The Eastbourne Herald July 2021

Public to decide on best version of Williams Park

by Louise Parry

Two options have emerged as possible changes to Williams Park as the council looks to upgrade the facility..

The plans are on display at Eastbourne Library or by going to https://haveyoursay. huttcity.govt.nz/williams-park-managementplan

Both versions involve removing the old Caretaker’s Cottage, and moving vehicle access away from Marine Drive to Kereru Road. Both options increase the number of car parks, and include a playground on the grass in front of the Pavilion.

Option A would keep the bbq area where it is currently, next to Marine Drive, with parking adjacent to the duck pond.

Option B would see the bbq area moved next to the duck pond, with car parks moved to the western boundary of Willliams Park.

Other upgrades include better signage and seating, improved toilets outside the main building, improved drainage to and from the duck pond, and some aesthetic improvement to the Pavilion building itself. Also noted are improvements to the tracks around the park.

Submissions are open until 24 September 2021 and can be sent to WilliamsPark@ huttcity.govt.nz

HCC’s objectives are to promote Williams Park as a key regional recreation, leisure and scenic amenity, encourage alternative modes of transportation to and from the park, maintain

Ferry

Seatoun Wharf

will be

Option A.

the park as a place of imaginative play for children, provide high quality services and facilities, preserve the character of the park, ensure that the park is well connected and

prioritises pedestrian access, and supports environmental conservation by contributing to biodiversity, habitat pereservation, and climate change goals.

closed from 6am on

Friday

23rd

July while it undergoes a

full refurbishment

This means from the 23rd July we will be running to a new timetable, with no Seatoun stops, until works are complete and we are able to use the wharf again

It has been indicated that this will take approximately one year

JULY HONGONGOI 2021

Hutt City Council is hosting an information meeting about the shared path. Technical experts and project specialists will run through the project plan, including detailed design proposals for the first stage of the project, and more. Public feedback will be used to inform the project team about the way ahead. Shared Path information meeting: Saturday 21 August, 1pm – 3pm, St Ronan’s Church Hall, 234 Muritai Road, Eastbourne.

ECB members are pushing for a limit on the number of outlets able to sell liquor in Eastbourne, following a rumour a convenience store may be coming to Days Bay, and selling take out alcohol. The board was invited to develop a local alcohol plan in 2013. The plan made included a 2 venue limit for off licences, but was never enacted. ECB chair Ginny Horrocks said she wanted Eastbourne to be "on an equal footing" with other areas of Hutt City.

The Lowry Bay Residents' Association was one of the recipients of this year's Community Engagement Fund. LBRA requested $900 to put a free standing swing on Cheviot Road, near the entrance to the regional park. It was granted $300 for the project. Other recipients of the grant included the Point Howard Residents' Association, Historical Society of Eastbourne, and Days Bay Playcentre.

Next ECB meeting:

7.15pm Tuesday 31 August, East Harbour Women’s Club, 145 Muritai Rd

Eastern Bays Shared Path

– Community Open Day

Hutt City Council, Mayor Campbell Barry, and the Eastern Bays Shared Path project team invite residents to hear from technical experts and specialists who will take you through the project plan, including detailed design proposals for the project’s first stage.

This is an opportunity to ask questions about the project, speak to the people involved in the construction phase, and provide feedback.

When: 1.00 to 3.00pm, Saturday 21 August

Where: St Ronan’s Church Hall, 234 Muritai Road

Williams Park Management Plan

Thank you to everyone who submitted ideas in the first round of consultation for the Williams Park Management Plan.

The draft plan is now available for feedback at the Eastbourne Library and at haveyoursay. huttcity.govt.nz/williams-park-management-plan. Feedback closes on 24 September 2021.

Eastbourne Community Board (ECB)

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

Reminiscing about Rona Wharf

lives, living around the wharf.

Italian fishing families set crayfish holding pots at Ward island (Mākaro) – locals would sometimes swim out and raid them. It’s their double-ended fishing boats pictured on the beach. When the council gave up clearing the boat launching ramp, local man Ross Baker, who owned Horokiwi quarry, would send a truck weekly to clear the shingle.

Virginia Horrocks (Chair)

virginia.horrocks@huttcity.govt.nz

Ph 021 230 8210

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

Ph 021 029 74741

Murray Gibbons

murray.gibbons@huttcity.govt.nz

Ph 04 562 8567

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

Ph 021 271 6249

Frank Vickers

frank.vickers@huttcity.govt.nz

Ph 027 406 1419

Belinda Moss

belinda.moss@huttcity.govt.nz

Ph 029 494 1615

By Ann Packer

Anyone out there remember when there was a shed on Rona Wharf? Alan Collins does. With a photographic memory for visual detail he puts down to dyslexia (“I can’t spell but I remember colours”) the Rona Bay artist was able to reconstruct, from an old watercolour he’d done in 1960, the wharf with its faded red oxide-painted, double-sided shed and the white gates that were there to prevent latecomers sprinting through to the departing ferry.

Bob Bradley, who commissioned this c.1947 painting because of the role the wharf has played in his life, says he has never seen a photo of the shed but certainly remembers the smell – it was used as a urinal in the absence of toilets. Even the waves that crashed through the wharf decking under the shed’s elevated floor couldn’t sanitise that.

Bob, whose dad was a pal of Alan’s, says the water was a lot deeper in those days. “You couldn’t touch the bottom. We learned to swim off those steps. It’s where we spent our

Bob has a rather fuzzy photo of Joe Dellabarca pulling in “his last haul” of mainly kingfish on the beach opposite the Rec. Chinese fishers would also come from Petone at night and set crab nets off the wharf itself, Alan says. “Mr Young, the greengrocer, would pay kids an orange each” for the harvest.

Hardly visible in the picture is what Alan calls the springs and Bob calls the boom, a structure beneath the main wharf that acted as a buffer for the boats. Kids who could swim would climb onto the asphalted cross-section and smoke, Bob recalls. Laughs Alan: “When we were older we used to do other things in there.”

The longtime friends can recall a fair amount of Rona Bay detail between them. The old council yards, where Rona House now stands, with 600mm square gateposts so heavy they were rarely closed – which allowed locals to help themselves to gravel and other material. The council smoko shed, the Rimu St horse trough where the lighthouse keeper would tie up his horse, Roberts and Gwilliam grocers, and Moncktons the haberdashery.

Only the wharf remains.

Bob Bradley, (rt) commissioned Rona Bay artist Alan Collins to bring to life his memory of Rona Bay wharf, c. 1947. The 4 pm Cobar sailing from Queen’s Wharf was known as the College Kids’ Special.

Pippa de Court exits Okiwi

By Ann Packer

“You must know more about me than my doctor does!” said one grateful Eastbourne resident to Pippa de Court recently, after yet another visit arranged for her by the Okiwi Trust coordinator.

Stepping aside after 16 years in the job, the word retirement doesn’t sit well with Ms de Court. She has organised thousands of rides in her time – and the trained teacher still holds down a job at Weltec, where she coordinates exams and acts as a reader-writer for students with learning or psychological difficulties.

“Being the Okiwi Coordinator was a commitment I didn’t take lightly,” Ms de Court says. “The Okiwi phone has been in my backpack on Stewart Island, my jacket pocket on Treble Cone ski field, my bumbag over the hills in Eastbourne, my shopping bag in Parnell…and it’s spent half its life on the car charger in our well-travelled campervan.”

In the early days with the Trust, Ms de Court says there were around 65 people on Okiwi’s books, though that number has dropped since, and her role mostly involved organising rides for those unable or unwilling to drive themselves. A koha to help reimburse volunteer drivers became petrol vouchers; these days a fee per ride – to shop in Petone, perhaps, or attend medical appointments –goes directly into the driver’s bank account. There are currently 25 volunteer drivers and more are always needed, since many are around the same age as those using the service.

The driver service replaced a residential care villa opened up in 1973 to allow older Eastbourne residents to keep living in the community. After the house was sold in 2001, the Trust established the volunteer driver service for those who found using public transport difficult.

Shortly after Ms de Court started, a 20-minute volunteer service was added; though not so often called on, it’s appreciated by those who use the home handyman skills on offer.

Ms de Court also added two regular events that many consider among the most important socially: a monthly trip to Lighthouse Cinema, commencing in 2009, and a monthly DVD lunch at the Women’s Club rooms, that started in 2012.

Of the first Lighthouse trip, Ms de Court recalls: “Unfortunately, I chose a movie containing a fair bit of the F-word, drugs, sex and alcohol. I thought that might be a one-off event, and no-one would want to continue – but the following month 19 people came! The volunteers were regaled with scintillating conversation regarding their newly acquired knowledge of such 21st century goings-on.”

The DVD lunches often screened footage from Ms de Court’s travels with long-term backup Peter Fleming. When the technology let her down recently, she called on audience member Pam Fisher to give an impromptu talk about her life – and it was a resounding success, followed up by Trust member Anne Manchester, formerly editor of Kai Tiaki Nursing New Zealand, who continues to feature Okiwi elders’ life stories in the Herald.

During Lockdown last year, Ms de Court set up a buddy system, with a volunteer to

check on each person on her list. One of the hardest parts of the job? She misses those who were her earliest clients – people such as Nell Manchester, Isabel McIlraith, Betty Busby and June Small – and most recently Ken Longmore. But she will be pleased to spend more time walking the hills or playing tennis with her four grandchildren, and skipping off in the campervan without the Okiwi cellphone.

Okiwi Trust: 0800 654 942.

Pippa de Court

Pump track plan for unused land in Korohiwa

A bike skills “pump” track could be the latest recreational addition to Eastbourne.

Eastbourne Community Board member Bruce Spedding first mooted the track on Facebook, and following a positive response there he has been in talks with Hutt City Council about the proposal.

The park, which initially would include a range of hills and jumps for younger riders, would be built at minimal cost, using dirt and volunteers. It would be placed opposite the mulch drop off point south of the Bus Barn.

Mr Spedding told this month’s ECB meeting the park is a logical addition to the area, which is undergoing a rise in popularity as a biking destination for families. This trend will continue as the shared path is completed, he said.

The initial changes would be a simple loop and skills track commonly found in school grounds, with small safe challenges for kids aged up to about 10 years. There may also be interest in building some ramps by older kids. This trial would measure the degree of interest in the concept, gather ideas, priorities and proposals to take further (if warranted), and build a community of interest.

Mr Spedding says there have been signs of "guerrilla" bike ramps and other activities on public land around Eastbourne.

A ramp was constructed at the entrance

to the Muritai Track which was removed by GWRC, and more recently HCC contractors have removed significant modifications made by young bikers at the seaward end of Karamu Street. The youth responsible for these are keen to see some sort of official facility to suit their interests. The nearest bike park to Eastbourne is probably Wainuiomata Trail Park which is aimed at more experienced mountain bikers. It would encourage appropriate use and activity and discourage some of the more antisocial activities that currently occur. It

would also take the pressure off some other areas in Eastbourne.

Assuming community engagement and materials sourced locally the initial cost would be nil, essentially some minor landscaping. Working with advice from council staff a working group could create a trial facility and then monitor behaviour and use, using the opportunity to gauge interest and gather ideas about the space itself as well as the larger Burdans Gate zone as a gateway to both rides.

An example of a pump track.

‘Still much to live for’ – an Okiwi life story

Roy Beeby, now 95 and living at Shona McFarlane Retirement Village, began his working life at the age of 16 as an apprentice typewriter mechanic in Dunedin. He ended his working career with the New Zealand Civil Aviation Authority at its head office in Wellington.

In 1944, aged 18, he was called up for military service and decided to join the Royal New Zealand Air Force. “I chose the Air Force because I’d been told the food was better.”

Then followed three months of “square bashing” (marching up and down a square) and rifle shooting in Blenheim in preparation for war.

Roy wasn’t chosen to be a pilot as the war was coming to an end and fewer pilots were required. Instead he trained as a radio operator and, in 1945, was posted to Laucala Bay, near Suva, Fiji, as part of a team monitoring New Zealand-allocated airspace.

Only months later, the war ended. “One minute we were saluting the officers, the next minute we would walk right past them. Suddenly we did not need so many bosses.”

Rather than returning to mending typewriters, Roy decided to stay in Fiji and to join Civil Aviation. He continued working in Laucala Bay, then was posted to Nadi where the airport, built by New Zealand engineers at the start of World War II, had been transferred from United States control to New Zealand control. Later, he worked as an air traffic controller in the New Hebrides (now Vanuatu) at Espiritu Santo, then in communications at Tauranga Airport.

He and his first wife Olwen had three sons, two of whom live in Australia. Their youngest son Philip took his own life when in his 40s – a sorrow that Roy does his best to bear.

He and his second wife Deirdre moved to Eastbourne about 30 years ago. Both took an active part in the community, with Roy serving on the RSA welfare committee for several years. He was also involved in the Eastbourne Lions Club, Butterfly Creek Theatre Troupe and the Eastbourne Retired Persons Association. Being part of the local ANZAC parade has always been important to him. He played golf well into his 80s and loved tending his vegetable garden, an interest he continued at Shona McFarlane until a minor stroke six months ago curtailed this activity.

“At our house on the corner of Pukatea Street, we had a little pond filled with koi and a pretty Japanese bridge across it. I grew the

vegetables, Deidre the flowers. It was great to live so near the sea – I loved swimming whenever I could.”

Marrying Deidre, he said, “was the best thing that ever happened to me. We saw the world together”.

The couple married at the Quaker Meeting House in Wellington in 1982. Their involvement with the Quakers from then on saw them working as resident friends at several meeting houses – one in Perth and two in England (Essex and Norfolk). They travelled extensively through Europe and across the United States via Amtrak. Their slightly ageing blue Kombi van took them around Australia and New Zealand. “We shared so much – a love of travel and a love of dance too.”

Deidre died in 2015, aged 87. Since that time, Okiwi Trust has helped Roy with transport and offered some welcome social activities. His recent stroke has been a setback. “It would be nice if I had a full brain still,” he said philosophically.

Despite failing eyesight and slowing down a little, he still finds much to live for, and particularly appreciates visitors from Eastbourne. “It’s good to know Eastbourne is still alive.”

Roy intends living until he gets too fed up doing so. “I would like to reach 100 and get a letter from the Queen, if she manages to live that long too!”

By Anne Manchester.

News from Point Howard

The PHA would like to thank the ECB for the Community Engagement Fund grant to help fund additional building materials to build a berry bed as well as funds for the placement of a tap closer to the garden. The garden continues to thrive and is attended to rain or shine by a committed group of keen gardeners.

It is a fabulous winter garden, so take a look, and if something in there takes your fancy please feel free to take a couple of items. If you would like more information on the garden, or how to get involved, please contact pointhowardgarden@gmail.com.

If noise from Seaview affects you, the next Port Road Sprints is planned for Sunday 24 October, which is on the Labour Day weekend.

The Port Road Drags will be held on Sunday 28 November.

The Eastern Bays Shared Path Open Day will be held on Saturday 21 August from 1pm - 3pm.

This will be an opportunity for residents to get an update on the project, view plans, talk to the specialists, and discuss any burning issues.

Photo: Pippa de Court

French flair grows in the Village

by Ann Packer

Laurent Loudeac really wanted to be a vet – but in the end he became a chef.

“From healing animals to cooking them,” quips the Frenchman, who has returned to work as head chef with Camille Furminieux at Tartines, the café he helped set up in Eastbourne village three years ago.

A brand new space across the courtyard has been set up to offer not only more inside seating but also space for private lunches, family gatherings and cooking classes – as well as extra storage and prep areas. When their liquor licence comes through, they will start offering drinks and sharing plates on Friday evenings. He can see the new space allowing him to cater for customers’ preferences, rather than offer set choices, when setting a menu.

M. Loudeac has clocked up a lot of experience since his first taste of cooking, when he would make his Dad’s lunch every day while still at school. His most recent gig was as one of six chefs for Te Omanga Hospice’s annual six-course degustation Vintner’s Lunch, a sold-out event that raised well over $300,000 for the charity.

In between, he’s worked in a hotel restaurant in the Loire Valley, the Brittany coast in summer, Paris for a year, German and Italian-

speaking Switzerland for three years, and London – among others.

He came to New Zealand after meeting a Kiwi, with whom he had a son Jeremy – now 27, with a medical PhD and living in Dunedin. They landed in Thames – “a bit of a shock” – to work at Puka Park for a year before coming to the Parkroyal’s Kimble Bent restaurant. A stint at Chifley Tower’s Level 41 restaurant in Sydney followed, then a return to southwest France for two years, serving classic French dishes such as foie gras and duck confit, at a villa restaurant.

It’s three years since M. Loudeac left the Museum Hotel’s Hippopotamus, after 11 years as executive chef. During that time, he and Ms Furminieux were global winners of the Dilmah Real High Tea Challenge in Sri Lanka, in 2015, out of 14 international teams. But a change of ownership meant things became “too corporate” for him, and he was tired of the commute to town.

Now resident in Petone, M. Loudeac loves Eastbourne, the drive round the harbour –even on wild days – and the community, and is

relishing the opportunity to get back to basics. But first, there’s the Wellington on a Plate fundraiser event at Laura Fergusson Trust on 28 August, where he is one of three chefs, and will be supplying the dessert.

ALAN WILMORE WEBB

3 March 1945 – 1 February 2021

Retired valuer and community stalwart Alan Webb died unexpectedly after his regular morning swim at the Eastbourne pool. He was 75.

Born in Dunedin, Alan moved to the Hutt Valley when he was eight with his parents and two sisters. He attended Waiwhetu Primary, Hutt Intermediate and Hutt Valley High schools.

He was a good basketballer, playing for HVHS in his teens, Auckland YMCA seniors at university, High School Old Boys Seniors on returning to the Hutt and finally for Eastbourne senior grade.

Alan was involved with the St James Sea Scouts from Cubs through to senior Scouts, attaining the prestigious Queen’s Scout Award in 1961. He became a leader at the Eastbourne Den in the early 80s when son Brad was a Cub.

After leaving school Alan worked for the State Advances Corporation as a clerk, then moved to Auckland where he gained a Diploma in Urban Valuation from Auckland University in 1967.

He immediately found a job with Prudential Assurance as New Zealand property manager, learning to manage office buildings and shopping centres in Sydney, before returning to Wellington in 1969. Alan was the legendary “man from Prudential” for 20 years before making a career shift to Harcourts’ property management.

In 1991 Alan teamed up with Bill Lindsay to form Lindsay Webb Valuations, which became a highly respected partnership and valuable friendship of almost 30 years. Alan was an advocate for other local valuers, and he became a Fellow of the Property Institute of NZ and the NZ Institute of Valuers in 2015, in recognition of his altruistic approach to his profession.

Alan met his wife Viv at a wedding in 1969 and they married in 1971. They bought a section in Lowry Bay where they built a home for their new family - Brad, Keryn and Julie. Using a long-standing family name, they called the private road Wilmore Way.

From the late 70s his love of basketball and property came together in the construction and management of Walter Nash Stadium. “He had a 40-year love affair with that building,” recalls Brad. “I remember going to see the Harlem Globetrotters and the Tall Blacks play many times, roaming the stands and passageways as famous athletes took to the court and Dad bustled around running the show.”

Alan fought hard to upgrade and expand the centre, pushing for it to become a regional asset for youth, cultural and sports programmes. His tenacity was recognised in 2011 with a Lower Hutt Civic Honours Award for Community service, recreation, social

Faith in the Community

Winter is so cleansing…

welfare and youth activities, though he was typically humble in his acceptance.

But Eastbourne was Alan’s main focus. Driven mostly by his children’s involvement with Muritai School and local clubs, he joined a variety of committees over the years. He could see the benefits and opportunities that strong local organisations bring to a community. Alan was elected first Chair of the Eastbourne Community Trust in 1995.

Alan was a member of Muritai Yacht Club since 1987, where he served as both Junior Bosun and Commodore. He enjoyed the camaraderie and friendship of his sailing mates, and crewed a sunburst with Gavin Bornholdt for more than 20 years.

Alan loved the outdoors – sailing, biking, swimming, tramping, and was a keen conservationist. He enjoyed travelling and sharing experiences with his family and friends. Alan was a treasured husband, a loyal friend, a dedicated Dad, a proud and devoted Grandad.

I love to walk in the bush in winter, particularly on a crisp, frosty morning. The sunlight shafts are so clear, defined; and the stillness heightened. The trunks of the mighty totara on my walk are stripped, lying bare to the elements, a reminder that nature is never still. Signs everywhere of the eternal cycle of birthing, dying and rebirthing. The bark is in shreds, peeling away from the new growth, faintly visible beneath. And with this peeling, the tree rids itself of unwanted pests, keeping it healthy.

Like many things in nature, something has to die to allow new growth, new strength to emerge. The tree has two choices; to stay as it is, safe in its first skin and risk dying of suffocation, or to move out into unsafe territory, vulnerable for a time, in order to grow and become stronger than before.

Life calls us to follow the same pattern. What is it we need to let go, in order to grow? Our resentments, our present way of life which no longer fulfils? Our unhealthy habits?

And our Church? To stay with our protective structures and rituals and rules, which are suffocating our young, or to step out in faith and embrace a new way of being, for a new generation? Winter is so cleansing…!

St Ronan’s: Services: Sundays 9.30am. Taizé, first Sundays 6.30pm. Ask if you’d like our weekly emailed e-Service or monthly printed magazine the Record E:office@stronans.org. nz W:www.stronans.org.nz

Community Fridge: Surplus garden produce is absent. The vulnerable come daily and sometimes find it bare. Spare a thought...

St Alban’s: Two Sunday services: 8:30am (traditional) Wellesley School and 10am (contemporary) Wellesley School, with Kids’ Club (primary) and Hot Chocolate Club (intermediate). Communion Thurs 10am, various venues. E:office@stalbanschurch.nz

W:www.stalbanschurch.nz

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

Mahina Bay News

Mahina Bay Residents Traffic Safety evaluation

Mahina Bay residents were asked six questions about local road safety with the aim of presenting to Hutt City Council The issues were: 1. The need for a pedestrian crossing in Bay 2. The need for double yellow lines which would limit the overtaking of vehicles on Marine Drive. 3. Burying overhead power lines 4. Limiting the speed up Mahina and Richmond Rds to 30 km. 5. Reducing the overall speed limit throughout the Bays to 50km 6. Gauging support for the Shared Pathway project.

A greater than expected turnout resulted from the 60 households. Seventy five percent of residents responded with the following results:

1. A pedestrian crossing was marginally supported with comments such as reducing the speed in the bay would make it easier to cross the road without the need for a crossing.

2. Limiting vehicle overtaking was strongly supported.

3. The overhead head power poles should be under-grounded when the shared pathway goes through and it is hoped that the planners and the infrastructure owners are talking about this.

4. It was pointed out that nobody can go up Richmond Road at the current speed limit in any sort of safe way so it was strongly supported to change the legal speed limit to reflect the reality.

5. The reduction of the speed limit of Marine drive to 50km/hr had a large majority of support.

6. The shared pathway project had almost 100 percent support provided there is ongoing consultations especially about the bus stop on the marine drive These issues will now be taken up with the Hutt City Council Traffic management personnel.

We now have the mandate to speak on these matters with some clear understanding of what the residents think. mahinabay@gmail.com

Artistic talent on show in Village

by Ann Packer

Taking its name from the address – 3 Oroua St – jeweller Philothea Flynn’s (pictured) new workspace and gallery in the village embraces the work of half a dozen artistic colleagues plus the practice of skincare specialist Robyn Sclater, previously owner of the Caci Clinic in Wellington.

Ms Flynn’s life took a new turn following a heart attack four years ago. She was crafting her silver earrings, necklaces, rings and other adornments at home in Eastbourne when the old weatherboard cottage became available. Having first looked at it some years ago, she followed up when she realised the dog groomer’s sign had gone – and moved to secure the lease.

Ms Flynn decided to take on the lease so she could relocate her workshop and showcase the creations of local artisans such as jeweller Fiona Christeller and ceramicist Kirsty Morison, who already have their own work spaces. She also shows Suzy Costello, an Eastbourne sculptor and printmaker currently working on her Masters in Fine Arts at Massey, and Mary Wall, a Greytown fashion and textile graduate and jeweller who specialises in sculpting rings from silver and semi-precious stones.

Also showing in the gallery is Hawkes Bay illustrator Jani Dixon, aka MAM Aotearoa, whose swirling, African-influenced micro-art is created with ink and coloured pencils. Odelle Moorshuis’s trio of plasma-cut rusted steel sculptures has also been in residence since Ms Flynn discovered the Central Otago artist at the NZ Art Show earlier this month.

With her specialist machinery in place, Ms Flynn offers jewellers’ bench space for hire to those who don’t have their own, and plans to run jewellery and ceramics workshops, and conversation groups on topics such as Feng Shui in the coming months. She will also hire space within the gallery and studio by negotiation. She’d like to develop the exterior as a sculpture space too – but that might just have to wait till summer.

Ms Flynn first tried out silversmithing on a holiday in Bali and later trained at The Learning Connexion. She has also studied with other international and local jewellers.

Strongly believing artists bring a positive energy into the village, she is publicising the work of other locals by posting on the noticeboard outside Studio Toru – including that of artist Niki Pennington, who has just opened an exhibition at her new studio, Twin Island Gallery, in the former hairdressers’ premises behind Tartines, in “the French Quarter”.

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.

m-5.30pm. Contact Judy Bishop 562 8985

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

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

• DB Playcentre Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday and Friday mornings, from 9:15 to 11:45, phone Jeanne 021979177.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

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

• Toy Library 9.30-10.30am. St Ronans Hall. Facebook: Eastbourne Toy Library Elizabeth 021 08224664www.eastbournemibase.com.

• 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

Cubs: 5.30pm - 7.00pm, Erica 021 190 3900

• 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. Lucy 021 335 391.

• Scottish Country Dance. Merryn 562 0236.

• Bridge Club 7-10pm. Shona 562 7073.

• DB Playcentre Mon, Wed, Fri 9-12. Siobhan siobhan_whelan@yahoo.ie

• “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!

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

• Intermediate Contemporary Dance Thursdays 6:30pm - 7:30pm St Ronan's Hall info@pumpdance.com,0274373508

• Scouts: Thursday 6.00pm - 8.00pm, Damon 022 620 7116

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 Mon, Wed, Fri 9-12. Siobhan siobhan_whelan@yahoo.ie

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

• 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.

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.

Sundays

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

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SONNY'S YOGA - EASTBOURNE CLASSES - Enjoy a relaxing yoga class near the ocean. Every Wednesday 6.45pm at Muritai Yacht Club. Beginners welcome. First Wednesday of each month will be a gentle YIN yoga class. For more info visit www.sonnysyoga.nz

ECO GARDENER - restoration, restyling, maintenance. All sizes. All styles. txt 027 6939 323

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.

Lawn mowing and gardening services. Contact Supreme mowing. Phone Grant 0212481771.

Office for rent Days Bay: Fully self-contained with separate reception (2.5m x4m) and office (3m x 3.7m). Sea views. Suit small business. Behind Wellesley College. Text Stuart 027 873 6086.

Flat for rent Days Bay: Small 2 room flat for rent. 21 sq m plus bathroom. Sea views. Behind Wellesley College. Text Stuart 027 873 6086.

Fit person required for occasional weeding on bush hillside and other basic garden tasks. Phone John 021 568 337.

The diva takes her final curtain call Barbara Green, who died in June aged 79, is remembered as an accomplished singer, gardener, good friend and neighbour. She enjoyed more than 40 years living in Plum Tree Cottage, Rona Street, before moving to Enliven’s Woburn Home three years ago. Her much-loved cat Billy was allowed to move in too and was with her as she died on June 21, cuddled close beside her.

Barbara was a member of the first New Zealand Opera Company from the mid-1960s until its demise in 1971. In an account of her life written for the Eastbourne Historical Society in 1993, she described being accepted as a chorus member for a national tour of Johann Strauss’s Die Fledermaus as “beginning the most exciting years of my life to date”.

She toured with several other operas, then joined the newly established opera school in 1970. Her Italian teacher Marisa Morel gave her the role of the page boy Cherubino in Mozart’s Marriage of Figaro, a role she was highly praised for and which she sang for many different companies. “By the mid-70s, I was becoming known as the oldest page boy in the business!” she wrote.

The 1970s saw Barbara singing with the New Opera Company in Wellington, the New Zealand Opera Quartet and the New Opera Quartet.

Singing began to fade out of her life from 1976, as the joy of living in Eastbourne and developing her and other people’s gardens took precedence.

Barbara’s significant other, Jen Williams, met Barbara in the late 1980s when she was president of the Eastbourne Labour Women’s group supporting Sonja Davis. “Barbara was a staunch Labour Party supporter,” Jen said at Barbara’s funeral service on June 28. “She organised the delivery of [then Pencarrow, later Hutt South MP] Trevor Mallard’s leaflets for many years. Somehow there would always be a couple of runs we couldn’t get other people to deliver and we would slog up Point Howard or get abused in Lowry Bay.”

Some years ago, Barbara received a handwritten letter from Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern thanking her for her long years of service – she was delighted!

Over her life, Barbara did her fair share of waitressing, pouring petrol, and duty managing in hotels, as well as gardening and housework in the bays. She looked after and befriended a number of older women in Eastbourne, including Betty Cass, Biddy Laing, Jenny Blackwood and Sonja Davies, helping them to stay in their homes, driving them to doctor and hairdresser appointments and “doing the gin run”.

The magnificent garden at 24 Moana Rd, Days Bay, became her work of art, first for former owner Dorothy Archibald and her garden tours, and then for Rhona Fraser and family, for their summer operas.

Barbara loved being part of the Rona Bay Tennis Club. “Thanks to the kindness of her fellow members, she was still able to play doubles there three summers ago,” said Jen.

Barbara was very hospitable and frequently had visitors, including nephews and nieces. Most evenings began with a brandy and ginger, later moving to singing around the piano.

She enjoyed holidays in the Cook Islands, Australia and Norfolk Island, as well as in New Zealand. She visited her old singing teacher in Italy and went to Scotland with her older sister Janice. She was in Berlin when the wall came down, bringing handfuls of it back to New

Zealand before excess luggage charges became exorbitant.

“The last few years have been a tough journey for our kind, loyal but often stubborn diva,” said Jen. “However, she settled into Enliven well and became friends with residents and staff, enjoying her favourite sport of peoplewatching. Staff were kind as well as competent as they managed her transition through the stages of Alzheimer’s disease.”

Kindness also marked Barbara’s final years in Eastbourne, when professionals, including local doctor Kate Orange, friends, family and local shop keepers gave her wonderful support. “The Rona Street crew were amazing, bringing their ‘matriarch’ meals and generally keeping an eye out for her. She really helped bring the community together,” said Jen.

By Anne Manchester

Double Delight for Kimberly

Days Bay author-illustrator Kimberly Andrews has again been included in the shortlist for this year’s New Zealand Children’s Book Awards, announced earlier this month – just as she launches the third title in the picture book series that began with Puffin the Architect, which won a slew of awards in 2019, including the prestigious Russell Clark award for illustration. Moose the Pilot, published by Penguin Random House NZ, follows Hound the Detective, one of five picture book finalists in this year’s awards. Both characters were first introduced in Puffin. In keeping with her self-imposed routine, Kimberly is already working on the text and illustrations her next Puffin spinoff, which will star Goose the Artist.

While Hound was discreetly modelled on the family’s late three-legged beagle, Mogul, Moose is based on Kimberly’s brother Cam, who really does fly a Beaver float plane in the Canadian Rockies – though by the time Moose picks up a curious collection of cargo from yoga mats to durian fruit, there’s probably not too much in common with Cam’s real-life roundup.

A trained biologist and geologist who grew up in the Canadian Rockies, Kimberly has worked at the House of Illustration and the Natural History Museum in London, and also in Borneo. She lives with husband James and daughters Nova and Fern in a shipping container house behind her parents’ Southlight Studio in Days Bay, and since the arrival of Fern commutes to Seaview to work in premises shared with the couple’s business Tumblewood Tees.

The winners of the New Zealand Book Awards for Children and Young Adults will be announced at a ceremony at the National Library, Wellington, on 11 August.

Dogged determination sees play go ahead

Chase away those winter blues (or polish up your laughing gear!)

It’s had a longer gestation than most Butterfly Creek Theatre Troupe productions, but It Runs in the Family is now ready to hit the boards.

Some weeks ago, the play, by Britain’s master of farce Ray Cooney, threatened to derail, as two cast members stepped down and sickness took its toll. But sheer persistence and a love of theatre have seen the production get back on track and continue to grow.

Director Florence McFarlane, who makes a guest appearance in the play’s closing scenes as mother/granny, says the problems encountered off stage have almost mirrored those on stage. “Changing alert levels in Wellington could have shut us down and having the heating in the Muritai School Hall die on us in the middle of winter has been challenging.

“But the 12-member, all-age cast, plus our wonderful backstage crew, have pressed on doggedly, ignoring every problem thrown at them. Like Ray Cooney’s other farce I directed several years ago, Out of Order, this is a tangled tale that keeps on giving. All these weeks later, we are still laughing at the verbal confusions, mistaken identities and remarkable coincidences that are peppered throughout the plot.”

McFarlane has no doubt audiences are going to love watching the play as much as the cast enjoy performing it. “It’s going to be a fantastic way to forget the miseries of winter and worries about vaccinations and border closures. All you need to do is give yourselves up to your laugh zones.”

It Runs in the Family will play at the Muritai School Hall over two weekends: August 5, 6, 7 and August 12, 13, 14, 7.30pm.

Garden Stuff with Sandy Lang HYDROLOGY

August: Late winter. Get on with the pruning… A record warm June. No good for fruit trees needing winter chill for flowering. Hopefully enough cold in July/August? Google chill requirement

Four seasons: The Earth’s tilt and yearly orbit round the sun determine the annual solar cycle – the equinoxes and solstices. Add in a three-week ‘temperature lag’ and these determine the middles of the four seasonsspring (Sep, Oct, Nov), summer (Dec, Jan, Feb), autumn (Mar, Apr, May) and winter (Jun, Jul, Aug).

Plant water use: A forest or pasture or crop uses water at a calculable rate that depends on the incoming sunlight energy (daylength, light intensity) and the air (temperature, wind, humidity). Scientists talk about “Penman–Monteith potential evapotranspiration” = ‘PET’ for short = estimated plant water use (pretty accurate). Google potential evaporation – read to get the feel – just ignore the maths… Soil water balance: For Wellington, annual rainfall (926 mm) and annual water use by plants (866 mm) are about in balance. In spring, rainfall (236 mm) and plant water use (250 mm) are also about in balance and the same for autumn rainfall (222 mm) and plant water use (165 mm). However, in summer, rainfall (186 mm) is only about half plant water use (380 mm) while in winter, rainfall (282 mm) is about four-times plant water use (71 mm). So, summer is the season when soil water reserves are run down and winter the season when they are replenished. These rainfall and plant water use values are longterm average ones, the values in any particular season vary +/- quite widely.

Losses: But not all rainfall enters the soil+plant system. (1) About 3 mm of every rainfall event is lost. It sits as drops on the outside of the leaves, later evaporating. It enters neither the plant nor the soil. (2) Heavy rain lands on the ground faster than it can infiltrate, so some is lost, it runs off to the sea in creeks and rivers. Most places in Wellington are a bit dry, most of the year. So, some irrigation is needed in spring and autumn and more in summer. Many places on Earth have lower rainfall and higher plant water use than Wellington. How do forests cope? Teamwork and hydraulic redistribution help – but that’s for next month…

- www.gardenstuffnz.blogspot.com

Michaeljohn Butcher (Police Sergeant) and Florence McFarlane (Mrs Bonney/mother). Photo: Hayden Rogers

MIRO’s Pest Control Results from the Northern Forest and Parangarahu Lakes

For more than 20 years, MIRO has operated a network of 435 possum traps in the Northern Forest of East Harbour Regional Park, located in the hills behind Eastbourne.

MIRO volunteers, well-supported by Greater Wellington Regional Council(GWRC), clear and re-bait the traps at least monthly. Over the past year only 189 possums were caught, which indicates that the possum population is being kept sufficiently low for our native trees to recover from the severe possum browsing that occurred prior to the start of trapping. Over this time, many people have noted the increase in birdlife (especially kererū and tūī).

We also control weasels and stoats in the forest using more than 220 DOC200 traps, which are co-sited with half of the possum traps.

While weasels and stoats are voracious killers of our native birds, their numbers in the forest are generally low, with only 28 caught in the past year, down from a high of 43 caught the year before. This higher number was due to the 2019 beech tree seed ‘mast’, when the trees produce very high quantities of seed, providing food for rats, which breed up very quickly. The weasel and stoat population then also rises as they feed on the rats, but trapping with the DOC200s seems to have got the increased numbers back under control. The DOC200s also caught 50 hedgehogs.

The rat population is probably back to

Kidztalk

“They taste like rainbow!”

Our Days Bay Playcentre tamariki recently baked some delicious rainbow cupcakes together. This activity enabled the exploration of texture and colour and demonstrated how to follow the steps of a recipe, take turns with one another, and best of all, share with each other the finished product! Yum! Just some of the fun (and delicious) activities we get up to! Sessions run Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday and Friday mornings. Term 3 starts soon and spaces are available, so call Jeanne for more information on 021 979 9177.

normal in the forest, after the mast-year peak, but remember that we cannot control rats across the forest, so the decrease is just part of a natural cycle we see in the rat population, which is largely related to food supply.

In the Mainland Island (20 percent of the forest, where GWRC undertake intensive poisoning of rats) the rat population is back to being very low, which is good news for our birds.

We are continuing to test new traps and other techniques that are becoming available, in the hope of eventually being able to control rat numbers across the whole forest.

Out at the Parangarahu Lakes, the main focus of our trapping efforts is to protect shorenesting birds (by targeting rats, weasels, stoats and hedgehogs) and to also protect revegetation plots by targeting possums.

During the year 76 possums were caught using 58 traps around the Lakes area, which is fairly consistent with previous years, but is double the catch rate for the Northern Forest, indicative of higher possum numbers out at the Lakes. This is borne out by the fact that GWRC killed a further 57 possums as part of night shooting operations.

However, the weasel and stoat catch was way down on last year with 16 caught using 102 traps along the coast road and around the Lakes. This is a similarly low catch rate as in the Northern Forest, which should be good news for our shore-nesting birds, such as the

banded dotterel.

However, GWRC service other DOC200 traps on the foreshore adjacent to the Lakes (so very near to the nesting areas).

At these sites they unfortunately caught a further 14 weasels and stoats, which shows our inland and coast road trap network is still letting many of these pests through.

In spite of this, dotterel nesting success has been greatly improved over the past few years, from a low of 3 percent of nests hatching at the lowest point, to a high of 57 percent, which is a very positive outcome.

We would like to take this opportunity to thank our 50 or so dedicated trappers who, year after year, make this all happen.

- Terry Webb and Parker Jones, MIRO Interested in helping MIRO?

Email: info@miro.org.nz

WELCOME TO DAYS BAY PLAYCENTRE

Aidan making cupcakes

Tasting the rainbow with friends, Theo, Ada, Aidan and Pia.

Family at the heart of local Karate Dojo

by Carl McRae

One may not generally associate martial arts and the family nucleus, but here in Eastbourne, the Karate Dojo very much takes on this persona, according to Lindsay Johnson. South African born, Lindsay is the Godan (5th Dan) Renshi of the local club and he endorses the Dojo’s values and mantra; “It takes a village to raise a child.”

“Our Dojo has quite a unique situation,” he says, “as we have five families training. There are combinations of parents and children, brothers and sisters, even entire families which attend our classes.”

“The message is really around parents being so busy and tired,” he adds, “so why not join and train with their kids? It’s a progressive martial arts interest that provides work-life balance.”

The 21 year old Dojo has always been particularly family orientated and received a Community Award in 2018 for services provided to the community, where it continues to prove to be a valuable resource.

The third term commenced last Monday (July 26) and Lindsay says that the Karate club are keen to take on new members. They lost a number of students during and after the Covid 19 outbreak and now they’d like to recruit and start a new class for Term 3.

“We are looking for 10 to 12 girls and boys and their parents to join this beginners class,” Lindsay says, “so that there is a decent size group to teach at any one time. Children must be at least nine years of age or older.”

Lindsay believes that it is a great opportunity for parents to participate with their children, rather than watch from the sidelines.

“This aligns with the growing anecdotal evidence,” he says, “that parents are often so busy that they neglect to exercise themselves. So this provides that unique chance where they can enjoy a shared experience with their children and get fit at the same time.”

Some female members say that the exercise is better and more subtle than a gym workout!

Karate also offers a niche for those kids who are a little shy or not necessarily seeking the accolades of other more popular sporting codes.

“The belt system is great for these kids,” Lindsay adds. “They can graduate through the grades at their own pace and achieve success in their own time.”

Classes are on Mondays and/or Thursdays from 6 to 7pm at the Muritai School Hall and

Lindsay reiterates that anyone with an interest in joining the Dojo should make contact. Turn up for a session and check it out or contact Cath Louden for further details (cathyleelou@ gmail.com).

“After all,” Lindsay concludes, “any support will also help keep such a wonderful community resource sustainable. Exactly like this great one, The Eastbourne Herald.”

Pete, Lindsay and Tim look like they mean business...business as usual that is, down at the Eastbourne Dojo.

Hammers progress up the ranks

by Carl McRae

The Masters 1 EFC Hammers are holding tight to fourth spot on the table, which in itself is a most meritorious effort, as acknowledged by club Chairman, Mike Andrews.

“Their 6-1 thumping of their opposition (NW Villa) a couple of weeks ago certainly

opened a few eyes,” Mike says, “and put the rest of the teams on notice that the Hammers had well and truly arrived in the M1 competition.”

The Hammers won both the M2 and Masters Qualifying grades in 2019 and 2020 and richly deserved promotion to the highest level. Being such a small club however, expectations outside of the ‘Bourne may not have been overly high.

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“To finally reach the pinnacle of Masters footy in the Wellington/Hutt Valley region,” Mike adds, “and be out-performing most of the other M1 teams, is a testament to the time and effort their management and players have put into building a most impressive squad.”

“What’s even more impressive, is that Eastbourne is a minnow compared to the other clubs with teams in the M1 competition.”

Mike says that those teams have ‘resources for Africa’ and players that they can call up from lower grades when they want to boost their squads. A good example is the Petone team, who are leading the M1 competition, after winning the wooden spoon last season.

“Petone was able to put together a team this season full of players who were recently playing in the top Open grades. The Hammers only just lost their first round match against Petone, but it’s fair to say that they’re pumped for their up-coming return ‘derby’ match against their neighbours.”

The Hammers' impressive 6-0 victory was their third win on the trot, where they had racked up 15 goals, conceding just the one against the VU Stallions on June 19th. On July 3rd, the side defeated BNU’s Masters Black at Memorial Park by three goals to one.

Last Saturday, the Hammers drew 2-2 with Tawa Grizzlies, a side one spot below them on the table. They will play their final home match for the season on July 31st against the Waterside Karori Dreamers (currently 2nd), although the season finale will also be played at Memorial the following weekend, concluding with that ‘derby’ match against the current leaders, Petone Argh Me Knees.

The Chairman’s old side, the Thirsty 5s still sit atop the Masters 6 competition, chasing down promotion to the grade above for 2022. Since the last Herald, the side enjoyed an emphatic 9-1 win over the NW Zimmers, a 2-0 away win against Island Bay Internationals and on July 10th, a hard fought 1-1 draw with the Wainui Pacific Originals, their nearest rival, just two points behind them on the table.

Last Saturday, the Thirsty 5s won 2-0 against the Western Suburbs Construct Masters. The win should pretty much ensure promotion. Their competition concludes next Saturday, with an away fixture against the BNU Pints, at one of Wellington’s more notorious football grounds, windswept Happy Valley Park.

The Gs (Over 45s) currently sit 7th of 10 in their competition, but are the highest placed of their derby sides, which include Petone and Stop Out. A 2-2 draw with Petone on June 26th was followed by a close 1-2 loss at Bishop against Waterside Karori Fossils.

They then went down by 2-4 in a ‘seaside’ derby match against the Seatoun Originals. While a loss, the result was a good effort at Crawford Green, the home side second to run away competition leaders TFS North Wellington, unbeaten in 13 matches.

U85s finish second in R2 of competition

The Eastbourne U85’s finished second in round two of their competition, the Paul Potiki Memorial Shield competition, a 9-19 loss to Avalon on July 3rd ending a long winning sequence of victories. The match would ultimately decide the grade, with Avalon unbeaten in their six matches and claiming the title.

It was the only loss of the season for the local side, who won the first round (JC Bowl) by three points from Avalon, going through the round without dropping a game.

Two victories by default saw Eastbourne shoot to the top of the table, this on the back of their victorious run in securing the JC Bowl in R1.

Following the loss to Avalon, the side ground out a hard fought 13-12 win over Johnsonville and on July 17th, in torrential rain and atrocious conditions, they scored an emphatic 20-5 win over Poneke to complete their competitive season.

PUBLIC NOTICES

EASTBOURNE BOWLING CLUB (INC)

NOTICE OF ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING

2pm, Sunday 8th August, 2021 at the Bowling Clubrooms

DJ DAVIDSON, CLUB SECRETARY

Muritai Tennis Club AGM to be held at the Clubrooms - 356 Muritai Road on Sunday, August 22 at 12:30pm

to be followed by BYO lunch and afternoon tennis.

All Senior, Interclub and Winter members welcome

For further information please ring Wendy Manson on 027 5628287

Vacancy – Okiwi Trust co-ordinator

Following the retirement of Pippa de Court, the Okiwi Trust wishes to appoint a co-ordinator to administer its volunteer driving service for Eastbourne-Bays senior citizens. The co-ordinator is contracted to the Trust at an agreed hourly rate. A job specification can be accessed from the Okiwi Trust Facebook page. The position offers a rewarding opportunity for a person to be involved in the community, helping those requiring the service and liaising with an established group of volunteer drivers.

To register your interest or for further information, please contact Trust chair George Tuffin, phone 027 243 1945 or email george.tuffin@xtra.co.nz. Closing date for applications is August 18.

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Possum control – Poison warning

Better Nature wishes to advise that a ground-based possum control operation will be taking place in the Wainuiomata-Eastbourne area. The purpose is to keep possum numbers under control to prevent the spread of TB. This operation will be conducted as a part of the TBfree New Zealand programme.

Area covered: The project boundary runs from the south-western side of Wainuiomata, along the Eastbourne coast, down to Fitzroy Bay, up to Wainuiomata along Coast Road. Operation date (approximately): Between 16 July 2021 and 30 June 2022.

Operation date (approximately): Between 16 July 2021 and 30 June 2022.

Poisoning methods, poison used and nature of poison: Possum habitats may be targeted using Feratox (cyanide) encapsulated baits in bait stations or bait bags attached to trees or fence posts. Brodifacoum and Diphacinone may also be used in some areas in bait stations attached to trees.

The public is warned to take care when entering these areas and not to remove carcasses or baits. Baits are dangerous to people and dogs.

General warning:

• Do not touch poison baits/bait stations/traps

• Do not touch poisoned possum carcasses

• Keep pets under supervision - do not let dogs eat poisoned carcasses

• Do not leave children unattended

• Follow the advice on the poison warning signs

If you suspect poisoning:

• Contact your local hospital, or dial 111

• National Poisons Centre 0800 POISON – 0800 764 766

• In the case of a domestic animal being poisoned, contact a local veterinarian

For further information (including a map of the operational area), contact the operator:

Operations Manager

Better Nature Ltd

Email: admin@betternature.nz

Ph: 06 836 5590

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