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.