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Objection

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Frances Dickinson

I do NOT want our electorate boundaries to change. I live in Leigh and would like to remain as part of Rodney, where we have a strong local board who represent our needs accurately and fairly. Changing our electoral boundaries will mean increased confusion on how to get practical solutions delivered to our already lacking services (we are part of Auckland and still struggle to get basic needs met such as road repairs) and we are not even close to Hellensville - our new proposed area.

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Barbara Larsen

A large, northern, part of the present Rodney electorate is to be incorporated into part of the present Helensville electorate. The name Helensville for this new electorate is inappropriate and gives an inaccurate picture. Helensville is one town on the extreme west of the new electorate and bears no relationship to the towns and districts to the east. These towns and districts will be disadvantaged by the name Helensville

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David Inglis

It appears short sighted to name the proposed new electorate after a small declining town on the edge of the area. Warkworth is due to grow by up to 20000 in the next two decades, and will be the central focus of the electorate.

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Mrs Susan Crockett

Change the name of the proposed Helensville electorate.
I live in rural Wellsford, currently Northland Electorate. There are logical reasons for Wellsford to be part of Northland ie "Wellsford is the gateway to Northland"
Although I was expecting a change of electorate and aligning the boundary with the Auckland City boundary makes sense, the name Helensville makes no sense to me and even less to friends living in Matakana, Warkworth and further east.
Helensville is a town and does not reflect the district within the proposed electorate boundary.

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Christian Poland

I object to the name "Helensville" given Helensville objectively has a smaller population than Warkworth, which is also in the proposed electorate. The name Helensville seems like an arbitrary continuation. It does not unite the electorate, most of which was previously in the Rodney electorate which Warkworth as a community better aligned with.

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Mr Matt Railey

I object to removing Rodney as the name.
Rodney district is an area I am proud to call home. I have no affiliation with Helensville. Renaming an electorate a something people have little or no connection with further disenfranchises them and will negatively affect voter turnout.

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Peter Jenkins

This seat now includes large parts of the former Rodney seat which have no connection with and are quite distant from the town of Helensville. Mahurangi, Warkworth, the Matakana Coast and surrounding areas might look near Helensville on the map but are far apart and - more importantly - have no natural connection. It is not even a place that people drive to or through (given people drive straight down SH1 into the city). To be part of an electorate called Helensville is to be part of an electorate named after a distant town, we might as well be part of an electorate named Hamilton. This is particularly ridiculous when another, better suited name, exists.
Having an electorate name so detached from your area just seems to affirm the idea that politics and parliament have nothing to do with the local people. The MP for Helensville does not and will never feel like a local MP with that title.

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Carlie Blanchett-Burton

I object to the west and north of rodney being in a electorate named Helensville - Helensville is the name of a town on the West Coast so the electorate name does not reflect the whole area

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Mrs Carol Harrison

I object to the boundary adjusted electorate being called by a town name 'Helensville' it does not identify the whole area of the boundary adjusted electorate

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Miss Victoria Harrison

Helensville is a town and nothing to do with this area whereas 'Rodney' defines the whole area and in fact was the electorate name for this whole extended area many years ago.

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David Hoggard

The Helensville name is not appropriate as the seat is much changed from its previous boundaries and Helensville is neither the largest town in the electorate, nor a central point within it.

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Ms Raewyn Morrison

I do not agree with calling the electorate Helensville when Warkworth/Wellsford and the surrounding area which are proposed to be included in that electorate have no alignment whatsoever with Helensville. Helensville is on the west coast, Warkworth on the east. Warkworth in particular is identified as a growth or satellite town in the Auckland Plan and a more generic name rather than the particular name of a town (i.e. Helensville) gives people no real identity when they are from Warkworth/Wellsford. The name Helensville relates the that town specifically. I feel there will be many disgruntled voters in the Warkworth/Wellsford and surrounding area should the name Helensville prevail.

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Mrs Barbara Saunders

This area has been known historically as Rodney. It covered both eastern and western coasts and once included Helensville. The name Helensville only represent Helensville and its surrounds, not the entire area

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Cat Railey

'Rodney' is the name that is recognised as covering all the areas covered by the new boundary. The name Helensville is a township not an area. It makes sense to retain the name and identity of Rodney.

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Des Vize

I live in Warkworth. I do not think the name Helensville is appropriate for my new electorate which combines much of the old Helensville with a significant part of the old Rodney electorate. I would like to propose the name Atuanui for the new electorate. Atuanui (Mt Auckland) is half way between the two coasts and one can see most of the electorate from the summit.