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Alan
Cole – Elected Member
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Franklin Local Board
representative. Was previously a representative of Federated Farmers, found
it was good to work with Council staff and got some really good understanding
of Unitary Plan rules.
Alan was a dairy farmer,
has now gone to beef farming. Represents a diverse rural economy.
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Andrew McKenzie – Beef
& Lamb NZ
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Andrew is a sheep and
beef farmer from Helensville.
Andrew is also Chair of
the Farmer Council, and is on the Beef and Lamb Executive.
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Astrid Lambert – Equine
Industry (alternate)
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Astrid represented the
equine industry on the last panel. The Auckland equine group is well
established, and represents all across the sector, it is a diverse group of
different industry organisations.
Geoff Smith is the Chair
of group and is taking over for this term. Astrid will be stepping in for
Geoff when he is not available. Astrid’s passion is business performance.
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Bill Bourke – Aggregate
& Quarry Association
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Bill is back-up to Roger
Parton, his aim is to pursue the key interests of the industry, for example, concerns
over the sterilisation of potential quarrying assets and reverse sensitivity
of existing quarries.
Bill feels that working
with staff last term was excellent, although they didn’t get everything they
wanted in the Unitary Plan.
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Bill Cashmore – Elected Member
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Chair of the Rural Advisory Panel,
Franklin Ward Councillor, Farmer.
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Brian Mason – Landowners
& Contractors Protection Association Inc
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Landowners is a grass
roots advocacy group. Brian enjoyed the relationships built last term and
found them valuable.
Brian has been a dairy
farmer in Tomorata for 45 years, this is near the northern extremity of
Auckland and the area has diverse problems.
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Bronwen Turner – Western
Rural Property Owners
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Bronwen is a retired
volunteer representing rural property owners in the west; this is difficult
with the Heritage Act affecting Bethells to Huia.
Bronwen’s Great
Grandfather bought a property in Huia; he was the Turner of ‘Turners and
Growers’.
Bronwen has worked in
the US in business development in Denver and for a coal company and in
government relations in rural America.
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Callum MCallum –
Acquaculture Industry
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Clevedon Oysters, beef
farmer, been farming since 1986. Callum runs a couple of blocks of land,
sheep and beef.
Callum’s main aim is to talk
about aquaculture and to promote water quality.
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Chris Keenan –
Horticulture NZ
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Horticulture NZ works
for growers, Chris represents them around the country and is involved in 48
planning processes across NZ, which he really enjoys.
Chris is involved in many
of these sorts of groups and feels it is important as a way to improve
processes.
Chris is also a member
of the Gisborne Freshwater Advisory Group, Waikato, Northern Horticulture
Forum, an advisory group in Canterbury and setting up horticulture groups
like this to work with Council, improving the way we farm.
Chris feels that farmers
have made a lot of changes and that there is a need for all parties to
continue to change, not just the farmers.
Chris enjoys all of the
challenges of becoming better at what we do, for all New Zealanders.
Chris has spent four
years on the Land and Water Forum and has a keen interest in Auckland, he
moved from Greymouth when he was15 and lives in Wellington with his wife and
two children.
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Geoff Smith – Equine
Industry
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Vice President of the
Royal Agricultural Society of New Zealand – Chairman of the Auckland Equine
Industry Group, balance of rural and urban ensuring people understand the
significance of agriculture to the economy.
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Helen Moodie – Dairy NZ
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Based in Whangarei, Helen has a
history in Auckland; she was with the Auckland Regional Water Board, then
Auckland Regional Council until 1996. Her role is in Dairy NZ catchment
engagement, sustainability space - covering Northland and Auckland.
Helen’s focus is to get up to speed
with what is happening in Auckland and to identify issues that affect the
dairy industry.
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John Glasson (Federated
Farmers alternate)
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John has been a dairy
farmer all his life, except when away studying, lives to the south of the
Kaipara harbour on a 54 ha dairy farm.
John joined Federated
Farmers 45 years ago to see what they were doing and was impressed so he
stayed on.
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Keith Vallabh – Pukekohe
Vegetable Growers Association
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Keith is representing
growers from one coast to the other, covering a large area.
Keith is an active
grower and past president of the Pukekohe Vegetable Growers, he has been the
Pukekohe chair for the last six years and a member of numerous other
horticulture committees.
The Association is
affiliated to Horticulture NZ and Chris Keenan does a lot of work for it. The
group has a good relationship with the Council, since the sustainability
project, which was born in 1997/8 due to floods. Council was a funder of the
project, which has worked extremely well re sediment control, there is less sediment
going into the rivers and have avoided abatement notices working with
council. The group is committed to keeping up the good work with both
councils.
Keith is also a
representative of the Indoor Growers Association.
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Marie Appleton – Rural
Women NZ
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Marie is from Pukekohe and is the
National Finance Chair of Rural Women NZ, interested in a rural perspective
and ensuring that people working on farms are taken note of.
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Peter Spencer - NZ Forest Owners Association
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Peter’s day job is working
for a forestry company. Looking back at the last term, Peter enjoyed the
interaction and getting closer to staff and politicians.
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Richard Gardner –
Federated Farmers
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Senior Policy Advisor,
Richard was bought up with his sisters on a large farm in Glorit which was
bought in the 1860s; the farm is converting to dairy and has 70 acres of
forest.
The farming operation
includes sand mining, conservation and is engaged in a pest management
programme which introduced kiwis and is a tourism venture.
Richard has a diverse
range of interests – policy and legal work, fresh water and salt water in
Hawkes Bay.
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Roger Parton – Rural
Contractors NZ and Aggregate & Quarry Association
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Executive Director of
Aggregate & Quarry Association and rural contractors.
Roger is based in
Wellington and enjoyed the last three years on the Panel.
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Thomas Grace – Elected
Member
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Rodney Local Board
representative. Thomas is a former dairy farmer, now farming beef. Thomas was
a two-term councillor in Rodney, and is now a local board member.
Thomas is passionate
about the rural sector and fighting for a fair deal for people in his patch.
Thomas is a member of the Auckland Conservation Board and enjoys being a
member of the RAP.
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Trish Fordyce - NZ Forest Owners Association
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Trish is a lawyer by
profession; she has been involved in the forestry industry for 35 years.
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Wendy Clark – Federated
Farmers
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Wendy’s Auckland Council priority
for the last two years has been the Unitary Plan and it will continue to be
until it is put to bed, there are further submissions to be made.
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