20 years ago from the Flagstaff files

• Devonport Cinema reopens after being closed for several months. The building is for sale.

• Takapuna Grammar performs The Sound of Music as its 2003 production.

• Locals were alarmed that a brothel was said to be opening on Calliope Rd, in the former Porterhouse Blue Restaurant building. A sign advertising a brothel was put up by new occupants Salmond Reed as a joke, to lighten the stress of renovation work.

• Harcourts announces it will enter the Devonport real-estate market, setting up an office in the village.

• Car-badge thieves hit Devonport, with a Corvette, BMW, Holden and Ford Fairmount targeted.

• Engineering investigations are launched into how to retain sand at Torpedo Bay.

• DoC places donation boxes on Maungauika.

• North Shore City Councillor Joel Cayford is concerned about the Depot gaining a “cultural monopoly” in Devonport if it takes over the Wikitoria building on Takarunga.

• Portions of four Navy tunnels, which run beneath private properties on Calliope Rd, are to be filled in, to allay residents’ fears about property subsidence.

• North Shore loses to Silverdale 25-23 in the North Harbour premiers championship final. Its premier reserve team loses its final 14-3 to Massey.

• North Shore Cricket Club contracts English import Tim Hancock, who has played 166 games for Gloucestershire.

• Artist Tim Turner is the Flagstaff interview subject.