Bach empty 30 years - now it's for sale

One of the last original baches at Mount Maunganui, sitting untouched for 30 years, is being auctioned at the end of this month.
The solid two bedroom home has a rustic 1950s feel about it - but today cobwebs hang from holes in the ceiling, dust covers the window panes and lawns crawl up visitors' shins.
Children in the neighbourhood had taken the opportunity to build a treehouse in the gum tree that the occupant, Florence Kate Moores, once planted.
The nostalgic bach in Orkney Rd has not been lived in since 1979. Real estate salesman Peter George said the house definitely had a unique feel.
"During my 17 years in real estate, I have never had to sell anything like this. There are only about 10 of these in the Mount," he said.
Originally built in Rotorua in 1950 by the former owner Rueben Hiscock, the house was transported to its present location, only a five-minute walk from the beachfront.
"He did a fabulous job with the house; he was a perfectionist with the work that he did. Dad always used to say that the house was 'the Mount's first transportable home'," said Rueben and Joy Hiscock's daughter, who didn't want to be named.
"The house is surely past its use-by date now, but at the time it was all we needed and it has given us many memories," she said.
The home was lived in by her grandmother Florence Moores from 1950 until her death in 1977.
Mrs Moores looked after the grandchildren and entertained them with board games, puzzles and taking them over on the ferry to Tauranga in weekends for a treat.
"She wasn't just a babysitter for us, she took an active interest in us and would teach us some really valuable lessons. We had no television, we had to make our own fun. We would head off to the beach and come back covered in sand. The Mount was pretty much a playground for us children," said the daughter. Shortly after Florence's death in 1977, Rueben passed away in 1980 and his wife Joy was too emotionally attached to the house to sell it.
The home sat empty because all four of the Hiscock children were busy with work and family commitments around the country.
Mr George was the first to step inside the house in 30 years, after it went on the market.
Asked who she would like to take ownership of the home, the daughter said: "Somebody who loves it. It would be really nice to see someone love it as much as we did as children, and get as much pleasure out of it as we did."
The property has a capital value of $500,000 with the house itself contributing to $19,000 of that.