Media Release by Fiji Club New Zealand (FCNZ) ©
Bringing Communities Together ©
Monday, March 12, 2012
Auckland, New Zealand
Writers & Poets Speak
Creative and humorous North Shore, Auckland based writers and poets passionately read their prose and poems at the
historical and cozy PumpHouse Theater, which is located at the bottom of the Lake Pupuke crest, on Sunday, March 11.
The PumpHouse used to cater for the water supply of the residents of Takapuna, Milford and the surrounding areas in the
early settler period by retrieving water from the deepest lake in Auckland, Lake Pupuke.
“Our members enjoyed the many prose and poems that notables like Angela Reading, Evan Andrew, Pam Laird, Ann Hollier
Ruddy, Don Jonston and others read so enthusiastically,” said Alton Shameem president of Fiji Club New Zealand (FCNZ}.
“Braveheart Don Jonston read “The Scottish Poem” where many of legendary Scottish were mentioned like Robert Burns,
James Watt, Alexander Graham Bell, Robert Louis Stevenson and others. Don also read the classic poem of John Keats
Sonnet, “On First Looking into Chapman’s Homer”.
“Immigrant Helen Welsh read her poem “The Baobab” that nostalgically covered a piece on country church in North Devon,
England and also her experience in Malawi in Africa” said Alton Shameem the community leader.
“Writer and freelance photographer Bev Robitai delivered a prose from her novel Murder in the Second Row.
“During the interval we gathered into the peaceful lakeside French Café for coffee and light meal as the divers in their
slick, slim black suits were emerging from the Lake Pupuke like Ninjas in the night.
“We all had a wonderful, creative, humorous, engaging and relaxing time on a lazy, hazy, showery Sunday” said Alton
Shameem JP the New Zealander – native Fijian.
ENDS.