Is checking ones facts out of fashion?

First there was this report of the kidnapping of 5 year old Ma Cina. It looks to be very accurate to start with, unless you are familiar with North Shore City.
I am a North Shore kitty so my first question was not how or why but where?

Harrowglen is not a suburb.
There is a Harrowglen Drive in the suburb of Northcross but that was not mentioned in any of the reports I heard. The nearest they got was near Albany, Northcross lies between the suburbs of Fairview Heights, Oteha, Browns Bay and Torbay. That information emerged well after the time one could have been expected to spot the silver car with little Ma Cina in.

Fortunately there was a happy ending - abet 5 days later - when Ma Cina was found in a house nearby alive.

OK that misinformation may have come directly from the police reports in that case but how do you explain this?

It is just a fluff piece about the 50th anniversary of North Shore Hospital but it should be easy to get the facts completely right.

Opening a year before the Harbour Bridge, the hospital's initial bed plan included 44 maternity beds and six casualty beds.

Casualty patients were given early treatment before being ferried across the Waitemata Harbour.

At night, when the ferries had stopped running, patients needing to be transferred to Auckland had to endure a two-hour journey through Greenhithe, around the top of the harbour.

All well and good except for the patients enduring a two hour journey through Greenhithe at night.

Unless they went by ferry or private boat they would have had to swim - the Greenhithe bridge wasn't built until the mid 70s. In order to stay on dry land they would have travelled via Riverhead not Greenhithe. It still would have taken a good two hours.

Semantics I know but it makes you wonder what else is misreported.