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whitetail spiders

31 Friday Mar 2017

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whitetail-Spider-2Last month one of us was bitten by one in the garden, a species which we hadn’t seen before. It was surprisingly painful, although it had gone after a day.  Comments on the Kapiti Coast Facebook page included:

they can be very nasty! I got bit a few years back and turned into a very nasty like boil….. but am told it could have been much worse.

My friend had to have her liver looked at just yesterday as the poison from the whitetail bite was making its way there, she was on Iv antibiotics

Whitetail spider bites are not poisonous to humans. However they do carry bacteria which can cause pain and inflammation. Katipo spiders are endangered and are a close relative to the red back. A katipo bite can affect the CNS but is generally not considered to be deadly

Even though Whitetails are not poisonous they can cause very nasty side effects quite quickly so if it starts getting inflamed make sure you get it looked at by your gp

An application of No Spiders made by Kiwicare seems to have worked in dealing with them; their webpage on Whitetails.

Kiwicare is a company we have previously consulted about problematic insects, including ants, mosquitoes and living tree borer, and found them very helpful.  A cooperative effort by neighbours should help to eradicate pests like these, but unfortunately in our case we have a large business neighbour noted for its lack of good neighbourliness 😦

 

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the Maypole company development – 1

30 Thursday Mar 2017

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Application_for_Resource_Consent_-_Waimeha_Neighburhood_Development-13With its works for this massive property development now visibly underway from Te Moana Road, it is time to start reporting on this.  At present, what we know is what the council has given us — this consists of the company’s Resource Consent Application (1,002 pages of it) and the council’s decision — simply on the “Waimeha Neighbourhood Development Area within the Ngarara Zone”, the closest to Te Moana Road. As is clear from the company’s diagram (above), this is only a small part of the total land area that it intends to develop.

A detailed list of questions we sent to the company’s nominated representative simply resulted in a referral to the company’s website.  We attach no credence to glossy propaganda by property developers and will disregard it for practical analysis.

The company stated in its application that in this area alone, it wanted to create “280-330 household units” consisting of apartments in blocks of up to 3 stories plus hundreds of sections (i.e. lots) from 225 square metres to 725 square metres in size — which qualifies them as medium density — as well as “mixed use areas for business (retail and commercial activities.)” See below.

As all of it is within what is regarded as the Waikanae Beach zone, before reporting and commenting further we want to first meet with representatives of the Waikanae Beach Residents Society for their views on it all.

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businesses claiming eggs are free range when they are not, so they can charge more

29 Wednesday Mar 2017

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We have a couple of friends, one in Otaki, another in Akatawara, from whom we get free-range eggs as a swap for surplus citrus fruit.  They definitely taste a lot better than the caged hen version, so it surprises us that these businesses can get away with such falsehood.  It isn’t confined to eggs, of course, it happens a lot with alleged “organic” fruit and vegetables.

A timely look at the passing off in NZ of cage eggs as free range. Scams abound, people. I personally buy locally produced eggs from the market. Remember corporations think nothing of lying. Watch ‘The Corporation’ movie for proof of that. (Can be found on our Corporations page).

via The Recent Free Range Cage Eggs Scam Goes Back to 2011 — Rangitikei Enviromental Health Watch

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fun in Otaki

29 Wednesday Mar 2017

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Kite Festival Otaki

Last weekend saw the Kite Festival and if you missed it, the Facebook page has plenty of pics and vids.

In Otaki we took the opportunity to see what else there is, and discovered an idiosyncratic shop called Hipsta in the railway village.

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And, of course, a trip to Otaki wouldn’t be complete without a visit to the site of the infamous CleanTech centre on which the previous council wasted over $600,000 of ratepayers’ money (see earlier.)

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some motorists say the ‘Ewy’ has made their morning commute worse

29 Wednesday Mar 2017

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Ewy BetterorWorse

This morning’s DominionPost had this story to that effect.

It’s no surprise that a lot of people think it hasn’t improved much; the standard wisdom is that motorways don’t solve traffic congestion: they simply move it from one area to another, usually from the start of one to the end of it.  Any place where two lanes converge into one will see a bottleneck.

What is a surprise, however, is that 34% of respondents to the online poll think it is noticeably worse.  It makes you wonder why they think this: has there been a sudden surge in motorists using the road rather than the railway?  Unlikely.  Is the problem at the Raumati end where there is a two lane to one lane merge at present, or at MacKays where that has been the case for some time?  Maybe.

Another point of surprise was someone saying the train cost her $100 a month more than taking her car.  We can only assume she gets a free carpark with her job.  A very conservative estimate is that a car, overall, will cost you about 50 cents per km to run, so a 50 km run to Wellington will cost $25 each way (of that petrol will be about $6).  The train is more expensive than that?  We don’t think so.

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old Waikanae Fire Brigade appliance

28 Tuesday Mar 2017

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WVFB old truck

It looks like it is from the early 1950s.  The photo itself is probably from 1976-77. From the WVFB website.

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spare a thought for the small local grocer

27 Monday Mar 2017

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a cartoon on the KIN website

Last week the problem of juvenile delinquents routinely robbing dairies (or if you’re Australian, milkbars) in south Auckland — usually violently — was highlighted in the national media.  As well as cash, cigarettes and liquor are the main objectives.  It’s probable that most of these robbers are addicted to methamphetamine, which is now easier than ever to obtain.

The shop owners interviewed complained about the lack of police patrols, and as a result the offenders show no fear of being caught. The AM Show on Newshub (TV3) conducted a poll on whether dairy owners should carry guns — 46% of respondants said yes.

Fortunately, Waikanae is the opposite of south Auckland in terms of violence, but drug dealing and abuse is a definitely a problem in the town and the whole of Kapiti.

Being robbed is almost an occupational hazard for the small local grocer, so why not give them some of your custom to show that you care about them?

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what did the area around the Te Moana Road interchange used to look like?

27 Monday Mar 2017

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It’s likely people will steadily forget this, but thanks to Google Maps’ Streetview there is a little time capsule available, using the oldest option from 2008:

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Kotuku over Waikanae beach art by Lee Russell

27 Monday Mar 2017

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Kotuku Lee Russel

(from the Artel Gallery website)

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the council service desk in the Waikanae library is a getting security upgrade

27 Monday Mar 2017

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A message on the WCB Facebook page — maybe Dougherty is worried about ratepayers showing up there irate about their ever-increasing rates and water bills to fund his empire?


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From today (Tuesday 21 March) some alternations are occurring in the Waikanae Library on the ground floor and will last for about a month.

These alterations are to improve the safety of Council staff and visitors. The main difference seen by visitors will be a safety wire installed across the front of the Council Customer Services desk.

Preparatory works start today (Tuesday 21 March), with the relocation of the Community Information Centre to the library’s ground floor display space. The aim is to relocate Library and Customer Services staff to other ground floor areas ready for building works to commence from next week (Monday 27 March) onwards.

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