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Full scope visual examinations [eye tests], drivers screening, job applications, airlines, police, maritime, child vision, learning disabilities, squint, lazy eye, myopia, hyperopia, keratoconus, astigmatism, presbyopia & more. |
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Leading brands: TAG eyewear. Some of our favourite ranges are Lindberg, Silhouette Minimal Art, Freudenhaus & Swarovski. Along with imported niche collections we also stock fashion eyewear such as Gucci, Armani & much more. Optical prescriptions, all types of contact lenses, quality sunglasses from adidas, Nike, Serengeti, Maui Jim & other world leaders. We also stock seasonally changing fashion brands. |
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Our skilled professionals will make your visit to Barry + Beale an eye opening experience, ensuring the most effective outcome.
Roger Apperley: [Dip. Opt] Roger joined the practice in 1968. Over the past 40 years he has maintained his professional development, centred on general optometry. In keeping with the B+B philosophy he participates in & organises continuing education; attending national & international conferences & workshops. Additionally, Roger has a longstanding interest & involvement in children's vision, vision therapy & occupational vision with particular emphasis on utilising the latest developments in lens technology & design. He has served in various posts of optometric & educational bodies at both local & national levels.
Rob Allen. Rob started his career in optometry in East London, South Africa where he was in solo practice from 1978 to 1995 with a part - time position in the Eye Department of the Frere Hospital. In '91 he became a member of the Royal College of Optometrists on completion of the professional qualifying examinations. In 1995 he immigrated to New Zealand with his family & was a partner in a busy East Auckland practice prior to joining Barry + Beale in April 2004. Rob became a Director of Barry + Beale Optometrists Limited in 2005. He enjoys all aspects of optometric practice with a particular interest in contact lenses. He is a member of the British Contact Lens Association.
Nisha Jeyaseelan [B.Optom, B.Sc] Nisha joined B+B with a Bachelor of Optometry degree from the University of Auckland. She had previously attained a B.Sc in Biochemistry from the University of Otago but was attracted to a more clinical profession. During her final year she completed a year of part-time research on the tear film, dry eye & soft contact lenses in the Department of Ophthalmology. She continued her research on aspects of wavefront-guided refractive surgery & currently lectures & examines optometry students. Nisha was granted an Eye Institute studentship in '02 & has presented her research nationally. Nisha enjoys all aspects of Optometry, especially ocular pathology & contact lenses. She completed ocular therapeutics at the University of Auckland & is registered to prescribe eye medication. She is also one of the few certified NZ orthokeratology practitioners. Nisha is Vice-President of the Cornea & Contact Lens Society of New Zealand, serves on council and is involved in organising international conferences. Outside work, Nisha enjoys sports including running & Formula 1 racing.
Naomi Meltzer: [B.Sc, Dip. Opt, PG Dip. Rehabilitation (Visual)] Naomi has been in private practice at Barry + Beale for nearly thirty years. As well as General Practice and Contact Lenses, she specializes in Low Vision, the subspecialty of Optometry that assists people whose vision cannot be improved by conventional spectacles, contact lenses or through medical or surgical treatment. People with low vision are assisted with various optical or non-optical aids to maximize the use of their remaining vision. Naomi is currently involved in projects to provide education and improve the provision of Low Vision services in the community, particularly in the older adult population, and is frequently asked to speak to community groups. She is a member of; NZ Association of Optometrists, Cornea & Contact Lens Society of NZ, Glaucoma NZ, Retina NZ, Macular Degeneration NZ, and is an accredited optometrist examiner for; NZ Police, Maritime New Zealand, NZ Defense Forces & the NZ Academy of Sport.
Alan Paul Saks: MCOptom[UK], Dip Optom[SA], FCLS[NZ], FAAO[USA] Philip Forscutt [RDONZ] has been involved in the optical industry for 31 years. Originally from Christchurch, he started as an optical technician later moving to Auckland where he quickly found his passion working with people in dispensing & optometric practices. He qualified as a Dispensing Optician in 1998. He enjoys helping people select fashion eyewear & utilising the latest lens technology from Europe & Asia. Combined with lighter titanium frames, higher prescriptions no longer need to be unsightly but comfortable & fun to wear. His goals are to exceed client’s expectations. To see clients leave with their new eyewear, comfortably fitted & correctly adjusted makes dispensing very rewarding. Contact Phil via email at phil@optom.co.nz should you have any special requests for frames or questions regarding lenses or eyewear. Alice Newman has a long history of Customer Service, beginning when she first worked at the swim & gym facility, Onehunga Aquasport. She also worked for a medical group - Your Health Centre in Papatoetoe [Osteopaths] - before starting at Barry + Beale in 2004. Alice also studied Office Administration and Computing at MIT. Her main duties include Insurance and Bulk billing accounts, client liaison, welcoming patients & clients, inquiries, appointments, filing, scanning, record keeping & other administrative duties. She also helps out with some minor repairs with spectacles where she can. Alice enjoys challenges that lie ahead & is keen to learn more about the Optometric World & Eye Care. Alice is happy to assist with any questions you may have. Rochelle Yukich. Rochelle's main role is in the contact lens department at B+B. This entails welcoming patients & clients, making appointments & instructing people on the safe use, insertion, removal & care of their lenses, e-mail, recalls, newsletters & numerous other duties necessary for the efficient running of the office. On top of all this - just so Rochelle doesn’t get bored – she also types reports & is responsible for the ordering, tracking, despatching, checking, verification & disinfection of all our custom-made contacts, as well as control of the 1000's of lenses we have in stock at any given tim. As a front line person she handles the numerous enquires we receive with aplomb. Tracey Bennell is our part-time Accounts Assistant. With nearly thirty years experience in Administration & Accounts work including IT management, Tracey is very happy to be working with people again as opposed to computers, citing “…we humans may be illogical at times, but at least we respond to a smile…” Having worked for diverse employers such as The Australian Opera, BBC Bristol (don’t ask her about badgers!), University of Auckland, British Aerospace, Mainzeal & NZ Post, Tracey reckons she's seen it all. Except for when she stopped seeing anything. An acute outbreak of toxoplasmosis in her left eye & myopia in her right, left her having to crawl up cockroach-infested streets in Manly, Sydney to get home. Tracey says she knew it was going to be a bad day when everyone she looked at had pointy-heads. Tracey is grateful to Barry + Beale for their commitment to keeping her seeing straight. Likewise we are thankful to Tracey for keeping our books straight. Outside interests include Yoga, gardening, entertaining & oil painting. Karen Saks has been with Barry + Beale as a part time optometric assistant for over a year. She enjoys the daily interaction with our patients at the front desk. Karen has a Fine Arts degree and a creative background in the publishing and printing industries. She especially likes the fashion aspect of optometry, helping patients select frames that compliment and support their looks and achieve the image that they want to project. Other interests include architecture, interior decorating and fashion. Yoga keeps her fit and healthy.
Barry + Beale are fortunate to have multi-skilled staff & practitioners who share a great understanding of & passion for all aspects of Optometry & Dispensing.
Alan is a third generation optometrist, a member of the Royal College of Optometrists, & a Fellow of the American Academy of Optometry. He served three terms as president of the Contact Lens Society of South Africa, two terms as president of the New Zealand Society of Contact Lens Practitioners [Now CCLS] & was honoured by an inaugural fellowship. He is a consultant to the contact lens industry & author of the monthly columns In Contact & 'Saks on Eyes' and lectures around the world at international conferences. Alan served on the editorial boards of the journals, International Contact Lens Clinic & The South African Optometrist. Although he provides general optometric & child vision services he specialises in complex contact lens fittings & management, often on referral from colleagues & eye surgeons. He joined B+B in '96 & became a director in 1998. Some of Alan's recommended web sites:
Our staff can communicate in a variety of languages and even 'stralian. We can arrange translators - by appointment - in various additional languages including Japanese, Mandarin and Cantonese.
Barry + Beale was founded by the late Samuel Barry in February 1902. He qualified on the 13th March 1899 as a DIOPTRICIAN by the OPTICAL SOCIETY OF THE STATE OF PENNSYLVANIA and wishing to gain wider experience before returning to NZ it was arranged that he should join the Manchester practice of Samuel Cowan, who was at that time Vice President - later President - of the British Optical Association.
Working, as he then was with a personage so active in B.O.A. affairs it was to be expected that Sam Barry would take the B.O.A. examinations and the records show that on 5th November 1901, he sat and passed. The Dioptric Review of December that year notes that the colonial student [Barry] obtained a 'high average'.
Returning to New Zealand, a practice was started in Palmerston North, but shortly afterwards the larger population of Auckland beckoned and a move was made. On 20th February 1902, the first purely ophthalmic optics practice was commenced in Auckland, by the youthful but, for those days, highly qualified Samuel Barry. In such early days it was the vogue to be a jeweller/optician or to associate the 'selling' of spectacles with some other more lucrative trade, hence it must have taken no little courage to commence as a purely 'sight testing' Optician, designated then as an Optometrist. The practice of Barry + Beale has now functioned non-stop for 100 years within 100 meters of the corner of Wellesley and Queen Streets, Auckland City.
When the first New Zealand Association of Optometrists was formed in 1912, we naturally find the name S. Barry amongst the members and, during the years 1924 to 1926, he was a member of the Executive committee. During this period he was also President of the Auckland Association of Optometrists, affiliated to the National body, which, at this time, was mainly concerned with official recognition. This came in 1928 when the New Zealand Opticians Bill became law and the Opticians Act became operative from the 1stJanuary 1929. It is considered that pressure from the B.M.A. resulted in the term 'Optometrist' becoming 'Optician' in the Act. He was recognized with the following award presented to him in 1958 by the Institute of Opticians of New Zealand, which reads;
"Honorary Membership awarded as recognition of his long years of outstanding service and sincere interest in the welfare of the profession of optometry"
By 1908 the practice had grown to the point where more help was required and on the advice of business acquaintances Samuel Barry recruited James C Beale who was at the time working in a Thames bank. Thus the name Barry + Beale was born and the fine traditions of the practice began with input from these two widely differing gentlemen.
The practice he started continued with his son, the late W.M.P. Barry [FBOA].
Barry + Beale, often referred to as 'B+B' has, over the past 100 years, served as one of the foremost optometric practices and indeed many of New Zealand's leading optometrists, dispensing opticians, assistants and technicians gained experience and honed their skills at B+B.
The first pair of bifocal spectacles prescribed in New Zealand were in fact manufactured in Barry and Beale's spectacle laboratory. B+B have also been the first or among the first to introduce various technologies and skills - for. example the introduction of haptic and hard contact lenses by Eric Sellers in 1961. Many contact lens wearers - still going strong today some 40 years later - owe their success to the skills of Eric. Among our current practitioners, partner Roger Apperley continued the fine work started in orthoptics and became one of the first practitioners in NZ to become involved in Behavioural Optometry and Children's Vision. Naomi Meltzer, also a partner, has also developed her niche in Sports Vision [with many successful shooters under her care] and has also become an expert in bifocal contact lenses. Alan Saks joined the practice in 1996 and specialises in complex contact lens patients, particularly toric and keratoconus fittings.
More details on the partners and staff can be found under the 'Our People' link.
Click this link for a brief but interesting history of spectacles and contact lenses.
Barry + Beale owe much of their success to the support of the people of New Zealand over the past century & offer our sincere thanks.
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Precision in Vision for 100 years |
Phone: 303-3042
0800 2 SEE WITH
Fax: +64 [9] 366-1880
Level 1, 280 Queen Street, Auckland
P.O. Box 5060, Auckland 1141, New Zealand
Monday and Tuesday: 8:30 to 5:30
Wednesday to Friday: 8:30 to 6:00
Saturday: 9:30 to 12:30
