The Eastbourne Herald June 2020

Shared path trial set for Maire Street ‘squeeze point’

by Carlton McRae

The Eastbourne Community Board has been working with Hutt City Council to improve pedestrian and cycle access through the area at the end of Maire St. Board chair Virginia Horrocks says the ECB decided to trial a pathway for pedestrians and cyclists, from the end of the Esplanade to the Rec sports ground, and contacted all neighbours in the area, to talk to them about the proposal and to respond to their concerns and questions.

Ms Horrocks says that some time later when a design was received from Council traffic engineers, the ECB showed it to all the neighbours they could contact, before publishing it on the Eastbourne Community Facebook page.

The ECB has received several requests in recent years regarding a safe way for pedestrians and cyclists to navigate the well-used parking area. Board member, Frank Vickers says that during discussions with local residents several stories came out about their cars being hit by reversing drivers. Even the lampposts have been hit on several occasions.

But the safety of cyclists and pedestriansparticularly children and the elderly - also at risk of being struck by reversing cars, is deemed paramount. Mr Vickers says that by separating these other users from vehicles, it will make it safer for everyone.

“The cost of this work [approximately $3,000] will come from an unused ECB training budget, which will otherwise be lost at the end of the financial year,” Frank Vickers says. “For the 90-metre stretch, this comes out at around $33 per metre, which given the safety aspects, I think represents good value for money.”

HCC officers advised The Eastbourne Herald that the shared path is expected to

be installed next week if weather permits, or as soon as practical after that. The ECB has further requested that HCC develops options for a safe shared walking and cycling route, with appropriate facilities and development, along the foreshore between Windy Point and Burdan’s Gate. Particular attention is to be given to ‘squeeze points’, as identified by the board; areas such as the end of Maire Street, where there are potential safety hazards.

Not all feedback has been positive, however. Concerns have been raised as to whether this trial is even necessary in the first instance. Some Facebook correspondents said it may, in fact, create more hazardous conditions than exist at present. ‘A waste of money’ and ‘more visual pollution’ were two terms used by commenters.

HCC spokesperson Caryn Ellis says the council's traffic engineer has checked

the system for reports on accidents (Police/ insurance) and there are no ‘crash’ records.

“We have also checked the complaints register,” she says, “and there have been no complaints made to council around cars reversing or safety issues in that area. We have had several requests to stop vehicles parking in front of the steps to the beach, which will be addressed by this proposal.”

“The main point, I think, is that it is a trial,” Frank Vickers says. “This is about what is best for the whole community and overwhelmingly, the feedback I have received on the Maire Street initiative has been positive.”

The Eastbourne Community Board says it is aware that not all residents use social media and it is their intention to talk directly to affected residents wherever possible.

HCC artist’s impression of the Maire Street trial of a shared pathway.

Public transport fares returning on July 1

Now that New Zealand has moved to alert level 1 and physical distancing restrictions have been lifted, Metlink has announced that full fares will return across the region on July 1 Fares, including the handling of cash, were temporarily suspended to support the Government’s public health response to the COVID-19 Pandemic.

Metlink General Manager, Scott Gallacher, says that Metlink has been working very closely with the Government on the safest and fairest time to reintroduce full fares to passengers across the region.

Advice from the Ministry of Health is that it is safe to handle cash, provided this is done responsibly. Good hand hygiene remains essential, with passengers and staff continuing to wash or sanitise their hands as soon as they can during, before and after travel.

“We’re asking passengers to use contactless payments wherever possible,” says Mr. Gallacher, “that means Snapper on buses, monthly passes or 10-trip tickets on trains, and eftpos on the ferries. Where cash needs to be used we’re encouraging people to use exact change to reduce any unnecessary money handling.”

The GM says that Metlink continue to work

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with Snapper on reviewing the coverage of Snapper kiosks across the greater Wellington region. A Snapper App for Android phones is available and an iPhone app is being launched within the next month or so.

Coralie Christian from East by West Ferry Co says that fares will be re-introduced on their service as from July 1st, all details and schedules can be found in their advertisement in this month's Eastbourne Herald

Beach clean-up this Saturday, volunteers sought

In association with the Wellington Tramping and Mountaineering Club, Fiona Millington has organised a mid-winter Burdan’s Gate to Pencarrow Lighthouse beach clean up, this Saturday, June 27th (9am-1pm).

“We have the Petone Beach Cleanup Crew, WTMC (as part of their community outreach trips) and Clean Streets NZ also planning on helping out,” says Fiona. “Fingers crossed for

the weather.”

Hutt City Council will be providing bags and coffee sacks for those taking part and Fiona says anyone and everyone is welcome.

“Come along for half an hour or a few hours,” she adds, “walk or bring a bike. Bring warm clothing and hydration. If you have gardening gloves, grabbing sticks, small rakes and a cutting device, they'd all be useful.”

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Sailing calls at Somes Island, subject to passengers.

FERRY FARES EFFECTIVE FROM 15 JULY One way: adult $12, child $6. Family Days Bay $66 (Return). 10 trip: adult $90, student $68, child $45. Monthly pass: adult $270, student $199, child $135. Matiu Somes Island: adult $25, child $13, family $68 (Return).

Next ECB meeting:

7.15 pm Tuesday 25 August 2020, East Harbour Women’s Club, 145 Muritai Road.

Reporting a problem to HCC

If you see any issues or problems with a Hutt City Council services or would like to make a request, you can log it at huttcity.govt.nz. Look for the ‘Report It’ link on the homepage.

If the problem is urgent, for example, noise, pollution, sewer, water, stormwater and animal issues, please call HCC on 570 6666.

Trial shared pathway at Maire Street

The ECB has worked with HCC to improve pedestrian and cycle access and safety through the area at the end of Maire Street. HCC has agreed to paint a trial shared pathway through the area. The area is used for parking and the pathway will help to separate vehicles from other uses. A map of the proposal on the Eastbourne Community Notice Board Facebook page generated comments and suggestions both for and against the idea. The ECB also consulted residents in the area.

Williams Park tennis courts

The ECB has met with Days Bay residents, Wellesley College and HCC as all parties discuss a proposal by Wellesley to improve the courts’ surface and make changes so the courts can also be used for other activities. Contact Virginia Horrocks, ECB if you’d like more information about this.

Eastbourne Community Board (ECB)

Residents are welcome to contact board members. Members often sort minor issues directly with council staff or may ask for a report from officers to go on the next agenda. You can also contact us on the Eastbourne Community Board Facebook page.

Virginia Horrocks (Chair)

virginia.horrocks@huttcity.govt.nz

Ph 021 230 8210

Murray Gibbons (Deputy Chair) murray.gibbons@huttcity.govt.nz

Ph 04 562 8567

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

Ph 04 970 5159

Bruce Spedding bruce.spedding@huttcity.govt.nz

Ph 021 029 74741

Frank Vickers

frank.vickers@huttcity.govt.nz

Ph 027 406 1419

Belinda Moss

belinda.moss@huttcity.govt.nz

Ph 029 494 1615

Sport's back to banish the blues

Just in time to curtail the boredom of winter - following isolation, restrictions and social distancing  practices. Local athletes, children and adults alike, are all rejoicing that sport is finally back on the menu.

Football re-commenced for the Masters grades on Saturday, June 6th. The Eastbourne FC are fielding three Masters sides this season and two of them were on the hallowed Bishop Park turf on June 13th.

In the early match, the Thirsty Fives (Masters 6, featuring Christophe) had a comprehensive 3-0 win against Wainuiomata. Matt Mullet and Richard Lane scored first half goals for the TF’s. Keeper, Greg Claridge saved a penalty, before former-keeper and club stalwart, Geoff Morphew, stepped up himself and scored from the spot.

Shared Path

Hutt City Council is still progressing the resource consent and now have a set of draft conditions that they will be forwarding to Greater Wellington Regional Council for their information. The revised hearing date has  yet to be agreed.

With respect to the ‘shovel ready’ application, the project has got past the first sift by the  Government’s Infrastructure Group (there were over 1,900 national projects submitted initially) and along with the remaining 800 projects, is to be considered by Ministers.

The Geriatrics (with Dean), played the late fixture, but unfortunately went down by 0-2 to Seatoun, in the most fervent of sea-side derbies.

EFC’s third team, The Hammers, played their game on the turf in Petone, winning by 4-2 against the Naenae Antiques. The Hammers are playing in a Qualifier grade, hoping to gain promotion to Masters 1. They currently sit atop that grade, with two wins from two matches and a sizeable goal advantage.

Junior football had been reinstated that morning.

Junior rugby returned the following day, with a tackle technique and skills workshop at HW Shortt Park. Inter club tackle grades commenced last weekend, with games set to continue through the school holidays. The Junior Rugby season will end on August 29.

Eastbourne FC legends, Christophe Cottereau and Dean Burrows, give the thumbs up that it’s great to finally have football back on the menu.

Development needs community support: Wellesley

The recent proposal by Wellesley College to upgrade and expand the use of the Williams Park tennis courts has aroused community concern about the preservation of the courts for public use and the feasibility of the proposed mesh curtain, that is viewed as essential to the development.

Following a report on the curtain by local resident David Reid, a professional mechanical engineer, the Eastbourne Community Board wrote to Hutt City Council to draw attention to a number of technical concerns as outlined in his report.

Wellesley College has welcomed the report and assured the ECB that the issues raised in it will be taken into consideration when their final designs are drawn up. They are commissioning a firm of engineers to ensure the design is robust. The board has received an assurance that as land owner, the council also needs to be satisfied that the system is appropriate.

ECB Chair Virginia Horrocks says the council has also assured the board that; “the proposal has always been to retain tennis as the primary use with the space function broadening. The tennis nets will be put back in place at the end of each use by Wellesley to ensure the tennis availability is maintained.

“We have also been given an undertaking that, should the curtain system fail, council will look to replace it with a permanent fence,” Virginia says. “This would ensure the preservation of the integrity of the present six

tennis courts.”

Wellesley College Board of Trustees Chair Pippa Hogg says the school is investing in the much-needed refurbishment of the facility to improve it for the benefit of all who use it.

“Wellesley sees its significant investment in the community project as a contribution to Days Bay and beyond to the entire Eastbourne and other communities,” she says.

“Without this support the courts would not be able to be upgraded. The school will only use the entire facility 2–3 afternoons per week during school term hours and the facility will remain available to the public on exactly the same basis as is currently the case.”

The project is known to have support from a wide range of groups and people in the community as the current courts are reaching the end of their useful life. The courts are owned by HCC and Wellesley College has had an 18-year lease arrangement with Council on the front three courts. Wellesley paid for their refurbishment in 2003.

“The new refurbishment will be done to the highest standard,” Ms Hogg says, “and as part of this, Wellesley and the Hutt City Council are looking at options to ensure materials and items as part of the refurbishment are robust and in the best interests of all who use the courts - this includes any additional items such as nets. Wellesley is really excited to be part of this development for the community.”

Questions were raised on social media recently regarding the possibility of Kiwi living in the East Harbour Regional Park. Claims were made that the distinct call of our native bird was heard in the park, a call that one would need to be familiar with, as the kiwi is not normally found here, Zealandia or the Wellington Zoo aside. Forest and Bird Regional Manager (Lower North Island), Amelia Geary, says that it’s the first she has heard of such rumours. “I've put out a few calls to folks whose judgement I trust as to the veracity of such claims,” Amelia says. “It's certainly not impossible, as kiwi have been released into Rimutaka Forest Park and are able to travel long distances. However, many people are also unfamiliar with the hunting call of Ruru, which could easily be mistaken for a kiwi. My punt is that it’s Ruru they heard but I’ll happily stand corrected.”

HCC has arranged for dunes expert Jim Dahm to come to Eastbourne in the next few weeks to give the ECB ideas for a planting programme for the dunes along the esplanade, to reduce the sand blowing over the wall and to protect the dunes. Once ECB have a plan and way forward, volunteers can commence planting.

After the pause during Levels 3 and 4, work on Days Bay Wharf at Level 2 resumed slowly. Once Level 2 was attained, the pace picked up and the project is now moving forward more quickly. The hope now is that it will be completed by January, but, if all goes favourably, by the end of December in time for summer.

SNA controversy sparks Biodiversity fund

Hutt City Council is launching an Indigenous Biodiversity Fund.

The fund aims to support landowners who addressed Council through the contentious Significant Natural Areas plan change process in 2018, , says HCC Director of Environment & Sustainability, Helen Oram.

Ms Oram says that the fund is available to any landowner who has land with indigenous biodiversity values and wishes to undertake some work to enhance or protect those values.

More than a thousand letters are being sent out to landowners who were affected by the SNA process.

“For the launch we are preparing a prerecorded video with our biodiversity expert speaking about the fund,” she says, “and an interview with a landowner who has been doing great things with his property”

There are two funding tiers; one for small grants of up to $1,000 in value, the other for larger grants up to $20,000. For the larger

grants, the landowner will require a project or property management plan.

Applications for the fund opened on June 15 and close on July 31. HCC has $200,000 available this year for distribution.

More information about the work council are doing around indigenous biodiversity, and about the fund and application forms can be found here;  http://www.huttcity.govt.nz/OurCity/biodiversity/

‘keep

by Carl McRae

Parker Jones has spent so much time in recent years as one of the chief protectors of our beleaguered bird-friend, the banded dotterel, one could be forgiven for believing that he would have very little time for its principal enemy in Eastbourne, the domestic cat.

But quite the opposite is true. There is a certain irony that for Parker, the moggy has caused such devastation to the breeding grounds of the endangered New Zealand shorebird, but he himself is also a cat lover and has experienced first-hand the trauma of a cat going out one night and never returning.

At a MIRO meeting on June 15th, with one eye on the start of the dotterel season a month away, the focus was very much on cats, but on keeping them safe at night.

“We’re planning to help educate people around keeping their beloved cats indoors at night,” says Parker. “They can roam widely at night without their owner’s knowledge and roosting and nesting birds are particularly vulnerable from dusk to dawn.”

A brochure on ‘Keeping Your Cat Safe’ has been put together, in association with the Hutt City Council and amongst MIRO’s planned

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deterrents for the coming dotterel breeding season, is a mail drop to Eastbourne residents who live within 1km of the nesting area.

Community Board member, conservationist and another cat lover, Frank Vickers, says that public education regarding cats and their relationship with the natural environment is timely as Hutt City - and a host of Councils around the country - are currently looking at cat bylaws and future options may be more enforced.

Micro-chipping is the ugly word on the lips of authorities, but Frank says that soon owners will need to comply with the management requirements of their local district council. The welfare of wildlife is equally important and measures will ensure that the impacts of the predatory nature of cats are minimised wherever possible, to safeguard the long-term survival of endemic species.

Keeping cats inside at night aside, regular claw-trimming, spaying, collars and bells and keeping them well fed are some of the suggestions in the MIRO brochure in what they perceive as a win-win; ‘keep your cat safe and help save a species’.

It was suggested on social media that the banded dotterel had arrived early this winter. Parker says there are no signs of them yet, but he expects them around mid-July. It was also mooted that seagulls may be responsible for more damage than they are credited with.

“Black back seagulls were the biggest threat to chicks and eggs before humans arrived,” Parker says. “Our cameras only showed cats eating the eggs at Eastbourne, no gulls, but they could have picked off some of the chicks without us witnessing it.”

In 2019, the Eastbourne breeding ground had 17 nests of which five hatched, but no chicks made it to fledgling. MIRO’s visual and recorded data indicates that most of the chicks

were predated by cats who roam the beach at night.

Parker says that the MIRO organisation is always on the look out for volunteers to help with the conservation of the dotterels and welcomes anyone who would like to get involved.

“We are the leading science in their conservation,” he says, “but remain a largely unfunded bunch of volunteers. We run regular monitoring checks on Sunday afternoons and often drive out to the Lakes block for a few hours to look for nests. You just need a pair of binoculars."

‘Catch 22’ for Parker Jones, pictured here holding the family cat, Oreo. He loves his moggy, but doesn’t want him roaming at night.

Local illustrators make shortlist

Faith in the Community

Seismic shift...

By Ann Packer

Two local illustrators have won places in the shortlists for the 2020 New Zealand Book Awards for Children and Young Adults, both illustrating stories by Dame Joy Cowley.

Giselle Clarkson, is a finalist in the Picture Book Award category for The Gobbledegook Book, a collection of Joy Cowley stories and poems written over three decades and published by Gecko Press, while Kimberly Andrews is up for the Russell Clark Illustration Award, which she won last year with her book Puffin the Architect. Puffin was also a finalist in the 2019 Picture Book category. Kimberly’s illustrations for Song of the River were commissioned by Gecko to mark 25 years since Joy Cowley’s text was brought to life by Hawkes Bay artist Elizabeth Fuller, for Scholastic Press.

The two apparently overlapping illustration awards result from the amalgamation in 2015 of the annual children’s book awards begun in 1986 under the auspices of the Government Printing Office, with those run intermittently since 1945 by the library association, LIANZA.

The illustrators, who both grew up in Eastbourne, first met in 2015 at Tinderbox, a oneoff conference for children’s writers and illustrators in Wellington. Although Giselle moved over the hill earlier this year to a 50s bungalow in Greytown, she came back to lock down with her parents in York Bay during Level 4 so she could do their shopping. Kimberly lives with husband James Innes and toddler Nova in a container house in Days Bay, behind her parents’ Southlight Studio.

Giselle is up against seasoned illustrators including Donovan Bixley, Ruth Paul and Sarah Wilkins while Kimberly’s competition includes Gavin Bishop and Mat Tait, who illustrated The Adventures of Tupaia for Auckland Museum.

Both women agree they felt “touched by greatness” on meeting Dame Joy Cowley for the first time at Featherston Booktown events, where Gobbledegook was launched last year, and where Kimberly presented at a Mother’s Day event.

There seems to be a seismic shift taking place in American race relations. The cry for institutional change voiced by marchers in every state, and right across the world, appears to have gained a hearing in governing circles as never before. And while stark evidence flashes regularly across our screens of the need for change over there, it comes as a sharp wake-up call to any thinking person in any country which has a colonial history. However, it would be unwise too quickly to jump to the conclusion that it doesn’t apply here, on the one hand, or that it’s just the same in New Zealand, on the other. This is a very complex issue, much more to do with a range of embedded cultural inequalities arising from our colonial past than it does from the stark binary opposition of ‘black’ and ‘white’ which in the States rises from generations of slavery endured by African Americans.

While the story of Dr Martin Luther King may be better known, Kiwi followers of Jesus have an equally powerful narrative in the example of Te Whiti of Parihaka, who before Gandhi, stood up for racial and cultural justice against the tide of British colonialism. We still have a way to go too but we can look to our own history for encouragement to keep working toward a more inclusive community life, with equal opportunity, and a growing awareness of our own unconscious biases.

St Ronan’s All weekday activities have restarted: Toy Library, Community Fridge, Mainly Music, Pop-in-and-Play, Pumpdance etc. Formats are back to pre-COVID. Two easy new provisos (1) Wash/ sanitise your hands on arrival (2) Don’t arrive at all if you’re unwell. Our 9.30am Sunday services are back to normal too. Our weekly e-Services continue (ask if you want it emailed). Our monthly magazine the Record never stopped (ask if you want it delivered). E: office@stronans.org.nz

St Alban’s For some, COVID-19 has raised a search for something more and for others wondering about the big questions of life. If you are interested in being part of a conversation over a fixed number of weeks please contact Rev John Hughes on T: 027 499 4792 E: vicar@stalbanschurch.nz You get to set the content and direction of the conversation.

San Antonio Parish office, Petone (weekdays 10am-2pm) T: (04) 971 7885 E: holyspiritparish41@ gmail.com

photo: Matthew Packer.

PARKSIDE

Ahhh I feel a great weight has lifted.

Sunrise at Kohungatera

Only after the Alert Level 1 announcement did I realise how anxious I was for all sorts of personal and park related reasons. Now returning to normal ranger duties I feel so fortunate. A lockdown positive has been my newly honed Zoom skills, putting me in touch with the large and dedicated volunteer groups that usually beaver away quietly.

Both the Eastbourne and Wainuiomata communities are lucky to be surrounded by great places to walk. Our Northern Forest track counters recorded a 50% increase in use in May 2020 compared to the same time last year.

Once restrictions lifted there has been a rush of local contractors undertaking work which should help get the economy going again.

Since 2004 Greater Wellington has been working to lift the standards of the tracks and structures across the Northern Forest to meet the growing recreational demand from the local and wider population. Balancing this need with preserving the high biodiversity values of the forest will always be challenging, but people generally protect what they appreciate and get to experience. Its rich orchid flora, endemic

Iris and spectacular Northern Rata, all supporting a wide variety of native bird species are treasures to be cherished.

This part of East Harbour Regional Park is surrounded by a large passionate population, all with varied demands and expectations of their park. It is a front country experience with public transport connections and high visitation. A couple of statistics I came across this week included; between 2016 and 2019 use increased by 44% on the bus barn track and 20% on the Kowhai track.

We receive a range of feedback regarding tracks and the plan is to maintain a range of track type-options within the park. Routes, tramping and walking as per the national standards to allow year round recreation. Water is the biggest enemy of tracks.Track scouring not only makes for an unpleasant walking experience but also damages the environment via erosion, water loss and increased risk of slips.

In the Northern Forest the tracks on

the harbour side are steep, exposed to harsh weather conditions and have a clay soil base; all factors that promote scouring. In the darker valleys, tracks become muddy causing runoff into the streams and walkers tend to widen the track further by walking round the wet areas.

Following feedback, GW has previously repaired sections of tracks and left them ungravelled. However these surfaces have fared poorly once the weather causes damage.

For our high use, erodible or otherwise muddy tracks in the Northern Forest, creating shaped, gravelled tracks with drainage solutions, protects tree roots, reduces scouring and muddy spots and increases accessibility. A side benefit has also been to enable teams to quickly and efficiently access the more remote parts of the park for maintenance and slip or tree fall clearance. In 2003 it took the work crew 6 months to cut back the track vegetation, now it takes just 2 weeks.

Gravel is not without its challenges and there are many factors that affect the end result. Our aim is to make it as non-slippy as possible. For example, it’s important to apply gravel in cooler wetter weather so that it adheres properly to the surface. This is why you will see track gravelling in the park over the next couple of weeks.

As Wellington’s population is predicted to continue to age the need for accessible tracks with even surfaces across the region will grow. It’s remarkable that 90-years-olds walk some of these tracks, although a lot of credit has to go to them not us!!

Easy Village Living

You may also be wondering why we use leaf blowers on the tracks, after all it's not the botanical gardens! Reducing leaf and other debris build up helps to maintain the track shape, promoting good drainage. Leaves retain water, can become slippery, and create muddy spots, it’s all about water. This maintenance task also gives the team a chance to inspect the tracks, structures and cut back some vegetation.

If you want more information on the region wide park plan of which East Harbour is part have a look at the Parks Network Plan July 2011 which sets out the direction for managing the regional parks and forests (Found on the GWRC website).

This document is currently being reviewed and will soon reflect ideas for the next 10 years. Once drafted it will go out for public consultation which will be your chance to have your say.

A lovely west facing 2 bedroom apartment in the heart of the village. Fully modernised and conveniently located on the first floor you will feel very much a part of Marine Parade. With a beach/sea outlook and glorious sunsets.

2020 EBCT grants open

Applications for this year's round of grants from the Eastbourne-Bays Community Trust close on July 15 and community trustee, Gaby Brown, says the Trust invites any EastbourneBays groups to apply for the funding.

“We are looking for all groups to come forward,” she says, “but we’d like to promote a horticultural angle this year, which is a very wide brief, but something for potential applicants to consider.”

The fund is available to provide financial assistance for charitable purposes, including public recreation, enjoyment, health, education, instruction and culture.

The EBCT is a Charitable Trust formed in 1995. The HCC transferred into a trust the proceeds from the sale of Eastbourne Borough assets, following the 1989 amalgamation. It distributes an average of $10,000 in grants annually and has, over a twenty year period, given out around $200,000 to community groups and projects.

The list of local beneficiaries throughout that period is extensive and includes assorted local education and sporting institutions, conservation or beautification groups and associated arts and theatre companies.

The Eastbourne-Bays Community Trust aims to maintain capital in real terms. It is the Trustees' ambition to grow the capital sum to enable the Trust to be more effective in the future.

The Trust will accept donations, grants, endowments, gifts, legacies and bequests in money or in kind. They will, on agreed terms, manage monies transferred from other organisations that may be wound up. The Trust

Slip cleared

also administers the Eastbourne Freemasons' Fund.

“Our treasurer, Dean Riley, is standing down,” says Gaby, “so we will be looking to replace him also, should anyone be interested in applying for this position.”

Application forms are available through the Trust’s website;  https://www.eastbournebays-community-trust.org.nz  or from the Eastbourne Library.

Garden Stuff with Sandy Lang NITROGEN

June/July: Early/mid-winter. COVID’s gone. Or has it? Time to prune trees and shrubs. But do this in the dry (disease). Time to lay tree chip mulch around trees to control weeds and improve the soil.

Winter crops: No seeds in lockdown, so I’m late with my winter crops. But it’s still OK to sow peas and broad beans for a spring harvest. But start leaf vegetables from garden-centre seedlings to get a 4-week head start, to partly offset your 8-week (COVID) hind start.

Legumes: Beans and peas are legumes. There are many others - clover, soybeans, chickpeas, lentils, peanuts. We’ve cultivated legumes for 10,000+ years. Today, they remain a vital source of food protein across the world. This makes me think of nitrogen…

Nitrogen gas: The air you breath is 78% nitrogen (N2) and 21% oxygen (O2), the other 1% is a mix of other gases including 0.4% H2O and 0.04% CO2. But N2 gas is unreactive. On the other hand, you hear that plants need N fertiliser to grow. They need this N to make amino acids (NH2–), and amino acids to make proteins, and proteins to live.

Mineral nitrogen: When N appears as a mineral usable by a plant, it’s not as N2 gas but usually as a nitrate NO3–. So, a plant can sit there surrounded by N2 gas but craving for some NO3– from the soil. Isn’t it a pity plants can’t turn N2 into NO3–.

Nitrogen fixation: But there are soil microorganisms that can - called ‘N fixers’. They include bacteria of the genus Rhizobium. These soil bacteria invade and colonise the roots of legumes – forming visible nodules. There, they convert N2 gas into N compounds. They then trade these N compounds with the plant, receiving back energy compounds (sugars) from the plant. A great partnership between a bacterium and a plant.

Pastures: So, legumes can thrive in a low NO3–soil. When they die, they release their NO3– to the soil where it’s available to other plants. Hence, there’s another great partnership, this one between clover and ryegrass on which our pastoral industry is based. NZ’s GDP from the ryegrass:clover partnership is $17b (cf. pine trees $4b, kiwifruit $0.8b and grapes $0.8b). And we get our dietary protein N fifthhand - (1) Rhizobium, (2) clover, (3) ryegrass, (4) sheep/cattle, (5) us… But thirdhand if you eat beans... - Sandy Lang slang@xtra.co.nz

Fulton Hogan contactors, worked to clear a slip which came down just south of the bus barns on the winter solstice, Sunday, June 21st. Many slips were reported around the Wellington region following several days of rain. The slip did not fully block the road to Burdan’s Gate and was cleared by Monday afternoon.

McCallum a champion of NZ literature

by Ann Packer

Mary McCallum never intended to become a publisher. “I hadn’t planned all this,” says the former Eastbourne resident, whose punt on a new writer scooped the Ockham Book Awards’ fiction prize earlier this year for Mary’s Mākaro Press.

Now she’s involved in not just one but two presses, offering several alternatives to the shrinking mainstream resources available to new writers emerging from the country’s burgeoning creative writing courses.

Auē   by Becky Manawatu won the prestigious Jann Medlicott Acorn Prize for Fiction as well as the MitoQ Best First Book of Fiction 2020. Kirsten Warner’s The Sound of Breaking Glass, also published by Mākaro, took out Best First Book last year.

“I hadn’t thought of being a publisher,” says Mary, herself a winner of the Best First Book, and Readers’ Choice, awards for The Blue in 2008. “I was a writer mostly, as well as teaching [at Massey], reviewing and working in Rona Gallery.”

But seven years ago she decided to set up

a company to publish Eastbourne: An Anthology, a collection of poetry, fiction, memoir and essays with line drawings by local artists. She called her imprint Mākaro Press after the smaller of the two harbour islands she looked out at from her home in Pukatea Street.

Now, after seven years of running Mākaro from a corner of Wellington publisher Steele Roberts’ office, Mary and son Paul Stewart have joined forces with two of Steele Roberts’ staff, Sarah Bolland and Roger Whelan, to form The Cuba Press. (Roger Steele is slowly retiring.) Located in the capital’s Cuba Quarter, the name commemorates one of the first European settler ships to arrive in Wellington. “To us it epitomises courage, vision and a collection of stories packed into a small space – setting out on a big adventure,” Mary explains.

Settling slowly into their new space in Anvil House, looking out on Wellington Harbour, there’s room for both presses, which deal in quite discrete literary forms.

Mākaro Press, which until 2019 published

fiction, poetry, children’s books, memoir, biography and journalism, including the author-funded Submarine imprint, currently limits itself to New Zealand literary fiction – “that’s probably closest to my heart” – and selected poetry.

The Cuba Press also publishes some books in the traditional way, covering all costs and allowing the author royalties, but for most titles it shares costs with the author. The combined practice is known as hybrid publishing. The press is also constantly exploring new funding options including crowdfunding. Cuba’s imprints are Ahoy! (children’s titles) and Wayfarer (memoir), and they also publish a range of non-fiction, including biography, poetry and genre fiction. Prime Minister Literary Award winner Renée’s The Wild Card is a crime novel – her first, at the age of 90, it’s eligible for this year’s Ngaio Marsh Awards.

Recent titles also include the memoir Memory Stick, from Eastbourne author and editor Anne Manchester, one of the editors who helped compile the original Eastbourne anthology that launched Mākaro Press. Coming up is the eagerly-awaited The Lockdown Diary of Uncle Squirrel and Pūhoi Pete by Eastbourne teacher and blogger Ann Garry.

Mary’s concept of publishing is as a gift, “to writers, readers and the culture of the country we live in”. She loves, most of all, collaborating with authors to take their stories from manuscript form to published books –helping them shape the narrative and push the language so it pulls the reader in.

“I especially like to take a beginning novelist and work with that person to make their story as good as it can be,” she says. “Fiction is so hard to get right and the New Zealand public can be sceptical about a locally written novel. That’s why the success of Mākaro’s novels is so important to me. It means we’ve got something right. More people are reading New Zealand stories and loving them, and that’s a win for everyone.”

Mondays

• Retired Persons’ Assn meet 4th Mon, 10am St Ronan's Church hall for morning tea followed by a speaker - $2 entry.Transport can be arranged for these meetings on request, ph 562 7365 or 562 8387.

• East Harbour Women’s Club – Contract Bridge 2pm-5.30pm. Contact Judy Bishop 562 8985

• “Baby Bounce & Rhyme” at the library 10.00am.

• Singalong 1st Mon, 2pm at St Ronan’s.

• Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday and Friday mornings, from 9:15 to 11:45, phone Andrea 02102797311 for more info.

• Pt Howard Playcentre. Mon 9.15 -11.45am. Caroline 021 072 1070.

• The Historical Society’s Eastbourne History Room above the library is open 2-4 pm every Monday.

• Eastbourne Volunteer Fire Brigade training every Monday 7-9pm. Ph 562 7001 for more info.

• Toy Library 8-9pm. St Ronans Hall www. eastbournemibase.com.au Elizabeth 021 08224664.

• Eastbourne Karate Dojo junior and senior classes (children 8 year & older, plus parents) on Monday and senior classes on Thursday. Contact lindsaysensei@live.com, cell 021 844 873.

East Harbour Women’s Club

• Duplicate Bridge: 2-5pm. Contact Judy Bishop 562 8985

Keas: Monday 5.15pm – 6.15pm

Kea Leader: Ed 021 738 699

Cubs Monday 6.30pm – 7.45pm

Cub Leader: Damon 022 620 7116

Tuesdays

• Eastbourne Bowling Club. Gentleman’s Casual and Social bowling held every Tuesday from 2.30 to 4.30pm. Experience not required. Bowls and instruction provided. Casual dress code Contact Bruce 562 8401 or Warren 562 8606

• Pt Howard Playcentre Tues 9.15 -11.45am. Caroline 021 072 1070.

• Days Bay Playcentre Puddle Jumpers Tues 10:30 to 12 noon: Messy and Sensory play for children 2 years and under. Casual sessions, $3 donation.

• Muritai Tennis Club 9.30–noon. Merryn 562 0236.

• Eastbourne Homebirth Group 1st Tuesday of the month. Phone Kate 562-7096.

• East Harbour Women’s Club Morning Tea & Chat Group 10am. Contact Glendyr 562 7181.

• Eastbourne Embroidery Group, St Ronan’s Church lounge 10am-12noon.

• Indoor Bowls Club 1.30pm, at the croquet club, Oroua Street. Rosemary 562 7365

• Menzshed 9 till 12 , Williams Park, Mike

562 8688.

• Poetry group, every second Tuesday meet to read and enjoy poems old and new. Phone 562 8387.

• Toy Library9.30-10.30am. St Ronans Hall. Facebook: Eastbourne Toy Library Elizabeth 021 08224664www.eastbournemibase.com.

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• 9.30am Nia Dance Fitness Class (low impact - teens to 70+) Music Movement MagicMuritai Yacht Club - call Amanda 021 316692 www.niainwellington.com

• Pump Dance preschool and junior hip hop. 4pm onwards St Ronans Hall. 0274373508 info@pumpdance.com

Wednesdays

• Retired Persons’ Assn meet 2nd Wed at Tartines for morning tea and socialising 11am. Occasional outings arranged. Ph 5627365 or 562 8387.

• Library preschool story time 10.00 am.

• Pt Howard Playcentre Wed 9.15 -11.45am. Caroline 021 072 1070.

• Scottish Country Dance. Merryn 562 0236.

• Bridge Club 7-10pm. Shona 562 7073.

• DB Playcentre Mon, Wed, Fri 9-12. Andrea Jensen 02102797311.

• “Steady as You Go” Age Concern sponsored Falls Prevention and Exercise Programme. Held 12 noon each Wednesday at Eastbourne Community Hall. Classes are held for 1 hour and costs only $2. Improve your strength and balance to reduce falls and injuries. Falls are preventable. Please join us!

• Baby Boogie - dance for babies and preschoolers at St Ronan's Hall. 9:30am10am. Intermediate/teen hip hop and contemporary. 5pm onwards St Ronans Hall. 0274373508 info@pumpdance.com

• EHock - Fun Stick and Ball game Girls and Boys 7- 13.Eastbourne Community Hall. Wednesdays 6.00 p.m. - 7.30 p.m. Derek Wilshere 0274303596

Thursdays

• Menzshed 9 till 12 , Williams Park, Mike 562 8688. Women welcome.

• St Ronan’s Mainly Music, 9.30am-10.30am, contact Cathy 027 213 9342.

• SPACE at Days Bay Playcentre. Michelle 971 8598.

• East Harbour Women’s Club

- Bolivia 12.45pm, Contact Glendyr ph: 562 7181. Guest Speaker (3rd week of month)7pm, drinks and nibbles provide, Contact Diane ph: 562 7555

•Lions meet 2nd Thursday of the month at the Eastbourne Sports and Services Club, Tuatoru St 6.30 pm. New members and visitors are welcome. Graham 562 8819.

• Eastbourne Karate Dojo junior and senior classes (children 8 year & older, plus parents) on Monday and senior classes on Thursday. Contact lindsaysensei@live.com, cell 021 844 873.

• Pump Dance boys hip hop. 5pm-6pm St Ronans Hall. 0274373508 info@pumpdance. com

Scouts: Thursday 6.30pm – 8.00pm

Scout Leader: Susan 027 535 4962

Fridays

• Eastbourne Bowling Club. Newly formed Ladies casual bowling group meets Fridays at 2.00pm. Experience is not required. Bowls & instruction available. Casual dress code. Contact Cheri - 021 0699 274

• Pop in and Play playgroup at St Ronan's Church Hall, 9am-11.30am during school terms. All preschoolers (0-4 years) welcome. Cath 027 213 9342.

• Pt Howard Playcentre Fri 9.15 -11.45am. Caroline 021 072 1070.

• AA Plunket Rooms 7.30pm. Mark 566 6444/ Pauline 562 7833

• DB Playcentre Mon, Wed, Fri 9-12. Andrea Jensen 02102797311.

• Discovery Time for 4years+ at San Antonio School, 78 Oroua Street, 9.30-10.30am. Office 562 7398.

Saturdays

• Justice of the Peace at the Eastbourne Community Library, first Saturday of each month 12pm-1pm.

• Lions’ rubbish bin last Saturday of each month.

• Croquet from 10am Muritai Croquet Club. Lyn 562 8722 or Val 562 8181.

• Eastbourne Dune Restoration Group Meets dunes area in front of the Eastbourne Recreation Ground, on the first Saturday of the month at 9am. Contact Keena for more details on 562 0992.

Sundays

• AA Plunket Rooms 10am. Karen 021 440 705.

CLASSIFIEDS

GARDEN WORKER for all weeding, tidying and garden maintenance contact Hamish on 022 3748453.

SONNY'S YOGA - EASTBOURNE CLASSES - Enjoy a relaxing yoga class near the ocean. Every Thursday 7pm at Muritai Yacht Club. Beginners welcome. For more info call Sonny on 021 800 512.

Dan Reed lawn mowing, lawn and garden care. Contact 027 337 1360.

WATERBLASTING Services – For all exterior cleaning and maintenance – call Mike on 027 587 5871

Storeroom to Rent, Eastbourne Village. Phone 562 7687.

Eastbourne community radio in the pipeline

Calling all budding radio stars… contributors are wanted for the Eastbourne Community Radio station. ECB member and local windsurfing guru, Bruce Spedding, is setting up a 24 hour, automated broadcasting station, specifically geared toward community information and news. The station will broadcast (stream) initially via the internet but will also be broadcast on low power FM (LPFM) at 107 MHz (may change).

Programmes are expected to be locally produced and relevant and can be pre-recorded and uploaded to the station, with the option

to ‘go live’ if desired. There are a number of options for setting up the station from remotely controlled online services through to a dedicated studio computer based system.

The aim is to feature contributions by local organisations and residents, as well as existing recordings, such as John MacDonald’s Hutt Zone programmes on Access Radio and relevant podcasts from Radio NZ.

Although many Eastbourne residents now use online social networking, there is still a segment of the community who rely on other sources, such as the radio, for their news and information. Bruce hopes that this addition will help Eastbourne become more inclusive.

“One of the key motivations for setting up the station, is to help build a connected and resilient community, so information on how to prepare and respond to various emergencies will also be included,” says Bruce. “The current Covid-19 situation is a good example of where up to date local community information would be useful. The opportunity also exists to automatically broadcast weather forecasts and warnings, tides (for road closures), public transport updates and services information. It is not intended to be a commercial operation, but policies in this and other areas will be determined by those who get involved.”

Bruce says that the Kaikoura earthquake was the catalyst for starting this project and that during such emergencies, social networks can become overwhelmed, networks can overload and infrastructure, such as power, may fail.    An informal Eastbourne community survey carried out as part of a Humanitarian Assistance and Disaster Recovery workshop showed that about 70 percent of respondents would turn to radio

Kidztalk

The Point Howard Playcentre is back up and running again after the lockdown and open for visitors on Monday, Wednesday and Friday.

Our tamariki have loved being back, exploring the centre and surrounding bush and catching up with their friends after the long break.

You can find out more about our Playcentre by visiting our Facebook page or by contacting Stephanie on 022 088 0010.

for information, if other channels failed. Many residents still have access to radios; through their phones, cars or stereos, and small battery radios are a cheap addition to emergency kits.

“Even if the internet dies,” Bruce says, “the station will be designed to continue to transmit on FM, and will be able to relay both national and local information as the situation develops. Station operators will be able to add local updates, such as road closures and ways to get help as well as relaying national information.”

A prototype transmitter has been developed and a new version is being specified. Test transmissions have been carried out from the top of Rona House, and other options are being explored.

“One exciting offshoot of this project,” says Bruce, “is the development of a self contained radio station, in a suitcase with remote control (including satellite), for use in isolated communities (such as remote Pacific Islands), as a way to build communities and warn of events such as tsunamis and tropical storms.”

Anyone interested in being involved in this project should contact Bruce Spedding (ECB).

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Community Radio transmission testing from the top of Rona House.

That “Slug”  - more questions than answers?

by Derek Wilshere Slug:

Such an evocative word – fat and slowly moving forward.

The storm event on Wednesday 15 April  2020 was one of those events that brings it back to our lives. Another was Waitangi Day in 2004.

This recent one was created by a strong pressure system that generated significant trains of waves heading for the entrance to Te Whanganui a Tara.

Aerial photographs showed beautiful and even wave sets with a period of around 16 seconds and a measured wave height of around 5 mwrewa. at Baring Head. Coming through Wellington's Heads to Barrett Reef these waves began to feel the bottom and grew in height to more than 8 metres before they broke approaching our coastline over the shallows between Makaro (Ward Island) and Days Bay.

The wave direction was such that they ran along our coastline arriving significantly at high tide at 11.37am, causing flooding right along the coast.

The effect was dramatic and spectacular, and it has been captured on video and photos by many but none more graphic than those of Eastbourne Resident and  scientist Ray Smith. A sampling of his images can be found on his Facebook page where he also made some observations on the Slug.

On the Waitangi Day event the wave direction swung more towards the Eastbourne Coast causing  significant erosion and heaving more sediment over the sea wall between Kauri street and the Rec. It was a beautiful calm day and surfers enjoyed spectacular rides along unbroken waves between Makaro and the HW Shortt Park before running back along the Promenade to  Lion Rock and paddling out to the clean waves….great fun. The effects on Wellingtons South Coast and along the Hutt Road were very significant.

The setting: Gravel on the Eastbourne coast is driven by strong waves from Palliser Bay. Earthquakes from at least 1450 onwards have uplifted the coast at Turakirae regularly exposing gravels for transport.

The 1848 Wellington Earthquake and then

in 1855 a very big (estimated at magnitude 8) earthquake took place on the Wairarapa Fault. Apart from strong shaking and small Tsunami there were several other significant effects:

The shaking led to fracturing of rock in the steep sided channel of the Orongorongo River. Significant rockfalls followed and continued for some time overloading the channel..

Also, there was significant uplift, tilting and displacement along the fault. The displacement was 40 ft. along the fault and the tilt 9ft. at the fault and 7 ft. along the Eastbourne seaboard. This exposed a lot of seabed to the elements.

Over time the natural flood events in the Orongorongo River undermined these deposits providing an ongoing supply of shattered greywacke to the river. Fluvial processes took over transporting this rock to the coastline and depositing it there. There the influences of the strong coastline seas take over and begin to move gravels around the coast to Pencarrow Head and beyond. It is only relatively recently that this supply has diminished significantly.

With the processes on the coast driven by tide and seas, sediment began to move around the coast towards Eastbourne. All the while sediment was being worn down producing sand that is relatively quickly moved on and offshore and being deposited there. Some sand also came down the Wainuiomata River.  It is certain that this process has gone on for many years. Gravel moving around the coast is worn down and deposited in the various bays until further events move it on.

How has this process been evaluated? From the 1950’ many geologists and members of the public became very interested in this process. Interest was heightened when the major erosion event in the mid 1950s threatened homes and led to the construction of the existing sea wall. Sandy beaches formed in front of it.

Since then there has been gradual hollowing out of the bays from Baring Head followed by deposition along the coast to Windy Point.

The scene was set for the Wahine Storm 10 April 1968 which moved a very large volume of this sediment into Fitzroy Bay and began moving it northwards. This was the “Slug” which began to move around the coast filling the bays towards Pencarrow and onwards and depositing along the Eastbourne Coast until

the supply was diminished and the gravel worn down until there was insufficient wave energy to transport it. Today as the supply has diminished the slug effectively runs out of steam at Windy Point.

Dr Jeremy Gibb a colleague of mine in the Water and Soil Division of the Ministry of Works and Development, reported on this process in a 1974 publication. He estimated that gravel from the Orongorongo would reach Fitzroy  Bay by the mid 1980’s.

How fast would this happen? The Hutt Valley Drainage Board raised a concern. The Slug posed a threat to free discharge from the treated Sewer outfall at the northern end of Kohangapiripiri Bay.

In collaboration with Dr. Gibb,  Masters student Eric Matthews attempted to shed light on this by dumping 20m3 of brick tile with properties similar to natural pebbles at the southern end of Kohangapiripiri Bay, on 19 July 1978. The movement of chips northward was measured  by sampling over the next year. The gravel front was moving observed at Hinds Point ( 4 km north of Pencarrow Head) and was slowing from the initial 20 m. -30 m. per month. Individual chips continue to arrive at Days Bay. In 1979 Dr. Gibb deduced that the average rate of movement was 0.33m3 per year with 6600m3 of gravel moving through at Pencarrow, diminishing as the slug moved northwards.

What does the future hold? All the published data is consistent with observations along the coast where the rate of deposition has been slowing probably resulting in the observed hollowing out of the bays from the south. So, it is inferred that the primary source of supply is diminished, and an equilibrium is trending.

The recent event It was not a ”King” tide  so we can anticipate ongoing flooding events even without sea level rise.

The slow and steady development of a real beach off Kauri Street with dune development and sand build up along the seawall and most spectacularly the growth of points off the end of Miro Street and the northern end of HW Shortt Park  more clearly defining Robinson Bay are ongoing.

These things suggest a reworking of gravel along this stretch of coast. The seawall and gravel build up against it are our best protections.

The native plantings between the Rec and the coast by a volunteer group led by David McDougall stood up to the onslaught very well and proposals to enhance and develop dunes in Robinson Bay are timely.

Monitoring of the coastline as has previously been proposed could usefully be implemented.

Pōhutukawa removal concerns local group

Pōhutukawa are revered in Maori mythology too. Legends tell of how a young warrior named Tawhaki sought divine help to avenge his father’s death. He wasn’t successful, instead falling from the heavens, and the trees' crimson flowers are said to represent his blood.

“When Europeans first settled in Ngāmatau, Oruamatoro, Matuaiwi and Korohiwa,” says local artist, Suzy Costello, quoting from Anne Beaglehole and Ali Carew's book on the history of Eastbourne, “they removed a beech forest, which came almost down to the shoreline.

“Later settlers established a nursery which housed the young pōhutukawa trees. Soldiers who had returned from WW1 planted them around the district and these are our pōhutukawa - a legacy from generations past.”

EASTBOURNE

SPORTS & SERVICES CLUB

However, the pōhutukawa has also been termed the ‘pollute-a-kawa’, due to the impact its large roots can have on foundations, its leaves and flowers on gardens and gutters and its height and foliage cover on sunlight and views.

But the pōhutukawa, by current conservation status, does carry a ‘Threatened - Nationally Vulnerable’ tag, so laws around even pruning them are fairly stringent and do vary from council to council throughout the North Island. If they are on private property, permission can be obtained to have them removed.

Suzy Costello, Gillian Marment, Paddy Dunford, Joan and Bob Williams attend Suzy’s beautification hour on Sunday, June 14th, decorating pōhutukawa trees near Rona Wharf

Concerns are often raised by the community that there had been no consultation process and often the council is presumed responsible for their demise. But Street Tree and Notable Assets Manager for the Hutt City Council, Colin Lunn, says that if a tree is on private property, it is outside their jurisdiction and although there are protection by-aws in place, public consultation is not a prerequisite.

“This was the case with trees removed from St Alban's Church in Ngaio Street,” he said, “which were in fact, on church land.”

BOWLING CLUB (INC)

2pm, Sunday 26th July, 2020 at the Bowling Clubrooms OF ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING

APPLICATIONS FOR GRANTS

Closing date: 15 July 2020

Applications from Eastbourne-Bays groups are invited. Application forms are available on the website (see below) or from Eastbourne Library.

Please refer to the following website for information on the Trust: www.ebct.org.nz

Contact: George Tuffin 562 7520 or email: trustees@ebct.org.nz

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SECRETARY

The Historical Society of Eastbourne

ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING

2pm, Sunday 19th July, 2020

East Harbour Women’s Club

145 Muritai Rd

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This was confirmed by Patsy Jorgensen, admin support for the Anglican Parish of Eastbourne. “The decision was made by the parish,” she says. “There were invasive drain issues and also an issue with the memorial wall beginning to lean sideways because of the proximity of the tree in the middle.”

The conservationists are still concerned that we are sending our children the wrong message, by not only physically removing trees, but also our local history.

Colin Lunn says the council has no plans to remove any more pōhutukawa trees in Eastbourne in the immediate or near future.

The Annual General Meeting of the Eastbourne-Bays Community Trust will be held in the meeting room above Eastbourne Library

Thursday 30 July 2020 at 8pm

Appointment of Eastbourne-Bays Resident Trustees for a three year term. The term for the current Trustee Sarah Rusholme, ends in June 2020 and Sarah has indicated a willingness to be reappointed.

Please refer to the following web site for information on the Trust:

www.eastbourne-bays-community-trust.org.nz

Contact: Anne Keogh 027 687 1845

NOTICE OF ANNUAL MEETING

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Congratulations to Sinead, who is our Top Salesperson for the whole of the Hutt Valley for 20192020.

Through her hard work and determination, her engagement with business and community and charity, her honesty and integrity, Sinead delivers an incredible service to her clients, and she deserves her success.

Congratulations again Sinead, 2nd year running!

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