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A woman is still waiting to move into an apartment she bought off the plans, two years on from when it was supposed to be completed. Johanna McIntosh said her whole life has been put on hold by delays to the NXN Kingsland housing development in Kingsland, central Auckland. But developer Templeton Group disputes the length of the delays and said the Covid-19 pandemic is to blame. RNZ Judith Collins says more tradespeople should be let into New Zealand to help build more houses and ease supply and demand troubles. NXN Kingsland consists of 73 apartments and five terraced houses and is valued at $100 million. READ MORE: New opening date for stalled Transmission Gully the million-dollar question Alexandra Park Village: buyers out in the cold for another year as construction delayed An American on a red tape-cutting Auckland mission McIntosh purchased a two-bedroom flat in the complex in 2016. She was advised it would be finished in 2018, but … [Read more...] about Auckland woman ‘left in limbo’ by delays to $100 million apartment complex

New Zealand charity Heart Kids has tapped into potentially deep global pockets by accepting donations from cryptocurrency owners . It has received three cryptocurrency donations totalling over $2000 in two months, said chief executive Mark Longbottom. That was a long way short of the $2 million a year the charity had to fundraise to operate, but he said it was a potentially lucrative source of revenue not affected by the global pandemic. Bitcoin has surged 400 per cent over the past year. Covid-19 made last year extremely difficult for charitie s, with the alert level changes disrupting fundraising across the board, from sausage sizzles to large scale street collections like the Cancer Society’s Daffodil Day. READ MORE: Bitcoin has gone mainstream – but it's still buyer beware Tesla invests $2b in bitcoin, will start accepting it as payment One Percent Collective proves a winner for Wellington charities Without wage subsidies and a bequest from a generous … [Read more...] about Bitcoin could give NZ charities global fundraising reach, says Heart Kids

Kiwirail Various train drivers discuss the increase of near misses on the tracks as people are distracted by things such as headphones and aren't paying attention. ​Yolanda Kruger was all alone in her cabin when she spotted him. Beanie on, earbuds too, near Mt Eden station at a crossing standing right in the middle of her tracks waiting for another train to pass on the opposite track. She doesn't remember his face or much about what he looked like, she tries not to, because in 15 seconds his life would, for all intents and purposes, be over. Kruger was less than a year in the job. Collisions between trains and people have risen four-fold between 2010 and 2017, but those between trains and cars have decreased by 45 per cent in the same period. Train accidents, an unfortunate feature of rail systems around the world since their invention, are changing with the times. Now it is no longer the archetypal car on the train tracks at the wrong time that is most at risk but the … [Read more...] about Death haunts our nation’s rail lines