30 km/hr on some EB roads?

Thirty km/hr speed limits around Wellesley College, Muritai School and some narrow streets look set to take effect, following an HCC review of speeds

While the focus was mainly on roads in school areas, council officers also looked at other roads in the area which would better suit 30km/h speed limits such as narrow local roads as well as urban/suburban roads with high pedestrian demands.

A total of 24 feedback responses were received with 14 fully supporting the changes. The council assumed the remainder to be ssupportive, as the officers had made changes in the proposal based on their feedback. Three people were against change.

The lowered limits are proposed for streets in which cars are driven at speeds around or below 30km/h as the streets cannot accommodate 50km/h speed limits.

“New proposed changes would improve safety and accessibility for other road users with minimum disruptions to car users as car users are currently already travelling at speeds close to 30km/h in proposed areas even when the posted speed limits in those areas are 50km/h,” the report says.

Officers say when cars travel at slower speeds than posted speed limits, it usually means that the road cannot accommodate the speeds, but it needs to be official. “It is important to have correct posted speed limits appropriate for the roads as there is a perceived sense of safety by following the speed limits.”

Officers say they have received feedback to make main roads such as Muritai Road and Marine Drive as variable speed limits.

Officers have considered all the feedback and updated the proposed changes on Muritai Road as variable 30km/h speed limits. However, part of Marine Drive around Wellesley has high pedestrian and traffic activities throughout the week.

What's Happening Hair!?

February 'round hair!

Calling everyone with long hair! What do you do to style your look? Here's some 2023 inspiration for you Keeping your hair interesting can be tricky when it's longer and it's very easy to just pop it up in a ponytail and get on with your day, but why not try out a few different looks!

Whether you use clips as a feature, or as a way to keep your hair slick, they are a great way to create a sleek at the front style while creating volume at the back To pull off what Gigi is rocking here, backcomb the back of your hair to create a subtle 60's volume, then for the front sections of your hair, create a middle part and clip each section back behind your ears for an amazing everyday, or going out look!

If you typically straighten your hair try to add some curls! The best way to create curls is to firstly make sure you use a volumising heat protectant/hair spray while your hair is still damp which you can texturise and add volume as you blow dry your hair This gives 'free' volume with little work required from you! Next, curl your hair with flat iron hair straighteners, the thicker your hair, the wider the irons should be to create a loose wavy look Finally, to keep the hair in place, hold your breath and give those wonderful curls about 10 seconds of spray with your favourite holding spray and voila! You're ready to head out!

If you've volumised, clipped back, and curled your hair too many times and want a new way to change up your long hair, a simple, yet bold way to change the look of long hair is to add a fringe! This can be a 'micro' fringe, a chic, half forehead look, it can be side bangs which blend into the long hair, or a simple traditional fringe!

Most importantly, it is vital to nourish your long hair with the right product no matter how you style it, after all it has been with you for many years! My new K18 mask is the best at-home way to replenish all those essential minerals and vitamins into your locks! This mask is so easy to use, after shampooing your hair twice, apply two pumps of the mask and comb through the hair Leave in for 3-5minutes and gently rinse with warm (not hot) waster It restores the hair from the inside out, letting the hair's natural shine, shine through!

Following the end of Kim Weber-Swain’s 18-month contract at 31 March 2023, the Eastbourne-Bays

Community Trust wishes to appoint a co-ordinator to administer the Okiwi volunteer driving service for EastbourneBays senior citizens.

The coordinator is contracted to the Trust at an agreed hourly rate. A job specification can be accessed on the website www. okiwi.org.nz or on the Okiwi Trust Facebook page.

The position offers a rewarding opportunity for a person to be involved in the community assisting those requiring the service and liaising with an established group of drivers giving freely of their time.

Kindly contact Trust chair George Tuffin on 027 243 1945 or email

George.tuffin@xtra.co.nz to seek further clarification on the position or to register your interest.

Next ECB meeting:

7.15pm Tuesday 28 February, 2023, East Harbour Women’s Club, 145 Muritai Rd.

The agenda for the meeting will be posted on huttcity.govt.nz and on the Board’s website eastbourne.nz a few days before the meeting. (The meeting on 14 February was deferred because of the weather that day).

Annual walkabout

The ECB’s annual walkaround Eastbourne will be on Saturday, 22 April. The walkabout is a chance for residents and resident associations to meet with the Board and a Council Officer as we travel from Point Howard to Burdan’s Gate. If you would like to speak to us about an issue or opportunity in your area, bay or street, please email belinda. moss@huttcity.govt.nz.

Climate change in Eastbourne

The next meeting of the Eastern Bays Climate Response Network is from 7 to 9pm, Wednesday 1 March, at St Ronan’s, Muritai Road. You can also sign up to be part of the Network at eastbourne.nz or email climateresponse@ eastbourne.nz.

Eastbourne Community Board (ECB)

If you have an issue or a suggestion for Council, please complete the Report a Problem form on huttcity.govt.nz first. For urgent issues, call 04 570 6666. Residents are welcome to contact Community Board members about other concerns. Members may ask for a report from officers for the next meeting. You can also contact us on the Eastbourne Community Board Facebook page and the Eastbourne.nz website.

Belinda Moss (Chair) belinda.moss@huttcity.govt.nz

029 494 1615

Bruce Spedding (Deputy Chair) bruce.spedding@huttcity.govt.nz

021 029 74741

Frank Vickers frank.vickers@huttcity.govt.nz

027 406 1419

Murray Gibbons murray.gibbons@huttcity.govt.nz

04 562 8567

Emily Keddell emily.keddell@huttcity.govt.nz

021 188 5106

Tui Lewis (Ward Councillor) tui.lewis@huttcity.govt.nz

021 271 6249

Jailhouse rock

Murray Gibbons is appealing to whoever took the doors off the historic Eastbourne jail building, (pictured right) which has sat outside the MenzShed for a couple of years, to return them so what was intended to be the “jewel in the crown” of the Historical Society’s Heritage Trail can be restored and conserved.

“It was the perfect situation for a burglar,” Mr Gibbons says. “There was no camera and no one living close by. It’s not a flimsy door and must have been quite an exercise. We hope someone might have heard or seen something.”

Recognising its significance, Mr Gibbons bought the structure, which sat behind the old police station, from iwi, when the police house was sold off. But some time between Thursday night and Friday morning last week the 10cm thick doors, thought to be totara or kauri, were wrenched from the two-cell building.

The rooms once used for sailors who’d jumped ship were used to store bait for local pest eradication operation MIRO, but none of that was taken and he says there was nothing else of value inside. The poison has been removed to a safe place.

Mr Gibbons has researched the stories behind some of the graffiti inside the structure. “There’s a wealth of bloody history here,” he says. “We’ve lost a treasure. I get quite worked up about it every time I talk about it.”

He says Hutt City Council have offered to move the building building - which is over 100 years old - to a more secure council facility.