high-fashion article on hats in the 1890s. Some of the ostriches were bought by Alfred Buckland's family to Bucklands Beach, where they were grazed. The first shop built at Bucklands beach was built by the Hindman family about 1910 on the waterfront road facing the Tamaki River called The Parade. The wooden shop was in the front with a hall at the rear. Much later it became known as the centre dairy. About 1930 the shop/hall complex was run by the Hughes family, who were bakers in Howick. They sold to the Farquar family, who lived in a small cottage on the steep section of Bucklands Beach Road near Wharf Road, above the present community centre hall. The Farquars were a military family, and about 1947 they returned to India for about a year to help in the development of the new Indian Army and rented out the cottage. Later in the 1950s it was run by the Kennedy family. Mrs Kennedy ran the local cub group that operated from the old Presbyterian church in Whitcombe Road that was removed in the 1970s. In 1910 there were about 8 permanent houses at big Bucklands Beach. A toilet and changing rooms was built about 100m south of Hindman's store set back about 40m from the beach on The Parade. A modernized facility is still there today. The shop mainly catered for the holiday trippers who came by boat and to a lesser extent by car. In summer people would camp in tents at the base of the steep bank under the pine trees that had been planted along the cliff east of Hattaway Ave and the steep section of Bucklands Beach Road. About 1914 photos show the Buckland farm making use of horses to drill seed for oats, for pulling a heavy 2-horse dray (cart )when harvesting wheat and oats and for pulling a light 2-wheeled buggy called a phaeton (possibly better described as a gig). The large 2-story Buckland homestead which had a deep verandah on both sides had a large barn for hay, a pigsty, milksheds and lean-to where the buggy was stored. About 1910 a bullock team was used to pull logs from a pine plantation from Eastern Beach A few remaining trees from the plantation still exist on the steep slope to the north of the soccer fields at Vic Rogers Park. On Friday 31 March 1916,