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Warkworth identity Dave Parker’s 40 years as a Justice of the Peace has been recognised by the Auckland Justice of the Peace Association. A certificate marking the milestone was presented to Parker recently by association council member Tony Kortegast. Parker was encouraged by the late George Scandrett to become a JP.
“I was a central business in the township at the time, conveniently located for the public to access,” he recalls. “My application was endorsed by the late Peter Wilkinson MP and I was then sworn in at the former Warkworth District Court (now the offices of the Ngati Manuhiri Settlement Trust).”
Parker was both a Ministerial JP and also a Judicial JP, and did his training by regularly sitting on the bench of the court. He held the first HUB Training courses for Rodney JPs in the Warkworth RSA in the 1980s and 90s, and chaired the local JP training sessions. He currently runs a JP Clinic at the
Warkworth RSA every Friday, from 3.30pm. “That clinic has become so convenient and popular that two JPs are now required each week. It is an honour to have served our community as a volunteer in this manner,” Parker said.
