The Eastbourne Herald May 2023

Park upgrade plans move ahead

Detailed plans to upgrade Williams Park are being prepared, following public submissions on the initial plan, and a change of staff at Hutt City Council.

Landscape Architect Charles Fordham was consulted on the plans, the early stages of which were presented at last month’s Eastbourne Community Board meeting.

Extensive public consultation in 2021 resulted in more than 180 submissions from the public, with many focused on access between the beach and the park, as well as vehicle access to the park and car parking.

HCC parks planner Nicole Peurifoy said one focus of the plan was the duck pond which is not very accessible nor safe for viewing. A raised path by the duck pond, as well as substantial work to stop it overflowing when deluged with stormwater, were part of the concept plan.

The Kererū Road section was underutilised, with many visitors to Days Bay unaware there was a large grassed area and tennis courts there. Connection between the two areas would be improved, and the hedge lowered or replaced to make the park more visible. The entrance and exit from Williams Park were dangerous, and the plan included a single point of entry via Marine Drive, and, following discussion at the meeting, a single point of exit via Kererū Road.

HCC Head of Parks and Reserves Kelly Crandle said $500,000 was the amount budgeted for the project, $30,000 of which had already been spent on the demolition of the caretaker’s cottage.

The next stage was detailed design and

procurement which could be completed by Christmas "but we are not committing to that".

With Days Bay a popular summer visitor spot, timing for works would be crucial.

One of the key areas was stormwater overflows from the duck pond. “It’s substandard and needs design work to get a much better solution. It’s invisible to the public but really important still,” Mrs Crandle said.

Harbour Ward councillor Tui Lewis asked if the upkeep of the park was included in the budget. Mrs Crandle said that was an operational rather than capital expenditure and HCC would need to cut somewhere else if the operational budget for Williams Park was increased. Operational budgets are funded by rates.

ECB member Bruce Spedding asked where bikes would go as there was no provision for them either to pass through he park, or to park up. That was part of the planning for Tupua Horo Nuku rather than the park upgrade, he was told. However, Hutt City Council has since confirmed the scope of Tupua Horo Nuku does not include Days Bay. HCC will assess Days Bay as part of the speed management programme in 2024.

Cyclists using Tupua Horo Nuku will carry on through Marine Drive to get back onto the shared pathway north and south of Days Bay. "The Williams Park upgrade is primarily for families and recreational purposes rather than cyclists," a HCC spokesperson said.

The board recommended that the Communities, Culture and Partnerships Committee approves the plan with provision for a one-way entrance and one-way exit.

Work on a Kororā sanctuary on the beach next to HW Shortt Park is under way, the first of five bird sanctuaries planned in response to the construction of Tupua Horo Nuku.

Sanctuaries are also planned for Robinson Bay and Whiorau Reserve with one for Oystercatchers planned for Sorrento Bay. The plans for Whiorau Reserve are being revised following input from penguin experts and will be released for public consultation in June. Plans for CL Bishop Park and Sorrento Bay are currently being developed and will be made available for public consultation later in the year.

The duck pond overflows in heavy rain.

Showcasing Nepalese treasures

Showcasing Nepali culture was the driver for Molly Press and partner Saugat Khanal’s foray into online jewellery selling.

For the girl who grew up in Eastbourne, a post-lockdown trip to meet up with her partner’s family during an important festival in Nepal was the right time to start finding artefacts they could bring home in order to share his cultural story with others. Saugat’s aunties helped them source glass and gold bracelets, earrings and other accessories from places like the alleyways of Kathmandu and Bhairahawa markets.

They deliberately started small to see how the business would go before expanding into other objects, such as the artisan textiles Nepal is also known for.

The couple met seven years ago in Taupō when both were working in the same hotel, and have been living in Eastbourne with her parents while looking for a house to buy.

Saugat, who has a bachelor’s degree from Bangalore University, came here on a student visa, to further his studies with a hotel management qualification from Waiariki Polytechnic in Rotorua, while Molly did

her diploma in hospitality management in Queenstown before getting the Taupō position.

As someone who lives with Crohn’s disease (she currently dyes her hair purple to raise awareness), Molly has to manage her time carefully to stay healthy.

She currently works at Huxley’s, in Wellington and sees Himalayan Treasures as a way to support herself in the future.

Saugat is managing the new Gear Street Union restaurant, situated in the old Wellington Motorcycles building in Petone.

With one Brewtown market behind her, Molly is keen to develop further avenues for the online marketing of their accessories, and wishes to say “dhanyavaad” (thank you) to their customers.

Himalayan Treasures is on Facebook.

What's Happening Hair!?

Anne Mackris-Berdebes

May 'round hair!

We ve may d it to May! And this month we re talking about masks, not the mid-winter masquerade masks, but just as good Hair masks! It's very important to keep up your hair hydrating rituals in the colder months because cold snaps are just as bad as heat waves for those luscious locks!

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Next ECB meeting:

7.15pm Tuesday 20 June, 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.

Submissions

The Eastbourne Community Board (ECB) addressed Council’s Policy, Finance and Strategy Committee in May to recommend that Council allocates a budget to implement a cat management system to help reduce the impact of cats on vulnerable species, including dotterels in Eastbourne. We are pleased that Council has voted to support the introduction of a bylaw that will require cats to be microchipped and desexed.

The ECB also submitted on Council’s draft Annual Plan 2023/24 and addressed the Annual Plan Subcommittee. The submission focused on support of the Tupua Horo Nuku shared path and resilience project.

Keeping up to date

One of the Board’s roles is to inform residents about Council and Regional Council matters. We share information on the eastbourne.nz website, on the Eastbourne Community Notice Board Facebook page and by email. You can subscribe to the Board’s update emails at eastbourne.nz/newsletter.

Contacting the Eastbourne Community Board (ECB)

If you have an issue or a suggestion for Council, including reporting a leak, please complete the Report a Problem form on huttcity.govt.nz. For urgent issues, call 04 570 6666.

Residents are welcome to contact ECB members about other concerns.

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

Givealittle to aid Kapa Haka tamariki

by Ann Packer

Anyone who heard the stunning performance by Muritai School’s kapa haka group at this year’s Anzac commemorations will know what a spine-tingling experience it is.

When teacher Hilary Bevin (Ngāti Pākehā) first arrived at Muritai School to help out with the kapa haka group five years ago there were about 20 to 30 kids involved.

Now there are 110, and her role has grown. She leads an open-to-all-comers gathering at 8.30 till 9 am each Wednesday, followed by an hour-long rehearsal for the 110-strong performance rōpū.

The part-time teacher also takes syndicate groups, with a schoolwide reach over a year. And of course, every kapa haka group needs a guitar, and Whaea Hilary says it couldn’t happen without the support of guitarist teachers Carmen McDonald, Max McAlpine and Ruth Hooke, who now lives in Tauranga – all have been an integral part of the rōpū’s success.

The explosion in interest she puts down not just to opening up the age of entry – it used to be Year 6 and up, it’s now from Year 3 – but to the increasing interest within the school

following the success of their own performers, and perhaps to the coverage of events such as Te Matatini on television..

Problem is, the costumes which are a vital part of the presentation are expensive.

While some Home & School parents are helping out by constructing the simple black dresses that retail at $110 each, other elements such as the piupiu that go over the top, swishing about as the performers twirl, can only be sourced from particular makers.

So the school is setting up a Givealittle page for donations for the extra costumes that allow membership of the all- inclusive group to remain totally unrestricted.

Other items, such as stencils for the striking moko which decorate the children’s faces, have been bought with unexpected koha, such as Eastbourne Library’s gift following a performance there.

Whaea Hilary says the rōpū always enjoys giving back to the community, at Matariki and other celebrations, like the Anzac Day event.

https://givealittle.co.nz/cause/muritaischool-kapa-haka-performance-ropu

'Recovering corporate lawyer' bringing mums together

Emily Mason – Mindful Mummas

If it doesn’t exist – create it… That’s what Emily Mason, who describes herself as a “typical A type personality, and a recovering corporate lawyer and stress cadet,” set out to do with Mindful Mummas, a new group bringing mothers and babies together in a “supportive and non-judgmental space” in Eastbourne.

Arising from her own experience, the mother of Mia, 4½, and one-yearold Ari says it’s what she herself wanted as a mother with little children. While she appreciates the opportunities offered by existing groups, she says Mindful Mummas, which will have childcare onsite, will give women the opportunity to learn mindfulness and self-care tools, as well as to chat, connect and forge deeper connections.

A resident of five years whose husband, Richard, grew up in Eastbourne, Ms Mason practised law for six years before focusing on health and wellbeing, which she’s always been passionate about. It was while learning such skills as yoga and mindfulness that she began to see she could teach other people. She started working with both corporate and private clients before having her first child.

The group will meet initially for five weeks, in St Ronan's Hall, on Tuesday mornings, then run on school term dates. There is also the possibility of an evening class for working mums, when their children are in bed.

For more information, emily@bemoreyou.co.nz 027 552 6119

Community crucial in an emergency

The major slip in Point Howard in March brought community resilience to the fore, ECB member Bruce Spedding told the board’s meeting last month.

“The Point Howard slip was a big deal and it really showed the importance of communication channels. The Point Howard Association was critical to keeping residents informed. They did a great job and it has really highlighted the need for those good communication systems.”

Mr Spedding said the event was a wake up call for Eastbourne as to how vulnerable we are, even in a relatively simple event.

ECB is working with the local Red Cross to arrange access to its emergency supply shed and to reestablish the organisation as an operational group out here.

There was a need to contact other organisations to re establish the local emergency response. “It was organised really well 10-15 years ago, but had declined,” he said.

Meanwhile, he is looking for a volunteer radio operator in York Bay to join the other bays so there is widespread communication if the cellphone network fails in an emergency.

News from Point Howard

Are you interested in learning CPR to save a life?

The PHA are looking to arrange another session with Wellington Free Ambulance for their Heartbeat Community CPR Training. Please register your interest by email to pthowardassn@gmail.com.

Thank you to the residents who have volunteered to walk Pt Howard & Sorrento Bay in the event of an emergency.

We truly appreciate your support. If you would like to volunteer for Church Lane or Westhill Road then please let us know at pthowardassn@gmail.com.

The PHA and PHTC AGMs are scheduled for June. Please look out for an email invitation and/or a flyer in your letterbox.

pthowardassn@gmail.com

Emily Mason with her children.

Call 04 939 2366 www.jaglegal.co.nz

Island time

by Ann Packer

When did you last visit Matiu Somes? The island is there in the centre of our view all the time, yet many locals seldom get on a ferry and take the trip. Who knew you could overnight there? Hire a house or pitch a tent? There’s even a tiny museum, as well as an impressive urupa, memorialising 48 people.

Ann Garry, who’s lived in Eastbourne for 30 years, is one of the motu’s team of half a dozen volunteer meet-and-greeters, who supervise biosecurity checks, and explain health and safety rules – including what to do in an emergency: don’t call an ambulance!

A hugely enthusiastic former committee member of Eastbourne Forest Rangers (EFR), who provide the weekend welcomers (there are also volunteer rangers employed by DOC during the summer, helping maintain the island’s tracks), Ms Garry first visited the island when her children were at San Antonio school, more than 20 years ago.

Once every six weeks or so she takes a turn greeting visitors at the wharf whare, where bags are checked – these days for seeds and Argentinian ants rather than mice, though they have been known to make an appearance – and she loves every minute of it. Her favourite time of year is late November, when the penguins come ashore at night and some of the resident tuatara may be seen. Prebooking is essential for the island’s two houses, sleeping 12 and nine –the education house and the recently renovated caretaker’s cottage – and the 12 campsites, all of which are booked well in advance for holidays. A third house is occupied by the kaitiaki ranger.

Every time Ms Garry is on duty she meets people coming for the first time. “Last year it was a Lower Hutt lady who was 82, and she’d never been before. You meet lots of young travellers, too.

“When I go there I imagine all the people who have walked on it before and will do in the future. I often say that per square inch it packs a punch in terms of history – Kupe’s arrival and pre-European history, then the settlers arriving on their ships from overseas and docking there to quarantine if there was disease on board, ‘enemy aliens’ being interned there in both world wars, the gun emplacements that

were built and manned and it being an animal quarantine for many years. Now it is an historic and scientific reserve that anyone can visit.”

Acting chief ranger for EFR, Gail Rumble, has been involved with the island for about 15 years; she was helping out on a penguin project when Ray Smith suggested she join the Forest Rangers.

Mrs Rumble says the ferries are amazing, taking the rangers and their equipment over to the island. But while there’s always been a good team to help meet and greet, Covid slowed things down and many people’s situations changed. Couples like the Heines who came through Forest & Bird and the tramping clubs have passed on, and while there are younger people coming in, they don’t seem to stay so long, she says. She’s wanting to increase the numbers again in time for summer. “We could take on another group after August so they’re up to speed for summer.”

People interested in volunteering on Matiu Somes need to be keen, fit, enjoy the outdoors, be confident meeting groups of people, and want to engage with the owners of the island, Taranaki Whānui Ki Te Upoko O Te Ika a Māui – represented by Gemma, who lives in the kaitiaki ranger’s whare. “I’ve learned so much from her,” says Mrs Rumble. “She has a totally different way of looking at things.”

For more information on volunteering on Matiu Somes contact: gail@therumbles.org.nz

Ann Garry.

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.

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

• Toy Library - Two Monday Sessions at 1.30-2.30pm and 7.30-8.30pm. EastbourneToyLibrary on Facebook. Kathy 0273551950

• DB Playcentre Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday and Friday mornings, from 9:15 to 12 noon, Drop in anytime to visit a session or call James on 022 043 7841 to arrange a visit.

• Pt Howard Playcentre. Mon 9.15 -11.45am. Lucy 021 335 391.

• 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.

• Keas: Monday 5.15pm – 6.15pm. Kea Leader: Ed 021 738 699

• Venturers: 7.00pm - 9.00pm, Susan 0275 35 4962.

Tuesdays

• Pt Howard Playcentre Tues 9.15 -11.45am. Lucy 021 335 391.

• DB Playcentre Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday and Friday mornings, from 9:15 to 12 noon, Drop in anytime to visit a session or call James on 022 043 7841 to arrange a visit.

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

• Eastbourne Homebirth Group 1st Tuesday of the month. Phone Kate 5627096.

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

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

• Menzshed 9 till 12 , Williams Park, Barrie barrielittlefair@gmail.com 0204 1234511. Women welcome.

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

• Pump Dance junior & intermediate hip hop. 4pm onwards. St Ronan's Hall. 0274373508. info@pumpdance.com

Wednesdays

• Cubs: 5.30pm - 7.00pm, Ed 021 738 699.

• Library preschool story time 10.00 am.

WHAT'S ON

• Pt Howard Playcentre Wed 9.15 -11.45am. Lucy 021 335 391.

• Scottish Country Dance. Merryn 562 0236.

• Bridge Club 7-10pm. Shona 562 7073.

• DB Playcentre Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday and Friday mornings, from 9:15 to 12 noon, Drop in anytime to visit a session or call James on 022 043 7841 to arrange a visit.

• “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!

• 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, Barrie barrielittlefair@gmail.com 0204 1234511. Women welcome.

• St Ronan’s Mainly Music, 9.15am11.15am, during school terms. 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.

• Intermediate Contemporary Dance

Thursdays 6:30pm - 7:30pm St Ronan's Hall

info@pumpdance.com,0274373508

• S couts: Thursday 6.00pm - 8.00pm, Vanessa 021 669 727.

• Eastbourne Bowling Club casual summer bowls 5.30pm for an hour or so. Make up a mixed team of three. Contact Keith Turner ph 04 934 4142.

• EFC Social Womens Football. Every Thursday, 6.30pm, Bishop Park (unless otherwise notified). Contact: Trysh, 02102931247

Fridays

• 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. Lucy 021 335 391.

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

• DB Playcentre 9.15-12 noon Puddle Jumpers casual ‘drop-in’ session.$5 per child per session. Call James on 022 043 7841

Saturdays

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

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

• Pump Dance preschool & junior hip hop. 9am onwards. St Ronan's Hall. 0274373508. info@pumpdance.com

• Lions' Bin - cost effective rubbish and e-waste disposal. Last Saturday of the month (except December) by Bus Barns. Gavin 027 488 5602.

Sundays

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

Creative frustration leads to a new career

by Ann Packer

Lockdown was the impetus for more than one career change. For Covid returnee Lily Uivel, leaving behind a London lifestyle meant the chance to develop her skills as an illustrator, particularly of children’s books.

Grabbing one of the last flights out of the UK, she and partner Rory Stewart returned to New Zealand, and have subsequently bought their first home, a midcentury hillside house designed and lived in by the late Eastbourne architect Hal Wagstaff.

A graduate of Auckland University Elam School of Fine Arts, Lily worked in her family’s Miramar props workshop, Human Dynamo, before heading off on her OE.

Working in London as a furniture maker and feeling creatively frustrated, she started attending life drawing classes, teaching herself to draw – something not covered in her degree – and staying up late every night working on her craft.

Had she followed the illustration route at university, rather than fine arts, she notes, there would have been time to play and find her own style. Instead, she invested in digital technology, and started “chipping away at being an illustrator” in her evenings. Although her work looks hand-drawn, it’s created digitally on a laptop and iPad using Photoshop, Illustrator

and Procreate.

Being able to work uninterrupted during lockdown on a portfolio to present to publishers was a blessing in disguise for this grandchild of Dutch immigrants, who met on board ship on their way here in the 1950s.

She has illustrated two books so far for Penguin Random House, featuring Lulu and her Dance Detectives (authored by Sally Sutton), and has created a stunning cover and interior illustrations for Fleur Beale’s fairytale fantasy Once Upon a Wickedness, due out later this year. Five picture books include Eye Spyclops and Celia Seagull and the Plastic Sea (Little Love). She is represented by illustrators’ agent, Sandra Morris.

Last Christmas, she had the pleasure of working on Wellington’s annual Advent Calendar, in which capital businesses –including the East By West Ferry – make special offers.

Moving to Eastbourne, Lily was delighted to discover another author-illustrator, Kimberly Andrews.

“It can be rare to connect with other illustrators, so it was great to discover another artist living right here in the bays.”

“Illustrators are storytellers in their own right,” she insists, echoing a theme from this year’s Featherston Booktown, where she worked with kaumātua picture book artists

Gavin Bishop and Martin Baynton in the Young Readers’ Programme Speed Date an Illustrator. “They build the world for a story to live in.” With five nephews and a niece within reading distance, there’s plenty of feedback to be had when sharing her work. Who knows, this rising star may even create her own illustrated worlds as well as illustrating others’, just as her mentors have done.

Lily Uivel.

Tupua Horo Nuku

Mā-koromiko & Sunshine Bay

Construction of Tupua Horo Nuku is progressing well in Mā-koromiko with a large section of the new seawall now in place.

In June we will be setting up a second construction site in Sunshine Bay to begin the resilience improvements in this area.

Traffic changes during construction

The two bays will be worked on at the same time and each bay will have one-lane Stop / Go traffic control in place during work hours (7am – 5pm). The speed limit through the work areas will be 30km/h.

This will be manually controlled to ensure that traffic does not build up at peak times. There will be a protected section for pedestrians to pass around the site in areas where they cannot be diverted onto the opposite footpath.

Community open day

You are invited to join us at our community open day at Mā-koromiko in June.

Saturday 17 June, 10am – 12pm

Mā-koromiko construction site

This will be an opportunity to view the new seawalls up close and learn more about the project. Further details will be advised via the Hutt City Council Facebook page.

Find out more:

Contact us if you have any questions for the project team:

0800 135 255

tupuahoronuku@huttcity.govt.nz

Find out more about the project, and subscribe to email updates: hutt.city/tupuahoronuku

Eastbourne

Sunshine Bay

Oruamotoro Days Bay

Mā-koromiko

At the Bay to be shown at the Bay

by Ann Packer

The world premiere of an audiovisual production featuring Katherine Mansfield’s story “At the Bay” will be screened on 2 July at Wellesley College, Days Bay, as part of a commemoration of the death a century ago of one of our best-known writers. And Sir Ashley Bloomfield, one of our most famous contemporary personalities, will feature in a reconstruction of some of the key scenes from the story.

Planned events here and overseas for the centenary include a conference at Te Herenga Waka Victoria University of Wellington from July 7-9.

The writer’s family, the Beauchamps, holidayed in Eastbourne in the late 1890s and early 1900s, renting a house known as The Glen on a hillside above Muritai Rd – probably the model for the Burnells’ holiday bungalow in the story – and building a cottage at Downes Point, Days Bay.

Mansfield recreated the life of that summer colony while convalescing in Switzerland –suffering from tuberculosis and homesick for New Zealand, she wanted to capture every detail of those long-ago holidays. She completed this best-known of all her works, written in eight parts, on September 11, 1921.

Made by a group of Eastbourne authors and researchers, along with Days Bay filmmaker and photographer Simon Hoyle, the presentation draws on historical images of the area - particularly Muritai - south of the village, where most of the story is set. It includes narration, reenactments by six local actors of four scenes from the story, and a soundtrack of music by cellist Arnold Trowell, a close

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friend of Mansfield’s during her Wellington and London years.

Knighted for his services to health during the Covid pandemic, Sir Ashley, who was associated with Butterfly Creek Theatre Troupe in the “noughties”, stepped up to play swimsuited Stanley Burnell – he who rushed to be “first man in” to the water – when director Anne Manchester’s original choice fell through. He says it was a great opportunity to be part of a “very worthwhile local effort” involving just some of the many talented people in Eastbourne.

Sir Ashley says Katherine Mansfield’s link with Days Bay was one of the first things he learnt about Eastbourne and the Bays when he shifted here with his family in 1998. “And of course it was great fun donning the oldfashioned swimsuit and imagining what Stanley Burnell would have been like!”

Mansfield scholar John Horrocks, who lives in Days Bay and has a background in psychology as well as environmental health, presented a paper to a German conference last July about Mansfield’s spa experiences (which began in Rotorua) and her gift for spotting and satirising the more bogus aspects of these popular treatments.

Pondering the approaching centenary, Dr Horrocks recalled the annual event known as Bloomsday, when readers of James Joyce’s Ulysses dress up in period costume and recite passages from the 1904 story – and he reckoned something similar could be done here.

A full-length feature film was out of the question but thinking locally, he was aware of the role Wellesley College’s main building would have played in its earlier iteration as Days Bay House, a hotel the author would have surely walked past on more than one occasion.

“It’s grown in scope,” he says, “and morphed into a photographic tribute, something we

hope will be long-lasting and that Mansfield readers and perhaps students can enjoy for years to come.”

Author and historian Redmer Yska will give a presentation on his recently published Katherine Mansfield’s Europe: Station to Station book, and Ali Carew from the Historical Society of Eastbourne will discuss some of the historic photos used in the AV, plus others not able to be included.

The presentation, which the producers believe is a beautiful creation in itself, has already been invited to screen in Strasbourg as part of a Mansfield conference there in October and will be shown at Eastbourne Library as part of a proposed exhibition in September about KM’s relationship with the Eastern Bays.

At The Bay by Katherine Mansfield, Wellesley College, Days Bay, 2 July, 7 pm.

Tickets from http://www.eventfinda. co.nz/2023/at-the-bay/Wellington

Not his first gig: Sir Ashley Bloomfield features in At The Bay.

PARKSIDE

The Positives of Pest Control

Sometimes it can be easy to lose sight of the benefits of all the pest control work going on in our region; day to day life quickly becomes the norm and we become accustomed to seeing things around us and lose sight of what is going on in the background.

As a pest detection dog handler, I’ve had the opportunity to see places that have always been pest free and places that have had predator proof fences, creating islands amongst areas rife with pests. It is fascinating to see the differences and experience what flourishes with pest control. I’ve stood on islands surrounded by abundant kiekie flowers, the likes of which I’ve never seen on the mainland, visited sanctuaries at night and seen the increase in moths as you get closer to the fence and had to fight my way amongst a thick growth of native seedlings that are the exact age of the predator fence.

It is heart-warming to see certain plants flourish locally that don’t have a chance beyond areas without pest control such as kiekie flowering and fruiting or astelia bearing long flowers that become bejewelled with beautiful fruit over autumn. Both plants are a favourite of possums and rats and simply don’t get the chance to fruit or flower without intense pest control. It’s also fantastic to hear the wēta at night, a favourite food of ruru (moreporks), or find pūriri moths in spring. While we are not surrounded by truly intense pest control there will still be a need to work hard to achieve these treasured things. When we do see them, we know that a lot of work has gone into creating a healthy biodiversity which we are in desperate need of supporting if we are to continue to survive on this amazing planet.

Indeed, it has been great to work in Miramar (with their predator free goal) over the past couple of years and in some areas, it is astounding to see the ground move with tiny skinks or the clouds of insects in the air with an abundance of pīwakawaka feasting on them. A recent study in Miramar showed an increase of pīwakawaka by 550% since 2017. Wēta hotels are now overflowing with wēta and riroriro (grey warblers), calling a constant

Commercial Kitchen for Lease

background noise and no wonder, with their increase in numbers by 275% since 2017. I worked amongst the flax flowers on the cliffs in spring and walked out sticky with nectar and now in autumn I shake flax seeds out of my hair ,whereas before rats and mice got to both nectar and seed. Abundant tūī now feed in spring and hopefully kākāriki and kākā will soon feel safe on Miramar to feast on the seed. I also have noticed the kawakawa leaves are now full of holes on the peninsula and am constantly shaking tiny caterpillars off my collar.

It is very satisfying to see the benefits of pest control but the work to achieve these results has been mind boggling and what was supposed to be achieved in 9 months is now 5 years on (and thousands and thousands of hours of labour and efforts by a dedicated team). In the meantime autumn is the time of year that the juvenile rats look for new territories as the summer’s abundance of food and warmth becomes harder to find and their siblings and parents compete for resources. So please do make sure your traps are tidy and working well ready for the coming rat catching season. And keep an eye out for kiekie fruit and astelia and some of the other things mentioned above as they are great rewards to be treasured.

- Sally Bain, MIRO Interested in helping MIRO?

Email: info@miro.org.nz

Garden Stuff with Sandy Lang

CUTICLES & STOMATA

May/June: Late autumn/early winter. The short, cold, damp, wintery days are upon us. Time to tidy, plan, prune and plant (cold and short-day tolerant leaf veggies and broad beans). If you want a new perennial, buy it early to get the best specimen – not other’s rejects.

Wet chemistry: Life started in the sea. Today, the ‘chemistry of life’ still goes on in waterinside every microbe, plant and animal. So: How did plants escape the watery womb of the sea, to invade the land where the soil is much less watery and the air is dangerously dry?

Water potential: Let me introduce a new term ‘water potential’ (WP). It’s a measure of the availability of water and has units of pressure ‘Pascals’ (Pa). Because 1 Pa is very small, we usually measure pressures in thousands of them (kPa) or in millions (MPa). Some examples...

Cold tap: The WP in a kitchen tap is about 250,000 Pa (0.25 MPa). About the same as the air pressure in a car tyre.

Pure water: The availability of pure water at the surface of a lake is exactly 0.0 MPa (by definition). Wherever else we look, the availability of water is usually less than 0.0 MPa, so WP is usually negative. Soil WP: This varies between 0.0 MPa (waterlogged) and -1.5 MPa (plants wilt, some die).

APPLICATIONS FOR GRANTS

Closing date: 15 June 2023

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

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

Contact the Parish Administrator, St Albans Church.

Email: office@stalbanschurch.nz

Contact: Gaby Brown 021 179 5311 or email: trustees@ebct.org.nz

Air WP: If you thought dry soil was dry, get this... At 100% relative humidity (RH) air WP is 0.0 MPa; at 99 RH it is -1.4 MPa; at 90% RH it is -14.2 MPa; at 50% RH it is -93.5 MPa and at 10% RH it is -300 MPa. The air is rarely as humid as 99% RH and often falls to below 30% RH.

But: How can plants survive on land when their life chemistry can function only in water?

Answer: Every outer surface is covered by a super-waterproof, super-thin (0.0002 cm [a polythene bag is 0.005 cm]) waxy cuticle. (Google plant cuticle)

But: How can a plant take in CO2 (for photosynthesis) and liberate O2 (photosynthesis biproduct) through such a highly impermeable cuticle? Answer: Plants have tiny valves in their skin (Google stomata). These open and shut depending on time of day and how much water the plant gets from the soil. They take about 10 min to open or shut. slang@xtra.co.nz

LETTERS

Come and play Bridge in Eastbourne

I was having coffee with a friend, in a café predecessor to Tartines about eight years ago, when she said “You know across the road in the Women’s Centre where they have a bridge club, and…”

“Hang on a minute! Did you say Bridge Club?” I’d been living in Eastbourne for about 10 years by then and off and on during that time had played evenings at the two clubs in Wellington. I had enjoyed it, and… you played about 26 hands a night, got home after 11pm with the mind abuzz with different plays so another hour before bed beckoned. So, I’d stopped playing.

And I loved Bridge, had missed playing –and here I could locally. So, I found out who to ring, played with a designated partner that first Wednesday evening and haven’t looked back!

What I love is, you arrive at 7pm, help each other put up the tables, chairs, boards etc. Then starting means shuffling the cards in the boards from last week and away we go. There are normally anywhere between 4 and 7 tables so a break for a cuppa and a biscuit after about 12 hands. Hands are not timed to 7 minutes, rather we write the hands up after the first round and Shona rings the bell and “East West

move forward, boards back”.

The Eastbourne Bridge Club began about 30 years ago and some of those originals are still very much a part of the club. Initially there were lessons, but they have stopped and many still go to the Hutt Bridge Club for beginners lessons or advances on those. The Eastbourne club is made up of people who do play at other clubs, at all grades so there is always some helpful advice on offer if one asks.

Several other differences that distinguish the Eastbourne Bridge Club are; we don’t have numbers – we have first names, we manually keep score and get the results emailed to us on Thursday, we don’t have tournaments, and we generally play from the first week in March to the end of November. The current subs are $50 a year and inevitably there is a larger supper at the end of the year!

Now most players live within 10 minutes maximum from the club, we’re normally always home by 10.15pm after playing about 20 hands and putting the tables away. So, playing locally is a great community activity and inevitably we see each other at other times walking the beaches, around the shops - and bridge is hardly ever mentioned!

If you play bridge at any level and are interested in coming along and trying an enjoyable night out please ring Shona Taylor on 562 7073 for further information – you’ll love it.

Pip Nicholls Eastbourne

Eastbourne Herald plea a success

I want to thank The Eastbourne Herald for publishing the article about my book project on Abel Tasman’s 1642 voyage in the April issue. A lot of people have since talked to me about it. A special thanks to the Eastbourne Lions and all the other people who have sponsored the project with a donation. There is still a long way to go to reach the target and get the project over the line but thanks to the generosity of several Herald readers I am quite optimistic. Here is the link to the crowd funding website again: https:// boosted.org.nz/projects/first-contacts

Rudi Mack

Rona Bay

(Glad we could help - Ed)

Los Toros flying the flag for EFC

Over recent weekends, EFC’s newest Masters team, the Toros, has been flying the flag for the club by reeling off a number of straight wins. The team is placed third on Capital Football’s Masters 6 table and is nicely positioned to take advantage of the player combinations the team has been developing since forming last season. The Toros are made up of players representing a number of nationalities which shows through in the enterprising brand of footy the team brings every weekend.

After a great start to the season the Hammers are now sitting in fourth place in Capital Football’s Masters 1 grade as a result of three recent losses. However, those losses came against Waterside Karori, Petone and Western Suburbs, all Masters 1 powerhouses and the only teams sitting above the Hammers on the table, which bodes well for the rest of the season.

The Thirsties, now playing in the Masters 4 grade, continue to battle away admirably against talented opposition. The team is sitting mid-table with recent losses to Wellington Marist and North Wellington but with strong player numbers it’s a matter of time before they start hitting their straps.

The Gs, playing in Capital Football’s Over 45 grade, started the season well with two wins followed by three hard-fought losses and another win. The team is sitting in fifth position in their grade having already played

Kidztalk

three of the four teams above them on the table. With a healthy squad to choose from, and support from their Bishop Park fan base, the team is nicely placed to put their recent losses behind them and reel off a few wins against teams sitting lower on the table.

The Junior season has got off to a great start. This year we have ten Junior teams ranging from First Kicks, up to U15s. We also have some new coaches across grades, with some having recently attended Capital Football's coaching courses so we can really support our kids. Two of our teams are a collaboration with Lower Hutt City AFC. Both the U15s and U12 Girls Only team are made up of Eastbourne and Lower Hutt players, this is to make teams with really good numbers, with the added benefit of making new friends. Both teams are off to flying starts turning in some great results so far.

- Mike Andrews, EFC

News from our local playcentres

At Point Howard Playcentre we have been experimenting with recycled and reused materials like cardboard boxes. We have explored the different possibilities with shape and texture to produce art (like Flossie’s cat, pictured!), role play equipment (TVs, robot costumes) and crawl spaces for littlies (tunnels and cubbies)... not to mention crashing into some boxes on our bikes!!

We are also working with older tamariki to explore project based learning, where they use different skills to create something over a series of sessions. We have a papier-mâché volcano being built and here you can see the tamariki making their own gingerbread figures & forms after mixing the dough on the previous session and refrigerating it.

Join us to give your tamariki a chance to explore their interests and make mess - but not in your house!

Sessions Monday, Wednesday, Friday 9:15-11:45. Drop offs available for 2.5 year olds. Contact Lucy 021335391.

Right: Recycling cardboard into a cat.

Below: Sculpting forms out of gingerbread.

NEWS FROM POINT HOWARD PLAYCENTRE

Photos - Top: EFC Under 12 team after their Wynton Rufer tourny performance. The gazebo is a recent addition to the club and has been put to good use a number of times already. Above: Paul and Amy Longley attend the BBQ on the Bishop Park sidelines while a EFC Masters team battles it out on the pitch.

Faith in the Community

Faith, hope and charity..

Recent events, locally and internationally, have been consistently horrible – floods in New Zealand and Australia, typhoons and hurricanes in the Americas, earthquakes in Europe and a massive volcano erupting in the Pacific. All these underscored by the climate emergency. And these are just a few such events. It’s not difficult to extend this list of woes almost indefinitely…

In contrast, we in Eastbourne are very fortunate, most of our lives have not just been turned upside down. So, it’s our time to think how to help others. We recall that well-known verse in 1 Corinthians 13:13 –“And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love.” We can and we should dig deeper to make changes and to provide help to those who need it. And, we can and we should think of and pray for those we cannot reach with our material and financial help. And, recalling the wider implications of that old word for love, ‘charity’, with which we started, we can ensure we speak more kindly to that annoying neighbour, or workmate, or relative, or close family member. Most interpersonal differences can be resolved peacefully if we will but forgive, and accept, and try...

St Ronan’s: Services Sun 9.30am - informal 1st and 3rd, traditional 2nd and 4th. Ask if you’d like our monthly printed magazine the Record

E:office@stronans.org.nz

W:www.stronans.org.nz

St Alban’s: At Wellesley College Sun 10am communion with guest vicar. Special activities for children during term time. 1st Thurs only, 10am communion at St Ronan’s Church with guest vicar. E:office@stalbanschurch.nz

W:www.stalbanschurch.nz

San Antonio: Vigil Mass, Sat 5.30pm.

Sacred Heart, Petone: Mass, Sun 9.30am and 5.30pm. E: holyspiritparish41@gmail.com W: www.holyspirit.nz

Local in NZ indoor cricket team

Local Eastbourne teenager Connor Gatward 16, has been selected for the New Zealand U17 indoor cricket team.

Connor was recently in action at Waitakere in Auckland representing the Wellington U17 indoor cricket team at the National tournament. As well as winning Nationals, Connor was selected as the Wellington U17 MVP for the tournament and was subsequently named in the New Zealand U17 indoor cricket team. He will make the trip to Dubai’s U-Pro stadium for the Junior World Series Dubai UAE 2023 tournament between September 30 - October 7, 2023.

As a youngster Connor attended Muritai school, played cricket for Eastbourne junior cricket sides as well as StopOut/Eastbourne at football.

He now attends Hutt International Boys school and is an integral member of their 1st XI cricket team that represented Wellington at the Gillette Cup in Lincoln, Christchurch at the end of 2022.

Given that indoor cricket is a non-funded sport Connor needs to fundraise to pay for this potential once in a lifetime opportunity. He is hoping that the local community can aid his cause by making small donations to his Givealittle page https://givealittle.co.nz/cause/ u17-nz-indoor-cricket-team-dubai-or-not-

Any local businesses that may have an interest in purchasing a raffle ticket (tax deductible donation) for the opportunity to have the naming rights to the New Zealand team's playing shirts can get in contact with Connor's parents Justin (021 249 2030) or Jo The long-awaited tennis courts refurbishment in Williams Park is finished, with the TigerTurf blue synthetic grass “Trophy” surface, designed for multisport use, used during school hours for tennis, hockey, football and PE and the rest of the time the courts are open to all. The existing surface, not usually expected to last more than 15 years, was laid in 2002.

Connor Gatward.

dubai-2023.

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