With experience as an Auckland City Councillor, and former member of the Waitemata Local Board, local Greg Moyle is standing for the Board in the coming by-election.
With experience as an Auckland City Councillor, and former member of the Waitemata Local Board, local Greg Moyle is standing for the Board in the coming by-election.
Moyle is a man of many parts. He has been a member of the Mount Albert Grammar School Board of Trustees for about twenty years, the last ten as Chair.
He is a former NZ Army Major, and is the Chairman of the NZ War Memorial Museum Trust in Le Quesnoy, France. The trust is raising funds to purchase and repurpose the historic former Mayor’s residence in Le Quesnoy, as the museum’s headquarters. There will be nine accommodation units, one for staff and eight for visitors. Le Quesnoy is very short of places for visitors to stay. The trust’s vision is to remember the New Zealanders who fought and died for our freedom and to illustrate New Zealand’s role in both world wars, by establishing the first permanent New Zealand War Memorial Museum in the town of Le Quesnoy.
Less well known is Greg Moyle’s gardening prowess. He likes to say he has two garden farms - one on the Hauraki Plains and one in Herne Bay. In his Herne Bay home garden Greg grows a multitude of vegetables, some of which he sells at the Grey Lynn Farmers Market to raise money for his Gardening in Schools project. Eight local schools benefit from this programme. He also has hens, and bee hives. The eggs and honey that his family can’t eat, also go towards the schools’ garden project.
On his Hauraki Plains farm Greg Moyle grows avocados, macadamia nuts, feijoas, persimmons, walnuts, and a wide variety of fruit. He has a five acre orchard.
As an accountant and financial planner, Greg loves to get outside and commune with nature. He likes to get his hands dirty, make compost, grow seedling native plants, feeding his family, and having a bit left over for friends and his beloved schools project.
Greg Moyle says he belongs to no political party, and professes to be greener than many Green Party members.
He has a water tank for his garden, and is thinking about installing solar power panels on his roof, now that prices have become more reasonable.
Greg Moyle has the time and energy to serve again, and has a motivation to balance the Waitemata Board composition. At present it is heavily dominated by City Vision members (five out of seven). “Although I won’t have majority support on the board, I aim to bring a different perspective on some issues,” he told Ponsonby News. My positions will not be party political.
If neighbours think Greg has too many chooks, he has said, probably with tongue firmly in cheek, “I’ll cut the number of hens and get a couple of pigs.” We should all be growing more on our urban properties. Greg Moyle is leading the way. (JOHNN ELLIOTT)