Our speaker on Monday 20 July 2026 was John Ross.
The facility now known as Silverstream Retreat is located on Reynolds Bach Drive, off the Eastern Hutt Road, Silverstream. It was first established in 1942 by America as a Military Hospital. Subsequently it came under the Wellington Hospital Board and was utilised as a rehab unit for long term patients for many years. John purchased the property from the Hospital Board in 1990 and he then donated it to a Charitable Trust now known as Silverstream Retreat. Over its many years prior to John's purchase, the facility had accommodated Service personnel, up to 20,000 patients were treated over the years, and it catered for 182 long term rehab patients at any point in time.
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