North & South

THE GRASS IS GREENER

The garden of Eden needed a new lawn. The old one had been there for way too long. Although the grass still looked good on television, it had grown a little tired and couldn’t cope with all the different things happening at Eden Park, the nation’s largest sports stadium.

There was the rugby, of course. The cricket. The soccer team that flew in from Wellington. And now there’s music, too. In January, after a long-running battle, Eden Park won resource consent to hold up to six

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