From 1935 the central peninsula including the area of the present primary school was farmed by Pop (Herbert) and Edith Ellen Leach, Edith Leach's parents Nan and Frederick Burton, who had accompanied their daughter Edith to New Zealand in 1919 from Kent, England, and their children Allan, Bert, Gladys, Joan and Mick, who ran a dairy herd of 30–40 cows. The Burton/Leaches lived in the old 2-story Buckland managers homestead which was located on the rise in what is now Clovelly Road, at about number 151D. An old concrete structure referred to as the dairy was still on the site up to the 1963 development. This was a solid concrete structure about 4m by 5m by 3m high, with a wooden floor that had rotted away. The concrete used the shelly sand off a local beach. In the 1960s there was no roof left. Next to the house was a large wooden barn. The cowshed was located on the flat area near the present tennis club near Eastern Beach at about 7 Jern Place. Attached to the cowshed was accommodation for a farm worker or people on holiday at Eastern Beach. As the Leach/Burton family had the use of the large Buckland house this was not needed so the bach was let out to extended family or friends such as the Pattens over the holidays. Frederick Burton died and the herd was sold during World War II. The Buckland house, which was in a poor state, was pulled down. The Leaches moved to a house at 31 The Parade.