The days are numbered for a large, decrepit, and very prominent Napier landmark. Land Information New Zealand, which is holding the former Napier Hospital’s ‘Hinepare’ nurses home as part of a Treaty settlement landbank, wants to demolish the four-storey building. First identified as being earthquake-prone in 2012, the building was reassessed last year. MARTY SHARPE/stuff.co.nz Dominion Post reporter Marty Sharpe took a short tour of the derelict Napier Hospital before it gets demolished. The building was operating as a hostel when it was found to be earthquake-prone in 2012 and had to be vacated.

Source: Stuff July 30, 2020 19:41 UTC