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Each week I’m providing a quick summary of the meetings and events I’ve attended as a member of the Howick Local Board (HLB).
This is my report for last week, starting Monday 19 October (a little later this week due to the long weekend and other work commitments).
ALT Weekly Wrap Up: 19 October 2026. What I've been doing as one of your Botany representatives on the Howick Local Board
On Saturday I attended the South East Auckland Senior Citizens Association Diwali event, along with Chair Bruce Kendall, Deputy Krish Naidu, and Member Adele White. It was wonderful to celebrate this important cultural festival.
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Meetings/activities planned for this week:
📅Tue 27 October: Counselling Service Centre 40th Anniversary Dinner
📅Wed 28 October: Business East Tāmaki AGM
📅Sat 31 October: Halloween at Howick Historical Village (facebook.com/share/1HVMoGEFS…)
🕯️Happy Diwali!
Dipavali, commonly known as Diwali, is Hindu festival of lights, with variations celebrated in other Indian religions. It is associated with spiritual victory or triumph of Dharma over Adharma, light over darkness, good over evil, and knowledge over ignorance.
Modern India is a federal union made up of 36 regions, each with distinct cultural heritage & traditions. Together with global diaspora, Indian culture is diverse & varied. Wonderful to see many of these represented by different dress & dance, celebrating their diversity.
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Due to changes in legislation, you must be enrolled by midnight Sunday 25 October to vote in this year's election.
Previously you could enrol all the way up to and on election day. But this Government has changed the laws (more proof voting matters).
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Public access to the wider car park will remain available throughout the works wherever practicable, and all activities will be undertaken in accordance with health and safety requirements.
🚧 Construction of new dump station in Half Moon Bay - November 2026.
This will provide an environmentally safe and responsible way for motorhomes, campervans, and caravans to empty their self-contained wastewater.
ALT New dump station for Half Moon Bay. New infrastructure to support motorhome and caravan users travelling through East Auckland.
The single bay station will be located next to the existing public toilets, which reduced the construction cost and provides better value for money.
Pleased to confirm construction will begin on Monday 2 Nov and take ~2 weeks (subject to weather).
It's taken longer than we'd hoped due to limited budgets & complexity of installing wastewater infrastructure close to water. But pleased to see it will be in place for Summer.
At the end of 2023, the old dump station at the Half Moon Bay marina was closed due to rising costs and issues with vandalism. In 2024 the Howick Local Board received a lot of feedback that locals wanted a dump station returned to East Auckland.
Due to changes in legislation, you must be enrolled by midnight Sunday 25 October to vote in this year's election.
Previously you could enrol all the way up to and on election day. But this Government has changed the laws (more proof voting matters).
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