Daily Archives: October 25, 2017

$1.2m tag for room with a view

Retirement villages are a growth industry in New Zealand and Mt Albert has joined the list with a development to help satisfy the huge baby-boomer generation blip. The project at Everil Orr Retirement Village in Allendale Rd is a major work in progress on the local landscape and will soon welcome its first residents. But…

Last hurrah for old redwood

Alberton’s old redwood tree got the send-off it deserved this morning – with a descendant of the pioneering Kerr Taylor family in the centre of things. The tree was planted by the Kerr Taylor family perhaps 150 years ago, and is now a sad shadow of its earlier glory – shed of all its lower…