VISITS
TUESDAY 18TH NOVEMBER 2025
A visit is being arranged to Christ Church, Taita, one of the oldest surviving churches in New Zealand and the oldest church still standing in the Wellington area.
The church is located at 73 Eastern Hutt Road, Taita, and the visit will be on Tuesday 18th November at 2 pm and will finish round 4 pm.
If you would like to come, you can reply to heathernelson303@gmail.com to register for the visit and for further details.
We will also be taking names at the next REBUS meeting, and you can pay by cash then if necessary.
- Early notification for you to put in your calendar -
Our Christmas function will be on
Wednesday 10th December at The Pines
In September a REBUS group were fortunate to be able to visit OpenStar Technologies, which was founded to build a levitated dipole reactor using the new technology that has developed in the 20 years since LDX. On October 31st 2024, OpenStar confined a plasma around their first Marsden Class device constructed using High Temperature Superconductor, the critical step to show LDRs can be scaled to produce fusion energy.
In June, two Wine Tasting evenings were held in a member's home.
Twenty REBUS members enjoyed a visit to a commercial laundry in Petone.
It was fascinating to see the laundry being delivered, washed, dried, ironed, and packing into orders. - Between 26 to 30 tonnes of laundry are handled each day. After the visit the group had afternoon tea at the Shoreline Cafe.
REBUS members enjoyed a day trip to the Wairarapa.
Pukaha National Wildlife Centre at Mt Bruce, a captive breeding facility located in a protected native forest area.
Fell engine museum in Featherston.
Visit to KiwiRail Hutt Workshops
Twenty one members enjoyed a visit to the KiwiRail Workshops ,
with lunch at Janus Cafe afterwards
Fifteen of our members enjoyed a wonderful visit to Aspiring Walls wallpaper factory in Elsdon. We were first greeted enthusiastically by Bruno and Louie, two PR dogs, and later by Neil Macdonald, who co-owns the business with his wife Tanya. Two of their daughters also work in this family business. Aspiring Walls is one of the largest wallpaper manufacturers in the Southern Hemisphere.
Our group was stunned by the magnificent wallpaper murals in the reception area, and amazed by the beautiful patterns and colours. After donning Hi-vis safety vests we were taken on a tour of the factory. We were shown the machine that prints the wallpaper, the embossing machine and a huge digital printer. We were given a demonstration of how colours are mixed, and how the wallpaper is trimmed.
As other businesses share the premises, we were also given an insight into other manufacturing procedures. Especially impressive was the area where bus shelters were made and despatched to all parts of New Zealand, and where an ecological toothpaste was manufactured.
After a fascinating two hours we visited Pataka Museum and Kaizen café for lunch.