Life at Marino Gardens

In September 1936, both the Auckland Star and the New Zealand Herald report the first birth associated with the complex; a daughter to residents Mr and Mrs Robert Stewart (nee Lydia Gosling). The first recorded death came in September 1943 with the Auckland Star obitary for resident Helen Laing, with a service to be held at Sibuns chapel on Khyber Pass, followed by a private cremation, and no flowers by request.

Many comings and goings were recorded in the "social news" sections of the day, including a visit by Miss Laurette Russell to her parents at Marino Gardens in February 1939. A year later in February 1940 the Evening Post announced the engagement of Laurette Russell, only daughter of Mr and Mrs Rex Russell, Marino Gardens. In November of that same year the New Zealand Herald reported on Laurette's wedding, commenting in detail on the bride's French lace gown.

A classified was placed in the New Zealand Herald in June 1937 seeking a lost fox terrier last seen in the Marino Gardens vicinity. And an advertisement appeared in the same paper in January 1941 for a married couple to apply to Winstone Limited as caretakers of Marino Gardens with weekly wages of £5/1/4.