Ngaio Crofton Downs Residents Association

The Annual general meeting of Ngaio Crofton Downs Residents Association will be held at:

Ngaio Union Church (corner Kenya St /Crofton Rd)
from 7:30pm on Wednesday 15 November 2023

The guest Speaker will be Greg O’Connor—MP for Ōhāriu

All residents of Ngaio and Crofton Downs are invited

The AGM will be followed by supper.

This coming Saturday 4 November is our next recycling day – 10am to noon at Ngaio Union Church, Crofton Road.

A reminder on how best to recycle with us

1. If your recycling can go in the roadside collection – please use that.
2. From time to time we pick up recycling that has been left at the church door. That is fine if you cannot get to the hall during recycling hours, but only leave there on Saturday morning, make sure it is secure (will not blow away), and that items are separated.
3. Please separate the plastic lids into type 2 and type 5. Anything not marked, or other numbers cannot be accepted for recycling
4. Tetrapaks have turned into our biggest collection by volume – but please make sure they are rinsed clean and dry. We really love collecting tetrapaks that are slit open and laid flat
5. These instructions are to help everyone – recycling is not just throwing out rubbish. Following the simple instructions above means less work for our volunteers and makes life more pleasant.

What we take each month includes:

• Plastic lids type 2. These lids must be marked with the type 2 recycling symbol.
• Plastic lids type 5. These lids must be marked with the type 5 recycling symbol.
• Metal Lids etc –including for eg Crown caps, metal screw tops, sparkling wine wires, metal jar lids, ring-pull caps.
• Household and hearing aid batteries.
• Oral care products and packaging from Colgate (is sent back to Colgate). Does not include electric toothbrush heads).
• Curtains – must be mould free so they can be re-purposed.
• Wool balls of wool which Crafty Volunteers, can use in their knitting for charity.
• Rubber bands from delivered Dominion Posts

Hoping to see you there

Ian

It is time again for our annual photo competition, for which the winning announcement are tied in with our AGM .

The categories for 2023 have been set as: heritage, landscape, and birdlife – a very wide interpretation of each category will be accepted, and we will put them into one of the categories when they are submitted.

Eligible entries will need to be still photos taken in Ngaio or Crofton Downs, with no restrictions on date or type of camera. They can be taken at any time – if you have a favourite sitting in an album, then that can be entered as long as it was taken locally.

There is also no age limits on the photographer – all budding photographers are welcome to enter.

To submit your entry, email it to  photo@ngaio.org.nz (preferably as an attachment) and we will sort them into a category.  The deadline for entries is 5 November, with the winners announced at our AGM on 15 November.

There are prizes of $50 for the winner of each section, and all entrants will receive a one year membership of NCDRA.

A reminder that this Friday, 29 September from 7.30pm tere will be a public meeting at the Ngaio Town Hall to meet our candidates who are standing in the General Election for the Ōhāriu electorate.

We are expecting all candidates, and with just a couple of weeks before voting closes, this is a good chance to put those good questions that you want answered before finally casting your vote.

We are planning something a bit different alongside our October recycling day. With the Sustainability Trust, we will be holding a workshop on homw composting – recycle your food scraps properly as well as your lids and tops.

The workshop is free, and lasts for one hour during the regular recycling time. Bring along your recycling and stay for the workshop.

This is a free event – but you need to register – see the poster, send your name(s) to info@ngaio.org.nz. Attendees will receive a free rat proofing kit.

And a reminder too – the next recycling day is Saturday 2 September, 10.00am to noon at the Ngaio Union Church (every first Saturday of the month), and at the September collection we will also be taking ewaste (excludes monitors).

This Saturday is our next recycling day – 10am to noon at Ngaio Union Church, Crofton Road.

Over that few months, there has been some change in what we are collecting  so there is a full update below, but first a couple of requests for everyone to follow:

How to recycle with us

1. If your recycling can go in the roadside collection – please use that.
2. From time to time we pick up recycling that is left at the church door. That is fine if you can not get to the hall during recycling hours, but only leave there on Saturday morning, make sure it is secure (will not blow away), and that items are separated.
3. Please separate the plastic lids into type 2 and type 5. Anything not marked, or other numbers will not be accepted for recycling
4. Tetrapaks have turned into our biggest collection by volume – please make sure they are clean and dry, and if possible slit open and laid flat
5. These instructions are to help everyone – recycling is not just throwing out rubbish – following the simple instructions above means less work for our volunteers and makes life more pleasant (there have been  some nasty surprises amongst the tetrapaks!)

What we take each month includes:

• Plastic lids type 2. These lids must be marked with the type 2 recycling symbol.
• Plastic lids type 5. These lids must be marked with the type 5 recycling symbol.
• Metal Lids etc –including for eg Crown caps, metal screw tops, sparkling wine wires, metal jar lids, ring-pull caps.
• Household and hearing aid batteries.
• Oral care products and packaging from Colgate (is sent back to Colgate). Does not include electric toothbrush heads).
• Curtains – must be mould free so they can be re-purposed.
• Wool balls of wool which Crafty Volunteers, can use in their knitting for charity.
• Rubber bands from delivered Dominion Posts

We can no longer take (but are looking for future options)

• Pens etc
• Razors and shaving equipment
• Bread bag tags

Additional Collections

Each month we have one additional collection (so we can handle what comes in) so plan ahead for these collections for the rest of the year:

On June 8th, we are lucky to have Joshua Forrest, from the Fish Passage team, Greater Wellington Regional Council (GWRC) talking to us about his work with the Kaiwharawhara Stream. The stream and its tributaries are an important part of our area, and give us one of our taonga – Trelissick Park.

GWRC are undertaking a programme of work to reduce fish passage barriers and Kaiwharwhara Stream is aselected catchment. Mitigating the barriers will see more fish naturally reaching the higher reaches of the waterways.

Josh will discuss the work of his team, highlighting their engagement with the Kaiwharawhara through his
role as Kaiāpiha Papa Atawhai / Biodiversity Ranger – Fish Passage.

Thursday June 8

Ngaio Union Church

Cnr Kenya St and Crofton Road, Ngaio

from 7.30pm

Our Monthly recycling collection is on again tomorrow – First Saturday of every month, 10am to 12 noon, at Ngaio Union Church.

Remember, the plastic caps we collect must be marked with the recycling mark 2 or 5, and will need to be seperated.

This month we will also be accepting used these used coffee pods,

– Nespresso,

– Nescafé® Dolce Gusto®

– L’OR, Moccona, illy or Jed’s coffee.

For a schedule of the additional items that we will collect each month, check this post – Schedule of Recycling Collections