts to establish a bowling alley in New Zealand had failed, he and his partners were hopeful they could make a success of their venture.

Light refreshments and amusement facilities for up t0 60 people will also be provided. A liquor licence· was not applied for as the alley will be catering for "mainly family groups" .

A resident of one of the flats facing the building where the alley is planned, Linda Ririnui, said the tenants of the flats were mainly young adults and the~e were hardly any families. She didn't think the majority of tenants would mind a bowling alley across the road.

Dancers auctioned by Simon Kilroy

If only they'd had the jaffas, the kids from the Coromandel Street IHC school would now be the proud owners ~f four dancers from the New Zealand Ballet.

Along with many other Wellington children, 30 children from Coromandel Street attended the New­Zealand Ballet's special performance for schools on July 30.

company decided to illustrate varietie·s of ballet by auctioning off dancers of different styles.

Bidding from the children was intense, and chairs were bounced on to attract the auctioneer's attention.

The currency used to buy the dancers was jaffas. But unfortunately the Coromandel Street children did not have any.

Despite · the disappointment of not getting their own troupe of dancers, the most common opinion was,

"I like ballet."

It's quite a task to hold the Coromandel Street children's attention for even ten minutes, but the' ballet succeeded for more than an hOl!L

But one little girl obviously wasn't impressed - she slept soundly through most of the

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by Gregor Campbell

The National Museum is now waiting on Government approval to call for tenders for its planned extensions.

Drawings and quantity surveying have already been

if the government approves, and building could start soon after.

Above birdseye view, and below, eye )evel view

from the south of the proposed extensions

The building will be three storeys high, earthquake proof, and will have special provisions for security and fire prevention. Budgeted at seven million dollars when first proposed in 1977, the cost is expected to be around ten million. Building should take three years. ,

Although the public will not be allowed into the new building there will be mor room for displays as the: museum library will be shifted, leaving 1000 square metres.

The National Art Gallery could also be moving soon, providing much more room.

The need for the extension is becoming greater all the time, says Assistant Director Dr Baker. There is no more room in the museum for specimens and corridors are

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The on-again off-again saga of caretakers for City Council flats is off again.

Two meetings were held recently to discuss a proposal for caretakers at three blocks of council flats.- Instead, the meetings concentrated mainly on other problems.

Residents in Granville, Newtown Park and Rintoul Street flats were granted requests for discussions with council officers at the July council meeting.

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Mount Cook Messenger, Page 7, August 17.

Battered Newtown youth -risk cars could curb youth

• crime· by Sharon Brettkelly

Revamping old, battered cars is one way Newtown kids could fill in their spare time, suggests Youth Aid officer Constable Roly Hermans.

It would be something constructive for Newtown youth, provided they could get decrepit old cars through insurance agencies.

Constable Hermans says most of the kids are mechanically minded, but they would need someone trained in mechanics to supervise them.

He concedes that the scheme would appeal more to males than females, but adds that the boys are more in need of something to keep them out of trouble.

"Girls tend to be hangers­on rather than the instigators of trouble," he says.

community should snow more concern for the unemployed and offer tl}em work, but the young must prove they can be trusted.

Although Newtown still holds the majority of trouble­making cases, its mixture of races helps rather than hinders the problem, Constable Hermans thinks.

Many ethnic minorities have strict social codes controlling the young and commanding respect for the old. The control must be an effective one, since in communities where the family is an important unit, as it is among the Chinese and Indians, the police have little trouble.

But the best thing going for the youth problem at present is community Constable Arnold Leadbitter.

He will have an office in the police garage in Colombo Street, and will deal only with Newtown, getting to know the community and "doing the beat".

adventure Street kids and '4at

risk" youth in Wellington have a chance for some

adventure of a different sort with the Wellington Regional Adventure

i Tliree young lads from Newtown trying the obstacle course at Waghorn Lodge, Waikanae.

by Shar~n :13rettkelly

Camps. WRAC's secretary/treas­

urer Maria Moreno said the camps cater for the "at risk" young person, including many youths from the Newtown area, a suburb notable for its youth problem.

The voluntary organisation was formed about two and a half years ago by social welfare workers and police from the Youth Aid section. It was the idea of Social Worker Frank Walker who was concerned for the young on the streets at night committing petty theft, burglaries and car conersion.

According to Maria Moreno the aim was to get them involved in something that they don't have the opportunity to do, away from the city and temptation of petty crime. ·

self reliance, initiative, social skills and self esteem - give them a sense of achievement," she said.

Many of the kids have no knowledge of bush survival because they are from the city, living in institutions or Social Welfare homes.

The young people are often referred to WRAC by their school teachers or church groups and are sometimes apprehensive about the weekend.

But Maria said they ·are always enthusiastic about the adventure weekends afterwards, eager to go on other camps.

The organisation often uses a hostel owned by the Department of Social Welfare in Levin called Camp Peak or other camp grounds in the wilderness.

"The weekend camps are A set fee for the camps run on the lines of outward pays for food, petrol and bound although the other such expenses . If the programme is not so intense, families cannot afford to she said. send the child they can be

Teenagers from 12 to 17 subsidised by the WRAC. years take part in archery, Maria said· they still have a canoeing, trail bike riding, problem with transport. tramping, first aid and Police and RNZAF have absailing with the aim of continually supported them them harmonising as a group. in providing a van or bus.

"It's not a holiday But a crisis arose last year weekend. We are trying to during the Springbok tour teach them things and they when police needed the vans also have tasks to do like ' themselves. Maria said police washing the dishes," said have also been very helpful in Maria. providing outdoor

"We teach them to develop equjpment.

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The home of the Wellington Women's Hockey Association, Mt Albert Park is the battlefield for the senior women's hockey games every winter.

At the beginning of the season there are eight teams in the competition and promotion relegation rounds are played for the first few weeks after which two teams fall down to senior reserve status.

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YWCA, who have won it for nine years in a row, are keen to make it ten.

YWCA have not lost a game yet and as well as aiming for their tenth win overall they hope to notch up the elusive 100 goal· total for the whole season. They have 89 so far and there were three games left to play when this edition of Messenger went to press.

Wainuiomata are playing in the senior grade for the first time and, for a relatively inexperienced team, are going really well.

One of the games facing YWCA is against Tech Old Girls who are one of their toughest opponents. Tech will be trying hard to break YWCA's record but will find it pretty difficult to do so.

With the hockey season only a month or so away from its close it looks like YWCA will make this their tenth senior women's championship.

Video game fanatics will soon be able to displ!lY their expertise in the art of video games in an inter-parlour competition at the YMCA on September 1.

The battle between 64 video game experts from

· eight different parlours throughout Wellington for a trophy donated by Advance Automatics the big suppliers of video machines is in the school holidays.

The Police Youth Aid Section invented the competition as a school holiday activity. Constable Sid Holmes said the idea evolved out of their concern of the media coverage of ·video games as being "social demons".

Constable Holmes said that this is the first major competition to be held in Wellington and is an experiment for many more to come.

The object of this

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Parents of members of the -Tasman St institute gave an hour of their time to stand out on cit~· streets between the Railway Station and

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Institute director Douglas Meiklejohn said they expected the take to be less a~ there were fewer collectors than usual and the day was bad.

"In real winter conditions people aren't interested," he said.

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competition, according to Constable Holmes, is to encourag~ the parlour owners to police their own parlours and check truancy.

He also stressed that it is not just the whizz-kids competing but adults are participating as well; the games are a , source of relaxation and co-ordination. Constable Holmes said that physically disabled or non­achievers at school feel a sense of achievement 'in playing video games.

"We want to make the

public aware that even though in the past the video machine has been accused of numerous evil deeds in society, it can be used for constructive purposes in a controlled environment. The machine is not the offender but a symptom," he said.

Parlour owners will choose eight players with the team leader being the video king. The time limit for the games is four hours with winners and runners-up receiving gift vouchers given by the parlour owners.

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