If only, Barbara Breen wishes, the kauri floorboards of her 120-year-old villa could speak. This house could rattle off quite a history: built as a wedding gift for the son of the sheriff of Auckland; bought by the wealthy Rothschilds of New York in the 1960s as a safe haven from the threat of nuclear war; inhabited by the squatters and shady drug cultivators in the 70s; then rescued by a Kiwi aeronautical engineer, who'd helped to solve NASA's space shuttle problems.
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http://www.stuff.co.nz/life-style/home-property/nz-house-garden/87810212/My-favourite-space-Christmas-lunch-on-the-verandah
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