by Claus Edward Fristrom (1864-1950), Australian

From this council document on its website, pages 66 and 70 respectively.  No details about what and where the proposed new toilets will be, but it seems that it is intended as a replacement for the ones in the Mahara Gallery building when that building is redeveloped (in the following financial year?)

Elsewhere there is also a mention of spending $10,000 on the Waikanae Beach Community Hall, but nothing specific is mentioned.

As usual, to find these things you need to trawl through a heap of details relating to the whole district.  Why can’t the WCB put them on its Facebook page? As David Roil said last year — Communication Communication Communication!

It’s National Volunteer Week and we’re honouring the selfless souls who volunteer for conservation—highlighting the diversity of conservation volunteers and volunteer opportunities around New Zealand.

via Volunteering their way around the country – a holiday with purpose — Conservation blog

A pic taken on Friday night by Sue Lusk in Mahara Place.  We said to Sue that the event is a little like an upside-down Christmas, and in fact what is now Christmas was originally a winter solstice Roman celebration.  When the emperor Constantine made Christianity official for the Roman Empire, they simply adapted an existing festival to celebrate the birth of Christ.

The wide-spread belief is that as more arctic ice melts with global warming, this will happen.

There are two problems with this theory, however.

Firstly, solid water (ice) occupies more volume than liquid water does.  Icebergs melting in the sea (and the whole North Pole zone is one giant iceberg, 90% of it below sea level) should result in a reduction of the volume of seawater, not an increase.  An easy experiment: fill a container with ice-cubes, pour in some water to represent sea level and see what happens to it when all the ice-cubes are melted.

Secondly, higher atmospheric temperatures should result in more seawater and freshwater evaporation into the atmosphere. Every minute, 900 million litres of rainwater fall on the world.  If more evaporates when it has fallen on land, less will flow into the sea.

It’s easy to see how the science involved with it all is the subject of a lot of debate.

This article on the Whale Oil blog examines the issue.

by Ernest Mervyn Taylor (1906-1964).  Presumably, in Reikorangi.

(ours)

In 2015 we suggested in a few posts that some shabby bus shelters and some bus stops that don’t have shelters in Waikanae could have creative ones installed as a public art project.  Nothing has happened on that (who’s surprised?)

It’s a regional council responsibility, not a KCDC one, but our community board could be proposing something to them.

More examples of the ones in Fairy Cross, England are on this blog page

Appropriate for the Matariki celebrations.  🙂  Unfortunately, the signature is illegible, but someone may recognise it.