Ports and post codes

[vilakins]

I just saw on teletext (TV text news) that NZ is building a new prison in Port Vila. :-P Apparently the two existing ones are "on their last legs". I think Vila would prefer them that way. For that matter, he'd also rather it was the other sort of port that was named after him.

And NZ has just revamped all its post codes. [rolls eyes] I now have to order new address stamps and stickers. Oh joy, though a better system was needed. So, those of you who have my snail-mail addy, my post code is no longer 1005, but 1072.

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[kerravonsen]

Hey, I used to live in Auckland 5 back in 1972! Back then I walked past a sheep paddock on the way to school, so I assume it's changed a great deal since then... 8-)

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

There are still sheep in some of the parks and on some 'mountains'. I used to have a horse paddock out the back of a previous place, but it's all built on now. There are still horses on the big green swathe through our area that has been marked as future motorway for as long as I remember, but most areas not parks or designated as green belts or for future use have houses crammed onto them by developers. :-( Even the quarry (!) down the road is being turned into a new housing development. At least we still have lots of trees and gardens.

[kerravonsen]

Even the quarry (!) down the road is being turned into a new housing development.

Really? I would have thought that would have been unsafe.
In Hawthorn, where I used to live, there were all these pocket parks which weren't developed, because they used to be quarries and though it had all been filled in, it wasn't safe to build on.