Vera Mason News Today

KAREN MARIE WEBER (nee MASON) July 25, 1953 – August 19, 2023 It is with deep sorrow we announce the passing of...

David White/Stuff Auckland’s Farmers Santa got the ‘creepy’ moniker because of a winking eye and a moving finger beckoning shoppers inside. As a child Brenda Kendall​ remembers running around inside a two-storey corrugated iron workshop where her mother, Hazel Cleave​, was piecing together one of the country’s most enduring Christmas icons. But “Creepy Santa”, as it’s affectionately known, was more than a job to Cleave, it was a lifeline that pulled her out of a deep depressi...