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Winsome Stretch runs a hospice next to the land once owned by Red Beach Golf Course, now the planned site for 500 houses.

Tui dip into flax flowers on the boundary of the Hibiscus Hospice. Beyond, pairs of golfers zigzag down the hillside between pohutukawa and other mature trees. Bench seats in the hospice's remembrance garden look out over the large expanse of green, as do most of the rooms of those inside - rooms in which the occupants will spend their final...

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