Following closures during work on the slip at the top of Howard Rd, Pt Howard Playcentre is again facing closure – this time, possibly for good.
While the Centre’s roll has always fluctuated over the years, an October 2024, region-wide inspection by Playcentre Aotearoa revealed issues with the playground and outdoor area that make it non-compliant, and the Centre has again been forced to close.
President Kim Hansen says at present there are only seven families enrolled – “twenty would be ideal”. She says to remain open, they must be compliant in terms of the building and playground and be financially viable.
“So, it is possible that Playcentre Aotearoa will decide not to invest the money to repair the playground, if they think our numbers are too low. Sadly, that would mean closure.”
There’s been a preschool at the top of Point Howard ever since 1950, when the late Nan Barker helped establish the Pt Howard Playcentre – not all that long after the pioneering New Zealand movement was founded in Wellington.
Playcentres were set up as cooperatives and used existing halls and other premises – in this case, the tennis club rooms. Parents were the teachers, trained on the job. While “learning through play” was the most important principle – one later adopted nationally by all early childhood education centres – along the way a lot of empowering took place. Some of our highest achieving women, including Dame Cath Tizard and Dame Jenny Shipley, are play centre alumni.
Eastbourne JP and former Hutt City Councillor, Joy Baird, now of York Bay, was living in Pt Howard and heavily pregnant with her first child when she visited the Centre in 1968, only to be warned: “We’re going to be closing before that one’s born.”
They didn’t. She later became the supervisor – her first paid job – and the Baird family attended the centre until 1977.
The current situation was made more difficult following the slip on Pt Howard hill, which made vehicle access impossible for some months.
“This saw us displaced from our Centre for two terms,” Ms Hansen says. During that time, the children went on trips and visited other centres. But the slip, combined with ongoing traffic delays caused by roadworks around the Bays, has made it difficult to attract new members for the past year, leading to a smaller than ideal roll.
Securing financial investment from Playcentre is further complicated, because PHPC doesn't own the land or building. “We are grateful to the Pt Howard Residents' Association and Tennis Club for their support over the years to keep the Playcentre operating,” Ms Hansen says.
Also, as of 31 March, the structure of Playcentre has changed nationally. Centres are no longer independent; financial decisions are made by Playcentre Aotearoa, and centres don't have the ability to spend the necessary money from their own accounts.
“The positive for small centres,” Ms Hansen says, “is they have access to greater funds. The negative is they have none of their own funds to spend.”
Point Howard Playcentre is very special in terms of its location, facilities and culture, Ms Hansen says. “We can only hope that the Centre's long history of success and the impact of the constant road closures and roadworks will be kept in mind when a decision is made.
“It seems crazy to me to not keep it open until the roadworks around the Bays are finished next year, and we can recruit new families successfully again.”
Generations of Eastbourne families have attended Pt Hwd Playcentre.
Church to become community hub
Plans are well underway to revitalise St Alban’s Church building, its much-used Parish Hall, and church garden, with a vision to reopen as a hub for the community.
The initiative, called “Kuhu mai! Come on in!”, aims to transform the space not only for traditional church activities, but for concerts, film nights, recitals, a repair café, playgroups, and lunch groups . Meeting space in the village is at a premium, and the project hopes to offer a high-quality, low-cost venue that fosters community connection and vibrancy.
Following approval by the Anglican Diocese earlier this year, the congregation at St Alban’s has been working steadily to develop detailed plans, with design work set to be completed by early 2026 and construction scheduled to begin mid-year. A grand reopening is targeted for 2027. The project’s total cost is estimated at $1.3 million. Funding will come from a mix of existing Parish Trust reserves, grant applications, and donations. A fundraising goal of $250,000 has been set for the remainder of 2025.
Fundraising is already off to a strong start, with over $40,000 donated before the campaign officially launched. Upcoming community events – including a pre-loved clothing sale on August 9 and a garden tour in November – are planned to help raise both funds and awareness. Interested in supporting the project? Contact the Parish Office on 562 6269 to learn more.
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The next public Eastbourne Community Board meeting is at 7.15pm on Tuesday, 19 August, at East Harbour Women’s Club, 145 Muritai Rd. Everyone is welcome.
ECB members will be available from 6.45pm to discuss issues and answer questions. The agenda will be available at eastbourne.nz and huttcity.govt.nz from 12 August.
This will be the last ECB meeting for this triennium and the last meeting for the community board members who are not standing for re-election. Everyone is welcome.
Youth Forum
Meet at the Eastbourne Library at 5:30 on Monday, 28 July. Contact Emily Keddell for more information.
Help needed for planting at Kauri Street
Contact Frank Vickers if you can spend an hour or so planting on the dunes at the end of Kauri Street.
Calling for summer pool volunteers
Contact Emily Keddell if you’d like to volunteer to be trained to support lifeguards at the Eastbourne Summer Pool. Training will begin in October. Local volunteers will help ensure the pool can stay open longer.
Improving Council engagement
Provide feedback at huttcity.govt.nz by Sunday, 3 August.
Local Body Elections, 11 October. Visit huttcity.govt.nz for information about the elections, key dates and events.
-The electoral roll closes on 1 August.
-Candidate Kōrero and Mayoral Debate on 1 September.
Once upon a time there were three petrol stations in Eastbourne. They supplied BP, Mobil and Caltex products; all serviced vehicles as well.
Now, Sunshine Service Station is the only one currently operating – and it pumps gas, but since Stephen Husmann’s retirement three years ago, doesn’t do repairs.
Older brother Gordon Husmann (pictured) has lived “above the shop” for 30 years. He’s survived a few big downers in his time – even witnessed a drowning from his harbourside vantage-point but still thinks “there’s a good number of nice people here who make it worthwhile”.
The recently retired Sunshine Bay Service Station owner was already experienced in the trade when he arrived with younger brother Stephen in 1993, fresh from helping run Stephen’s service station in Petone. The previous owners had been here just 10 years.
Gordon, who started his working life as a builder, set up and ran the community’s first bike hire company at Burdan's Gate. He started Gravel Bay Trading from scratch – a trailer with a shed on the back and half a dozen bikes. But once they bought the garage, there wasn’t time to run that as well as pour petrol, so he sold it.
He says it hasn’t all been plain sailing. Just four years into their tenure, supplier Caltex – who knew when the ownership changed that the brothers were in for the long haul –decided the underground tanks, owned by the oil company, needed replacing.
Two-and-a-half years, “two lawyers and a lot of time and money later” they won their case, and the tanks were replaced at the oil company’s expense.
Shortly after that, a tree fell on their building. Eventually, though, Gordon and Stephen Husmann settled down into “the best three years ever”.
Then came Covid.
Gordon will never forget the day lockdown
was announced, with just 24 hours’ warning. He was pouring non-stop at the pump all day long, with no chance to go out and get the supplies he needed for himself. While the police at the Pt Howard road block were not happy about his late afternoon request to be allowed through, he convinced them. They decided it was okay for him to go for provisions – but would he please stay open so Eastbournites didn’t have to go out of the bays at all, to help contain the virus.
Of course, the price of petrol rose globally, and with no movement allowed, the volume sold went down. It was not a happy time, Gordon recalls.
He’s weathered many a stormy front, and seen more than one car go over the edge, but has never forgotten the day a man drowned offshore, after going out with a buddy in a small boat in atrocious conditions.
Gordon says: “I happened to notice the back going down before it capsized and got onto emergency services. ” While one man managed to swim to shore, the other – whose lifejacket, they learned later, did not inflate – disappeared before his eyes.
More recently there’s been the construction of Tupua Horo Nuku – the shared path, with its interminable delays and occasional accidents, including a car rolling down onto the beach just north of the service station.
“All in all,” Gordon says, “Eastbourne is lucky to have a gas station. And lo and behold, we outlasted the oil company.”
As for the future, the retiree plans to travel. Although he has a passport, he’s planning to go on holiday solely within New Zealand, catching up with friends around the country. There'll be a few fishing trips: plenty to Taupō and some in Canterbury, where he reckons the wild sea salmon is the best ever. He can’t wait to get in a jet boat and hoon it up the Waitaki River – and down again, with a friend who has a crib there.
Meanwhile, he’s staying around to make sure new owner Ranjit (Rana) Singh “gets settled in properly”. The former dairy owner is already expanding the shop area to offer basic supplies – milk, bread and other essentials.
Happy travelling, Gordon.
Teens Invited to shape EB's future
Young people in Eastbourne and the Bays are being invited to help shape a new youthled initiative aimed at amplifying their voices in local decision-making and providing fresh opportunities for connection, creativity and community involvement.
The Eastbourne Youth Forum is the brainchild of two long-time local residents, Emily Keddell and Kaye Wilmshurst, who saw the potential for more youth-driven activities and access to community resources. The idea emerged over a casual coffee discussion and quickly took shape, with both women identifying underused local assets—from paddleboards and sailing gear to slots on Eastbourne’s civil defence radio network—that young people could take the lead in utilising.
With backgrounds in youth development, the pair are keen to discover whether there is appetite for such a forum among local youth. They are inviting 11 to 19 year-olds to attend an information session at the Eastbourne Library on Monday 28 July from 5.30pm to 7pm. Free pizza will be provided.
The proposal has already gained support from the Eastbourne Community Board, where Keddell is a member, with an offer of practical support from board member Bruce Spedding. Muritai School principal Stu Devenport has
also welcomed the idea.
Organisers envision it as a flexible space that could support peer-led groups focused on mental wellbeing, creative projects such as podcasts or art installations, environmental initiatives, or more direct engagement with the community board. While adult mentors and meeting space will be provided as needed, leadership and direction will rest in the hands of local youth. Scan the barcode for more information.
‘Speaking truth to power’ is a phrase which comes readily to mind when high ranking clergy, be they an American Bishop or the newly elected Pope, challenge the policies of government - especially on issues of justice and basic human rights... While there are those who question the church being involved in such matters, the phrase itself was coined by American Quakers in a pamphlet published in 1955.
And in this, Christians take the lead from Jesus, who began his ministry by quoting a Hebrew prophet predating him by eight hundred years –Isaiah - known to be particularly sensitive to the political and international events of his time.
That prophet had famously said, when speaking about how to honour God, “Is it not to loose the bonds of injustice... to let the oppressed go free... to share your bread with the hungry and bring the homeless poor into your house?”
Jesus was placing himself squarely in a very long prophetic tradition of speaking truth to power, and chose Isaiah’s words to declare his purpose – “to bring good news to the oppressed, to bind up the broken hearted, and to proclaim liberty to the captives.”
Church representatives who speak out in this way are just following his lead and trying to be true to his word. Would that World leaders would listen...
St Alban’s + St Ronan’s: 1st Sundays 9:30am monthly Shared Communion Services (alternating venues, leaders and preachers). 3 August at St Ronan’s church, 7 September at San Antonio church.
St Ronan’s: 1st Sundays shared with St Alban’s (see above). 2nd and 4th Sundays 9:30am informal, 3rd Sundays 9:30am traditional, 5th Sundays 12:00pm fellowship meal. E:office@ stronans.org.nz W:www.stronans.org.nz
St Alban’s: 1st Sundays shared with St Ronan’s (see above). Other Sunday services at San Antonio church at 9:30am. 1st Thursdays, communion at 10:30am at St Ronan’s church. Details www.facebook.com/StAlbansNZ E:office@stalbanschurch.nz W:www. stalbanschurch.nz
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Golden Kiwi John Wood wins world Duathlon title
by Ann Packer
Sometimes being organised is more important than being the best athlete, reckons Pt Howard duathlete John Wood, 85, who won the gold medal for his 85-89 age group at the world champs in Pontevedra, Spain in June 2025.
It’s the duathlon (running and cycling) legend’s eighth global title, and he thinks his decision to enter the Standard Duathlon event, but not the previous day’s sprint, might have meant the difference between two bronzes and one gold. It was still hard – his longest training had been only three-quarters of the 10 km run/40 km bike/5 km final run distance – but he did win by 40 minutes.
While the French and Italian runners he was up against were better athletes, he knew they were going to do the sprint event the day before, which could be in his favour. “I know my old body from training experience, if I go hard one day I can't race the next,” he says.
John is equally good at running and road cycling – unlike most of his age, he says – and did most of his training for the Pontevedra Event on the rural road in Moores Valley, Wainuiomata. But living on a steep hill, with a low-geared bike, helped him make good headway on the hilly bike leg of the race. While he passed a number of women going uphill he’s slower going down…“I'm very cautious at
speeds over 50km/hr.”
When he first entered a World Duathlon Championship, he was 65 and “pretty competitive” but these days, John says, completing the race is a "case of survival". He first started running to keep fit as a sailor out of Worser Bay Boating Club when younger. Then when his daughter turned 18, he paid for her to enter a World Championship duathlon event in Italy – and thought “Why don’t I go to the next one?”
Trips across the world have always been about doing other things while there – “You don’t travel all that way just to race a couple of guys.” This time it was to catch up with his sister, who lives in Essex. He missed having his wife’s company – he thinks she would have enjoyed the beautiful coastal location of Pontevedra, roughly the same latitude as New Zealand but says she freaks out at the idea of the 30-hours of flying to Europe. “I tolerate it but was totally wiped-out when I arrived, my hands and legs were swollen, and it took me a few days to come right.”
John likes to keep active – “it helps healthwise” – and does a lot of stretching, but he hates gyms, preferring to be outside in the bush or on the waterfront. He certainly hasn’t tried cycling on the Eastbourne roads in the last couple of years – “it’s not viable” – but is an active member of the Wellington Masters' Cycling Club.
John Wood - world champion.
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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 - 7.30-8.30pm. EastbourneToyLibrary on Facebook. Kathy 0273551950.
•DB Playcentre Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday mornings, from 9:30am to 12 noon. Drop in anytime to visit a session or email daysbay@playcentre.org.nz to arrange a visit.
• Pt Howard Playcentre. Mon 9.15 -11.45am. pcpointhoward@gmail.com
• 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.
• Mindful Mummas group for Mums and preschool children. Childminder onsite. 1011.30. Text Emily 027 552 6119 to join or go to bemoreyou.co.nz for more info.
•DB Playcentre Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday mornings, from 9:30am to 12 noon. Drop in anytime to visit a session or email daysbay@playcentre.org.nz to arrange a visit.
• 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 0210303480.
• 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 impactteens to 70+) Music Movement Magic - Muritai Yacht Club - call Amanda 021 316692 www. niainwellington.com
• Toy Library - 9.30am-10.30am.
Wednesdays
• Cubs: 5.30pm - 7.00pm, Ed 021 738 699.
• Venturers - 7:15pm - 9pm - Ed 021 738 699.
• Library preschool story time 10.00 am.
• Pt Howard Playcentre Wed 9.15 -11.45am. pcpointhoward@gmail.com
• Scottish Country Dance. Merryn 562 0236.
• Bridge Club 7-10pm. Shona 562 7073.
•DB Playcentre Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday mornings, from 9:30am to 12 noon. Drop in anytime to visit a session or email
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daysbay@playcentre.org.nz 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.
• Tai Chi 9.40am Muritai Yacht Club Lyn 021 1428915
Thursdays
• Menzshed 9 till 12 , Williams Park, Barrie barrielittlefair@gmail.com 0204 1234511. Women welcome.
• St Ronan’s Mainly Music, 9.15am-11.15am, during school terms. Contact Cathy 027 213 9342.
• SPACE at Days Bay Playcentre. Michelle 971 8598.
•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.
• Scouts 6pm-8pm - Ed 021 738 699
• 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.
• Sing Eastbourne: 8pm, San Antonio.
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 pcpointhoward@gmail.com
• AA Plunket Rooms 7.30pm. Mark 566 6444/ Pauline 562 7833
•Senior Residents: Lighthouse Movies - last Friday of every month. Pick up from 10am. Contact Celeste on 021 206 5713 for more information. Okiwi Services (Eastbourne Community Trust).
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.
• 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.
• Days Bay Touch Rugby, by arrangement on Whatsapp group, text Xavier 027 249 3645 to join.
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Tupua Horo Nuku Project Update
To optimise delivery of Tupua Horo Nuku, Hutt City Council has approved the use of three active lane closures as part of the project.
This change begins from August 2025. By working on three sites at once, we can keep the project moving steadily and finish sooner - which means less disruption overall.
Three closures will only be used when necessary. Their length and location will be monitored to ensure disruption is kept to a minimum.
We look forward to opening Tupua Horo Nuku in 2026, improving the resilience of Marine Drive and providing a new shared pathway for all to enjoy.
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