A norfolk pine tree dominating land at a Papatoetoe Street, was felled to allow creation of one more section in a development.

The damn tree was protected ??

The land owner has been fined almost one hundred thousand dollars and the tree feller is yet to face charges.

My Land My Tree no longer exists if some interfering busy body decides otherwise.

I know a couple who purchased an old rundown station homestead I saw it some years ago when the “Rotherham/Waiau earthquakes now referred to as The Kaikoura event plunged nine brick chimneys down around and through the old structure, leaving It not out of place in Gaza.

Today it is almost fully restored and the greatest fear for the recreators of history lies with Historic Places trust and the disaster they could wrought in their ideological interventions.

Are there green shoots of sanity emerging in the Nations Capital where it is reported a backdown by the Council over an old theatre now owned by foreign wealth who had astoundingly coerced the Council into a monumental stupidity in purchasing the Land beneath the now entirely out of compliance structure over the ever increasing quake strengthening nonsense. The deal, barefaced corporate welfare in extreme, would have seen the Wellington City Council undertake bringing the Theatre up to standard then selling it back to the owners having forced the ratepayers to bear the costs of the compliance status upgrade. Not voodoo economics, something far worse, nasty and regrettable.

That is the sort of idiocy my good friends fear in pursuing their labour of love for an old house.