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Dargaville District News : May 16th 2012
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www.dargavillenews.co.nz Wednesday, May 16, 2012 HAMMONDS Lawyers The local law firm committed to you and your community Hokianga Road, Dargaville • Email hammonds.law@xtra.co.nz The team at Hammonds provide the highest quality legal service and advice in all areas of law and business including: • All property and business transactions, residential, rural and commercial • The establishment of business structures, companies and trusts • Asset protection, wills, succession issues and administration of estates • Matrimonial and other family issues • Criminal, civil and family litigation PHONE 09 439 7099 TODAY Angry Going places E-EDITION ONLINE At least 2500 angry Mangawhai ratepayers took to the streets in protest against the Kaipara District Council's proposed rate rises at the weekend -- P3. Buckling down into her books has more than paid off for Arapaoa woman Marina Heteraka. Her story -- P8. Some of the best surfers in the country showed off their skills in the AB3 contest. Visit us online and click latest edition. Read the Oily Rag blog for tips on frugal living. This week the Newmans look at water heaters. Go to dargaville.news. co.nz. Grad at age 83 By ROSE STIRLING Golden oldies: Dawn Taylor, 83, with her 90-year-old husband Laurie celebrating her graduation. CONTINUED Page 2 EIGHTY-three-year-old Dawn Taylor is living proof you are never too old to learn. In between milking cows and helping out with five grandchildren she has com- pleted a post-graduate dip- loma in arts majoring in English. I was always the oldest in the class but the younger people were so good to me and I really made a lot of friends. They treated me like a mother,'' she says. Mrs Taylor dropped out of school in form 4. After her three children left home she passed School Certificate and University Entrance at the age of 62. Mrs Taylor was encour- aged by her teachers to head to university 19 years ago and hasn't looked back enrol- ling in a bachelor of arts majoring in English and women's studies. She says age shouldn't be a barrier to learning and she reckons older folk are poss- ibly more determined to pass because they can't afford to re-sit papers. It costs a bit on the pocket,'' she says. I think it's very important to study as it gives you a wider outlook on life, and you make lots of friends. I've made friends for life. People always ask me why are you doing that and what are you going to do?' and I say that I enjoy it, it keeps my brain active and you're never too old to learn.'' Mrs Taylor says studying has more than kept her mind young and has also encour- aged other family members to take the plunge into ter- tiary learning. Her son Brian is doing a degree in history and several of her grandchildren have been inspired to study. One of her biggest supporters is her husband Laurie who she met when working as a general nurse at Dargaville Hospital. They married when she was 21 and a year later she gave birth to the first of three children. They have been together 63 years. Mrs Taylor wanted to write up her husband's war- time stories and thought her lack of formal qualifications would hinder the project, so she headed back to school. Kids plant 400 trees Big dig: Mason Foster, 12, Taylor Morgan, 13, and Kaylah Stevens, 12, prepare for their big dig. Photo: JO BELWORTHY By JO BELWORTHY CONTINUED Page 15 More than 400 trees reared from seed by Dargaville Intermediate pupils are now growing west of the town- ship. Integrated Kaipara Har- bour Management Group bought 5000 plants, mainly kanuka, manuka and flax, from the students' school for Hal Hardy's Aoroa farm. The property was chosen to highlight excellent riparian management prac- tices, principal Diane Pap- worth says. The harbour manage- ment group has a vision of planting two million trees in the Kaipara area by 2015,'' she says. Members want the com- munity to be involved in that and our school is part of the plan.'' The school nursery opened last year and the pupils have sown the seeds, transplanted the small plants, watered and nurtured them. Finn Harper, 12, is looking forward to seeing the trees grow and helping out the Kaipara Harbour so we can get snapper'', he says. Credence Baker, 11, has learnt that planting trees helps the environment.
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